OFFICIAL Signature Request Thread

[[Dr. V]]

Hello fellow HLers!

As some of you know, I'm a pretty avid Photoshopper and I love it. I've gotten some rather good and very thankful feedback, and decided I want to open up my Photoshopping to everyone.

My "trademark" or what I'm known to do is my gradient curves, as you can tell in some of my work. Not only does this make the signature unique to itself (no 2 curves are EVER the same), it looks good too. That's really the whole aim here: instead having templates for people to take and fill in, people I design sigs for have individualized, truly one of a kind pieces of work (hopefully good ones), and it feels a bit better to know no one else has a sig like yours!

First off, check out my Wallpaper Creations thread for a few sample wallpapers, and a general idea of the work I do. I'll be posting some signature examples here in this thread.

Also, there is a brand new thread I started for Photoshop Mini-Guides - check it out!!!

Now, a good sample could easily be the one that I'm using as my signature right now, so there is a start. Here are a few others I've made:

Sig 1:


Matching Avatar 1:


Sig 2:


Matching Avatar 2:


Sig 3:


Matching Avatar 3:


Sig 4/Matching Avatar 4 is what you're seeing now.

Sig for RAID* (I personally like how the text effect turned out):


Matching Avatar for RAID*:


Sig for Jokerswild!** (I love how the "Joker", "Member Of The Year", and "Moderator" texts turned out):


Matching Avatar for Joker**:


Sig for stinger*** (Simple, and nice. Always good.):


Matching Avatar for stinger***:


Sig for simple_inhibition**** (the Company of Heroes theme turned out nicely with the "green" being for the current game, and the "red" being for the second game coming out soon...and HL of course! The text effect is cool and the background turned out better than I ever thought!):


Matching Avatar for simple_inhibition****:


Sig for Hitman*****:


Matching avatar for Hitman*****:


Sig for yellowhello****** (I simply LOVE how this one turned out! The yellow-orangish combination really works well, and I love how the main accents are black rather than white - a pleasant change!):


Matching avatar for yellowhello******:


*"thanks for your time and effort on this stix! i think it turned out better than i could have hoped for. awesome work!" - Thanks RAID, glad I was able to make it work for you!

**"I like that!!!! Changing to it now. Your right the old one was pixelated. Thanks." - Wicked Joker, more than happy I could make one work for you!

***"Damn man, that looks pretty damn cool man!!!!!


Thanks a ton bro... It looks freaking awesome man" - Glad I was able to design one for you man - LOVE how the name and specs turned out. ENJOY!

****"thats perfect! im going to load them up now! thank you very much for your hard work!" - Anytime man, and thanks. Glad you liked the final product!!

*****Hitman: "Now that's fuc`ing sexy!!!!" Me: "Glad to see you like it bro!" Hitman: "Yeah man you did a great job." - That's awesome Hitman I'm glad it turned out well in the end! I'll have that avatar sent off to you very soon!

******Feedback quote coming soon!

Note: The dimensions of RAID's images correspond with the form limits if you're a subscriber. The three before it are within the regular forum limits (but I could go as large as 600x120, the ones here are 500x75). RAID's sig is the max 700x200, and his avatar is the max 150x150, again - for subscribers.

RAID PM'd me asking me to make him a signature if I had time. He gave me his specs, and then a basic design layout. You could be more specific. All he said was that he wanted something that was mainly black and white, with some artistic things added to it. Then, since there would be more open room on a signature that size, I requested an image to fill up the empty space. You could be even more specific if you want, like a general shape you like gradients, details colours for the backgrounds and/or the gradients, anything really. I use my (hopefully) talent in Photoshop to take your base idea and build on it to make it a reality, and improve it however I can while still keeping it your root idea.

For the sizes, here are your options.

If you're a subscriber, any size sig within 700x200, and any size avatar within 150x150.
If you're not a subscriber, any size sig within 600x120, and any size avatar within 100x100.

All the sets here including mine are 500x75 and 100x100 respectively. RAID's set uses the FULL size limits for a subscribed user.

So, I'm OFFICIALLY open for any signature/avatar requests.

Thanks guys, and I hope to hear from a few of you soon, and look forward to making you guys some unique sigs!

[RAID]

thanks for your time and effort on this stix! i think it turned out better than i could have hoped for. awesome work!

[robodude666]

RAID, DUDE! That signature is F massive! It takes like 800ms to load on my 15Mb line! Jesus!

[[Dr. V]]

Yea, it's an awesome 700x200 size. Just beautiful for a signature's canvas.

The avatar is also an awesome size. With 50 more pixel squared, there is so much more opportunity for detail, and just more real estate.

Thanks a lot RAID, I really appreciate it. I'm very happy you like the results, and look forward to making more creations for HLers!

Also, I'm not sure what you did when you inserted the image in your signature, but you can just copy the link, "Insert Image", and paste it in. It looks like you put a space or two before you did yours as it isn't aligned fully to the left.

Thanks again guys!

[Yellowhello]

I'm just waiting for your PS guide, St!x. Great job offering this service, though. I prefer to make my sigs myself and learn the process of making it.

Again, your a wiz at PS!!! Keep it up!!!!

Um, St!x, you sig isn't showing up!!!!

[[Dr. V]]

Oh crap...you're right. When could that have happened?

Jeez well I'm not at home now...let me see what I can do.

[[Dr. V]]

Fixed.

[[Dr. V]]

Woo! I made Joker a sig!!!

Also, my Official Photoshop Mini-Guides thread is alive!

[stinger608]

Hey Stix, see what you can come up with for a sig/avatar combo for me man

[[Dr. V]]

PM'd.

How do you like my new set guys? The gold in my name is to pay homage to the user name colour - V.I.P.!