Lady Yuna's Graphics

[Steve-O]

Hey guys... I really want to get good at this...

These are my first ever attempts at creating a signature.. I never even touched photoshop other than cutting and pasting pics Please feel free to comment about them and to give tips on how I can improve

Soo to the pics

this was my very first attempt, I downloaded a font and use the default brushes to create a background... the image is of yuna

Yuna:

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After that, I downloaded a brush and tried again this was the result

Noel Vermillion (Blazblue)

after that I tried again with another font and brush

Anime Girl with Lollypop

Finally after looking at tutorials for an hour I come up with this... I even rendered the image myself

Anime Yuna:

Again I would love tips and comments about How I could improve.. I would love to become as good as some of you guys

 

[Steve-O]

I just finished this one XD i thought that this one came out really well I used a brush and it came out like a moon.. so I used it behind reimi

Reimi Star Ocean

 

[Ohri-Jin]

You shouldnt be using default brushes download other free ones via deviantart..these are very good, better than mine when I was a beginner...The renders are ace but it all needs blending and effects..

 

[Steve-O]

thanks i have been downloading brushes nly the first one was using the default brushes

and blending i'm still trying to get that one i have only just started still trying to learn everything

 

[Gingerbread Lesbian]

I just finished this one XD i thought that this one came out really well I used a brush and it came out like a moon.. so I used it behind reimi

Reimi Star Ocean

Personally I think your latest signature is your best, I think it shows an improvement. As for tips, I know it's said often but the best thing you can do is look for tutorials (a) because the majority of them will at least under the basics which will be very helpful to new start and (b) you'll get a feel for what kind of style you'll wish to adapt when you become more advanced.

What I'll recommend though is moving your renders more towards the center so that an unbalance of negative (blank) space is eliminated, but not exactly in the middle. The Reimi sig gets away with not having to since the colour of the background and the colour of the render blend well together and the background is also quite busy so it means that they both 'flow' well together rather than contrast one another.

For just basic skills you should try playing about with some filters and some lighting using a soft brush, opacity depends on what's happening around it. Maybe try downloading some C4Ds as well, although they don't tend to look that good on anime sigs so if you're sticking with them I'd avoid it.

Colour is important too so I would highly recommend messing around with gradient maps too, "Image => Adjustments" as well as other settings in that area. I'm going to say clipping masks too simply because it's a personal favourite of mine which go fantastic with "splatter brushes" from Devart. The way I personally do it is place splatter brushes on a new layer (important!) around the edges or just at the bottom of the stock/render and then duplicate the stock/render and place it directly above the brush layer then right click on the duplicate render layer and choose "create clipping mask".

Hopefully that helps you somewhat and I hope it's not too complicated to understand? Looking forward to see what you can come up with, you're doing a good job so far ^^

 

[Steve-O]

I looked at some tutorials on how to use basic effects and tools.. after playing around I ended up with this

I started by using black and white with some brushes i downloaded.. I then used the smudge tool to add some effects. after that I used the render image and duplicated the layer, I then added motion blur to finish the background.

I then added the render image and use the rubber tool to blend the image into the background. I then use the sharpen and dodge tool to make the render stand out and i used the blur and burn tool to make the background better... I finally added a border... but you might not be able to see it as it's black

Mercurial Thank you soo much for the advice I get everything apart from the clipping mask.... sound confusing :$ I'll look it up to see if I can understand it better ...

I'm am planning to stick to Anime and Gaming... do you think that using C4D renders would be kool for gaming based sigs...

Finally it nice to hear that i'm doing a good job.... I love getting feedback to Improve and I think it helping because I am getting better by the minute XD

 

[Steve-O]

after looking at more tutorials and playing with gradient tool and My result was this

I think it looks quiet good.. but i think I use sharpen on yuna to much i dn.....

but I think I'm almost there with the background.... I'm still looking at stuff and trying new things..... I'm starting to really see improvements now XD with is calming me down a little XD

 

[Steve-O]

hmmm jw guys do you have any good links to tutorials.... i'm looking but i can't find anything amazing XD

I'm gonna get more pratice in tonight XD

 

[Steve-O]

Right I was using Photoshop 8 In college today.... and I came out with two... I'm not sure which one is better XD comments please

This is the first one, with this I really started playing with effects such as ocean ripple, fading, smudging Gradients and Outer glow. I'm not sure about the petals, but lighting and the background turnt out great XD

this is the second one:

with this one, I used Sharpen and Dodge on Lighting, and Blur and Burn on the background. I think this one looks better but I'm not too sure..

I might invest in Photoshop 8.. I seemed to usse it better, the other ones were done in CS4

 

[Steve-O]

I do work at college really XD

Anyway I started on this one and did a random C4D... after playing with it It turnt out like Fire, sooo I found an Anime render, and added it to the Image, I use a Lens Flare effect, a Slight oranage and cream gradient, Burn and Blur on parts of the background and Sharpen and Dodge on the render and Tada..... I adore it XD

I just need to add Text when I get home, and then I'll show you the final result XD

 

[Bones]

One of the things I like about your sigs are the size, it's different to what I usually see around here, so you're already getting individual in your work, but as Mercurial said, tutorials will help you improve on your skills, and will help you better your graphic work.

My main pointers are:

Placement, I see you are improving with it a little, putting your renders near the middle of the tag will put attention to the centre itself, not making the rest of the tag lack in anything.

Text, sometimes simple font is best when it comes to text, sometimes I like to turn down the opacity of the text so it blends with the rest of the sig, as if you have it all the way up it can sometimes be a little too bold, and distacting.

You're improving with your backgrounds, and the last tag is looking pretty good, the render is blended in pretty well, and the colours are nice

Keep at it, I look forward to seeing more!

 

[Steve-O]

Thank you

hmmmm yh backgrounds has got a lot better but still need to Improve on effects

I need to get the PSD to add text to the two i did today.... my main problem right now is lighting and blending...

also effects... i'm still really need to start looking at some effects using brushes etc

 

[Steve-O]

hmmmmm also question for the mods.... may you close this thread.. soo i can create a new one with a proper name

 

[Six]

Very nice work. On the thread note, you might wanna just give Boco a shout in the Shoutbox, either that or PM one of the Gmods (The redy-pinkers), and request a "thread name change" that way you can just leave it open and change the name of this one.

Far as the siggies go, definitely just look up some tutorials, you have a great eye for seeing what you could improve on and what not, so definitely keep at it!

 

[Warbsywoo]

I can definitely change it for you. What will it be, LY?

 

[Steve-O]

Boco please may you change it to Lady Yuna's Graphixs XD

Six thank you for the comment XD that really nice coming from somebody like you

do you have any good links to tutorials

 

[Six]

I'll look some up this thursday. I haven't really looked around tuts lately, I usually hate looking at them. I'm sure there's great ones out there though. I'll give you a shout when I got them.

You can also browse DeviantArt and search 'Sig Tutorials'. Or "Beginner Sig Tutorials".

 

[Steve-O]

Thank you very much Six XD your great

maybe I might get almost as good as you one day

 

[Steve-O]

hey here is my latest creation

I rerally like this one, I was a lot of effects such as ripples, gradient, lighting effect etc, the only thing I don't like is the blending, I don't think I did a good job at blending the render in with the rest of the sig.

hmmmm I think I position the render better this time as well

also I may not be putting much up during the next few days, as duodecim is due out soo I might be playing that XD hope you enjoy and i'm looking forwards to comments

 

[Steve-O]

I remade the last sig with better blending and adding a border XD

hope that improved the sig XD

I now know y you need to do everything in a different layer