your signature streches the page ur only allowed one vert and nothing else in your sig, but now for the sig i like it, you won your first battle with it xP
So, I've been making some explosion-flow sigs (using static renders in the center, making the flow towards the center) using this style recently
I fancy making a black version of this sig. Unfortunately the reason the modes Screen and Lighten and Color Dodge work so well is that they don't appear at all on a white Background, so the C4ds and stocks I use only appear in the center. So I figure, the obvious way to go is Linear Burn and its associated blending modes. Boy, was I wrong.
How would you guys say I go about making a black version of my sigs? Like this, for example:
what about using smudge settings....to blend outward. or maybe using a pattern overlay on the outskirts of the "explosion" to create the fade effect you've got going on in the first sig. (which btw is my personal fav thus far). and maybe instead of using linear burn you could try leaving the render as is and reducing the "fill" to where you like it.
also what helps with dark sigs is using a gradient map after applying the image. a good one to use for dark sigs besides the black and white gradient map is the purple to orange gradient map...setting it to either normal with reduced opacity or setting it to "overlay" and adjusting the fill.
The center is smudged, it's multiple smudged layers merged together, then the c4d's are adjusted for the space. I'll see what pattern overlays can accomplish.
Also, that's an interesting thing I've always wanted to ask, what's the difference between fill and opacity?