This is a signature I made for a few forums that I attend. Its relatively simple. I used photoshop for everything. I started of with a light blue/purple canvas and ran a brush over it. Then I rendered the anime boy out of a background wallpaper. I then played around with his position, size and opacity. I added a small splatter brush on the foreground too. Finally I added a border, the text and made that glow effect behind the anime boy using the gradient tool. I have an animated version of the same image where the the gradient actually glows. Check it out here: http://file-leecher.com/image/files/1/Black%20Lagoon.gif