I usually make the background from the render itself.

You made the text almost unreadable with the extra brightness . As I've just said to Lilmali, you've really over-done the brightness, you've taken a potentially vibrant colour scheme and washed it out and made it look pale with the large amounts of brightness.

Also similar to Lilmalli's sig, I'm not keen on your lighting. I'm not really a fan of having a light source in the middle of the tag in general unless it is executed properly. It would have been executed fairly well if it wasn't for the drop shadow on the text :P. Correct me if I'm wrong here but the direction that light is hitting the text from is like this \. If so, then the shadow should be on the other side?

If you aren't going to create some sort of shadow for your render, then you shouldn't create a drop shadow for your text either. By doing that, you've pretty much made your text the focal point by placing it the furthest forward, if you get what I mean.

The sig could really do with more effects, it reminds me a lot of my more recent stuff, kind of dull with poor colours and a lack of anything interesting. Keep going though! I love the composition in your other sigs.

@Alpha: Named after your name on PR :P.

nice, looks hanz0'esque almost
probably the hand made bevel that does it, looks nice

seems that arc over the top over the head is in fashion nowadays

the set doesnt have much character and is pretty boring, but the mapping is pretty great
nice job =)

I don't hand make anything. I'm a pentool and gradient abuser.

Edit: Unless you mean just not filtered. I just woke up when I posted this.

Very nice Lwafflez... i like yout style...
http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=256870

I get the feeling that it is still a bit to bright?

^
you didnt just use blending options

What you guys think? To much going on or its going the right way.

I think that these ones are better, though the background seems like it's countering the flow.
The lighting is better but I still think that you should go for some epic depth.