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took me an hour or so, not the best ive ever done, but i like it somewhat.

um....i think it needs more effects and the white box that contains the text and the rectangle doesn really help the flow of the sig
the offsets do add more depth but it needs more flow cause right now theres none...

N1TROX what I realize with all your sigs is that there is no depth because the entire sig is overly sharp. My suggestion would be blurring the background to bring out the focus on the pretty woman you have there.

Totally agree with Milly. One of the easiest ways to create the illusion of depth is just to blur the background, and then erase your render / focal out of it. In some tags, a light source would help immensely with that as well, but quite obviously, in such a bright tag as this one, it probably wouldn't.

I'm loving some of the effects you did with this tag. Contrary to Faiien, I actually like the separated box on the right side housing your text. Your text is good too - subtle, but noticeable. Colors are good (although I still think the entire tag is a little bit too bright), and the effects are good as well.

7/10. Not exactly my cup of tea, honestly, but I can't deny that I still think it's a good tag.

v2 -

Much better! :d

If I were you, though, I'd darken the area around her some. The way I would do it is just to create a new layer, get out a 100px or so black soft brush, and then brush anything that's not her. Then change it to soft light or overlay, and tweak with the opacity a bit. Should tone the brightness down and make your focal stand out a little bit more as well.

what did you do differently in vs2
you took off the first version so i cant tell lol

Good job with the blur!

I personally think your next job is to fix up her facial tones. Although the beauty of Asian woman lies (somewhat) in the yellowish skintone, in your sig her face looks...unhealthy.

This is where the lighting comes in. You should take a look at Riz's basic tutoria to lighting and see what you can do (eg place a light source, play with some gradients, etc). I'll leave the pro-suggestions to the pros <3

maybe...

maybe for more depth, put in a new layer on top of all the others
go Image->Apply Image, then put that layer mode on multiply and play
with opacity.

indeed i think you could make this look much better by adding more colors to the sig a light source and smoothing out the girl in the stock cause atm it looks a little too sharp but it might just be me.
duplicate layer>filter>blur>gaussian blur>adjust to 2 or 3>soft light and erase out parts you dont like or turn down the opacity if you think its too much

I have that same stock, I was going to do something with it but oh well. Anyways V2 has a little bit more depth then v1 but you could still use more. Also, add a light source and make sure to dodge and burn her face because after the soft brushing/blurring you did it darkened up her face a lot. Also, i'm not really feeling that text placement. Try putting it by her right arm/shoulder, I think it would just flow better overall. Just my two cents <3

10/10 just cuz hyori is frkin hot