Assorted Graphic Questions, answer all you can please Options

[n00b]

Here are some assorted questions, I'd rather not post in seprate topics.
Hope this is okay


1. What are some tips on submitting graphics to createblog?
I mean SHOULD they have borders/ lots of colors/ other to get accepted?

2. Where do you get apple custom shapes for photoshop?

3. What are some good grunge/splatters/textures brush sites?

4. Is image mapping the best way to organize a skin?

[freeflow]

1. It really depends on the graphic. Borders are fine, but not required. I think that it really depends on what your submitting. If your submitting a photo not all of them contatin borders. Same goes for avatars and icons. It depends on the graphic itself. If your not sure just add a 1px black border and see how it turns out. They don't need lots of colors. Some that were submitted overdid the colors and made the graphics bad. Some can be black and white to be submitted it all depends on how the graphic is presented. For example you can have a plain graphic thats decent and have it still get accepted. Rather than making really flashy different color graphics and getting them rejected.

There is no set minimum on how many colors you have to use, etc. Thats all up to you , the designer.

2. Hm, I'll search around.

3. http://www.juvenilecasualty.net/cocaine/ (love that site) . Once you click visitors then brushes you see some there then click old brushes.
http://girlcalledkill.org/ .. There are tons more around. Check the credits o websites that have brushes you like.

4. You mean image slicing? In some cases yes. I would say slicing over mapping.

[n00b]

1. It really depends on the graphic. Borders are fine, but not required. I think that it really depends on what your submitting. If your submitting a photo not all of them contatin borders. Same goes for avatars and icons. It depends on the graphic itself. If your not sure just add a 1px black border and see how it turns out. They don't need lots of colors. Some that were submitted overdid the colors and made the graphics bad. Some can be black and white to be submitted it all depends on how the graphic is presented. For example you can have a plain graphic thats decent and have it still get accepted. Rather than making really flashy different color graphics and getting them rejected.

There is no set minimum on how many colors you have to use, etc. Thats all up to you , the designer.

2. Hm, I'll search around.

3. http://www.juvenilecasualty.net/cocaine/ (love that site) . Once you click visitors then brushes you see some there then click old brushes.
http://girlcalledkill.org/ .. There are tons more around. Check the credits o websites that have brushes you like.

4. You mean image slicing? In some cases yes. I would say slicing over mapping.

thank you!
:D
that was helpful information!!!
Do not close this yet.
In case somebody has more things to share.

[talcumpowder]

1. Feel. It's all about the aesthetic (go look that word up if you don't know it) feel. Theme your pieces, at least marginally. What good is a pretty blend of a model when there's no emotions or story behind it? It's just what it is, a pretty blend, and nothing more. It doesn't become art.

3. Texture sites?! Oh boy.... -tries to decide which texture sites to share-
[ http://www.oxoniensis-art.net/ ] <- soft, grunge-pastel and paper.
[ http://44suburbia.org/ ] <- all grunge, all the time
[ http://painted-passion.org/textures.html ] <- softer, more fluid
[ http://community.livejournal.com/texturize ] <- mostly icon, but ocassionally big ones
[ http://zero.chotoka.net/ ] <- best. site. ever!
[ http://illusion.here-after.net/ ] <-bright, cheery (very pink)
[ http://www.contagiouz.org/Hauptordner/Layout/ ] <- Okay, not great.
[ http://www.ex-posed.com/carton/ ] <- lots of paper, I like paper
[ http://www.kyuusho.net/textures.php ] <- e-hem. very... BLUE! colourize them if need be.
[ http://hybrid-genesis.net/ ] <- what? oh. standard stuff.
[ http://veredgf.fredfarm.com/textura/index.html ] <- more standard stuff.
[ http://www.aethereality.net/ ] <- pretty and standard stuff
(Are you tired, good. I just ran out of sites to pimp.)

4. Depends on how much time you want to spend on it and how much you're gonna be editing/switching it. And how space-constricted you are. Me? Eh. I always try and do double-nav, because if you turn off images (for some god-awful reason) you then have no navigation.
Here, the image slicing is rather nessecary (and for once, I don't have a second navigation), but here it isn't. Mostly because it won't make the page load any faster (there's, like, 500-something images on one of the pages) or enhance it in any way.