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[artisticmelodies]

here's some new stuff i made...plez give me some c&c..(sorry if the colors are to bright..the computer i'm using makes everything look dark)

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i know this ones kinda weird looking but its just a rough beginning of something i'm trying to make with pictures i take..

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Reason for edit: Please thumb large images. Thanks :) -Nat

[Harp]

Not feeling the 1st or the 3rd ones. The others are pretty nice, and I seriously like the last one.

[Mikeplyts]

Yeah, the 1st and 3rd aren't too great but they're alright. I think the 2nd one is prob the best of the four.

[dosomethin888]

I love the flowers one. Looks like it would be on a wedding invitation or something like that. -minus the font. :)

[manny-the-dino]

1) I dk, it could use some work, tbh. I don't really like the incorrect spelling and all those textures. Cute idea, I suppose.
2) Low image quality. Concept's good though.
3) Pretty.
4) I think it's too much, tbh. I'd take away the lowered opacity ones and make the font smaller.

[HeartOfPandora]

Two is okay, I like 4 but also agree with ^'s suggestions on it.

[artisticmelodies]

thats for all your input..i'll work on all that....here's a new one i made..i was bored so i decided to make twilight banners i know on the second one its kinda low quality but its a movie still so its gona be fuzzy..but other then that let me know watcha think : D

[Mikeplyts]

The first one is pretty good but the second one wasn't really a good choice of pictures. It seems a bit too boring. :\

[technicolour]

I think, over all, you need to experiment more. Learn more techniques. Learn some other blending and manipulating ways.


And then post! We love progress. :D

[emberfly]

1) Too bright for me.
2) I like this one a lot. It kind of bugs me, though, when I see brushes covering up people. I think it would look better if you erased the brushes that are on top of those people.
3) I think you should clean it up a ton. There are countless spots where the color is going outside the lines. The word doesn't exactly match the picture o.O
4) I think it would look a zillion times better if you increased the people's opacities to like 80% or something. Right now the headshots on top of them are very distracting, imo. It may even look better without them (?) It would be plain, but I think it would be better than what it is now.
5)I love the colors in both pictures. The contrast of colors is really pretty. I think you should use a different font, though, because you had to use a black line just to get it to fit :/ I don't like the black line. I think the border shouldn't be so thick.
6) The picture is very out of focus and bad quality, which isn't your fault, but it will be bad quality regardless of what you do to it >.<

[manny-the-dino]

Yeah for sure learn some blending techniques. The whole point of blending is to take two or more pictures and merge them into one. The first one isn't so hot, tbh. Blending isn't good. Make sure to use pictures that are similar. As for the second one, it's okay I guess. Just low in quality.

[artisticmelodies]

mmk....so yeah the second one i know is low quality and that actually isn't a blend blend the back ground was different on the first half of the picture so i just coloned the whole second picture with the first... and yeah and could you show my some tutorials or some things that can show me different ways to do stuff...i've did all the tuts on here so if you know of anything good plez send them too me

[manny-the-dino]

Sure. What program do you use?

[synatribe]

The first one shows cool color techniques but the font dosent seem to match

I think the extraction of the subject in the first and second photos are really good, but then again the font seems to be too basic

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The Maine one is just too busy and the filters or opacity used takes away from the appeal of the image

[artisticmelodies]

kk...i use gimp

[manny-the-dino]

I don't use gimp so I found some on Google for you:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Blending_Exposures/
http://boitblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/blend...-with-gimp.html

[artisticmelodies]

okay..so today i've been doing bunches of tuts on coloring and lighting and stuff....and this is a picture i took a little wile ago and i thought it would be a good picture to do some coloring and lighting stuff to soo plez let me know whatcha think!..i know the text isn't very good but..i just wanted to put it in their :]

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I don't use gimp so I found some on Google for you:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Blending_Exposures/
http://boitblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/blend...-with-gimp.html

thanks! :D

[manny-the-dino]

^Please don't double post. Also thumb large images. (I did that all for you)


I think the sky looks pretty cool but the grass looks weird. Like at the bottom of the picture. It looks like flash went off or something. And the font effects give off a different vibe than from what you're aiming for. But that's just how I see it.

[artisticmelodies]

sorry about the double posting :[ and yeah the grass is lighter then the sky...cuz the other day there was a big storm comming and i was outside and i noticed the skys so dark but all around us was really light..so i found that kinda cool so i tryed to kinda put that into the picture...and yeah i know that font doesn't really go with it..i couldn't find one that i really liked with it so i just went with that one..

[artisticmelodies]

okay heres some more lighting and coloring stuff i've did to some pictures i've taken let me know whatcha think! :D and they look much better if you look at them in full size

[Mikeplyts]

You double posted again.

I think the coloring looks alright. :p

[artisticmelodies]

ahh sorry! :[ so do you have any suggestions on how to make it better?

[manny-the-dino]

Actually that's not really double post. IMO. Mainly because he was just updating his thread.


I think the coloring looks better on the first one because in the second it kind of washes out the clouds too much.

[artisticmelodies]

okay i tried to lower the contrast a little bit to make the clouds come back a little..is this any better?



updated:
heres another new coloring experiment with a picture of me

[artisticmelodies]

ahh sorry about this double post but my computers being gay and won't let me edit my other post!!! but heres one i'm that i was trying to do more lighting to..some c&c would be nice : ]

[artisticmelodies]

okay so i'm pretty excited about this one! i was trying to make up my own ice-snow effect thing..and i was trying to make my own snow or whatever you would like to think it is..but plezz give me some c&c on all this stuff..i'm really trying to get better :D

[nikx618]

imo, there's not that great of a difference, but maybe that's just because the images are so small /:

[artisticmelodies]

ahh okay yeah those are tumbnails of the real images if you click on them it shows the full image..i had it like that so they wern't so if you look at them all in full size their much better :D

[frootloop95]

oo i love this!!! this is really pretty..and i really like what you did! do you think you could post a tutorial on how to do this ice-snow thing? that would be the best!