Silvy's Signature Shack

I like his signatures, too.

But alas... I wasn't aware that I'm sharing this shack with Wolf... or that he took my place... how ironic.

And the reason your signature is that small is that it obviously got resized by the forum. Max. size is 500x100.
Anyone else noticed the wolf wearing a collar?

Anyway... don't mind me. *opens door to tumbleweed closet; enters; shuts door gently behind her*

In case that was directed at me, thanks. :P

@Miko
At the moment it's raaaaaaaather inconvenient. Should I be still 'alive' after the next week, I'll gladly pick up your request aside from reopening the shack (after finishing another request). And when is your B-Day? I'm too lazy to think around three corners to figure out the day while converting time zones, lol.

@Tide_Surfer
I can. But not now, perhaps later this day, gonna edit my post then.


To my morphology & Japanese homework! *cloaks in cape and vanishes*

Ah, okay
Noted :P
That makes you the only person I know of that has their B-Day in Feb'. b:chuckle

So, you asked for feedback - you'll get feedback.



First of: Better get acquainted with Gimp or PS (you gotta sail a bit if you want it for free :P).
I never used Picasa, but I think it's features are quite limited.

Picture-wise: Did you crop it manually again? It looks sort of warped.
The filter you used on the screenshot itself is kinda nice though.
Perhaps using a bigger version of the screenie would be better (so one can see more of your toon), trying to fit in whole persons/wings often end up in making the image too small; which is why it's better to focus on presenting single details (like the face only for example). For this signature you could leave out the passage and just focus on the toon.

Writing:
It's quite a mess as it is now, isn't it? Everything seems to be sort of equal, it lacks focus and emphasis. My advice: Names should always be bigger than server names. And if you put the server name in, put it close to the username. 'Server' can be left out.
Make the name a little more fancy by adding effects and/or borders (once you learned how to do that).

Quote:
It's vital that the quote is written in a clear, readable font. Though it's optional, as I personally make it so that people have to put a little more effort in deciphering the quote.
The font face of the quote should be similar to and/or match the font of the username (generally the word/phrase with the most emphasis).
In this case... don't use a curly font. There's basically no in-depth relation to the quote itself, plus it's freaking hard to read.
Aside from the fact that the quote has even less to do with the actual signature somehow (hot - cold ambiguity by adding a red-blue emphasis (not only via a filter please) to the image would aid that). I'd personally add three more dots in front of the second part of the quote and decapitalise the 'H', but that's up to you.
If you want to go by symmetry, move the first part of the quote closer to the edge (down and left) and the second part only down.


Hope that helps a bit. If you've further questions, just ask.

EDIT:
I forgot: Save signatures as .png to conserve quality. n_n

Also links:

Free fonts:
http://www.dafont.com/
http://www.1001freefonts.com/
And thousands of pages more on Google.

How to Render an Image (in Gimp)

Glowing Text

GIMP

Oh right! Thanks, Venus

Happy Birthday, Shack :>
*gets tumbleweed out of the closet*

I actually wanted to do something more anni-celebration-y this year, but had no time (plus I'd have been too lazy for that anyway!).

All I can offer is a little outlook on the changes & updates that'll prolly make it over the next few weeks...

- more recent signature collage (plus a new banner)
- new structuring of the introduction post (to make it easier to quick-perceive)
- possibly a new request option
- updating the raw list
- ...

Ahh, but that one doesn't count. :P


Anyway, the shack's open to business once again!




To kick it off again... how about some statistics? Everybody loves statistics.
I do at least...

Did you know...

- that the shack currently ranks #2 in the category 'Most Replies' with 1727 replies so far in the Fanatic's Section?
- that it ranks #4 in the category 'Most Views' with about 86k+ views currently?
The leading thread will always be the 'Post Pictures of Yourself' thread though (~694k views). It'd be good to keep in mind that those views aren't solely coming from the community - who knows who's looking at your pictures.
- that about half of the posts in this thread are mostly mine? Try it. Think of random numbers between 1 and 1727 and check who has that post number (666th & 1337th weren't my posts that much I can tell right away). :P
- that the most people coming here to show their signatures are most likely never to respond to any of the feedback I gave? For whatever reasons...
- that there are about 333 signatures (and their respective alternate versions) in my Signature folder?
- that my Render folder holds about 1.134 files? That makes about ~300 renders so far (since every render has up to 3 resized and edited versions)
- that there are about 500+ Work-In-Progress files altogether?
- that my personal signature folder holds 101 signatures (including different versions and signatures made by others)?
- that Shattered is currently holding the position of 'Sig-a-holic' / 'Alt-a-holic' all-times with 15 signature requests so far?
- that the most signatures featuring a moon were for Moon_Hammer?
- that I did the most odd-jobs for NinnaXXX?
- that my very first requester was Edyn?
- that I created my very first signatures (three) for Kritty's signature contest?
- that I only made a handful of signatures that feature green? It's not a mainstream colour.
- that the favourite colours of the requesters here are purple and red? Followed by blue.
- that I only have created one real paint signature so far?
- that the only ever character with a real mohawk I worked with is Briar's mystic?
- that I rarely get to create any totally sick signatures?
- that a good part of signatures I create are couple signatures?
- that the best screenshots all-time I was provided with were Shizu's and Rina's? Overall character-plus-background-wise (character-render-wise I get really high quality ones from other people as well most of the time)
- that the persons with whose artwork I worked were Kyna, Miko and Lucya?
- that there are still signatures I made being used that are really old (and thus pretty much low-quality)? Seriously, burn them!
- that I've about 256 font faces (including Windows standard fonts)
- that I've about 200 brush types?
- that the most requests are predominantly by females? Signature- and art-wise.
- ...

Can't think of anything more at the moment, lol. Hope you'll find this as amusing as I do. :P

@SolaraKrin
Hey there! I'll gladly make you a signature, but could you perhaps hand me some close-up shots of your character, too, please? One face-shot (showing at least 1/3 of the shoulders 'sides head and neck), perhaps another waist-up shot as well. I'll start rendering the two screenies you gave me in a bit n_n
You'll get a freshly made background, don't worry =D

And I've got it - gonna take the raw list down for maintenance xD
None of the file names matches the names on the list
Pretty sure there are still some on the list I already used up, too *suspicious glance*

@Shizu
You call this a wall? That's nothing! :P

Huge folder awaiting, huh. xD
I'll take a glimpse at it right away.

About the game... I think it should be hosted by someone of your screenshot crew and/or someone with time... I could help out with banners and such stuff, but hosting it is a little above my head. 'specially since I've no hand for taking awesome screenshots... not to mention I wouldn't know of places in PWI to take shots anymore. But it'd be cool if it weren't restricted to screenies from PWI only ;...;

8x zoom? Dafuq. The highest I went (and even that froze my computer for a while) was 4x o_o
I think aside from the board resizing and thus decreasing the capacity of the image, the image hosting sites resize it as well (I know imageshack likes to do this if I don't check the box that says 'Upload original size')

I'll see about that 'wallpaper' if you can call it that xD
I pretty much suck at making these... I usually only polish up screenshots and smack the PWI logo on them, lol.

*goes to work on Fiery's signature*

EDIT:
Hell... damn awesome screenies, Shizu *_*
Even though the 194mb ones take a few seconds to load, lol. First step I take: Resizing them!

2nd EDIT:

And finished!

Anything to change/add/redo, shout!