SIGGY HELP!!!!!!!

Well guys this is my first sig ever.. made it with GIMP.





As you can see the text is horrible can anyone help me with that or give me some pointers.

Btw what do you guys think about it.

Try a Gradient or light Neon on the text to add an effect. Might also want a better font like Adventures Subtitles or the Mountain Dew font. Lastly I would put a gradient FLARE on the end of the name and have the reflect at a diagonal so it draws more attention to the name.

That's my take it or leave it

Im trying to add some stuff from the Light and shadow effects but nothing seem to change when I try to experiment and add things any solutions

Btw way couldn't find the fonts you were talking about but i found a better font for the sig

Adventures Subtitles: http://www.getfreefonts.info/free_font.adventuresubtitles.html

Mountain Dew: http://famousfonts.smackbomb.com/fonts/mountaindew.php

The Light and Shadow effects are really only useful once you get used GIMP, but the ones you can use easily are: Lens Flare, Gradient Flare, & Xach Effect. Lens Flare allows you to add a light effect to the image to blur areas. Gradient flare allows you to add an effect that simulates glinting sunlight in a camera lens. Xach Effect embosses an image or text to make it stand out in sharp contrast.

Gradient Flare on the blade of the character:


Xach-Effect on the text:


Other text effects can be a little more effective though, like Glowing Hot, Neon, Alien Neon, Alien Glow, and Chrome. Glowing Hot will give the selected area a hot metal effect. Neon will make the area glow, this can be scaled up to be a very bright kind of neon, or down to be like that of a neon sign. Alien Neon takes the neon effect and interrupts it at intervals to give the radiating color a steeped effect. Alien Glow recolors the area black and give just a glow around it as if in silhouette. Chrome gives the area a metal look.

Glowing Hot on the name:

Glow Neon on the text:

Outline Neon on the "GTFO":

Alien Neon on the text:

Alien Glow on the text:

Chrome on the name:

Okay gotta change the font

Btw did you mean like this

If you reverse the layers, make the flare on bottom and the text on top, I think it will grab more attention.

OK basic explanation of how to do some of what he just said. You can simulate a motion blur by using the Wind effect on standard. To make copies you use the "Duplicate Layer" button. And to change Opacity you open up the Dockable Dialog boxes, select layers, highlight the layer in question, then use the scroll bar to adjust the opacity of that layer.

There's no "Eye Dropper" tool in Gimp, so you'll have to guess at it, but if you want to use a color that you have in the artistic section you can use the color-picker tool and click on the color in question and it will automatically select the color for you to use in Brushes. Open the little color box to then find the CSS Chart number then copy and paste it to the text color box.