Woot!Some thingies

[Nell Tu]

I was told that if I do Photoshop related stuff and wanted to improve to post them here.
So here's a few.


(request)


And some avatars(feel free to use them):
(i colored this one but didn't come out too great)

[blackmamba]

You're more into smudging, I see. :P

- Well, your first signature is good. I think that the thing (whatever it is she's holding) is smudged a bit too much. That's just me, though. o.o"

-Your second one is good, too. What is lacking is good depth and lighting.

- Good flow and smudging, although the lighting at his foot's pretty off, in my opinion.

- Colorful, good, but too plain. Sometimes, plain is nice. It works well on some signatures. But considering you have a white background, you could add more to that signature. It's good, though.

[EinarRhys]

Hmm, from what I see you have a good basic structure of signature. However, you have not varied with your various techniques. The sigs that you have shown here consist mostly of smudging and lighting effects. I would say to work on other forms of techniques such as using brush tool, Clip Masking, layer effects, etc.. You should see a good improvement if you start to work on learning other effects as well and give you a variety to use in your signatures. :P

[laptop711]

i have to say thats realy amazing i especialy like the assassins creed one. only thing is on the first one i assume she is holding the gun and the smudging makes it look like smoke so why not have the front of the gun sticking out of the smoke i think that would look realy good

[Nell Tu]

Is there a brush tool?Or you mean pentool?Well since my Photoshop is Elements is lacking that and many other tools.(curse you money wh*res,referring to those who invented photoshop).Excuse me for my bad tongue.In the first one Sun Ce(in girl form) is holding a tonfa not a gun.Since I've been working with Photoshop for over 1 year it is expected that I know how the layers work,but I prefer the natural color of some of them other than cover them with some color fill on screen mode etc.Also consider than as I said earlier my Photoshop is lacking many tools that CS2 and CS3(have used both in past) have so I cannot work at my fullest.Unfortunately I'm limited to that.I'm trying to improve at other techniques just as they say "practice makes perfect" and also I'll continue to try and learn other effects as EinarRhys says.
Except if you mean c4ds but I doubt you mean that.

EDIT:
About the one I'm wearing,I made it pretty quickly so I could wear something new at this site.

[Vergil the Fallen]

Smudging huh? well they are average, if not below only because the only effect u used is smudging. Add c4d's to create a good flow, some good use of strokes with pen tool, in these types of sigs, u need to use clipping masks so as to give it more colorful and 'fulfilled' look. And use the dissolve effect near the render itself (the dots). More variety as people have said above me, is the good way to go. Good job if u just started PS.

[Nell Tu]

I don't rip other people's work a using c4ds is just proving that my skills themselves aren't satisfying enough so I need to hide that with the c4ds of other people.If I ever make c4ds though myself I will add them.

[Vergil the Fallen]

Originally Posted by Nell Tu

I don't rip other people's work a using c4ds is just proving that my skills themselves aren't satisfying enough so I need to hide that with the c4ds of other people.If I ever make c4ds though myself I will add them.

actually u do not rip them per se, the people who make them offer u them like on planetrenders. And for the c4d's themselves, they can be used to create amazing things (with layer effects and colors) and most importantly a good flow. But if that still messes ur morale, then u have to drastically improve ur PS skills. Not all people (including me) can do it. For now:P

[Nell Tu]

I don't like Planet Render's c4ds they only submit those who are easy to be rendered.You cannot really know if they owners themselves offer them or not.

[blackmamba]

That may be correct. But in my opinion, using c4ds is only a way of... shall I say, 'practice' for Photoshop. It's like training wheels in a bicycle. o.o" And also, like what Einar told me, "They make sigs easier to do." which is totally true... however, Photoshop does wonders if you know how to utilize it very well. Learning other techniques and effects will be useful, since you'll be able to create something like a c4d, but not really made from cinema 4d, just Photoshop. And of course, not only that, but other awesome effects as well. ^^