Tagger's inspiration

[Scrib]

Well, Rad asked me to post this up, a bit of inspiration for you all...

i notice all the time you guys use the same boring techniques all teh time in tags, which is okay, but you're not gonna get anywhere or improve...


here is a collection of tags just to show you there is more to tagging than

stock
c4d
smudge
sharpen



http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/y...res/Brown3.png

http://xprophet.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d1rlqao

http://xprophet.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d212sbz

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/o...onal/light.jpg

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/o...040e8811cb.png

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/o...l/Typocrop.png

http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...eindahead2.png

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/r...lavoro_tag.png

http://i42.tinypic.com/2eqghvt.png

I would like to say, even though i know most of these taggers, tehy are not my work and i do not claim rights to any of them...

Get creative folks...

[ketg]

yh i would really like to expand my horizons
i really like the first one
how are those effects done
and xprophets walls are awesome
thanks for the post

[Scrib]

Just to show everyone here there is no limits, which some people seem to think there is

[silent_assasin]

need some good c4ds to do anything atm, anyone got any good c4d renders?

[Scrib]

Planet renders BUT again! Try doing something without c4d's, which is the WHOLE idea of this topic...

[silent_assasin]

Yeah, if you look at my work, i barely use them, i want to use them!

[sirenzo]

i don't use c4ds i use other renders for my effects i mean i have used em in past but recently i havnt been

[DR809]

I can only hope to be so good. But yeah I've always been a customed to my stlye. I used to be variated. Some of these tags remind me of the tags I use to see around here when I first started, I always looked up to tags like these but lately I'm really seeing quality sigs such as these. However, my knowledge of photoshop is limited. Sure I know how to work almost 95% of photoshop I just dont know how to properly execute them. I lol a bit to myself when people say I'm good. I still feel as if I were a noob and I feel that I was more creative back then, if I've never left photoshop at one point I think I'd be better than what I am now. I'm not going to lie I can produce some nice stuff but most of it is things that anyone could put together if they put the time into it. I like to look at myself as an intermediate graphic designer. I wish I could produce work like that but I still have a long ways to go before I can get any better.

If you look at it most of my work consist of this things smudge, clipping masks with splatter, a soft brush for lighting and bunch of adjustment layers with some text slapped on. I wish I was as imaginative as I was back then since I incorperated different ways to make sigs even though the work would come out to be mediocre at best.

Edit- I kinda feel guilty when I incorporate my style since its so simple and I just lack the creativity to progress =/. Trust me Im not where near as good as people make me out to be.

[Scrib]

^ yeah, so try new things, use other tools, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of effects you can create in ps using the different tools

[DR809]

Yeah I know that but I dont seem when to execute them properly lol.
I know when a sig looks horrible and I cant accept that so Ill just do things through trial and error when I'm bored but I always end up sticking to what I know best.
It might be a bit hypocritical when I tell others to expand when I yet have to do the same.
Im going to start hitting the tuts again haha. :P