Jae's Thread - Something new...

by **FendeR`** on Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:03 am

Try to make the purple at the bottom look more blue. Then maybe brush around Artest to blend the edges into the background some. From there I think it'd just take some nice looking text, but I can't think of something for that.

by **cyanide** on Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:09 am

Maybe it's the yellow (too saturated on the "black" background) or the background could be too black. Also, it might be the image in the transparent background that's giving it a washed look, but that effect could work.

by **J@3** on Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:14 pm

Just testing out some tutorials and such.

by **zmac** on Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:19 pm

Not bad, I think its really good (Y)

Nothin I could say to fix up

by **Colin** on Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:32 pm

Standard suggestions: Add a curves adjustment layer and duplicate the Jordan pic, blur it, set it to some blending mode. But it does look really good right now.

by **J@3** on Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:38 pm

I'll keep that in mind (Y)

I'm only just learning about adjustment layers and all of that kind of thing.

by **The GOAT** on Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:33 pm

Best sig I've seen from you Jae (graphically, nothing beats Godzilla vs. Stitch). Great job (Y)

by **BOSS** on Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:59 pm

Damn man. You sigs are incredible. I like what you did with that Knicks one. Keep up the work man.

by **J@3** on Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:01 pm

The G.O.A.T. wrote:Best sig I've seen from you Jae (graphically, nothing beats Godzilla vs. Stitch). Great job

Serious? Thanks, it took about 1/3 the time the rest of my sigs take :lol:

not counting the 30 minutes it took to load the fucking tutorial, which for some bizarre reason people insist on making a .jpg as opposed to writing it all out

by **J@3** on Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:10 pm

Product of boredom from last night:

I only make like 1 thing a week :lol:

, so I'm just going to post everything I make.

by **Colin** on Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:15 pm

The text is really choppy. Check the aa settings.

Other than that it's pretty good. Background is pretty good, but try this. Make the non-BG layers invisible (Luther, text, etc.) and make a new layer below the pic. Hit ctrl-shift-alt-e. That merges all visible layers into this new layer. Blur it a little and set it it to overlay/soft light or w/e. Then play with the opacity.

by **J@3** on Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:25 pm

What are "aa" settings?

by **Colin** on Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:45 pm

It controls the opacity of the edges of the font. Make sure it's on smooth.

by **nbalive744** on Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:52 pm

Hehe, Colin getting all fancy on us with his abreviations, I like to call it Anti-Allasing or w/e, but aa sounds fine, I guess I just learned something new. :mrgreen:

by **J@3** on Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:35 pm

Ah I see. It was on Smooth, I just had added effects that made it look like it was eroding. I'm really struggling to find a decent block-ish font, like the kind of thing Devin121 or whatever it is uses on the graphics in his dynasty so I'm stuck with the 2 I have.

Since I can't fix the text, I'll just experiment with this one... I did the background thing, it looks better your way (Y)

by **Cloudy** on Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:37 pm

Jae got skills. I'm liking that sig! (Y)

by **Blasphemy** on Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:39 pm

Wow, damn that shit is awesome. Even your early sigs that you say are bad are terrific compared to some peoples (wanksters, and nba balla's)

by **J@3** on Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:43 pm

Thanks guys (Y)

, and wankster thank you for speaking in the 3rd person :lol:

by **Blasphemy** on Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:56 pm

No prob Jae :lol:

Any time

by **air gordon** on Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:30 pm

that nlsc quotes sig cracks me up... still

sorry, just passing by this part of the forum since legend pointed out some flame war he thought i should see

game on :proud:

by **Colin** on Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:36 pm

Jae wrote:Ah I see. It was on Smooth, I just had added effects that made it look like it was eroding. I'm really struggling to find a decent block-ish font, like the kind of thing Devin121 or whatever it is uses on the graphics in his dynasty so I'm stuck with the 2 I have.

I like good old Impact, and one called He's Dead Jim. I'm not sure if they match what Devin has, but they're a good start.

by **J@3** on Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:22 pm

I'll check 'em out, thanks (Y)

Since I haven't had the internet for a few days I've been messing around with brushes and such, so technically what I make should be better from now.

by **J@3** on Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:21 pm

More boredom. I don't like the text, and I couldn't be stuffed cutting out a pic so I downloaded a PSD. I think it's ok though, I still have the PSD saved so any advice I'll probably try.

by **cklitsie** on Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:26 pm

Maybe try a handwriting font like Scriptina? I like the background, but like you said the text is pretty bad, kinda plain. That dunk was against the Knicks right?

by **J@3** on Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:57 pm

I actually really like that font (Y)

I wish I was better with text.

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