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Post by Pedsdude » April 10th, 2006, 5:54 pm

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Comments/suggestions/criticisms please.

Tbh I think text is definately my weakest part of graphics design - any ideas to improve it?
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Post by XenRail » April 10th, 2006, 6:56 pm

Quite nice Peds. Well the background looks nice but the font kinda soils it, but you can work on that.
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Post by Koekie » April 10th, 2006, 9:05 pm

my suggestion: remove the bevel from the text :)
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Post by Drofder2004 » April 10th, 2006, 10:23 pm

.Koek!e' wrote:my suggestion: remove the bevel from the text :)
Agree.

Also, the white is very "bright". It needs to be toned down a little (maybe some faded diagonal scan-lines).
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Post by Nightmare » April 11th, 2006, 12:30 am

Drof took the words right out of my mouth :)

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Post by Soviet » April 11th, 2006, 2:40 am

looks nice, think the text needs to be blended in a bit more color-wise into the picture (use blue instead of white on the gradient) and perhaps make it less dominant over the image, but overall very nice

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Post by Pedsdude » April 11th, 2006, 1:43 pm

Image updated... I think it looks much better now. Any further suggestions? I wasn't quite sure what you meant about scan lines drofder..
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Post by Koekie » April 11th, 2006, 2:10 pm

He meant something like this (made the scanlines a bit subtle):
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looking nice there btw peds :)
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Post by Pedsdude » April 11th, 2006, 2:24 pm

Ah, that's what I thought he said, although I'm not entirely sure how to do it :oops: I usually do a halftone pattern and change the opacity/layer properties.
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Post by Pedsdude » April 13th, 2006, 9:30 pm

So how do you do it? :P
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Post by Koekie » April 13th, 2006, 10:33 pm

open photoshop

File -> New with the dimensions: 3x3 pixels (make sure the background is transparent)
Click OK

create a diagonal line, when finished click Edit -> Define Pattern
name it whatever you want (scanline would be easier to find it :p)
click

open the sig/piece-'o-art you want the scanlines on
make a selection of where you want it, go to edit -> fill
a menu will pop-up, choose Pattern in the drop-down menu
and choose your freshly made scanline and press OK
click

fiddle a bit with the layerstyles and fill-settings ;)

(on your sig, I put blending mode on soft-light
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Post by Pedsdude » April 13th, 2006, 11:37 pm

ah ok

The line tool used to be good but I don't like it on CS2 now, seems a bit crappy imo
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