Originally Posted by
3vi1
Firstly, take what I've already said into account.
Secondly, try making some proper borders. I don't understand what people find so attractive about a black line of apparently random weight bordering two sides of an image but not the other two. It only enhances how messy the sharp cut-off on the other two sides looks.
Text is in a boring font and is horribly placed; I don't see why you saw it necessary to apply it at all.
The background looks as if you've applied a few dozen filters to the image itself to heavily distort it, and then copypasted that in as a background to the render itself. I wouldn't be surprised if this is what you have done, as it's a fairly commonly used technique for preserving the render's colour scheme in the background.
Also, regardless of what you say, I shall consider any image that you include in another image without designing the first image with that intention in mind a copypaste.
There you go! Thanks a lot.
The cinema border is boring, I know. I was just fed up with the sig at the moment, and needed to add a border.
Yeah, the text is seriously lame. It's the worlds most meh font and I didn't bother starting with paths to make it flow.
On the background, however, you are wrong. I made a pallet with 16 different colors from the dominant color scheme, went nuts with brushes and found that it looked ugly. Then I puzzled around with the colors set up by saturation and smudged the background till it had mainly the same color scheme. Using the pic itself as a background can only work in a grunge signature.
And yes- it is a copy+paste. I tried to pull a joke with GIMP's drag'n'drop tool, but it most certainly didn't fall in good hands (Because it was a lame joke). A signature like this is often copy+paste. Making a character or such to place there yourself is very time-consuming.
Sorry if this seems like an attempt to start an argument, but it is simply my way of obtaining criticism. That was good criticism, no doubt, but I have to make a post like this to let it sink in. Thanks for your understanding.