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I am back! Yes, I have Photoshop CS3, thanks to dragonfist. I just made a banner with a bunch of filters, gradients, blah blah blah and then some text. Yeah, the text sucks, but it's just kicking off.



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Requesting disabled signatures. Thanks Dave.

This message was edited by xsynergyx on Sep 19 2007.

Oooh pretty fire effects. Good to see you back on the ole' Photoshop synergy. I rather like this banner. The use of black on either side focuses the piece nicely and the positioning of the stock is perfect. If you were to improve it I'd suggest bringing the stock in front of the overlayed fire effects - looks a bit lame that they appear on top of the stock.

Sigs disabled btw.

Thanks Dave. I actually wanted a few of the effects to go on top of the stock as if Kratos is sort of surrounded in that effect.

Meh.

Feels really unfinished to me and I'm lost on text. Stock.

This message was edited by xsynergyx on Sep 21 2007.

If you're ever lost on text, just leave it out.

I'm not too sure about this one Synergy. It just doesn't come together that well. Any chance of you blurring the smudging along the sides and applying a purple- orange gradient map and a light blue (linear dodge, maybe 30-40% opacity?) light source?

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If you're ever lost on text, just leave it out.

Thanks for the advice guys.

There's actually an orange and purple gradient map on there, plus a lens flare and gaussian blurred white, semi-circle. Blue, you say? I'll try some other stuff with it, but I really need to start getting back on my feet with this stuff. Well I never was actually particularly good in the first place. I guess I'll start following some tutorials to learn some more effects and such.

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Thanks for the comments.


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btw you know the sig i wanted?i want it like your one and a bit like the sig i showed you in an example via pm

I'm digging the lastest two Synergy.

The Metrac one looks great- i'd just blur the Helghast Soldiers in the background, and create a clipping mask for the text (try applying image, duplicating the layer, selecting the text layer by ctrl+clicking the thumbnail, going back to the apply image layer and hitting del)rather than just lower it's opacity.

Also, some lightning like effects could look rather nice around Metrac. Try finding a lightning stock, or just download some lightning brushes (lol) or just use the pencil tool.

The Halo sig is rather nice too- just sharpen the text and blend the back of the chief's head in a little more.

Thanks. Actually, to get rid of the focus from the background, I gaussian blurred a couple stocks into the background, angle stroked it, ran a few gradients and erased Metrac and the effects I also tried a little lighting with a gaussian blurred white hard brush. If I feel like editing it furthermore, I'll try my best to follow your advice and add more lighting.(I think I overdid the effects, but you want more. D= )