Wow, I did a new sig from NX whilst being inspired from listening some LOTR music. Although not under The Influence, I sure felt as hell that I was, esp. considering I ended up making something with the message “peace.seal” and a heavily modified picture of a butterfly I had as a wallpaper.
Actually no, I just shrunk it and put it to the right edge, then posted another copy in the background to fill the rest of the space. I then used the smudge tool to blend the two images together nicely. I used the font “A Drink for All Ages” I had found in a search for the graphics on
the website I was designing for my mom, and put it in the left corner. Since there was a blue blur there that mixed too well with the font’s intended colour, I smudged the background
colour over it, and then copied the wallpaper image again and placed it in the middle. I cut out everything but just the leafs, and used a gaussian blur to well, blur it and recreate that spot
I had removed from the left. After adding a black border and another internal border with a screen-multiply blending option to lighten its colours, I was nearly done. The font had no periods, so I rasterized the layer and took the top part of the L to make a dot. Then I moved the various pieces of the text to look more natural. Anyways, this was relatively easy to do (esp compared with my previous sig where I had spent 3 hours putting 1 and 0s to form what I thought were nice looking streaks). It just goes to show you how it isn’t the time you put into it as much as the original creative idea you had to begin with.
I’m sure this must have bored the hell out of you readers, so I shall just conclude with yet some more egoistical content: people liked it. Moreso than my previous efforts. Simpler was indeed
better.