Quick Question.

My backgrounds look faded and not very sharp. Ex.

A lot of the sigs i see here have sharp, defined BG's. Ex. (A sig by Caboose (duh))

Anyone have any feedback on how I can sharpen my bg's?

 

give it some more contrast go to contrast and take it to about 20-30

 

if u use color balance layers, sometimes enough of them can add contrast as well. especially if u use clouds or difference clouds with a color balane layer

 

furst one need some text ajustment

 

thx helped a lot

 

Probaly just the brushes

 

black fuse has a good tutorial on this...

http://www.deviantart.com/view/18720136/

try merging layers copying the resulting thing then going back a few steps and pasting as a new layer and blending

 

Tutorials section should have lots of stuff to help you.