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SH Archaeologist: Your sigs are improving. Keep working at it. The iZoro one was funny.

Jan_Panda: Nice job on the coloring. The cleaning looks really good as well.

Benign: I'm liking the Etna one. Play with those grunge brushes some more

Silk: That Earth one is kickass, man.

Straw_Hats_Rule wrote:

*wants a set of the iPirates*

Here's the best I could find, though Robin is an Avatar
>_>
<_<
^_^
iNakama
iCook
iSteal
iHeartbreak
iNico
iLuffy

How do you blend the character into the background?

Yeah, I did the Opacity thing, but what I mean is not the whole character, but the edges of the character here's an example:

The edges are blurred slightly into the light background, how do you get that effect?
EDIT:
DB: I think it looks cool, but it also gets a bit harder to read.

Last edited by SH Archaeologist (2007-01-01 19:25:54)

pyromonki wrote:

Hey Jan_Panda, how do you color with that way?

sorry, I'm a noob at photoshop, and have been trying to color pictures that way for the longest (3 weeks).

is there like some site you can refer me to?

Well, first of all I use a Wacom tablet with Photoshop. It's so much more intuitive than a mouse when it comes to stuff like this. The presure sensitivity VERY useful.

As for technique.  I start by putting in the flat base colors. After that a create a new layer and add the highlights with a blurry brush at low opacity. I usually use a light yellowish color for this and then make it blend in with the base colors later by tweaking the layer blending settings and playing with the hue.
I start by giving the required areas a very faint highlight and then go over that with a low opacity brush to intesify it in the right places.  Took me a while to get the hang of it, but once you got it down it's real easy.
Same story for the shadow areas, although i didn't use those in this piece.

Actually, that about sums it up.  If you're interested here's a sped up video of me coloring. I tried recording the process as an experiment. In real-time coloring took me about an hour and a half.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=The Daily Show

Last edited by Jan_Panda (2007-01-01 19:50:33)

V3:



Now you can read it and theres no background flare.

SHA: theres a number of ways to do that, personally I Ctrl-click my render layer, go to select<feather, set it to about 3, go to select<inverse, then hit the delete key. That will only work if the only thing on your render layer is your render (unless you want everything on the layer to fade, then its fine).

Also, make sure your render layer is the active layer when you hit the delete key or your going to delete everything on your selected layer.

EDIT: I know how to spell flare, I swear!

Last edited by DistinctlyBenign (2007-01-01 20:02:08)

Thanks Silk, the one thing that helped my art more than anything else was constructive criticism. Sure tutorials and PSDs to pick apart help but if no one can tell me I'm doing something wrong I'll probably keep doing it wrong.

I find that one of the hardest things for me is cutting out my renders (I take all my screencaps myself), but that probably is due to the fact that I use a trackball mouse. I need a wireless to switch to for when I photoshop...

It really doesn't matter what mouse you're using if you use pen tool to render things I used to use the eraser tool to render before I found out how to do it with pen tool.

I was really liking my Etna sig (so much so that its now my sig) so I decided to try another of the same style, I went with 2x2=sinobuden. however the render I went with is a bit... small, but when I was going to resize it I thought I kind of like it that way. Anyways here it is:

Ive only had photoshop for a few weeks now... not even a month. But I've been going crazy creating new sigs whenever I get the chance and trying to improve my skills.
Got a question for the experts out there:
How do you make your backgrounds? They're really good!

Anyway here is some of my sig work which some of you have already seen:

My first sig made using photoimpression, of hitsugaya


Second sig, first one i got off www.narutocentral.com and didnt make.
The second one Is the edited version I made using photoshop not much difference i know.

My current signature, I kept it simple.

I havent finished this last one yet and im still working on it but I thought I'd post it up to see what you guys think of it so far and will be appreciated.

Lol my bad, didnt realise the garfield one was similar to one of yours but youve got a point they are alike. I should point out that, im not sure why but, the last sig looks a little different here compared to on my laptop. The lines should be straight, the writing should be clear and the faces shouldnt be that... munted.... maybe I should resize it before posting it up again. But oh well thanx for the feedback and thanx again for the sig

I brief, get a border, don't go so overboard on your contrast (you need at least one image with some detail), more complexity/variety/depth to your brushwork, change the font/size/layout/color of your name, keep working on the giant eyes, and for gods sake use a different title font!!

Otherwise good.


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