The Graphics Rating Thread [READ THE FIRST POST. D:<] Page 64

Started by Loki January 3rd, 2008 11:11 AM
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@ 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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Conman

Knowledgeable Ignorance

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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.
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Both of these tags were made as gifts for people on another forum. I just thought maybe I could get them rated.





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@Conman: I like this one. The flow and blending here are amazing. Great effects. However, the tan bit next to his head sticks out like a sore thumb (why not a sore index finger I don't know). Maybe lower the opacity of it a bit so it flows a bit better. The arm on the left is a bit bright, and draws the viewer's attention away from the face, where the point of interest should be. The colours here are really superb, but the yellowish spot in the bottom right kinda looks like a sickly gas or oil. Either Ctrl+U for a slight recolour or up the opacity a small bit.

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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!!!



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@Shadow: Very first thing that is noticed- WAY too sharp. cut back with that sharpen brush dude. It's also a bit too complex, which distracts fro the real focal, which is *excuse me* WEREsonic. The lighting source is excellent, though. For some reason, the top right corner is softer than the rest. I love the little flaming effect above the UN- it looks r really good. The text is really nice, good choice of fonts.
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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.



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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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You mean filter? Then how do you get the top right soft and the rest sharp? Separate layers?


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The colours are awesome, and I thought it would be really bright, but it's not actually since the darkness of the render makes it blend well. It sort of feels empty on the right though, but I guess if you added anything more, the whole thing would look too busy. And.. I guess that's all I can say really. XD; Great job. :3



The first one is good, the render blends well with the background, you'd think that it was part of the render (well.. I think it's a seperate background.. XD;;)

And the grimmjow one. :o I love the effects on it. I don't know what else you could do to improve it.. XD; Sorry, I kinda suck at criticism. :x

I don't really like the side border, and to me, it seems like you've just got a stock picture and added some lighting and a few brushes. D: And.. It's really empty.

Seems really messy to me and there's too much texture in it. Nothing really matches with anything, it seems really random to me. D: And yes, it's a bit sharp and I don't really like the lighting on the render and to me, it just seems you've used alot of brushes and there's no flow to it really. :<

I don't like how the render has low opacity. And.. It seems like you've just stuck a render on a background you've made.. The render lacks blending and I'm not too fond of the background text either. And you always seem to make your banners wide, which leaves a lot of room and empty space..

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Finally, a banner I made without CD4's. XD;

With the swirl


Or without


At first, I thought the swirl was okay, then it seemed kinda out of place to me. D:
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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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Guillermo

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That is fairly plain if you ask me, original but for some reason I like it. It catches my eye. I don't like the purple text on the blue background, it is just too hard to read. Overall I like it, good job.
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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.



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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.


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Zet:
@ Originality Fails: okay, too many lens flares. Maybe one or two, but not... ten?? The text on the right is also very hard to see. It probably wasn't a good idea having rainbow on the left upside down, although I must admit it's very original. The colored bars are good, but you could probably have a few coming from the opposite side, even just one (perhaps under the bottom...) The diagonal one just messes things up big time.
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Azonic

hello friends

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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~

Comic Tragedy

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Age 28
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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.

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@Unleash the Beast: The backgrounds on both of these are pretty good. The lighting on the Groudon banner is interesting, but nice. it's almost as if Groudon is causing an eclipse. The text could probably stand a little lower opacity, and blend your image more. The cinematic boarders don't really fit...

@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.
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Here's mine, which kinda fell apart when I put in the sparkles, at in my opinion...



Another attempt with Tao:



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Sandro™

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Posted September 15th, 2009
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@Unleash the Beast: The backgrounds on both of these are pretty good. The lighting on the Groudon banner is interesting, but nice. it's almost as if Groudon is causing an eclipse. The text could probably stand a little lower opacity, and blend your image more. The cinematic boarders don't really fit...

@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.

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Here's mine, which kinda fell apart when I put in the sparkles, at in my opinion...



Spoiler:
Another attempt with Tao:

i think ill rate the one out of the spoilers.
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!
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Here is 2 banners i made today while having nothing to do...





tell me what they need and what do i need to remove.
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http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q323/Sandro_91/Pokehackerflamebanner.png[/IMG]

I apologize if this is a bit harsh, since you seem to be just starting out =)

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


I also need a 1st rate on this one:



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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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still not diminished. E
ventually though, he e
merges inside a v
ery large room w

here everything about

the house

suddenly

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Mr. Epic

Lost
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Posted December 22nd, 2010
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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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@SwampertTrainer:
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.
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