Nice sigs you have there Night Terror, one of your new ones in particular had me wowing at the screen for a minute or two, and still does every time I look at it again...
I read through your "C4D Uses/Application Tutorial", and I have to admit I hadn't a clue what a c4d was when I began to read that, by the end, and after ~2 minutes of furious googling for an answer, I think I now have a general idea.
Now for my question, and I'm afraid it's probably going to sound stupid for everyone who already knows the answers/knows anything about photoshop at all;
I have photoshop 7 (That's not too badly out-of-date is it?), and while I haven't seen anywhere in it something mentioning c4d's, I assume I can take the concept and make my own shapes/patterns/etc in their own layers, then make them 10%ish opaque, and it will achieve the same result, albeit with a little more time and effort on my end, right?
I'll leave you with this quote found while googling what c4d's were, which I had to laugh at :lol:
C4D's are retarded in any case. LOLCOPYPASTE SHINY AWESOME!!
Edit: Here's my "best" sig I've done so far, as you can see from looking at it it can still use work, there's a bit of a white line around the right-hand picture