Use the hard eraser for photomanips.
Also, don't use brushes in your art. It hurts your sigs, and means that you used work that's not your own.

Use the hard eraser for photomanips.
Also, don't use brushes in your art. It hurts your sigs, and means that you used work that's not your own.
Does photo manipulation not mean manipulating -another- piece of work, be it yours or someone else's?
Ah well. These are very nice.
Yes, but there's a difference. Signatures are mainly exercises. They take a short amount of time, and are use to build upon your own use of color, style, and knowledge of art. If you use brushes, you only hurt yourself, whereas when you use photos, you're using resources to help your already sharp skills. There's a difference between a signature and a photomanip, one which is meant to be your display of technical skill and compositional technique, and the other which is a use of various photos manipulated to your own means, which eventually makes a very unique and different piece.

Ah. Got it.
Needless to say I've gotten over the use of brushes as well. The only ones I actually use a splatter brushes for clipping masks these days.
However, I do believe a signature can be considered a higher level work of art if the right amount of work is put into it, but you only do so much with a small canvas.