navyplaya

TIA, I was attempting a neon pink and turquoise type feel, when I ended up with this: If this isn't what you were looking for, I'll reattempt it no problem, but I think this looks awesome. :) Anyways, let me know. Just thought you might like it :wink: Robo, I'll attempt that if you want, but I'm not sure if it will turn out good. It would help if you could get a color photo. But I'll still see how it goes.

Detail on chair is awesome.

Come on guys, your spamming his thread. Take the conversation to PM's.

Finally, new orders :!: :D I'll start working on those now.

Hmm, it looks really good, but I'm not so sure of the moon adition. Not sure if I like the moon there or not. Anyways, as the above posts mention, looks really good.

Hmm, don't like the swirl in the middle, draws attention from render to much. Render needs to be blended, but also you need to make it pop somehow. Due to the colors of the background, you lose the render in the background.

Just doesn't work for me. Not much of a background, render takes up to much space, and text isn't very good. You have potential though; you should try following some tutorials until you get better.

Nice gallery :) As I've c/c'ed most of these in their respective post, I'll leave that out for now, and c/c later when you add more. I really love your Muse sig, imo it's your best; I just love the flow/feel of it.

It's getting better, but the sky was obviously not done with paint. A true pixel should be done completely in paint each pixel of color being laid by hand. Whole thing needs shading. The anatomy of the guy is right, but the colors don't really work well, and theres not much detail. The said needs to be more granulated or something instead of just a few darker lines. The moon needs shading, and the cacti don't look real, I would suggest googling a picture of real cacti and starting ver on them. Moon needs to have shading and craters.

It's cool and all, but I'm failing to see the artness to it. :-s

Meh, sorry, but I don't like the purple hazy gradient looking thingy at all :(

So... Soa wins?

Haha :) Thanks, I'll work on that. But for now, going to HS football game.

Well I was inspired by Rpg's latest post to make this: V2: Fixed the iris [hide=V1][/hide] [hide=Original][/hide] Basically what I did was take the original (by me) paint over it in solid colors with brushes, and then use a combination of the Blur and Smudge tool. The iris area of the eye, I did the above steps, but also extracted that area of the eye from the original, and blended it. So far it's taken about an hour and a half. Still needs some things like eyelashes, but how does it look so far?? Btw: Just bought a wacom tablet yesterday... made this so much easier.

Agreed. You should get photoshop and do the same thing using brushes. Guaranteed, they'd look awesome.

Yup :) Looks good yaff, maybe not your best, but still up there. Keep it up.

It looks good, but as pyromancer said, it looks pixelated. Might be because of lowering file size, or just over sharpening, either way it should be fixed, and it would look great.

Very nice =D> Only C/C is that the lighting might have been exaggerated just a tiny bit much. But it still looks wonderful.

Thanks :)

Very nice job, I'd say it needs some type of border though.

Only recently started using them, only used them in about 3 sigs so far.

Posted one on main Gallery page.

Just ask if you have any questions. Photo manipulation tutorial using Photoshop CS3. Assumes you know the basics of photoshop, as well as key terms. 1. First open the photo your going to use, and crop it if necessary. 2. Now go to Image> Mode> LAB Color. Now your image is in LAB color mode. 3. Go Image> Adjustments> Curves, which will bring up a dialoge box. A. Under the Channel drop menu, first select the 'a' channel. B. Now move the sliding points in both the lower left, and upper right corners half way to the next line. (Move them to the red lines on the picture below) C. Repeat the above steps for the 'b' channel. D. Hit ok. The above steps just brought out the colors in your photo to make it look more appealing, and can therefore be exempted if you prefer. 4. Now return your image to RGB mode by going to Image> Mode> RGB. 5. Duplicate the layer (Ctrl+J) 6. Set the duplicated level to the Overlay blending mode. 7. Now, Filter> Extract. Extract the part of the image you want to be your focus point. I used the flower in the foreground on my image. 8. When you have the focus point extracted, copy the image (Ctrl+A and then Ctrl+C). 9. Now in your history select the last action before extracting. Now paste (Ctrl+V) your extracted focus point back into image. Align the focus point if needed. 10. Now use a main color in the sig as your primary color, and white as your secondary color. Use the gradient tool set to foreground to background, and drag it from the bottom right corner of your image, to the upper left corner of your image in a new layer, set the new layer to the Hue blending mode and opacity ~70%. This is what I have so far (Note: Make sure that your extracted focus point is your first layer, your gradient is your second layer, your Overlay duplicated layer is third, and your original image is your fourth layer, in the layer order. 11. Now copy the C4D found here C4D. And paste it into your image on a new layer, under your gradient layer. Set the blending mode to Linear Dodge and reduce the opacity to ~15%. 12. Now add what ever font you want in white, and set your font layer to overlay. 13. Create a new bland layer and use your paint bucket tool to fill it white. Set the blending mode to Darken. You shouldn't be able to tell a layer is there. 14. Stroke this new layer with a 3px black stroke, 2px white stroke, and then a 1px black stroke again. This should give you a border. This is what I ended up with: The sigs not one of my best, but not it didn't turn out bad.

Just ask if you have any questions. Photo manipulation tutorial using Photoshop CS3. Assumes you know the basics of photoshop, as well as key terms. 1. First open the photo your going to use, and crop it if necessary. 2. Now go to Image> Mode> LAB Color. Now your image is in LAB color mode. 3. Go Image> Adjustments> Curves, which will bring up a dialoge box. A. Under the Channel drop menu, first select the 'a' channel. B. Now move the sliding points in both the lower left, and upper right corners half way to the next line. (Move them to the red lines on the picture below) C. Repeat the above steps for the 'b' channel. D. Hit ok. The above steps just brought out the colors in your photo to make it look more appealing, and can therefore be exempted if you prefer. 4. Now return your image to RGB mode by going to Image> Mode> RGB. 5. Duplicate the layer (Ctrl+J) 6. Set the duplicated level to the Overlay blending mode. 7. Now, Filter> Extract. Extract the part of the image you want to be your focus point. I used the flower in the foreground on my image. 8. When you have the focus point extracted, copy the image (Ctrl+A and then Ctrl+C). 9. Now in your history select the last action before extracting. Now paste (Ctrl+V) your extracted focus point back into image. Align the focus point if needed. 10. Now use a main color in the sig as your primary color, and white as your secondary color. Use the gradient tool set to foreground to background, and drag it from the bottom right corner of your image, to the upper left corner of your image in a new layer, set the new layer to the Hue blending mode and opacity ~70%. This is what I have so far (Note: Make sure that your extracted focus point is your first layer, your gradient is your second layer, your Overlay duplicated layer is third, and your original image is your fourth layer, in the layer order. 11. Now copy the C4D found here C4D. And paste it into your image on a new layer, under your gradient layer. Set the blending mode to Linear Dodge and reduce the opacity to ~15%. 12. Now add what ever font you want in white, and set your font layer to overlay. 13. Create a new bland layer and use your paint bucket tool to fill it white. Set the blending mode to Darken. You shouldn't be able to tell a layer is there. 14. Stroke this new layer with a 3px black stroke, 2px white stroke, and then a 1px black stroke again. This should give you a border. This is what I ended up with: The sigs not one of my best, but not it didn't turn out bad.

Just ask if you have any questions. Photo manipulation tutorial using Photoshop CS3. Assumes you know the basics of photoshop, as well as key terms. 1. First open the photo your going to use, and crop it if necessary. 2. Now go to Image> Mode> LAB Color. Now your image is in LAB color mode. 3. Go Image> Adjustments> Curves, which will bring up a dialoge box. A. Under the Channel drop menu, first select the 'a' channel. B. Now move the sliding points in both the lower left, and upper right corners half way to the next line. (Move them to the red lines on the picture below) C. Repeat the above steps for the 'b' channel. D. Hit ok. The above steps just brought out the colors in your photo to make it look more appealing, and can therefore be exempted if you prefer. 4. Now return your image to RGB mode by going to Image> Mode> RGB. 5. Duplicate the layer (Ctrl+J) 6. Set the duplicated level to the Overlay blending mode. 7. Now, Filter> Extract. Extract the part of the image you want to be your focus point. I used the flower in the foreground on my image. 8. When you have the focus point extracted, copy the image (Ctrl+A and then Ctrl+C). 9. Now in your history select the last action before extracting. Now paste (Ctrl+V) your extracted focus point back into image. Align the focus point if needed. 10. Now use a main color in the sig as your primary color, and white as your secondary color. Use the gradient tool set to foreground to background, and drag it from the bottom right corner of your image, to the upper left corner of your image in a new layer, set the new layer to the Hue blending mode and opacity ~70%. This is what I have so far (Note: Make sure that your extracted focus point is your first layer, your gradient is your second layer, your Overlay duplicated layer is third, and your original image is your fourth layer, in the layer order. 11. Now copy the C4D found here C4D. And paste it into your image on a new layer, under your gradient layer. Set the blending mode to Linear Dodge and reduce the opacity to ~15%. 12. Now add what ever font you want in white, and set your font layer to overlay. 13. Create a new bland layer and use your paint bucket tool to fill it white. Set the blending mode to Darken. You shouldn't be able to tell a layer is there. 14. Stroke this new layer with a 3px black stroke, 2px white stroke, and then a 1px black stroke again. This should give you a border. This is what I ended up with: The sigs not one of my best, but not it didn't turn out bad.