A Shining Light

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Personally, I prefer the top one.

Anyways, I worked really hard on the depth, lighting, and smudging on this one, cc/comments? ^_^

Bottom one. I really like this. You're improving with just this tag.

The first one looks nicer, and BTW, you added two extra [img][/img] codes.

I know. I'm just special like that

Thanks guys, appreciate it. I'm really really trying to improve after seeing some of Ronin and Blue.'s recent stuff.

Not the sharpest of renders, thats what throws me off but what you listed of what you want to improve on you have done that, well done

Thank you Blue.
GIMP's resizing of PNG Images sucks. Makes em' a bit blurry and out of focus

*cough*Photoshop*cough*

I have photoshop elements. Got it with my tablet, but it lags too badly to use on my pc, as well, idk how the hell to use it

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Personally, I prefer the top one.

Anyways, I worked really hard on the depth, lighting, and smudging on this one, cc/comments? ^_^

I like the first one more

Since it has more depth to it

The text is also nice, going from faded to shiny bright color

But...

The flow is bad. The flow should be left diagonal, instead you made the effects come from 3 different angles, really bad.
The render is also badly placed. For the flow it has, it should be flipped horizontally and placed on the middle of the tag, or at least where it has more space to create better effects.

That being said, the right part of the pictures should contain darker effects, because the shadows are from that side, where as you put the lighting on maximum xD

Also, just a tip, to make the render stand out more, you can strengthen the colors of (for example for this sig) his eyes, his hair, his shirt, or just put a nice (not so strong or big) outer glow on the render, as a last resort xP

Last thing, phew, too many critics i feel bad
Add gradient maps/photo filters/color balance/brightness and contrast adjustment layers

I actually screened a gradient layer over it to get the colors a little closer.

And don't worry about critiquing, I really want to improve and you're really helpful to listen to