#Aven wrote:well first things first, you need to sharpen the render. make a new layer, apply image, go to filters -> sharpen and then erase anything that isnt the focus. you can also do this backwards by blurring the background some. you also need to improve your blending. the idea (for most sigs) is to have a very nice flow and feel. this can be achieved by a lot of things, although smudging is an easy way to do it. once you have created blending, flow, and a clear focus point, you need to add some lighting to give depth and some contrast. find some good tutorials on popular gfx sites to help you out because im to lazy to explain how to do all of it.
Again I learned a bit more, keep it goin' and read some tutorials arround here, I checked them and became ways beter threw them.
