Maaarf's thread

[Maaarf]

These two signatures won't work here because they're too big, I made them for another board.


Specially for Riot
Kevin Garnett



LeBron James

[Mikki]

I'm lovin the James' background

[zmac]

Backgrouds are nice....real nice, but Im not happy with that lebron pic...looks weird

[Jugs]

They are really great sigs

Well done

I like the KG one the most

[Null17]

Great sigs. don't like the effect on the lebron pic but all-in-all it's great

[Maaarf]

Thank you, thank you.



Kobe Bryant


Gary Payton


Ricky Davis

[FendeR`]

The backgrounds are missing depth, try adding a Brightness/Contrast, Levels, or Curves layer to add depth.

[Maaarf]

Thanks for the tips!






Kevin Garnett


The Answer

[Mentally Hilarious]

KG looks off, tweak the levels/contrast on him.

I really dislike the AI one, but only because I hate glow around players. Solid work though.

[Maaarf]

My first
Jersey's all fudged up I know...

Guess who's jersey is it?

[ShAuN]

Nice man, those are really, really detailed. They look really good keep up the good work

[cyanide]

I like the green Iverson, but I don't understand why his "i" is not capitalized when the "A" is.

The other ones, like FendeR pointed out, is lacking contrast. Also, I'd suggest to play around with different colors for the type in relation to the background. For example, instead of having a green type on a green background, try a bluish-green, or experiment.

[The GOAT]

I love your style. Keep it up.

[Maaarf]

I like the green Iverson, but I don't understand why his "i" is not capitalized when the "A" is.

That is the capital "I", it's the font.







I know the animation sucks... Did it with Flash...

[Rip32]

That Kobe Pop-out one is nice.

[c0nr4d]

i like those Wade sigs, esp. the first one...keep up the good work

[Colin]

I like the Kobe one except the fact that the ball and foot are cut off.

[Do']

Awsoeme

[Maaarf]

Thanks everybody!

I like the Kobe one except the fact that the ball and foot are cut off.

Ok this is my best shot at it

[End Boss]

how are you masking/cutting kobe.. some of the edges are a little dirty.. if ur using the pen tool/vector masking bring the points in a little.. another thing that might be making the jaggies is the type of transparency you're applying.. in gif transparency there are only 2 degrees of transparency (opaque and transparent), unless that is that you use a matte background for the transparency.. for these forums #d6d6d6 works best.. basically what that does is allows semi transparent pixels to be projected onto a background color simulating 256 degrees of transparency..

here's an example

with matte transparency background #d6d6d6


with no matte background transparency


the drawback is that the first image is less portable.. it will show a #d6d6d6 outline on a black background for instance.. but having 2 degrees of transparency doesn't necessarily shield you from that anyway and it looks shit to boot

you can find the matte option to the right of the transparency checkbox in the optimize tab.. not entirely sure whether that was part of your problem but I've explained it now so I may aswell post..

just quickly again.. how are you masking/cutting kobe?

[John WB]

Kobe is definately my favorite, cept the cut job.

I like the first of the three Wade sigs the most.

You have some hits and misses.

[Maaarf]

just quickly again.. how are you masking/cutting kobe?

Cutting, I'm using the "lasso tool", but I read your tutorial a little and I'm gonna try out the masking.




Oh and a wall... if you may say so
http://www.zone.ee/skiptomylou/2pacwall2.jpg


And the avatar that might go better with the signature-

[WadeIsJordan]

Hey who ever made that kobe sig can you make a melo one and a KG one plzz

[Emiliano]

Those are nice works! Really nice job you are doing on these...keep it up and hope to see you make more

[Kobe101]

Nice Kobe sig!