Well if you want my opinion;

Blurry

Font doesn't match the rest of the picture, Sceptile is just semi-transparent over a forest background.

Lack of contrast, not even highlights, illegible text upon at a glance.

Render is blurry, text is also blurry, vague background.

Blurry render.

Nothing wrong with this one.

Isn't that just a picture...?

Previous forums (centered around different games and topics) have had a much higher standard of art work. I'm not sure what it is like here though.

1: This one's render is ok, but there's no text! All that needs is text and i'd give it a 9/10

2: This one's horrible, the text doesn't match at all.

3: You can't really read the text on this one. This one needs a border.

4: nothing wrong with this one.

5: Again, there's no text in this one, same as number 1.

6: this one is perfect

7: Same with what Agent Waffles said....


Overall, 7.5/10

I/we were referring to the font itself. Not the actual content.

They're all pretty good sigs, I could never make something like that. If I had to average them out, I'd give them all a 8.5/10.
I think you should put a border around all of them, it'll make it look better. Some of them are a bit blurry, maybe you should make it clearer? If it was supposed to be that way, you did a good job on it. Still, they're nice sigs.

Did enlarging the image make it bad quality? I like to just put an image on a background and fade part of it, instead of enlarging it.

For many of them, you might want the text to blend with the image more. A good idea for blending the text in is to add a glow, if possible.

#2. I don't think you should have faded the sceptile, it looks weird.
#3. Maybe add just a little color. The grayed effect is nice, but here it seems a little too gray.
#4 The text needs to blend in more. Try adding a glow, or fading the text(make sure it is still sort of legible, though)

I don't feel like rating the others.

Maybe you should try to find an image with better quality. I tried to make one better quality on photoshop, and I failed.



But, I added text with a glow to show you how it looked, this guy just doesn't want any text on him (I'm not actually using this for anything, I just wanted to try and make it better quality)

Like the others said, they are not that good, burry and IMO a bit plain. But knowing your spriting skills, I'll say no more: 8/10.

Okay, I tried making some more sigs following you guys' advice.

This is the result:

<center>
[FAIL]


Anima, Seymour's Aeon.


Finally, some success! I found a plug-in that allows GIMP to do Photoshop-style text! It's also my siggy, if anyone cares.

First one: Text isn't readable. Don't give it a gradient unless it is slight.

Second one: Nothing wrong as such..

Third one: Lacking in contrast and is too bright.

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Any better?

Edit: I changed the border a bit.

Hey, GQ, where'd you get that plug-in for making photoshop - styled text? I could really use that.

Anyways, on those sigs, i'd give them a 8/10 overall.

Contrast is the difference between Light and Dark in an image. Also how clear something is.

I have put together an animation (5 mins of my life wasted XD) to show the difference between high and low contrast.



As you should be able to clearly see, in the low contrast picture there is little difference in colour, however in the high contrast picture all of them are very clearly defined.

they r really blury but they r kinda cool

I think its an improvment. (I can't spell today)

The text is better, although I might have changed the opacity of the text. Another option is to add a red glow to the text to make it evilish. If you can't do that, its fine. Looks ok as it is, I guess.

I like the effects on the Duskull, but you might want a fancier background, so the empty space doesn't look so empty.