My first work, which ones better?

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this one
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or shall i sharpen it to look like this?
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and any other advice and/or criticism will be appreciated...Dont worry about seeming mean, this is my first, im only toying around at this point...learning stuff
 
What is it about the text? is it the color location or font?
 
The second one seems better in my opinion. Its sharper and easier to see. Its a great job, though. You are really good for start (better than me :sad2:) The text does need to be changed, though. The color location could try to match more wth the colr of the background. It kinda stands out from the picture
 
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well tell, how shall i change the text? it'll be easy but i wanna use this as my sig so i want lookin as good as i can get it... now i also cut the avatars

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and the sharpened
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I realize its a bit big but i can resize no prob
 
The image looks clearer in the second one, and I can see why you made those changes. However doing that the text has became distorted, pixelly and the colouring has been watered down. I would suggest messing with the image first, and having the text on another layer so it doesn't get distorted with the image. The text on the first one looks better, though I think it needs something behind it, or perhaps moved away from the cape thing, to make it stand out more.

Sharpening the image itself didn't turn out bad though. Sometimes sharpening can make everything pixelly, but it wasn't too bad with this at all and makes it clearer. In my opinion it helps the image as the original one was a bit too blurry for me and it was hard to focus on it. I would suggest going round the outside with a smoothening brush though as there are some pixelly bits around the outside.

Perhaps even taking the background out and adding a pattern with some brushes and stuff.

Anyway, nice, keep it up!
 
Go look up some turorials. Your signatures lack good use of colour, depth, blending and positioning. Just starting out though its to be expected. Try and keep text out the corner of a sig, thats more or less a number 1 rule. The second version is oversharpened aswell to a point where it looks really messy. Sharpening is good but dont over do it.
Just type in sig tuts in google and follow them word for word. Although its not really gunna be your work your making Itl give u a grasp of some of Photoshops tools and how to use them.
 
All you really have to do is use the dropper tool (Thats what its called I think) and click a part of the pic, and then changed you font to that color by highlighting the font and changing it to the color of the part you chose
 
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So i sharpened it a little less form the origonal and the font placing and coloring has been changed, let me know if you like it more! Remember this is my VERY FIRST work andim only toying arund so i want you to go all out and tell me the entire thaughts of my work
 
The sharpening job is much nicer on this one.

As for the text I think it is in a better possition as you can read it more clearly. Not too sure on the choice of colours now, and perhaps some effects or glowing around the edges might help it.

Looking a lot better with the image though.
 
The Lunar Knight bit looks a lot better. Not sure about the "I Am The" part though.

Maybe the text should be blended / meddle with the transparency a little bit.

What program are you using?
 
:hmmm: Well IMO, I think you need to change the image itself. To me, it doesn't look very high quality and is a little bit grainy. The colours look a little bit dull to me as well.
It's difficult to make images like that look good so my advice would be to try and find another much larger one or one of better quality.
It's already been said, but I think it's a tad over sharpened. Try to avoid sharpening text because it becomes grainy. Just use the sharpening tool on the image and lower the opacity as well.
Maybe change the colour of the 'Lunar Knight' text as well. It's a good idea to use colours from the sig you're making.

Remember to read lots and lots of tutorials and you'll see improvements quickly. KIU (Y) :)
 
im using Microsoft photo editer and paint...for now...until i get something better...
 
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ok i think this time the text is as good as it can get, im using some poor software for now, ill get some better software soon i hope
 
I think that text definately suits it best. Looking a lot better there.

Keep it up, and try out the graphics programs like Photoshop or Paintshop or GIMP (though I don't know what it is like, I know people have created good stuff from it).

Paint isn't going to be very useful to you. I think it is not bad what you have made from it though. :O
 
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