Newb in need of assistance

I'm a photoshop rookie and keen to learn

I'll start with this.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...man/katana.jpg

How can this be improved? and please tell me how to remedy the problem with your feedback.

Keen bean =D

I hate the colours and also the render quliaty is horrible,, what's with the blur thingys coming out of her eyes?

MUST BLEND!!! I can see the black line of the render and the text is probably the text of it but still it needs work

I wanted her eyes to look as if they had some sort of surreal smoke coming out of them. How do you suggest I blend it better?

jeysus how did u even know there was a render in there tik :lol: i thought u was talking about a c4d for a min there .. anyway learn to multi colour ur sigs too

@starcraft- yeah starting at the sig for a second too long does make your eyes bleed =)


nah jk

If you wanted a kind of smokey effect on the eyes, make sure you can still see the eyes =D right now it looks like one of them games where some guy is getting blown from the inside

There are many ways of blending...
Either get the magic tool, with the render layer selected, hold shift (i think) and click the places where the render hasn't filled up, then with the bits selected right click> Feather and set how much px you want the feather to do (the higher the number and stronger the feathering) and then click ok, click Backspace to do the continous feathering again...


There is also the method of using masks- some times one way works better than the other, such as in my sig i used a mask on the hair and blended that in but if i tryed using the magic stick way it wouldn't work too good




so yeah happy reading

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Originally posted by Tikkitang@Nov 15 2005, 11:03 AM
@starcraft- yeah starting at the sig for a second too long does make your eyes bleed =)
nah jk

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:lol:

anyway check out some tuts man and keep practising

yeah go through the tuts section, if you don't mind downloading some vids they show you the mask way of blending

I already went through most of the tut's before even registering :\

I'll see what I can do with it.

Nice try. I'd suggest using different colors for your signatures and make the BG more interesting by experimenting different ways of brushing. Maybe just a little bit more depth is needed for the BG as well. As Tikkitang said, render needs to be blended in more and tone down the brightness of some areas! They're just to bright.

The text also needs some improvement, I think you should get rid of that brightness from the text because it's just too bright for you to look at. Don't really have any comments on the "smoke" from her eyes. Read some more tutorials and experiment around, I'm sure you'll improve in no time ;)

Ugh, I think I made it worse.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...an/katana2.jpg

That render is terrible.

No, I think that's better than the original one. The render isn't the best quality or the worse, just in the middle. Blend the render in more near the edges and more depth in the BG. Try some levels/curves/brightness and contrast. It's getting better!

Is the text fine?

The text is way better than the original one, I'll count that as fine. I'm not that good at text either so I can't really give any suggestions, sorry.

I think I'll go take a quick look at som tutorials. I don't really know how to use curves and such properly.

I don't think they have a specific tutorial on teaching you how to add more depth, at least I haven't seen one. Personally, I'd tell you to try out the brightness and contrast first, it's a bit easier. And I don't think you really need a tutorial on that, just mess around with the settings of the curves/levels and you'll get the hang of it.
Just don't go overboard with the contrast though!

OK, I had another go and I think it's a little better

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ercebeauty.jpg

meh.

don't start of with curves, curves are extremely hard to get right and control

if oyu wanna dadd colour use colour balance, or even try levels

I sorta like the low saturation, but I will mess with the color balance alittle.

You guys rule, I went from this
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...man/katana.jpg

to this
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ercebeauty.jpg

In one thread. I'm still stunned by the quality of the sigs here. Me, Volant and Hombre are the top sig makers at another board we post on. I was blown away when I came here.

Improving :)
Now work on your text..

What would you suggest?

go for a more fancy type of text....

and if u cant do fancy its somtimes better to keep it simple but nice

text is good dude you will get better it looks like mine 2 months ago this sites a great help stick with it as many people told me try different colors ill send you some tips via pm