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Ah i see. :lol: I thought you were offended by his post or somethin.. :roll: Silly me.

if your having a hard time with people rating harshly or offending you somehow, then you should probably not post. Alot of people will attempt to give you some constructive critisism so you can improve, not to insult you or your talents. Just so you know, and so you dont think of my critic as flame. Your first Sig: Not bad for a start. Looks like your getting familiar with filters, extracting, stroking, and text. Alot better than most people's first. :) For your Second Sig: I don't really like sigs that just involve mindless brush clicking, especially when you didnt make the brushes your clicking, but maybe its just me. Thats a nice stock (halo rules ;)), and a funky font, except neither fit with the background. Firstly, try getting a grungey font for a dirty/grunge background. Secondly, try finding a better and 'darker' picture (not as in brightness, i mean dark as in 'evil' i guess), and try to fade it in a bit more. And lastly, i'd change the colour to a deep red, or a deeper blue, and lose the invert border. Practice makes perfect! Actually, tutorials also do a great job of teaching, so if i were you i'd get to learn the tools of photoshop and know which techniques are best to use. For a rather lengthy tutorial on PS basics and all the nifty tools (and good/best techniques), check out this tutorial: http://runevillage.net/ThePub/viewtopic.php?t=147841 (i'll be posting it on tip shortly ;)) And if your just looking for a place to roam for random tutorials, check out one of these two sites: http://www.pixel2life.com/ http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs5/f/2004/29 ... elist.html

Wow, nice surface map indeed. Where'd ya get it? I like the clouds, the mountains, the lighting (on the mountains, not the light rays or sun) and best of all, that texture ;) The photoshop work kinda ruins it though :( The sun looks really cheap and out of place. The misty idea is good, except its a little too thick and smudged looking. Cool stuff, but i wanna see some terraspace ;)

Cool. I like the map, and the models, even though you didn't make them, except the shadows are a bit overdone. If i were you, i'd soften them up or fade them. Though i'm not sure if those shadow effects are possible in bryce :| And the ground looks more of a overhead kind of view instead of a tilted one, making it look like really strange.

Alright, i'll give it a shot :D Any deadlines?

To me, it kinda looks like a sword made of primitive shapes in a water default that came with bryce. But, i won't judge a book by its cover, because i'm sure it was hard to make :) Nice reflections, but i don't know if the blue sword (odd..) and the blue water go too well together. And not that its very notiticeable, but the blade seems to be lifting its way out of the water, as you can see from the shadow underneath it.

In Photoshop: 1. Make a selection with Rectuangular Marquee Tool (M, or Shift + M until you get it selected) 2. Go Image > Crop. Be careful when cropping, though! If your cropping something you think might be wanted later on, before you crop press "Duplicate Current State" button in the History Pallet (Or Image > Duplicate Image i think) and save the new one as something different than the original. Now you can crop the new one, and if you ever want to go back to full size you just need to open the original ;)

Alright. if i ever get a chance, i'll try my hand at one :)

I'm rendering using a renderer called Vray and yes, using an hdri map... HDRI is a simple and fast way to get neat results :) I'm sorry to say it, but 3dsmax's scanline renderer isn't much when its glass/reflections.. /Peksa Ah, i see. I've got free version of Vray, hoping to get Brazil or Full Vray for xmas :D And another question, where do you get your textures from for the ground? Or are they just ones that come with 3ds?

Great work. Is it HDRI or just fancy materials? And did you use a different r/s for it or just default 3ds? I gotta learn that stuff >.<

They probably didn't read the T.O.S.

I think hes got it there so nobody steals it. I think he means the signs. We'd like to imagine that whoever makes the signs has pretty good carving and handwriting skills, no? :D Though i think the carving on the tree is fine as it is, it does make it more realistic. My overall opinion on the sig... Don't like it really, the shapes seem really bent and falling apart, there is shading in some places but not all, the text is bad and the 'humour' in it isn't very funny. The white around the yellow looks really strange, and the signs are also odd (yellow signs?). The tree looks really simple, and the lack of shading on it makes it worse. The person looks like it has potential, but it also doesn't have shading. Just giving you some C&C, hopefully it helped. Good luck on your next one, and keep the stuff above in mind ;)

I'll make one for ya if you bump the price up to around 200k. And no need to fuss about information for me, as long as you don't hate abstracts ;)

Damn, you've got great taste in music :P Classic rock owns! And i'll try my best to enter some, hope ya like abstracts ;)

New List: http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs5/f/2004/29 ... elist.html More tutorials by me: http://www.aisupplies.deviantart.com (My ever growing resource website) http://runevillage.net/ThePub/viewtopic.php?t=147841

yeah. and what about your other contest, the 500k one. I won, but i haven't seen you online.... ?? What other contest? Refresh my memory, please? *Scratches head*

Some good pixel fonts: 04b_03b and 04b_21 (i think) from http://www.04.jp.org Bitlow and Visitor from http://www.dafont.com Only a couple problems. One, is the text, its all jumbled together. And another one thats pretty obvious are the top and bottom things. They look strangely flat, and don't seem to fit with the rest of it. Other than that, its ok :) I normally don't do sigs like that, but it was for a competition. And not a very fun competition, if i may add. PS: Looks like it still needs a border?

Nice planets, style. Any updates on this, Thundy?

oooohh la la.. I've been looking for a terragen tutorial :D Tyvm, great tut nadril!

Actually, none of them are apop. :) Those are 3D models, tweaked in PS. I havn't used Apop in a while, i find it pretty cheap :P And a hue change would not be my ideal way of colouring :lol: I use colour balance adjustment layers and mix multiple together by changing the mask, as you can see in the space one (the bottom)

Cool stuff. Alot of it looks like pre-made models or simple tutorials, but the first sword is nice :) What r/s do you use for max?

Just thought i should have some sort of a signature here at tip, so i slapped together some strange ones. Nothing new here, except the abstract in the first two (which i will be releasing soon, for sale ;)) And these are just old things i've liked. Tell me which ones you like/dislike and any c&c is fine if you've got it :)

If you've got it, I'll help you out in Photoshop for the same price and probably get you good results, if not better ones :) I'll go through the basics of space, abstract, trend etc..

I'll PM it to ya.. ;) Thanks :) I've got a new piece of work i've started, thanks to this brilliant idea. :D

Heh, welcome to the big league of photoshop. My record is roughly over 240 layers, neatly placed into sets and sub-sets (thank god for that new feature in CS, i've been wanting it ever since i've tried out illustrator). Great image though. But the background is a bit too '2D' when contrasted with the RS graphics right next to it. Though i like the shadows. Unfortunately, it looks like you forgot/didn't bother with some of the plants. Man, too bad RS isn't like this. But it sure is giving me a good idea... :D