My first sig...please give advice and criticism

read some tutorials

 

Pretty good for a first try...I would've made the text white with a black stroke...also read some tutorials on how to do blending to make the pictures blend better

 

Blending makes it so where the transition from the foreground and the background is smoother. Here is a good tutorial on how to do it:

http://www.tutorialfx.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5233 After you read that, scroll that a bit and read Essential-Strike's post (use a layer mask instead of just pressing 'delete')

And if you use that main site (http://www.tutorialfx.com/forums/index.php?showforum=10), it has a lot of good tutorials on how to do different things.

 

on the bar up top where you choose the text size, font, etc... change the setting from NONE to STRONG

 

I think I like the white better, it stands out a bit more. Once you get more comfortable with photoshop, you can start messing with the different layer styles (ie. normal, soft light, overlay, etc.) which may give you some better results.

 

Did you rasturize it?

 

alright, so did you set it to strong now?

 

alright, i don't know how to say this without seeming like an ass.... so here it goes.

The pictures of just the faces suck.

What I personally think you should do is get big pictures of them in action, and use those, but close up so you can still see their faces. Then fade them into the background if you want.

This is all just my opinion, and i am also new to photoshop... take what i say with a grain of salt; there are numerous people on this board better then me at PS, and if they say something else, listent to them


Also, get a small pixel font (like this), set it to size 7, that thing i was talking about earlier to NONE, white font, 1 pixel black stroke, and put the names under each player