----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 10:08 am Cervantes' Sig! ----------------------------------- What do you guys think of my new signature? :) I did it in photoshop 5.5 comments / suggestions are apprieciated!! ----------------------------------- shorthair Sat Jan 31, 2004 10:24 am ----------------------------------- I like it , well done , i see that you r trying to make cervantes lok like a ghost , but i would have gone with a stronger transparent and less fuzz ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:18 pm ----------------------------------- I'd say to make the height a bit smaller ----------------------------------- Tony Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:33 pm ----------------------------------- yeah, less blur and smaller height ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:44 pm ----------------------------------- hmmm... I shall have to implement these ideas! thanks! :D ----------------------------------- shorthair Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:47 pm ----------------------------------- make the height , the height of cervantes and only have a little overflow , little offset Cervantes little offset so it fits the name and then just a little more on each side,, its always better to be longer than taller , bannerrs look better that way ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:59 pm ----------------------------------- by little offset do you mean like this? | pi | | ct CERVANTES | | ur | | e | ^ ^ offset the space between the pic and the boarder and the pic and the CERVANTES part also for the blur of the pic I was just using normal blur, think I'll change that too a small horizontal motion blur. ----------------------------------- Paul Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:02 pm ----------------------------------- You signature unnerves me... its like the pirate is staring at me, but I can't stare back, cause he is all blurry. ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:05 pm ----------------------------------- hahah you will fall to the might of cervantes! :) ----------------------------------- shorthair Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:06 pm ----------------------------------- | pi | | ct CERVANTES | | ur | | e | ^ ^ make it even so the name looks dead centre , or put the name o nthe bottom right on hte border line | pi | | ct CERVANTES | | ur | ^ ^ condense it to that and then make it longer so its a a proper banner ______________ |_____________| |_____________| = to what you have now |_____________| __________________ |__________________| = to what I think would be better |__________________| ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:14 pm ----------------------------------- oo by little offset you mean very little offset as opposed to less offset which is what I for some wacky reason thought you meant :P I'll give that a try :) ----------------------------------- Amailer Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:21 pm ----------------------------------- make your sig the size of a official banner size. that's wht the rules will be stating soon ( i hope ) ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:58 pm ----------------------------------- what is the "official size" ? ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:16 pm ----------------------------------- there we go, is this better? wonder if there is anything else I could add, seems slightly lacking to me ----------------------------------- TheXploder Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:21 pm ----------------------------------- much better, maybe your font should have a different look more foggy almost like written with fog and fading away more on the left side because that side was written first... ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:31 pm ----------------------------------- interesting. I'm curious, how would you go about doing that? ----------------------------------- TheXploder Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:43 pm ----------------------------------- oh, right maybe not with Photoshop 5.5 but in 7.0 you can create your own brush tools, and if you have an Graphic Tablet you can write your name out using a custom made fog particle and if fades if you don't press as hard or you could add a fade... ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:48 pm ----------------------------------- *drools* I must get this photoshop 7!!!!!!! Don't think there are any particle effects like that in 5.5 .... are there? ----------------------------------- TheXploder Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:53 pm ----------------------------------- you can create your own Brushes that would create a particle effect.. ex: Draw one particle save it as a custom brush and use it as a drawing tool.. hehe, I'll try to draw your name in fog, if it's alright with you? ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:57 pm ----------------------------------- absolutely. well drawing 1 pixel at a time is a particle effect I suppose but I don't think I'm really up for that.... how do you make your own brushes in 5.5? you sure you can? I must check this out :think: ----------------------------------- Paul Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:06 pm ----------------------------------- Hey, ur sig looks more like a ghost now, good job :) ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:14 pm ----------------------------------- anyone know where I could get a picture of Cervantes in his other Soul Calibur uniform? that one was really really cool. I can't find it on google though, any other places were it could be? ----------------------------------- Paul Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:20 pm ----------------------------------- I found some pictures on google, but I dunno what u want, do u want one without that hat? ----------------------------------- shorthair Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:26 pm ----------------------------------- That guy ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:33 pm ----------------------------------- haha check it out :P http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalikes/pics/cervantes-01.jpg a bunch turned up when I had the bright idea to match Soul Calibur with Cervantes lol now I would like to get a picture of his swords alone to underline the CERVANTES part (the text) the only place I could think of getting that would be from when Cervantes wins a battle and his swords spin around him while he's standing there with his arms crossed. doubtful but I shall try :think: ----------------------------------- TheXploder Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:15 pm ----------------------------------- here is my try at a fog name effect: ----------------------------------- Paul Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:17 pm ----------------------------------- Fog as in transparent? cause I cant see anything. ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:25 pm ----------------------------------- I can see it. how'd you do that xploder? I don't think i'll use this fog effect but it is cool. I discovered that in photoshop 5.5 the airbrush and paintfrush and whatnot have an option called "Fade". it works kinda like that except its not a particle effect, its more of a gradient. still, to utilize that in a name you'd have to write the name like with the mouse and that would just suck ----------------------------------- Paul Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:28 pm ----------------------------------- now I see it... you didn't attach it the first time, it looks great though. ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:47 pm ----------------------------------- hmm.. I wonder what it would look like if I cut out the sword on the pic that shorthair got, rotated it, and used that to underline the CERVANTES text :think: don't think it would be that good :( cervantes is covering up the hilt :( ----------------------------------- shorthair Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:49 pm ----------------------------------- i found loads of cervantes pics , i likr the new sig , it actually looks like a gost now , its awsome ----------------------------------- Paul Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:49 pm ----------------------------------- you could always find a non-cervantes sword that looks like a cervantes sword easily. ----------------------------------- shorthair Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:07 pm ----------------------------------- If you want a sweet sword , the only place to truly find one is final fantasy , the higher the number ( ie , : 11 ) the bigger the sword , theo on on the box its leterally about 20 feeet long , its 4 times the size of the guy holding it ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:19 pm ----------------------------------- I've been trying to get some like that paulbian but its harder than you'd think :( shorthair > 4x the size of the guy?! that's nuts lol... I'm checking this out!!! :D ----------------------------------- Paul Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:26 pm ----------------------------------- Have you ever held a real sword? I have, even a smaller one weighs like 30 - 40 pounds, and that sword was like the size of an adult's toes to armpit. If a sword is like 4 times larger, no one would be able to swing it around all day... sure it looks cool, but I'd like to see someone do that with a real steel sword. That sword below, looks like the guy is using it with one arm??? ouch. ----------------------------------- shorthair Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:26 pm ----------------------------------- LOOK and this is only final fantasy six , the one on 11 takes up the whole darn box http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/1566867142.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:32 pm ----------------------------------- that sword reminds me of Siegfried's sword :) Cervantes swrods aren't like those though...they are one handed and they curve kinda, (you can see what I mean in the pic you posted shorthair) unless there are other kinds of FF swords they use. paulbian > yeah I've held a sword and they are pretty heavy. remember, FF isn't real!! :P ----------------------------------- shorthair Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:39 pm ----------------------------------- i have 6 swords , i collect , i got sting for my birthday ( frodos sword 0 i have excalibur from a whase back , 2 samuri swords from when we lived out in hong kong , ( dont knwo how those came around but parents found em somewhere ) and the other good one is my Conan Sword its huge , real swords are rediculously heavy , but there are about 40 FF swords , just lok around ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:51 pm ----------------------------------- REAL samurai swords? THAT would be cool!! 40 FF swords that aren't like that huge beast of a sword in the above link?? swords that could pass as a sword Cervantes would use? ----------------------------------- Paul Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:52 pm ----------------------------------- You could try Zelda swords... ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sun Feb 01, 2004 3:13 pm ----------------------------------- hmm.. I googled Zelda sword OR swords and it came up with a lot of images but the swords weren't really what I wanted.. they were all good looking swords as opposed to evil swords that would be used by Cervantes :eh: ----------------------------------- Paul Sun Feb 01, 2004 3:46 pm ----------------------------------- So "evil" swords are what your looking for? I didn't know a sword could look evil, so just lots of spikey protrusions that make it harder to pull out of a person's body? or a devilish curve? ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sun Feb 01, 2004 4:22 pm ----------------------------------- yeah that's basically what I'm looking for.. but not an actual picture of it, a drawing.. :) ----------------------------------- Paul Sun Feb 01, 2004 5:13 pm ----------------------------------- I personally like the design of this one: http://www.zeldalegends.net/gallery/categories/Majoras_Mask/Official_Art/Items/thumbs/razorsword.jpg Though I don't know about evil. ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sun Feb 01, 2004 5:19 pm ----------------------------------- It's cool but its to short and fat to be used to underline text :eh: