New Photoshop Image

[GARRETTDESIGN]

Here is a new photoshop image I did last night that I kinda like. Let me know what you think about it.

http://members.bbnow.net/garrettpatz/index.html

[c!rYx]

That is really really nice. I like the colors and overall it looks nice.
One advise, leave the bg behind the font and the lines. It damages the nice pic...

[UNFLUX]

cool image! reminds me of mine a little. ;)
[that's not a bad thing]

will make a cool splash, should you choose to use it for that.

[andr.in]

oh man! Nice pic!
one thing though! The line in the center almost crossing the whole pic above the PEXP text! It is surrounded by some angled stripes! The angled ones are kinda wierd in some places... Hey but maybe it's even wierder without them so... nice pic! :)

[GARRETTDESIGN]

Hey guys. thanks for the comments. Glad to see ya like it. Hey UNFLUX, yea it reminds me of yours too. I think its the reddish orange colors? hehe. anyway, yea that's what it is. A splash. hmmm......I was gonna make a footer out of it. But....I think that would be alot like yours unflux. I promise i did'nt copy you! hehe


Oh and also, just in case you were wondering, everything is from scratch. No images were used.

[UNFLUX]

oh i know, not worried. ;)

I really do like it though. Do you mean my old footer? cuz the one
i have now isn't like this at all.

do it! Use it for both, it would be a nice tie-in.

[mdipi]

hmm, how did oyu do that?! that is amaxing!

[GARRETTDESIGN]

Midipi, for you I'm gonna tell you how I went about it. But this is olny for midipi! noone else reading ok?? hehe j/k. anyway, this is from memory so some steps might be left out. But you get the basic idea. And this is all me, no tut's.

1. I took various brushes (grungy) and made a symetical design.

2. Took that design and put a "radial blur" on it, but put the radial blur to "zoom".

3. W/ that design, I did a filter/polar coordinates. (that's what made it cool.....mostly)

4. Then, for the color, i just made a new layer (you should have, layer 1, just white background, layer 2 the design you made, and now layer 3) on top of everything, and fill it w/ a gradient. then mess w/ the layer blending on that.

5. (not sure if you already know how I did this) but for the text holder i just took the square marquee tool, made a selection, and then apply gaussian blur (make sure your on your layers w/ the design you made) then make a new layer (w/ the square marquee still selected from the last step) and fill it w/ those trendy lines, then blend that layer till it looks good.

hmmm...hope you can understand that. I did'nt go back and read it. so hope it helps........

And......this is my first tutorial!! yea!! (if you wanna call it that)

post what you make! please, I wanna see if my directions work for ya

[mdipi]

ok i will try that, thanks@

[UNFLUX]

ok i did 1. the only step i skipped was the color overlay, because
i like my colors as they were.

what you think?:
UNFLUX VORTEX (http://www.unflux.com/unflux_vortex.jpg)

I kinda like it...this was pretty fun actually. =)

[GARRETTDESIGN]

awwww, dam* that looks goooooood UNFLUX. Nice colors. So my tut worked?! awesome. That one is really cool lookin man. Post more!

[mdipi]

ok i did mine! a few little tinkers here and ther and it looked great!
MDIPI's VORTEX (http://www.mdipi.com/sorry/vortex.jpg)




UNFLUX looks great!

[GARRETTDESIGN]

midipi, VERY NICE as well!! good job guys. Good to see my instructions worked. awesome guys.

[mdipi]

hehe i am going to fool around with this...

[Alex]

Originally posted by GARRETTDESIGN
Here is a new photoshop image I did last night that I kinda like. Let me know what you think about it.

http://members.bbnow.net/garrettpatz/index.html

wow, i really like that, keep up the good work.!!!!=)

[nobody]

Lalala heres mine

http://www.xxviii.net/images/ripoff.jpg

[GARRETTDESIGN]

wow that one is cool too xxviii! good job. Everyones is good. Anymo?

[mdipi]

yeah that one is soooo much better than mine

[nobody]

Thanks guys, my favorite is definately Garret's tho.. I would make that if I wasn't tired.. mine was just a quickie
dippy, you did good with yours, i can tell by whats left of it, you just drowned out too much light, other than that, the shape and stuff looks cool, i like the "burning edge" thingy

[mdipi]

well i used no colour untill i got to the gradient, so that was part of the problem,,,

[nobody]

what do you mean?

I did mine with different shades of gray, then duplicated the layer and rotated a bit of stuff and applied layer effects to darken and stuff.. so it was all gray to the gradient.. maybe you shoulda used different shades of gray or something?
maybe i dont understand what your saying

[mdipi]

ok i updated mine, same link as other post.

[mdipi]

28 i just used balck the and 4 brushes lol

[nobody]

It looks the same, I think
and the brushes thing would definately explain it

[mdipi]

more colour this time, not just black on the edges...

[nobody]

I see it now, looks nice dippy
heres my new one -::::::::::::::::: (http://www.xxviii.net/images/vortex.jpg)-

[GARRETTDESIGN]

nice one xxviii, these are lookin real nice. It would help if I showed you what design I made first. I will show you when I get home. It was pretty cool too actually. Keep em coming, these are nice.

[nobody]

thank ye garret.. ive been drawin all day and its been bustin my brain, so its nice to get away from it and do some trendy stuff

[c!rYx]

lol ;p that is funny, I will do one too when i find time...

[c!rYx]

haha, my one is the worst. I normally don't play around with filters that much. Looks kind of mexican...

[prstudio]

unflux:

seems like you could use those steps and make a nice synthetic water drop ripple...

just take out that bright green swirl...and make it all blue

[UNFLUX]

hey! you guys forgot about me! oh well, happens to me all the
time. I'm used to it...

prstudio - you think? hmm...I'm gonna have to try that. I
just did that quick as well, just to follow the steps.

I'll play with the ideas some more and see what happens. You
never know, cuz accidents sometimes are the best thing in art. =)

[Rockstar]

man thats really cool, you should make a tutorial on your site or whatever.. thats awesome

[GARRETTDESIGN]

that's a good idea 350z, I just might do that! is it that cool though? it seems so huh?

[El Phantom]

Nice trick. Good stuff Garrett.

--EP