ok about the signature, keep practicing, but I would recommend switching it up, because I don't think you will learn anything more from this "style"
This just looks like a 4 layer tag with a smudged render, a render, a c4d and a gradient map.
This isn't to say that great tags have many layers, or that you need to spend a great deal of time on a great tag, it's just I can pick out exactly what you did pretty easily,
and it's not super appealing.
Keep practicing, but some advice. Try to pick renders that have a lot of flow, if you don't know what that means I can send you a tut to show you.
You've done a good job not centering focals, keep it up.

When people are talking about smudge they are refering to this: http://forums.d2jsp.org/img.php?x=274471


Here's some tuts I would read: (the odin one is down, so if he reuploads it, read his,
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=50972641&f=105
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=38892211&f=246
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=47808645&f=105

edit: wrong placement of links

This post was edited by Melodude on May 18 2012 09:54am

lol you pretty much counted every singel thing i did to make that tag, your like a photoshop whisperer :wacko:, i tried to look at odins tut bit it comes out so small its unreadable

read further into the thread, its reposted larger.

not for meh

gradient map looks bad, c4d is blatantly..a c4d try to make it look not so much like a c4d. text is just stupid looking

that sig is cool

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