Ruff Ryder's Crap-hix thread [DWade|Wade+Shaq|Sig League ]

by **Ruff Ryder** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:36 am

I don't like my first wall, so I'm not gonna post it, but here's my second. I know Colin the gfx and hip hop guru will have something to say though. :twisted:

(crappy)Walls:

Avatars:

Sigs:
Newest

Dirk

Baron Davis
Pops Mensah-Bonsu
LeBron James
Kanye West

TMac

Another TMac sig

Ginobili

Ciara

Allen Iverson

Josh Smith

Dwyane Wade

Jordan XIV
Jordan XIII

Melo

Julius Jones

Gerald Wallace

Lamar Odom

Nate Robinson

Marbury
(I think I want something in the bg but I'm not sure what)
Marbury v2

Mafia's other grizzlies sig:
Mafia's other Grizz sig

Ben Gordon
V1: V2

LeBron James
1
2

Dwyane Wade
Regular
Animated

Andre Iguodala

Jadakiss
Gilbert Arenas
Simple UNC sig I had a couple days before they one
Vince Carter Sig I use for a sim league
Tony Allen sig

Random Stuff

by **Colin** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:57 am

How'd you know.

A good effect forbackgrounds is to make them fade to black. Put a layer of pure black over the BG and use a layer mask and the gradient set to radial to do that. Move the Iguodala text up a bit so it doesn't get cut off by the taskbar when it's actually used. I like it except for the Andre text, which is just awful. But that BG looks very good for your 2nd wall. It seems a lot of people don't put effects on their player photos. A quick tutorial could help everyone.

by **FendeR`** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:52 am

Agreed, player effects are really simple but some beginners don't know about them. That's a pretty nice wall for your second. Once you develop your brushing (easy) all the stuff you do will get better, just practice with it.

by **Ruff Ryder** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 1:55 pm

Colin wrote:How'd you know.

A good effect forbackgrounds is to make them fade to black. Put a layer of pure black over the BG and use a layer mask and the gradient set to radial to do that. Move the Iguodala text up a bit so it doesn't get cut off by the taskbar when it's actually used. I like it except for the Andre text, which is just awful. But that BG looks very good for your 2nd wall. It seems a lot of people don't put effects on their player photos. A quick tutorial could help everyone.

I know, I know. I do know some effects but I was kinda debating whether or not to put them on, but I don't know as many as you. I'm guessing alot are learned from just messing around. I read your tut by the way. (Y)

@ Fender Bender, I'm not a brushing genious like you.

I don't get how you got it so quickly lol, I remember seeing one of your sigs, someone points to a site with a couple brushes and the next thing I know your an abstract genious, lol. Anyway, I gave it another shot, not too sure If I like it though.

I also took out the text that said Andre, I didn't have it in there originally though. Should I take out those red bar things? I may try some new brushes, I was looking for some kinda dark, grungy/gothic, flower type brushes. Anybody have suggestions? Kinda like what Hubbakuk (?) used on that Paul Pierce saint/sinner wall.

by **-BHZMAFIA-** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 2:59 pm

I would suggest you take the red bar lines out even though I don't know jackshit about PS :lol:

Just a suggestion though, I like the wallpaper though (Y)

by **FendeR`** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:00 pm

lol. Thanks for the compliment, but I think once you get the hang of it you'll say "why the hell couldn't I do this before?"

It's basically randomly clicking around with different brushes and layers and messing around with opacities and blending modes until you get something that looks cool. I'm interested in making a simple video tutorial, I want to try one.

by **Ruff Ryder** on Sun Jul 03, 2005 5:00 am

I added some sigs up there, now I have a real thread...kinda.

by **Mikki** on Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:28 pm

Those Ben "Jordan" & Bron sigs are excellent. (Y)

by **cklitsie** on Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:23 pm

I like your style man and you almost can't go wrong when you make sigs of Knicks players anyway. :lol:

btw. I kind of noticed that there are only blue and red sigs up there.

by **Ruff Ryder** on Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:46 pm

ceekay wrote:btw. I kind of noticed that there are only blue and red sigs up there.

True, true, I never noticed myself. I'll have to stop that :crazy:

But I think part of the reason was to match the forum colors.

by **FendeR`** on Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:21 am

I like the effect on the Andre in the background you did in the Iguodala sig, nice. (Y)

by **Ruff Ryder** on Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:13 am

New Gerald Wallace sig..

by **cklitsie** on Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:25 am

I like it, the overall style of it, but some parts are a little pixelated and I'd try some other shape than a rectangle (I mean you can throw in some invisible parts, like cut the corners off for a little more techy style). That last thing is not really necessary though. :wink:

Not trying to be a nitpick or anything, just trying to give some usefull comments.

by **Ruff Ryder** on Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:27 am

ceekay wrote:I like it, the overall style of it, but some parts are a little pixelated and I'd try some other shape than a rectangle (I mean you can throw in some invisible parts, like cut the corners off for a little more techy style). That last thing is not really necessary though.
Not trying to be a nitpick or anything, just trying to give some usefull comments.

I have another idea too about the shape. It just came a little late, I'll get it next time.

by **FendeR`** on Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:33 pm

Agreed that is just looks too pixely in places, otherwise it's good. But did you do the stroke (on the text) yourself or something? It looks like there are some errors on it.

by **Ruff Ryder** on Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:36 am

FendeR` wrote:Agreed that is just looks too pixely in places, otherwise it's good. But did you do the stroke (on the text) yourself or something? It looks like there are some errors on it.

Actually no, I didn't put stroke on the text, I probably should have changed it. And I'm not sure why it looks pixelated, I'm guessing cuz I used the number from Live 05. :lol: