this is my first EVER attempt, and is based on Tales of Symphonia with Genis Sage (the background is supposed to be indignation) and please don't mind the font, I will fix that later. this was done with the help of a tutorial. waddya think?
Save it in PNG most/all of the time - good quality, and allows for some special things other file formats don't allow.
Put a border. I don't care if it's just a 1 px black border, every sig needs a border unless...well I won't get into that, just put a border.
Text/render effects - blending is simple, easy, but not always necessary. It may help, or it may look ugly, it depends on the render and the background.
thanks. how should I do my text? I don't know how you guys get such cool looking tiny text in your sigs...
EDIT: added border and changed filetype. it looks good now! smaller filesize, too.
Thanks for the tips!