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Photoshop is so much fun. I only wished my artistic side wasn't retarded.

My first ever photoshop created sig:



I spent so much time messing around with ways to lighten his skin a little. The hard shadow under the the arm was a real pain. I think it turned out quite nice.

I also did my current sig. It used to have "Stabinbac" on it, but the mushi luv obviously has higher priority.

Crossbones created this. He kicks so much ass when it comes to artistic stuff.

I darkened it into this. CB's version was just too white to use as a background.

I tend to do nicely working over someone else's work.


That was a fun one. I chose reference art from all sorts of sources and did some crazy tracing. I'm not very artistic, so even that took forever.




My latest insanity:


It's missing the clouds, but the only easy to access version I have with clouds right now has a giant bright pink "HAPPY BIRTHDAY". The stick man is scanned in, but everything else was created with simple round brushes.

Oh, and:



PANTSU HAT!!!!!!

www.tutorialman.com. Easy
www.Shiver7.com. Medium ( But apparently dead. Dam)
www.phong.com. Hard

www.pixel2life.com. Mixed. Excellent resource for basically everything that can be tuted.

And you not alone with the brushes on by a long shot. Most of the sigs on the first page have Backgrounds that are made through extensive brushing. Once you figure out how to change the brush tip shape to custom or downloaded patterns, your options increase exponentially.

Stabinbac - Your stuff is actually really not bad at all. Each thing you posted seems to be just one step short of really good. The first sig only need a little more contrast and some minimal text effects, you done good on crossbones stuff, that montage one is incredibly original and cool yet lacks a certain sleekness, and even your pantsu Hat images have a really good almost cell shading thing going on in the hill (you got the layers of colors perfect!).

Keep it up!

Last edited by Silk (2006-12-12 03:45:56)

stabinbac wrote:

Photoshop is so much fun. I only wished my artistic side wasn't retarded.

My first ever photoshop created sig:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v378/ … g7copy.jpg

For a first sig, it's pretty good. Keep practicing!

These were from around 2 years ago. I stopped using photoshop and dont really remember how to do stuff on it anymore.
I use FreeHand MX nowadays, the ignored stepsister of Illustrator.

My first ever photoshopped work was this sig and i had it for quite a while on this forum:



Then i lost photoshop and i made this out of microsoft paint:



Finally I made this avy out of mspaint:



I'm working on a much better one featuring Enel which i think is gonna kick ass.

no it's not. It uses a Sanji wanted poster that came with a collectable figure, the entire crew has them.

It's only spoilers, or rather only would be if he used Sanji's real poster, which is ugly.....

Speaking of which mind if I use the Wanted Poster idea, and animate it with more people? that'd be fun.

I would like to start off this post with an apology for double posting, but if I edit this topic will stay dead and no one will see the work I created and would like criticism on.

I have been playing around with effects to make things look glassy, as seen in my sig, and I decided to put scenery in the orbs. Blown up these look sub-par but when shrunk down to sizes that they may be used for as buttons or some such, I think they looks quite nice. Any tips would be appriciated.

And so here are my four "Orb-erys" as I like to call them, in their 400x400 original states and in their 100x100 shrunk states:

Link due to huge image

Personally I am fond of the last one. I like that lake as some of you may remember as it in my sig until christmas. The first and third also turned out ok, but the second looks a little pixleated to me even when shrunk, anyone have any suggestions on how to fix that? (I took the screencap myself so getting a better quality one would mean... getting a different scene)

Again, sorry for the double post. This is the first time I have made one and hopefully the last.

i have a tablet but i can't get used to it ever, it's too weird

Well, I finally made something worthwhile posting. In my opinion, it's actually good. Since my holiday break is about to end, I won't be needing my oh-so-cute Merry Christmas Signature for a while. To replace it, I made this,



Comments, please. On how I can make it better.

Ok I've had it. I think later today I'll cut off a piece of my colored manga to show it.

PS: is there any way togive a small bit a "shiny" and almost 2d, but still 2d-ish effect, so it looks lke a realistic diamond, but still looks colorful and not too realistic? like a cartoony but realistic diamond?

I know its not much of a comment, but for the top one maybe pic a different color for Yachiru's name and rank? Its hard to read on that background.

Thanks for the tips Zaiken they seem to be working well, however the PSD's you uploaded will not download for me. Megaupload tells me the souce could not be "read" or something to that effect.

EDIT: it seems megaupload just didn't like me for that 30 second period because I tried again and they downloaded fine. However now photoshop is the program that hates me because it's saying they are not vailid PhotoShop Documents...

Last edited by DistinctlyBenign (2006-12-31 17:20:25)