Originally Posted by
blankaex
I'll use "guys" as a generic term for people.
Yeah I got stuck with fractals when I first tried to use them. They're used almost exactly like C4Ds, though C4Ds are more for texture and things, and fractals are for lighting effects and the like.
Your sig this time is pretty good, but it looks like you skipped out on the Motion Blur again. F3. The white line through the center with the white patch in the middle helps draw attention to the focal, though. At the bottom, there's super dark colours, and suddenly, they become light as you go up. No transition. The grunge layer is probably the cause of that. Try to remove it or set it on Overlay or Soft Light and see how it works.
Also, still a bit big, dimension-wise. 200px height is sort of stretching it for most sigs. The maximum size for the weekly contests I enter is 500x170 if you were curious.