The Graphics Rating Thread [READ THE FIRST POST. D:<] Page 48

Started by Loki January 3rd, 2008 11:11 AM
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PiSToLZ: The first banner is ok, but you can't see Meta knight very much. And the colours, Yellow and red don't mix with the black, gothic style of Meta Knight. That Brush sought of thing on the left blends well though, but the opacity is a little low for it.

As for the Yoshi banner, I'm sorry to say, but this banner is pretty bad. You've smudged yoshi up Too too much and the colours are too fluro. The right side is blank, and you've overlayed some kind of brush over Yoshi, as if to hide him even more. and there is some kind of wierd corner-of-a-box thing near the red. Good attempt though.

Ooo and Hazuki, I don't have CS, i've only got elements so I can't do selective colour... :P

Meh, my attempt at a vector banner. Raaate!
And it's not transperant. It's just that the colour of the background is the same as PC's.
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Renyui-I see...A vecor sig?
Simple but effective.
The colors match well, and it was a good choice of render
Seems like a lot but I like it
8/10


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PiSTolz 1st: The render is way too blurry to do anything with and the banner itself is quite plain. I do like the pen tool use, though. 3/10.

2nd: Much better render and I see use of a clipping mask. However, the background is beyond plain. 5/10.

3rd: I think the Aura Sphere would have been a better light source than what you chose, and that rainbow is pretty random. 4/10

I think you should try out some tutorials and try to pick some stuff up.

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Gummy: Hmm... I like it, but the blue in his eyes is really rather blue... I think instead of the entire image being black & white then some blue, you should only make it a little black and white. I'm not sure if you've Photoshop, if so, try adding a Black and White Gradient Map, as well as the Blue to Orange one, and set the black and white on Luminosity, while having the blue and orange on 30% opacity. But still keeping the blue parts in there. Play around with it a bit. :D I'd say... 7.5/10, I'd like to see what you come up with.

v1.

Version one seemed a little too dark in the face, so I duplicated and set it to Lighten.

v2.

Then the render of Ichigo seemed overall too light... so I made a new layer, soft brushed white over the dark parts, and set it to Soft Light.

v3.

I was quite happy with the outcome of the last one. :D
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Relyt: I like this new smudge style you've developed. However, in some parts near Ichigo's face it seems a little too bright. the C4D is nice but the text needs to blend a bit more. It's kinda distracting. The border is a little thick, and the render needs a little sharpening but other than these, Good job Relyt!
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Relyt:The banners are pretty good, I personally like them. I'd take into consideration of what Rényui said about the border. Take it down one or two pixels. The last banner is the best, but I'd suggest slightly darkening the edges of (what is he called? Ichago?).. yeah. Ichago's face; right where his hairline ends especially. Other than that, the banner is really good! I can't wait to see more from you. =]



Me: I used Loki's tutorial to do this. Meh, first time in the style. I might've overdone the selective color a little bit, but I like like. -shrugs-
[Yes, it's the same background texture thing as used for the banner above. I like this texture XDD;]

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@Michii: I think the results look really good. My one qualm is the font you used since it seems - to me - like it doesn't seem to go along with the cute and colourful atmosphere that you have going on. I might just be rambling about nothing, though. XD

Well I was making this for SOTW - and I think I still will - but I might use it for myself now as well. I struggled with the lighting on this one for a while. >.<


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^^Hmm, my main problem is the lighting in this picture. The very little amount of shading on the render indicates that there's a strong light shining in front of the render, but that light isn't represented in the rest of the sig as the parts immediately around/behind her is quite dark.

The effect in the top right kinda looks obscure/random and doesn't really fit in too well with the rest or blend well. The part on the left looks a little strange where it just cuts off.

I like the kinda darker effect on the far left, like a flame or cloud silhouette. Looks good. The text isn't bad, could be placed/arranged better.
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Mishy:Wait a minute... you like SasoDei too?????? I like the background and the texture you used in the banner. And did you use selective color, cause I can't tell. I would use it more? oo It's good as it is anyways, so I don't think there should be any adjustments. ^^

.fate:
I really don't know what to say because I suck at rating these types of banners. The text placement is amazing, I love it I love it I love it. You should add more stuff to the right, it's jsut that wierd blue thing and that's basically it, that and black. Add a light source somewhere on the girl, I think it would look a little better. Use selective coloring if you have to! Really that's all I can say because there's nothing better than what I think just said, so it's a good banner. ^^

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@Hazuki:
Wow, those are amazing. I myself love icons, and those are some pretty amazing ones, especially the animated one.

Well, I've never made a smudge banner before, so this is my first take at one. :/

P.S. I think I overdid the smudge, and I think I did it wrong too xD

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Ooka: Is pretty, and fluffly looking ( airy ) but its kinda empty in my opinion. I think you can keep the style you are going for but add some more effects. Try some lighting, or texture effects with some c4ds for an easy fix. Just think about adding cool effects withought losing the style you were going for in the first place.

Sorry for my sad attempt at making a comment. >_0

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@el capitano - cool you have photoshop. now join my shop >.< anyway i kinda get lost in you banner because it's too contrasted. i don't know but a border would be a nice go. I also don't really like the text. It looks like you made the "sotw" bigger when it was small. and the insane is kinda hard to read. also the render looks like he should be in a dark place but that's not a big problem.

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@El Captiano - The SOTW one is pretty good but kinda flat and crowded, and also those colors seem a lot more jolly than insane to me. Though I guess I can kinda see the insane side of em.

The MGS sigs is pretty sweet, but the little boxes are kinda out of place. It could use a little blurring in the background on the left to add to the depth.

@evilcheese - It has decent depth, and the lighting is okay but could be better. The green dots look really bad to me though. Also his eyes kinda look weird. The light you have over his head just makes the render look kinda LQ there.
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@ Gummy: It's interesting. I don't think I've ever seen you use that style before. I like how it's rippled, but it seems a little too rippled. Also, you shouldn't have covered the render.

Yeah, I know that was a horrible rate. That's why I'm not going to submit a banner.

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Gummy: Wow it's pretty good, I like the ripple like effects.
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Dragonzilla: I have to admit, that is a really cool style. The only thing I have to suggest is that you work on the text. It is... terrible. >>; It should blend into the background more and have more effects on it rather than just slapping on Arial Bold. Try Overlay or something. xD;


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@Raikazu - I love it, honestly. Probably my favorite banner ever in the SOTW. Really great job. The render blends in nicely with the background, and the text is blended, yet readable.

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@Raikazu - Don't really like it too much. I think the colors should be more washed out to look more like sand, and pretty much the face takes up way too much of the sigs. Most of the effects dominate the focal point so I don't really know what to look at in the sig. The text could be a lot better too. And it's quite flat, not a lot of depth.

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Ooka: I think the banner is way too dark, especially since your light source if fairly bright. Colors aren't the greatest, but I wouldn't go as far as to say it's horrible. And, sorry for the pickiness, but there are a lot of green pixels/dots on Light's shoulder and arm. Might want to get rid of those.

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@ Gummy: The render seems to be little grainy, if you know what I mean. It might be because you resized it to such a small size, but I'm not entirely sure. I like the background. Nice and plain, but it doesn't really match the render. I mean, the render has so much going on, and the background is so boring xD. But yes, sometimes it is better to have a boring background, just not in this case.

I'm not sure what that is under the thing he's holding, but it looks like a C4D. That can go. lol. It seriously doesn't have to be there.

Now, the text...
Mmm, I think it sort of needs to be redone. In my experiences, simpler text is the way to go. Especially when it's so small. Anyway, not a bad banner, but not a spectacular one either. 6/10.

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Maybe the text needs to go?

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Thanks Motsuko, I was really just trying to bring depth to a banner with that last one. I think I do it better with my next one, though.

Motsuko Live: As usual, your banner is super-special-awesome. A few pet-peeves though: I have no idea where the light is coming from, as there are a couple of bright spots in the sig (my best guess is the bottom right). And while on the topic of the bottom right, what is that image? I've looks at it sideways, upside-down and with one eye closed, but I can't figure it out. xD

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Might trash the meteor and text and add a border. What do you think? and yeah, I don't know where the light is coming from either xD.


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Motsuko Live:
Nice banner, I like the positioning of the render and the background looks good.
The text is okay, but then again I am new to Graphics and wouldn't know very much anyways... =P I think the text is fine, but maybe move it down a bit?
Gummy:
This banner looks kinda blurred. I'm sure you meant for it to look like that but it just looks over blurred.
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Ok guys, here is the moment of truth. I have created my first banner ever and plan on entering it in the the SOTW "Swords and Blades" week. I am unsure about the text so any advice is happily taken.
Here we go...

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Kuggles- There isn't much detail in it at all besides the render. Not really anything else to comment on :/ Nice for your first though.


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Just figured I'd get mine from the SOTW rated.

I used the same color scheme as my last.