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Ok there you are! Rate this please http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k284/andytoe/Kickass.jpg |
Aw, thanks man :D i'll take that advice then. :)
@ el: it's really contrasted. i like it, but it's really contrasted. it's burning my retnas. let me repeat, it's really contrasted. hahaha. XD oh, and it looks kinda weird without a border. if it had some kind of black border to offset the contrast, i'm not sure it would even matter to me. the placement of everything, the lighting, the text, i like all of that, i just realllllly would love to see either a border or less burningly bright contrast :P of course, it might be my monitor too O.o. i love how the text kind of has texture to it.. :D i think this signature would be great as a theme for your profile or something, because it looks like it'd make an AWESOME avatar, LOL :D |
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So... does this mean I get a free rate!? :D http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t334/_freakGFX/SEUser.png I know... a bit too blurry in some places. Whatever, I'll fix that later. |
@Michael - It looks like crap. Scrap it. It DOES look like a first grader scribbled all over it with crayons. Artistically, it's lacking every aspect. Truthfully, it really just looks like techni-color vomit. "Creative" as everyone else calls it, it really just says that you're too lazy to come up with something more original than "border border border". My 5 year old cousin could come up with something better.
@Swampert - What makes the blue text okay by any means? You still need severe help with colors; how many times do I have to post that link? www.colourlovers.com USE IT. ABUSE IT. Your colors need help. Having monotone tags all the time makes critiquing your work really boring and a much larger task than it needs to be. LERN2COLOR! Your light is all over the place and none of it is complimenting the stock. Do I really need to make a tutorial on lighting? It's not that complicated. Just look at the shadows and highlights on the stock and plant a 100 px soft brush that's light yellow where it compliments it. Never is it okay to have multiple light sources! Oh, if you want to have text that stands out but is complimentary, just grab the eye dropper tool on Flare's eye and get that dark green bit and use that as your text color. @Capitano - Uhh your lighting is everywhere too. While you can have that starry soft effect around the sprite, that doesn't mean you can have light off on the far ends of the tag. Darken the corners up because I assume you don't want your tag to look like someone's shining a spot light on it. The light yellow block behind the text keeps catching my eye. I'd like to see more of a foreground as well, since the stock basically looks slapped on, with the exception of those funny purple dots. @.freak - Green hardly ever works but you had a good run with this tag. The butterflies and swirls on the right side of the tag are throwing this thing as a whole for a loop, because you have something manly and modern, and then you have those girly aspects. It'd look better without them. Overall it's not really a bad tag, but the stock gets lost in the little black hole you created there. I'd like to see more of the stuff you have behind the phone infront of it, but only one or two things so the phone isn't completely dominated. ------------- http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/850/tsplitzrh1.png Something I just threw together. |
The text color was not my idea. The request said to make it "baby blue"
Thanks for the link again, I tried to find it a while ago, but it wasn't there. How about if it is at all possible not to rate my stuff, just don't. It seems like too much of a hassle for you. ~end of discussion~ |
MAINI: The border type and the sotw part seems unnecessary. Like the focal… but the rainbow and sun could've been something else, because it does give off the it's a childish sig feel to it.
CT: I hate when sprites get sharpened. Bit bland on the right but also a bit bright. freak: Make the greens brightness match the brightness of the phone. CME: Like the simplistic look, but maybe a bit more grungy on the text… The colours are a tad dull… but… then again that's your style. :/ Also cheers for the colour thing. __________________ This is NOT a free post. Rate someone else or I will edit my post and add a sig for you to rate. |
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I can totally understand you saying that you personally don't like it, and would love to see something more serious instead, but you simply threw some insults out there and called it a day. Every other signature you seemed to give some actual advice on how to make it better, you just said mine looked like technicolor vomit. Sorry to almost start a flame war, but how he was being obnoxious, I thought, and needed to be put in his place in public. Regarding his signature, the text sucks. It was badly placed, badly colored, and looks kind of blurry to me compared to the rest of the signature. Redo the text completely. I'd kind of love to see some stronger lighting, or something, to make it a bit less plain. Other than the text, it has excellent general composition, arrangement, and such... May I also offer that I LOVE YOUR COLORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!eom LOL. |
Everything I said was my way of saying, "personally, I don't like it." Want me to give you "proper" critique? Here it goes.
If you're going to do the "border border border" thing on all edges, then you should at least do it on the bottom. Without it, it looks iffy. Like you gave a concrete edge to the other 3 sides but not the last one. For a "unique" tag such as this, dull boring colors aren't the way to go. Go bright, citrus colors. I use citric colors all the time in my icons and they get a lot of compliments. My favorite color palette for citric colors: http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/6380/paletteyi2.png I don't like how the "p" in "typography" follows the exact same line is the "y". I completely skipped over it when I tried to read it because I didn't see it at all. Make it look more like a p. Don't really like the thick stroke over the "16bit". A thinner stroke would look better. Better? Oh, and for the record, I'm a girl. |
That's all I ask. If you don't like something, you can say that, as rudely as you feel like, say it sucks ass and I should die, but this thread isn't for just a declaration of your favorite style or something, it's for giving constructive advice. Now that you've given me some ideas, I can say: "Hey, you know, she's right, I'll take that into consideration next time!"
Anyway, hope you aren't pissed, I just really dislike it when people are almost try not to be helpful in their critique, but instead to just make a mockery of people and their art. Now that you've posted something, in my opinion, constructive, I'll thank you, offer to shake your hand, and annually send you belated Birthday cards. Anyway, thanks again, and I'll try to be as helpful as possible any time I criticize your work as well, like I think we all should on an art forum! :D It's really small, and really blurry. I dislike the butterflies on the far right. It's just.. Not very focused. It looks chaotic, but it also looks like you tried to make it look focused. You can't have both, and it kind of seems that's what this signature is trying to do. I think it could use more color... But that's just me. I do really like the left side's shapes, and stuff, but they need to be sharper... At the moment it just kind of looks like you blurred some vector brushes. If they were sharpened and you added some cool lighting though... I see potential in this, but it doesn't look at all like a finished piece to me yet. Oh, and giving it a glossy look might look kind of cool too, because of the stock, but I don't know, that's just my quirky in-head-voice speaking probably. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/tarshark/parrotcopy.png The border and colors on this bug me. I might redo the colors. Also, yes, I did find a render of a parrot on a website and then use Illustrator's Live Trace on it. I think it looks cool. Screw you all. I love parrots. They're cool. And colorful. And stuff. Yeah. I went there. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/tarshark/p2.png Aren't gradient maps wonderful? That looks better... :D http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/tarshark/parrotcopy3.png Okay, or maybe that. Wow. I'm color bipolar today. |
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I would like someone to rate my first scratch pokemon sprite, it's some kind of dog and it's probably going to be a fire type please rate :D PoKéMaKeR |
I think it's cool to post sprites, but please rate another piece in the page in the same post as yours! :)
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Rather, go to the Spriting forum. We have one of those, y'know.
Michael, I'll rate your parrot piece when I get home tonight. |
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Yea my Sotw entry. http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k284/andytoe/AE-Typography-SOTW.jpg |
That "great vectoring" was just really good use of Live Trace. LOL.
Before I say anything else, make the halo a different color than the text. That's like, ultra-bugging me. Yeah... I don't even know how that blue smudge got there. Must have been something I did without thinking about it much... Haha! Overall I think your tag needs more text... It is typography after all. Type what you feel, LOL! |
UHMMMM. Which one should I rate...
Well, I think it's pretty sweet. Love the texture, and the colors kick butt. Like srs. Thanks for that link by the by, it's amazing. :O Anyway, the yellow splatter in the bottom left corner; I'd love to see some more of that. It'd look a little less out-of-place if there was more, too, so yeah, I vote for more of that. The pentooling is teh shizz, and that reflection of the focal is ingenious. Very original tag altogether, but I must say that I'm not a fan of that text. You're really good at pulling off that grainy paper effect though. :O Kudos for those. What I don't like is that motion blur-ish thing on your stock's shoulder. I... personally, am torn over it. It looks cool, but I just don't like it in this tag. :| And neither am I particularly fond of how you worded your crit towards Michael Allison's typography tag- Ease up there, we're all stuck with each other, so we gotta get along, yeah? ;< Anyway, I don't think I did this right, and neither do I like it much, but frick it. I was mostly just trying out one of the color palettes on the site that CME linked to. http://i520.photobucket.com/albums/w326/zetsu-bou/TYPOGRAPHY.png Lyrics from 24 and They, by Jem. <3 Except for Typography. :| Stupid SoTW. I'm not sure if I'll be joining yet though. Michael is pwning. <_< |
@Michael - I'm more of a fan of version 3. The colors of the parrot are much more vibrant than the other two and they mimic a real one. Call me delusional or whatever the proper word is, but I didn't even see that thick stroke around the parrot until now. I'd like to see that thinned, as well as sharpened; it looks blurry in lots of places. The difference border is not my favorite thing, either. I like the circle you have over the parrot but I don't like how it just cuts off. What I'd do is make it smaller and have it be a whole circle, or you can do what I did in one of my LPs (linked here). It just looks odd as it is right now. Really digging the text in this one, but again, not liking that thick stroke.
@Capitano - I agree with Michael in every way... mainly cause I'm too tired to post something original. xD @Loki - Uhh do I really have to rate this? XD I'm terribad at rating all text pieces since there's nothing really there. xD Don't shoot! Loving all the colors of text, though. And Michael and I are all good now. Nevar phear! : D Now, off to watch the VMAS!!!!! BRITNEEEEYYYYY!!!!!!! ♥♥♥♥ |
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I love the whole mis match of different color, and style texts. Something that I would do to just make it a lil better is to do some dodging and burning, and sharpening and bluring. Not to mutch, but enough to give it some depth. Really I don't think there are many things for me to pick at. Great job man! Ok, new tag. Rates please! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k284/andytoe/Shot.png |
@Loki: I love it. Seriously. Make it into a wallpaper, LOL. I'd change the colors a tad bit though, the yellow looks weird.
@Capitano: Beautiful, but too simple. That's pretty much all. I don't have anything to say bad about the sig, because it's too simple. Lolz. :) @CME: Thx for the advice, and you hate ALL LARGE STROKE. just noticing that. >.> lol Yeah, no signature this time, no long drawn out rates or criticism, just a quick post before I go to do some work... haha! |
Loki: I made the rules… for that sotw… xD;
Grey bg doesn't suit the bright text. CT: Looks sweet, but I can see white bits from the original bg? Dark space on the left is distracting though. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/munna170488/gallery/pokemonplatinum.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/munna170488/gallery/pokemonplatinums.png T… HYPE … E. May enter sotw depending in there aren't may other entries. :< Huzzah for InDesign and its terrible image rendering. |
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Yeah but it confused the flingflabble out of me so I decided not to respon- oops.
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@Capitano - Text is good (how often do I say that?). I like it a lot. But the main thing that bothers me is how stiff the orange smudging is. It has a definite beginning and end which makes it look less flowy. Ya got two light sources, as well. The true one is to the right of his head, which you got right. The one you don't is on his left side. Rid it! Also, up the contrast on your stock, he looks too washed out for the nice colors you have going on. @Fails - It looks like a legit article. But I don't like the "T" at the first sentence of the whole article, more specifically that iffy box around it. I don't know what you can do to change that either, as text and me are DO NOT WANT. |
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The flame affects are good, but the text is not. Maybe cutout-looking tags don't appeal to me much, but that's my opinion. Nice lighting. http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/07IO24TTWqN7RGT%2BXYq44w%3D%3D187659 |
SwampartTrainer: I swear I am going to kill this style eventually. Let's see... where do I start..... Border is done, even though, I kind of think you could do a 2px white border and then a 1px black border to make it stand out since it's all dark and stuff. D: I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to focus on, the leaves or the creature thing. Well whatever it is, USE ADJUSTMENT LAYERS. MY GOODNESS, FOR ALL OF YOU SO CALLED "WONDERFUL" GRAPHIC ARTISTS, LEARN HOW TO USE THE ADJUSTMENT LAYERS GEEZ. I'll repeat again.
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Life isn't just C4Ds, textures, and brushes. There are things in life where we need to rely on other things like Adjustment layers and lighting. If you don't know where that is it's at the top, go to Layers > Adjustment layers> do your jazz in one of the layers there. I think the brushes isn't necessary, well, actually, no it's not bad. But maybe you can make it white instead of black? Because it's just looks way too dark. The text color is nice, the font is nice, so that's a really good thing in the banner. Yeah you're getting better, just remember. USE THE ADJUSTMENT LAYERS THEY ARE THE SOUL OF YOUR LIFE IN GRAPHIC MAKING. :D You guys can rate my banner if you want, but I wouldn't count on it. =/ |
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WOOOHOOO Got a free rate :D
Nah, I'm not THAT lazy XD @SwampertTrainer: First, that tag is laaaarge, and it's a bit ugly like that. Then, it's a little bit too dark. You have a radial gradient as a light source, but the way it is implemented is bad. It should have less orange/yellow/golden/whatever and more white, to become a better light source. A 60-100 px white soft brush would help a bit too. The text opacity should be a little bit (ONLY A LITTLE BIT) lowered, it would be better-looking. Same with those light things behind it. Some adjustment layers would help too. And like Hazuki said, a 2-3 px white border, then a 1 px black border would be good. The background is nice, but its colour scheme takes out the creature's focus. Pffft, my brain is tired of thinking and I'm lazy to tell more, so here goes a tag of mine... http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f109/Katalyst_12/LelouchBanner.png Wow, my first one that actually has scanlines.[/fact] |
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@Katalyst: Anyway, nice colors scheme, even though red and purple are not my personal favs. The lighting here is really nice, I can tell precisely where it's coming from. Kudos. One thing you may want to get rid of (IMO) are the <scanlines?> The faint diagonal lines that run across the image. They're distracting and give the image a certain graininess that doesn't fit the image. They also clash with the flare lines near the top of the image. The rest looks excellent, nice choice of render. This is probably not my highest shining moment, especially with text, but I kinda liked the simplicity of it... http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/R3IAjSIjvdb7Ult%24hiH3hw%3D%3D79886 |
[email protected]: Too simple. Not enough depth, and too bright. Try and use new effects it really looks low grade compared to other gfx artists here. No offense, just keep practacing trying new styles.
Rates please! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k284/andytoe/MadSkills.jpg |
@SwampertTrainer: Hmmm... Yeah, it's a tad too simple. You could lower the brightness a little bit too. Hm, can't say much more.
@El Capitano: Like the colour scheme and love the effects. But I think it could use some text or... Pffft, whatever, cuz there's some space at the right side that could use things like that. But it's pretty good. 'Kay, here goes: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f109/Katalyst_12/LelouchBanna2.png Not one of my best, but... meh. EDIT: And yes, SwampertTrainer, those diagonal lines are the scanlines. |
WTF. Scanlines. Bad. NO SCANLINES. This is bad. It r disgusting scan lines.
Aside from that, it's kind of nice, actually. I don't like the text, or the colors, so fix those. The colors can stay as is if necessary, but fix the text. New font, different style, and at least, if you're doing vertical, adjust the settings so the characters aren't so spaced. I like the random crop thing though. It's pro. :D rofl i do it too.. when im lazy. import non-lazyness good old python http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/tarshark/robotscopy.png |
Katalyst: OMG LELOUCH!!!!!!!!!!! <3333 lol anyways, this is better than the your last banner imo. I think it will improve a little bit better if you used a texture of some sort, like maybe some kind of grainy texture to add some style to it. Finally, a banner where I can tell you actually used adjustment layers, I love you already (well not really but you know what I mean xD) good job! I like it, even though you could use more layers like maybe do the Hue/Saturation more. I think the lighting brush is not necessary, well okay it is, but maybe you could lower it even more, maybe to Soft Light or so. Scanlines make it nice, mhm, they do. I think it would be better if you lowered the ocpacity more though, but other than that, I like the flair of the scanlines. The side part of Lelouch could be a different color, because I kind of think that would be interesting than just seeing two Lelouches with the same color. O-o; Text is nice, I like it, but I hate to say this, but I think it would be better in a different font. xD;;
Overall nice job. ;D Michael Allison is Not I: WTF. Plain background. Bad. NO PLAIN BACKGROUND. This is bad. It r disgusting plain background. =/ Obviously, I think you could improve a lot, I don't know if you just started or anything like that, but the only thing I could probably say is just get more brushes to make your backgrounds look like they are a signature from you. It''s way too bright, I don't know why you would make it too bright, lower it or don't put it there. The text is interesting and that's all I can say about that. The stroke is okay I guess, but to me, it just looks really unnecessary. Really all I can say is just keep practicing. |
Michael: In all honesty, I personally think the plain background is fine- in fact, I like it. It's a nice change of pace from the usual, and I mean, every banner you see we preach about stuffing it full of crap, but the simplicity here works; because of the color you chose. I do agree with Hazuki about the fact that it doesn't look awesome, but I pretty much don't agree on anything else. :B
The brightness is alright, since it adds the pop that the background is missing, but what bothers me the most is the stroke. xD; It just hinders everything, and it's not smooth at all, which makes it look terrible. The text is awesome; placement is great, and actually fits, blends well thanks to the super bright lights, but is it just me, or is your render... incredibly...... low quality? D: Or is that a filter? Oh, now that I look again... the stroke on the "in disguise".... Way too thick. :| I personally don't usually like stroke in general, but I really think that the stroke is way out of place in this particular tag. I think you should tweak the brightness/contrast on your render itself- not an adjustment layer, but like, directly y'know? I think that'll really help it in terms of making the brightness fit more, as well. Without the stroke, I'd probably like it; but by "like it" I'd be putting it on a different level than I normally put your works. :< (Probably somewhere around "like it" for like, SwampertTrainer, y'know? The simplicity was executed well, but it's kind of boring. ;<) El Capitano: I just wanted to say that when I saw this tag, my jaw dropped off it's hinges. I love it. Amazing depth, amazing effects, and I could stare at it all day. <3333 Hazuki: Ummm, not sure if you wanted me to rate your banner; but the stripes in the back are a texture, right? <_< I personally hate tags that use textures as a base background without making it majorly different from how it was before. (Gives that copy-paste feel to the max.) But if you pentooled it yourself or something, then I'll rate it next time I post. :3 Oh but first, your render has a weird pixelly look to it, like it's low-quality. :| I dunno if that was intentional or not, but it looks really gross around her legs; It looks okay everywhere else, (except for the fact that your text is soft, and your render is incredibly sharp, which is funky) but I think erasing the edges of her legs would really help. --------- http://i520.photobucket.com/albums/w326/zetsu-bou/hack.png SO many things went wrong with this tag. For one, it started out green, and turned out blue. (Wut.) For two, it was supposed to be a smudge tag. As you can see, you can barely see any of my smudge work. And for three, the contrast is incredibly overpowering. I'll be fixing his shoulder with some more smudging later, and I'll probably fix the brightness while I'm at it so.... yeah. :/ |
Woah you listed a lot of stuff you messed up on. Most are thing I would have never noticed though XD Anyway, yea it's contrast is defiantly too strong. Even though you say you messed up in this area, I personally like the colors. The only color related thing I don't like is Haseo's actual face because it doesn't really fit with any of the other colors. I'd tint his face and hair a bit with green or blue. As for lighting, it's in a nice position and looks good on Haseo. Thing is the source is way to bright to create the light produced on Haseo's armor. So either make a little duller or brighten Haseo's armor more. I'd go with the first though. The effects on his shoulder also look odd, but you said you were gonna go fix that anyway. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLOR http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/1193/signatureafro01djpnu9.png B/W http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6932/signatureafro01djpbwhj2.png While I was in Atlanta I did two tags. The first was the "Stunning" one, this is the second. I got the idea while helping my cousin make a tag using the same stock. Sadly GIMP crashed when we were almost finished his, and we didn't save often. Owell, I still have mine XD |
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Oh, and the render is meant to seem kind of blotchy. I was bored, so I was like, let's do random crap. Autovectored it and made it looks all weird and put weird text on it. >_< Obviously this wasn't the most serious of my recent sigs lol! :) thanks for the advice veryonez. D: @ Capitano; I'll tell you in MSN, but basically, I don't like it. :S @ Loki: it's all low quality, and over contrasted... :S and rly dark. i like the concept, and placement of it all, but it needs better coloring, lighting, and uh... file format probably. lol XD |
Good thing I don't have to rate, 'cause I really don't feel like it. But I'll just say that Conman's first version of that signature (the colored one) looks a lot better than the black and white copy.
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^ Actually, you were supposed to rate Conman's, because Michael's post was a reply post. :|
I forgot to change the rules, but actually: You must always rate at least one banner. If the person above you hasn't posted a banner to be rated, and it is not a reply post, then you may choose, but otherwise, the one above rule still applies. Does anybody have a better way of wording that, before I put it on the first post? D: Uuurgh Motsuko my dear ex-co-worker. D: I honestly don't really like this tag at all. The brushes in the back are so childish compared to your render. (I dunno, ample bust =/= childish for me.) The colors are pretty, but they're not executed well; I think you should've incorporated some more of that tannish white color on the left. And the border is kind of wonky. The arced dotted brush is definitely not something I'm fond of either. It's in the right general direction, but it's at a bad angle, and actually impedes flow. Lighting is good though. I just don't like the overall look. (And I hate the style the render is drawn in, so that doesn't really help much. D: Hopefully someone else with less bias towards the render itself will rate your tag.) Quote:
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@Loki: PNGs can be horrid quality due to bad settings. but anyway, i was just being too lazy to right click and see what format it is. :P
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@Zathura: Wow beautiful tag. I am loving this whole tag and style. I love the stuff trailing of of the Akatsuki cloak. Everything is realy cool, especialy the whole ghetto style of the tag. The onlything you could fix though is the text. It definately looks a bit squashed, no? Anywho good job!
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Even if squashed is the style, the text just... doesn't fir the signature. Sorry.
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@Conman: I agree with riginality Fails. The guy's hair looks like it's part of the clouds. I like the background, and I think the Colour one is better than the B&W one. You added a nice light texture (is it?) on the center, I'm talking about those red flicks.
@Zathura: The only thing that bothers me is that little red thing on the sprite. The rest, including the text, looks fine to me. 'Kay, here it goes: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f109/Katalyst_12/IDKWhoBanner.png Smudge ftw. Again. :D |
Do I get a free rate cause it's my birthday?~
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I think you should ;P I made a thread for you ;D But I will do the rate for you so you can birthday girl!
@Katalyst: This banner looks great! You did a great job smudging, and all the effects seem to be great. I also think the depth is good too. Things you can work on though, are lighting and color. For me the lighting being that wierd white spot doesen't work. So try and fix that. Also try and make the colors less, dull and boring. That would make the sig 100% better imho. |
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... *stares* Ok, so I'm going to go back on my words a little bit. I really do find the perspective interesting, but something isn't right. That wall on the left hand side just seems sort of... out of place or somthing. It might help if you nudged the background a little to the left. The lighting is perfect, so it would be quite hard to critique even if I wanted to. I will start a lil' su'm su'm with that text, though. It's not that it looks bad, it's just that there's so many more places you could have put it that would look better. Great job though. Quote:
Lighting is alright. A bit too bright, but that's just my opinion. Ask somebody who doesn't fail at lighting, themselves; you might get a better answer. ;> I do really like the text. I've always been a sucker for multi-colors with text, even though I've never quite figured out how to use it effectively. Dx My advice would be too use less brushes and effects next time. Brushes are nice, but it's not hard to go overboard with them. Oh, and it's a little monotone, too. Less gradient maps perhaps? (Or more, depending on how you use them :|) Just putting that out there. ---------- Kind of had a little "slip up" regarding SoTW. I let El Capitano slide for what I prosecuted munna for. Dx After discussing this with him, munna and I decided on an appropriate "punishment" for me: enter SoTW #27 with a Pokemon based banner. xD (only munna could think of a punishment like that). For the win, munna... for the win. :D Which looks better; Without a border... http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t334/_freakGFX/SoTW27-Destruction.png With a border... http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t334/_freakGFX/SoTW27-Destructionwithborder.png or even... WITHOUT A BORDER! >:D http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t334/_freakGFX/SoTW27-Destruction.png Refernce to the ringer, there, for all the movie buffs like me (even though it's rather sad if you haven't seen the ringer :x) |
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@.freak: Ok lets see hear. I just want to say of the bat beautiful idea, composition, concept, and work. Really I don't see any reason why either you or munna shouldn't snag this weeks SOTW. I just want you to know that I really love this piece, and I don't have much to pick at....... One thing I would like to though is (haha) the text. It is a great idea that the text toppled over with the car, but if it is sitting on top of the car and the light is coming from the other side of the car, the text should look less blurry, and more like a silhouette, no? Anyway that is all. Keep this up man. New sig, new style, its all new new new! Rates please!!! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k284/andytoe/AwesomeCrossem-2.jpg |
Hey guys, miss me? Heh, stupid question... OF COURSE YOU DID! You all seem to be improving while I've just been getting rusty. Sorry El Capitino, but you have the misfortune of being my first rate since my PC return.
I find it weird that the side where your light source is coming from is also very dark. It may just be me and my graphics noobiness but it just doesn't seem right. Also, I'm not liking whatever is on your render's right shoulder. It just draws too much attention. But hey, still better than anything I can conjure up. ***** Go easy, I having made anything in a month... http://i35.*.com/2qdol6d.jpg |
-Gummy: I like the style you gave to banner, I also like orange and I think it suits the banner nicely. I love the crop outs, but you might have done too much I dunno it just looks a bit too 'fake' and 'technical' one or two is just fine.
Other than that, It's nice for something you've done in over a month of absence of Photoshop (I take it anyway :P) Guys, I'm sure you dont know me, that's because I'm not a graphics maker - until today. I recieved my Photoshop CS3 today (Actually It's my dads but I can use it; yay ^^) and I started making a signature with a tutorial I found on Deviantart. This is my first signature banner so please tell mt how to Improve just not on the sig but on my style overall. Well, here it is: http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn90/mad-muyiwa/2ndBanner.png |
Yes I am Aizuke, and I'm rating with this account, due to my stupidity of my other account and having 777 posts which I want to keep as long as possible.. XD
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Anywho, leeeets step back for a minute. Not too fond of the monotone colours in this, and the red does kinda make it seem a bit bright and bull. Text is.. Yeah, I don't like the text either. D: Doesn't really go well with the rest of the banner, black text might have suited it more.. Background effects are okay but the black lines on Ichigo, I'm not too fond of either. And.. The quality of the image you've used isn't so grand too either.. If this seems kinda harsh for your first banner, I'm really sorry.. XD;; Just doing my job? --- I know, my criticism sucks, which is why I tend to avoid GRT a lot. :x I guess I'll post something to rate.. http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii142/Akari_Productions/GFX/karen_insanity.png |
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I prefer the bordered one better gives it that 'action' feeling also it makes it more widescreen which makes it more like a movie. xD Oh yea there has to be one pokémon based sig in a sotw on a pokémon forum… it'd be unnatural if there wasn't. xD Hisoku: Fix the contrast and colours. o.o' Destroy the right side. |
Well I'm not the best rater... since I really don't know what I'm doing myself ^^;
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Simple, Monotone but nice :) The 3 dots do look out of place. The right side, imo, has way too much effects. And except for that, I like this one. Sorry for the bad rates ._. http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn253/Alocbk/SOTWDestruction.png I was going to use this for SOTW. :3 |
Had to rate Hishoku, her banner being the best on the page and all. (IN MY OPINION! ... in my opinion, guys.) :O
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Anyway, in all seriousness, great job. I love the way the render blends in with the rest of the sig, but I don't like that orange bit on the left side. It's not so much the concept, it's just the color... not diggin' it, nawmsain? [/gotta stop using that word ._.] But text is good (a little... black maybe, but it's still fine), lighting is great, and you actually used a one pixel border effectively. Lol, I didn't even notice it was just a plain, one pixel, black border until I actually looked... If that last sentence just made any sense, I'm a fish or something. >.> I'm going to stop rating this before I embarrass myself anymore. Great job, though. Quote:
Second, wtf is that tail thing?! Lol, sorry... but it's kind of tacky. Y'know, that think right above the 'T' in SoTW? It kinda curves around his arm and stuff... yeah, that could go. And lastly, the flames are a little too much. I mean, it wouldn't be disastrous if you left them in, but it would definitely clean it up a little if you took them out. Not horrible, though. |
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I'll try to fix it up. BTW, the "tail thing" is actually part of the render =o I think it's supposed to be a chain. |
Well, .freak has covered the top two banners pretty well (as usual), so I'll just take this free post for myself. ^^
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I really like that banner. : D
But then, for the theme I'm using, the colour kinda blend with the forums, but since your gonna give it away, it's perfectly fine. but for some odd reason, the light source kinda covers up the image and makes it look like low-quality, and the light source distracts us, so I kind noticed the text after I looked at it closely. Most people judge banners by the first impression and at a quick glance. So for a second there I kinda thought that your banner was textless... Anywho, I'm a no-good banner person so I can't really judge gfx well. --- Crappy banner. Don't criticize it too much. I promise Shira-chan that I'll PM it to her for her to see but this is a good way to look at it's crappy-ness. http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa48/Ryouki-kun/Themes/narutobannercopy.png |
@Ryouki: I wouldn't say crappy. I kinda like it.
But I don't know if a blue colour scheme matches that render well. Some parts of the render are a bit too light, and there's that plain blue space at the right of Naruto. You could get more blue tones there, then smudge a bit (with flow, of course), it would give a nice effect and making that space look a lot less plain. The left side's alright, I think. -------------- http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f109/Katalyst_12/AtlanticaBanner.png Too much red, I guess... O_o |
Katalyst: I feel like its a bit too plain. The background looks like smudged colors with a little grudge brushes over them (probably isn't, but that's what it looks like). Also, I advise you to sharpen the render, or at least her face, as she's a little too blurry. And I don't think that particular border is good for that banner.
EDIT: I also think its lacking flow, but that's probably because the render is so vertical. *** I'd like someone to choose the one they think is best and rate that one. http://i38.*.com/14e6fep.jpg http://i35.*.com/2uh90k2.png http://i35.*.com/20f8377.png |
I think Neku is the best one.
i actually prefer the naruto one more but may be because of rendering(?), he doesn't look blended in the background. Every other elements like lighting and Text positioning are great. Neku, however, is blended well and the C4ds are well chose. The colors look a tad bit washed out though. ------------------------- after around 4 months, I made another random banner. This one doesn't look that good compared to the current sig, and the mosaic is too obvious IMO. http://img32.picoodle.com/data/img32/3/9/20/f_Inspirationm_9910411.png |
Nice. I like how you use such a simple concept, but it looks so advanced. Well, I guess I don't really have much more to say about it because, well, I'm not that good of a rater to be honest xD
I was attempting splatter, but I don't think it turned out so well :/ http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u54/Ooka_100/Riku.png And another with different text. http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u54/Ooka_100/Riku2-2.png |
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kinda simple, but I was going for the commons style that seems to be used a lot here (my first try, so don't berate me too much =) http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/UuX6N%2BJ1qWeYAA4X%2BqtfkQ%3D%3D109293 Waaaaayy too bright: http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/5TEHw8fB1IgA3WveKmOYsA%3D%3D102046 |
Yeah...first time rating banners.
@SwampertTrainer What I noticed in your banners is that they lack some depth, or making your banners look not too flat. Try adding a bit of Gradient Maps for making those renders "pop". Flow is also lacking in your banners. Try adding a bit of C4Ds with that flow. Don't worry, I have this problem too. In the first banner, the right side of the banner seems empty and just hanging there without any significance. :\ ==== Made this banner not too long ago and I want to know what I need to improve on. http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa184/x_Wish_x/kaedebanncopy.png?t=1221966033 |
I like it, overall. The colors match the render,(even though there's some green), The lighting, and rays(lines) aid the banner too. There's depth and the focal is not too obvious with the text. The spelling too, I don't know if you meant to do that.
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Neku Banner; I think you need to work on blending your renders more, it pretty much seems like you've stuck a render on a background and added some lighting. ._.; And.. I don't get the grey lines on the side? o_O Are they suppose to be there or..? Pokemon Banner; Same with this one too, and yeah, it's a bit bright. Tone it down on the white I suppose? And text is kinda hard to read.. I didn't realised it was there until I looked hard enough. :< And like what Inugami said, both of your banners lack depth and they look flat. And they seem to have too much space in them, maybe a smaller width would help? Quote:
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Hmmm... for a simple word its good! I like how the background colors matches the person and the fireworks kinda thing gives the banner! awesome work!
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Aizuke: Is it unfinished? It doesn't look like something you'd usually do. The render doesn't seem to blend into the background nicely (trust me, I'm an expert at badly blending renders xD). I also think the textures you chose draw too much attention away from the render itself. Sorry, Aizuke, but I'm not liking it.
Sandro: First off, it's a bit too small making it hard for us to critique things like lighting. I like how you used the underwater background for Kyogre, as it ads some sort of depth. If you ever plan on enlarging this, I advise not making the text so noticeable and ditch the pokeballs. *** http://i35.*.com/k470h2.jpg |
@ Sandro - The banner thing is quite good but the text and pokeballs spoil the background with Kyogre as the backgrounds is well done but is spoiled by the things in front of it. 6/10.
@ Gummy - Very well done, I like how the banner and text flow together and the placing of the text is perfect, I do see a little empty space below the text but of course the render makes you not notice the space. 9/10 Awesome work. ---------------------------- http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x17/Hubba-Hotel/Kasobanner1.png I don't think this banner is any good. |
@Kaso: the render/stock i can barley identify and I can see you have only smudged it across the background so my advise is to use a clear good quality render and lean to use some actual effects, try here: http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=121847
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Try messing around with the text settings.
Also erase the the repeat rainbow thing on the left. Render manip: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/munna170488/gallery/okami.png |
@ Originality Fails: Brilliant tag. Great compo, and depth. I dunno really what to say on this tag..... I guess there is no real defined light source........ but I suppose you don't really need one.......... keep it up!
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It's a decent tag, but IMO it's kinda boring. It needs more effects in the top corner. That area just looks barren, and wireframes didn't help it. Also it looks pretty flat to me, no depth as far as I can tell. Text is also pretty boring, should have been as colorful as the left side of the tag. Yes! This tag is great. I love the concept and the manipulation done. Until I really focused on it I didn't even notice the render was also the BG. Which, IMO, is very cool. The depth within this tag is also pretty nice, but like CT said, lighting would be nice. This tag already looks great, but think some good lighting and lighting effects would make it even better. The first thing to catch my eyes with this tag are the great colors. I really like them, they just look so well together. The second is the strong lighting around her face and head. I think it really shouldn't have been as strong as you have it. It seems kinda overpowering to me. The effects are rather nice too, but seem kinda random to me. Like there was no concept in your mine when adding them, which isn't necessarily bad. I turn out doing that a lot on some of my tags. The only effect that really doesn't set right wit the one on her left. It just seems messed up IMO. Whatever filter you ran on it, I think you used to much of it. Text is nice btw. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Both of these tags were made as gifts for people on another forum. I just thought maybe I could get them rated. http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7426/signatureshamonking01rw0.png http://img229c.imageshack.us/img229/3111/signaturegrimmjow01rs2.png ---------------- Listening to: Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest via FoxyTunes |
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I like how the kirby one is in the air up in the sky. It also has the Sun ray effect which is very nice.
Also, the sky effects are awesome. Nice lighting and it looks like he's really up im the sky. Overall... It's pretty decent. NICE!!! Mine now... I know... it's the one in my sig! http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/2778/weresonicgu6.png |
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____________________________________ Up for rate, I like this cat (apparently named Tao from Darker than Black). If you're wondering about the text, I was listening to the song Rain King by Counting Crows while making the banner, and it looked good. http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/dxN5KkmPVFnqlwSon8TTcA%3D%3D147776 |
dude...it's WERESONIC! Not Shadow! Plus i dont use the sharpen brush... i use the thing up top. (forgot what it was called)
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--- Finally, a banner I made without CD4's. XD; With the swirl http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii142/Akari_Productions/GFX/cc_r2_banner_withouttext.png Or without http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii142/Akari_Productions/GFX/cc_r2_banner2.png At first, I thought the swirl was okay, then it seemed kinda out of place to me. D: |
Aizuke: I like the overall effects, except I don't understand where you wanted attention on the banner. I sought of looked all over the place and then I noticed the light source, to the legs? :S But I do like the way you added the text. The hair sought of sticks out too much, you might want to add some opacity to the edges of it so it blends together more. I haven't rated a banner in ages so im sorry if I sound stupid.
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Aizuke: I like the one with the swirl on it
also might as well get this rated: http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c41/Zet_Netroc123/rainbows.png I dunno really, but I think I could have made it a bit better |
Zet: The right side of the banner is nice, but the left stands out too much and it doesn't match. I think you should take away that green thing next to his neck.
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk97/Cirnos_Servant/expressioncopy.png My new theme :D |
Zet:
Take off those darken layers off the blue and cape. Erase the white near the fingers, or make it look like a glow. Take off that blue shape or make it less prominent. That orange-red and magenta gradient looks nice… use hue / saturation to get other gradients for other shapes. Make the magenta on the left have some of that orange-red stuff too. Change the text. This has a lot of potential. Visual:The green red and grey needs to be brighter… especially comparing to the head. Change the font too. Love the avatar though. Entered because of Zet's entry. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/munna170488/gallery/rainbow.png |
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SwampertTrainer: It's okay. The orange pentool / leaf brush thing on the far right really bothers me, since it's supposed to be dark over there. That's the main thing that bugs me. I don't think the border really fits the banner very well. Eh, I just don't think there was much done to it. 6/10~
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@ Raikazu: Everthing looks pretty good. Try working on different colors (besides blue), and different effects (than sparkles xD). I mean this all looks good though. Keep it up.
Ok I made this for Originality Fails http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k284/andytoe/MunnaGift.jpg |
@ comic tragedy: Originality Fails, but the sig is win xD. 8.5. Use levels more.
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@Pikachu Fizzle: Pikachu... I can see where you're trying to go with this, but it's not really working... just too bright (something I've fallen victim to before as well). Like Groudon, you need to blend more. The text stands out too much (again, lower opacity or maybe even none at all). The best part of this is most likely the left-hand side of the background, good work on the lightning effect and the splatter looks good. _______________________________ Here's mine, which kinda fell apart when I put in the sparkles, at in my opinion... http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/VQIm0LCsWk0IXC1nq7QdWA%3D%3D110583 Another attempt with Tao: http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/XT5bNO2dBN5VYPUkxIGRGQ%3D%3D97593 |
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1st... yeah the sparkels isnt good on it... that's what i think... that orange light after it gives the banner some life. i mean that it makes it more eye catching. :) 8.5/10! ___________________________________________ Here is 2 banners i made today while having nothing to do... http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q323/Sandro_91/Pokehackerflamebanner.png http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q323/Sandro_91/Mewtwo_2.jpg tell me what they need and what do i need to remove. |
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1st Banner: plastic wrap... yeah, no. Never does it look good. Never. Nor do really-fake looking preset styles. I can see you're new to PS. I can't really tell through the filter, but your background looks like a random stock you just Googled. So are the renders. At least DO something with them (and I don't mean add the preset stroke. no.) 2nd banner: Again, you just slopped a stock image on a stock background added some text and preset styles. There's really not much to say here that can improve it all. And, here's mine again. If any of you hard-core guys want to throw some really tough stuff at me, please do so =) Thanks http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/VQIm0LCsWk0IXC1nq7QdWA%3D%3D110583 I also need a 1st rate on this one: http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/XT5bNO2dBN5VYPUkxIGRGQ%3D%3D97593 |
Swampert: The cat sig is a bit plain, it looks like a background with a few brushes. Plus it's a bit too dark on the left side. Fix up the text a bit aswell.
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@Visual: The thing I like the most are the colours of the banner, the render/stock is HQ and it blends well into the background but keeps an exellent 3-Dimensional standing out with the awsome shadow at the back. The text is nice exept for the top right of the S which is way too transparent.
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*sigh* I'm looking for a really decent rating not just two sentences. Something like Kyen's. Loki, any comments? For both of them?
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1st banner: Oooo, I like this one. That glowy orange thing on the bottom left (which I think it's a Linear Dodged C4D, correct me if I'm wrong) is pretty nice and blends well with the rest of the banner. Those effects in the whole banner (making it look it's on the water) are really good. Seriously. I think you did good on this one. I don't think there's anything that needs to be better. 2nd banner: This one's a lil' bit too dark. The only light thing is at the bottom right of the banner. I don't think that banner is good compared to the other; but I can see you added some nice effects onto it, by looking at that light part. Make it a lil' lighter, and add some more light at the left. I think it'll be nicer that way. @Visual: I think you blurred too much. Personally, I don't like blur in most of the tags, but I must recognize it may give nice effect onto them. That tag would be one of those, but it's too much blurred. The way you blended the render with the BG is nice, too; I just think it would be better with less blur. @Kyen: Oooo, blazing effects. I love that. But the right shouldn't be too dark; maybe turn it into a dark red? I don't know. No more comments. ------------- Posting two this time: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f109/Katalyst_12/GokuSS3Banner.png http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f109/Katalyst_12/LinkBanner2.png |
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