my first grunge -what's wrong with it?

[kornkid8281]

i made my first first grunge pic and it looks horrible. maybe not horrible but just now like grunge.

can someone help?

[mdipi]

its to clean and smooth. i just flows, grunge should not. try making it 'rougher'.

[lostinbeta]

Yeah, grunge is dirty looking. Like someone rolled your page in dirt...lol.

The blue in there doesn't look right either.

[kornkid8281]

ya, i kinda thought so too lostinbeta, but this has been like my 3rd real play with photoshop and i thought the teal coloring looked so cool that i couldn't bear to let it go. in any case, thx alot, i start workin on another one.

[mdipi]

its a cool pic....but not grunge.

[kornkid8281]

here's my latest effort

i'd like to say i experminented all day to get the perfect grunge picture. but in fact i spent like no time at all and just sat my *** away. anywho, since it's too big you'll haveta visit my site to see it! ha ha!

http://buddhistskater.tripod.com/untitled2.gif

is it better?

[lostinbeta]

Still not quite grunge persay.... but very nice... I like it :)

[kornkid8281]

thx, i'll keep tryin

[lostinbeta]

It is part grunge... but there is a lot of negative space (empty space with solid color).

It is really cool though.

[mdipi]

yeah that tripod icon is really catchy!

[mdipi]

ok i typed it in myself and saw it. its not all that bad. i agree with the empty space that lost saw. just throw maybe a few brushes and it will look a lot better.

[kornkid8281]

thank you guys for all the input i really appreciate it. i'll be back with more in a few

p.s. what do you mean the tripod icon is really catchy?

[mdipi]

haha! when i clicked the link that was all i saw.

[kornkid8281]

okay, here is my last attempt. not that i give up, but it's just kinda boring now. i'm gonna do something different now. it didn't turn out like i wanted it too, but it'll work. anywho here it is:

http://buddhistskater.tripod.com/untitled3.gif

enjoi!

[lostinbeta]

Yeah, you have to copy and paste the URL into the address bar, because Tripod doesn't allow hotlinking of files :-\

[kornkid8281]

really? how strange! it never does that to me! unless for some reason it knows it's me or something. i dunno. i don't really like tripod. i switched to tripod from geocities because tripod supports cgi and perl. i don't really use perl anymore but its always a huge ordeal to switch unless of course you have something like CuteFTP. oh well. i'll look around for a better server, or better yet just my own web site.

[mdipi]

this is ok, but your just not getting it! look at the Grunge Experiments thread. That will give you ideas. btw, just rename your files to whatever.TXT change it to .txt and you can hotlink away.

[Ryall]

mdipi is right, not quite there yet - but this one is DEFINITLY closer to grunge then your first! Keep hitting it.

BTW... who's the girl? I didnt recognize her as some celeb.

Peace

[kornkid8281]

it's avril lavinge. i think i'm done with grunge. it kinda gets boring after a while. i think i work on some more projects with ps so i can really get a handle on it. then maybe i'll go back and try it again.

[mdipi]

just play around. aghh! i cant type! i just went to swim practice for the first time since football, all i can say is WOW!