some of photoshop work

[johnzie]

heres some of my photoshop work. Just text effects for my nickname (johnzie). tell me what you think.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a281/JOHNZIE/my%20photoshop%20work/johnzie7.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a281/JOHNZIE/my%20photoshop%20work/johnzie5.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a281/JOHNZIE/my%20photoshop%20work/johnzie3copy.jpg

[esnetni]

good good

[dr_zeus]

The flames look great. The other two are a little too obviously done by photoshop filters.

[B3NKobe]

nothing special at all, sorry

[johnzie]

nothing special at all, sorry

it's cool, i'm not gonna lose sleep over it. i'm just showing some work of mine so people an comment/critique it

-johnzie-

[eurosickwitit]

effects are cool but dont make me too wickedly excited because ive seen those on some tutorial site before

[johnzie]

effects are cool but dont make me too wickedly excited because ive seen those on some tutorial site before

yep those are all from tutorials

[deletedUser459]

dude! that last one is freaking sweet!

[TheCanadian]

Those are awesome :thumb:.


Your footer is to big ;).

[waterworka]

yep those are all from tutorials
good stuff what tutorials did you learn them effects from?
post the links:geek:

[hl]

*cough* www.good-tutorials.com *cough*

one of my friends made the tutorial for the third one ;)

[BoonDock]

Not all that impressive man, but I like seeing people using tutorials and learning!

[waterworka]

*cough* www.good-tutorials.com (http://www.good-tutorials.com/) *cough*

one of my friends made the tutorial for the third one ;)

Thanks cuz!

[mprzybylski]

check the aliasing on your text, it looks jaggy on the edges. set it to smooth or something other than what you're using now.

[johnzie]

Not all that impressive man, but I like seeing people using tutorials and learning!

that's the idea. i'm not trying to make something super impressive, just following tutorials.

[johnzie]

*cough* www.good-tutorials.com (http://www.good-tutorials.com/) *cough*

one of my friends made the tutorial for the third one ;)

actually it was from www.tutorialized.com (http://www.tutorialized.com) in the photoshop section but i'll try www.good-tutorials.com (http://www.good-tutorials.com) too.

[dylan]

nothing special at all, sorry
Funny, I wanted to say the same thing in your thread, along with telling you to actually finish it before trying to show it off for some lame *** ego stroke. Then to come here and talk down to this guy is just ridiculous!!! Shame on you.



Johnzie, glad to see you're posting your work regardless of your skill level. Usually, it's a great way to get feedback and additional tips on how to improve. Seeing those images took me straight back to 1998 (at least he didn't use eyecandy for the fire, right oltimers!).

Now lets try something that seems to be increasingly rare. Some useful feedback!

You'll see your images, especially the fire, are TOO sharp, a dead give away of cg (amongst other things in this case). If you were to take a picture of a flame in real life, you'd see a glow associated with the flame. You could obviously create a glow using layer effects, but that's cheesy and too uniform.

I want you to experiment so I'm going to be broad. Duplicate your layer. Blur it some, amount up to you. Now you have the option of applying a distortion filter, or something along the lines.. or nothing at all. Play around.

Now lets suppress some blacks. Image>adjust>curves. Make the curve look somewhat of a exponential curve. The logic behind curves is this: the left side is 0 (black), the right side is 1 (white). You're essentially remapping the range. You can do the same thing by using the adjust brightness and contrast dialouge too, but I find curves to be much more intuitive.

This should make our glow layer only appear on the "hot spots" (high values, ie whites), with the threshold dependant on your curve. If you're not happy with the overall brightness, just use adjust brightness/contrast, and throw the brightness up some. Adjusting the contrast will have the same sort of threshold effect.

Now play with your layer blending modes, usually 'screen' works best. Now throw your layer opacity down (usually way down).

Continue tweaking your values, not afraid of using undo.

If you toggle the glow layer on and off, you can see the significant yet subtle effect this has on things. This is a very common effect, I use it in compositing apps all the time. It'll add a lot of subtle realism. Just don't over do it, which is common of people new to anything. The key here is be subtle. You want it to compliment your original layer, but at the same time not even realize that it's there.

Hope this helps introduce you to the concept of manipulating color ranges along with practical uses of blending modes. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, I'm sure most of us here will be glad to help.

[johnzie]

Funny, I wanted to say the same thing in your thread, along with telling you to actually finish it before trying to show it off for some lame *** ego stroke. Then to come here and talk down to this guy is just ridiculous!!! Shame on you.



Johnzie, glad to see you're posting your work regardless of your skill level. Usually, it's a great way to get feedback and additional tips on how to improve. Seeing those images took me straight back to 1998 (at least he didn't use eyecandy for the fire, right oltimers!).

Now lets try something that seems to be increasingly rare. Some useful feedback!

You'll see your images, especially the fire, are TOO sharp, a dead give away of cg (amongst other things in this case). If you were to take a picture of a flame in real life, you'd see a glow associated with the flame. You could obviously create a glow using layer effects, but that's cheesy and too uniform.

I want you to experiment so I'm going to be broad. Duplicate your layer. Blur it some, amount up to you. Now you have the option of applying a distortion filter, or something along the lines.. or nothing at all. Play around.

Now lets suppress some blacks. Image>adjust>curves. Make the curve look somewhat of a exponential curve. The logic behind curves is this: the left side is 0 (black), the right side is 1 (white). You're essentially remapping the range. You can do the same thing by using the adjust brightness and contrast dialouge too, but I find curves to be much more intuitive.

This should make our glow layer only appear on the "hot spots" (high values, ie whites), with the threshold dependant on your curve. If you're not happy with the overall brightness, just use adjust brightness/contrast, and throw the brightness up some. Adjusting the contrast will have the same sort of threshold effect.

Now play with your layer blending modes, usually 'screen' works best. Now throw your layer opacity down (usually way down).

Continue tweaking your values, not afraid of using undo.

If you toggle the glow layer on and off, you can see the significant yet subtle effect this has on things. This is a very common effect, I use it in compositing apps all the time. It'll add a lot of subtle realism. Just don't over do it, which is common of people new to anything. The key here is be subtle. You want it to compliment your original layer, but at the same time not even realize that it's there.

Hope this helps introduce you to the concept of manipulating color ranges along with practical uses of blending modes. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, I'm sure most of us here will be glad to help.

thanks. this helps a lot. i do experiment a lot with filters, but havent had much time to do that because of school and such. thanks again, and i really appreciate it, and i'll get back to you/others if i need help.

-johnzie-

[applejelly]

the third one looks like an action I know...weird :-/

but, they do look pretty hot.

[usagi]

(lol eyecandy)

not bad, not bad at all... i would follow Dylans small tut, sounds to me like someone has a point.. good job none the less

[dylan]

Speaking of actions, they are a great source of learning how certain effects can be achieved. I'd recommend downloading as many as you can, and take them apart piece of piece. Applying the action step by step is also a good idea so you can see the effect each step has.