L.E.D. comp sigs

[benny!]

Indeed. Thanks bikerboy! Cool sigs.

[bikerboy]

thanx guys i'm  you liked it 

[Pixel_Outlaw]

I think your lights could look a bit more glassy. Glass has very small bright specular reflections. You want to probably put this over a very bright internal glow which is inside the light bulb.Consider thinking in materials and how different materials reflect light differently. A rubber ball will reflect more shades of light than a glass ball. When you are attempting to light a material it is best to think in terms of how much light is reflected, usually the more rough the material the more amount of light shade colors you need. It is hard to do with so small lights but you can see that with mine I made a very small specular reflection on each glass bulb. Photoshop tends to make blurry reflections if you are just smudging things. It is great if you are doing rubber or leather but man made materials if shiny are going to have far fewer shades of light reflected because the surface won't scatter light so much.

[bikerboy]

yes you are correct in everything you said

the reasons i didn't but a light effect in those leds are 2

reason 1 i thought to make the sig in night time conditions

and reason 2 is that there are 240 leds in a 240x30 space so it wouldn't look so nice if i'd put a light reflection, so i chose night time 

[Pixel_Outlaw]

Ok fair enough.

Looks good man. I don't want to seem pushy. I did a quick gradient map on your image. Just something to think about. I'll include the gradient file if want to use it.

[bikerboy]

it looks really nice and it's definitely improved

how about this one? i played a bit with hue/saturation and brightness/contrast

[Shockwave]

Definately looks more crisp
Just needs that little specular highlight for greatness now

[bikerboy]

* bikerboy is speechless 

i forgot to save the .psd file and i have to remake it now from scratch

EDIT:

* bikerboy going to draw those LEDs pixel by pixel this time and add more and make them square

EDIT2: changed my mind about the square thingie and made them + , also invented a new font in the process lol

i hope you guys like this one (worked my pixel off to make it) lol