LucasFTW - Photoshop CS4 - Rate - Updated (new look)

If you want to find tips and such on photoshop look on youtube. I found all kinds of tutorials on it, helped me get familiar with photoshop.

Just dont abuse brushes and layer options.

Infact the less brusehs you use the better

Just try to get an appealing background that matches your render, somehow blend the render in to the background (vice versa) then voila, you find yourself a decent banner/sig.

Photoshop is easy once you get the hang of it, but making a good pic (lack of words) is hard

Thanks mate. I'll try, but after this banner i made for someone... I need to put it up somewhere so i can copy it into Smogon...

Note: They're quite bad...



And without the stupid glow...

if you cant unlock layers, then double click on the locked layer and press ok.

you should be able to erase the white part, or better yet just delete the original layer...

I dont know if you knew that because of the white bg and etc.

here's a very VERY basic tutorial that you'll hopefully learn from.

http://www.tutorialguide.net/professional_banner_tutorial.html

good luck

Just a quick question, where is the bucket that fills something completely on Photoshop? I can't find it...

right click the gradient tool

or press ALT+BACKSPACE to fill the layer with your foreground color

Thank you so much.
And with that basic tut... I could have made that without the tut, but i don't think it looks good so i need a more complicated one... I look over the internet....

Well here i'm trying new effects i didn't know about, yet again...

Always save as a .png

if you really want a complicated tutorial here (well not really but it takes a long time):

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/7/19/1279673/MetroidTut.png

have fun

Thanks, i will. Plus i edited the last one and gave it glow...



Lol i know how to save it differently, i just didnt just then.

Oh, and i don't use gimp so yeah. I use Photoshop CS4...

I knew you use photoshop

Because that brush looked very familiar.

the tutorial is for photoshop anyways so you shouldnt have a problem

You gave me a GIMP tut...

oh haha!

oopsies! sorry. its gonna be confusing if you try to merge the concepts so here's a fairly decent one



http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/036/c/b/cb983742d979a8e9b695fc6e0f71e9fe.png

ok there

download some free c4ds, and change it to a pokemon render thats not from the site..those hand drawn ones

Another one made for someone on Smogon by request...



He asked for it to be like that...

And an avvy i take no credit for...


One for Sprinkles...

What do you guys think of this?



Yeah... Does anyone know where to get C4Ds and what button it is?

the glowy effect on the render looks nice

but you could have gotten a matching color background/ darker one.

Evil wrote:

the glowy effect on the render looks nice

but you could have gotten a matching color background/ darker one.

Yes i know, but meh, i was bored. btw thanks.

EDIT: For me bro... And theres still a few to come.







What do you guys think?

I know... double post... All made for Diploman...

hey i like the Jolteon one,

LucasFTW wrote:

If i do end up making a shop with this, i would love to have a partner or 2, so the other joint shop has some competition.

I could become your partner, i use cs3 but i'll be getting cs4 soon, but i don't have any avatars/sigs to show at the moment because i'm using my windows not my mac i'll post some later

Darkhunter101 wrote:

LucasFTW wrote:

If i do end up making a shop with this, i would love to have a partner or 2, so the other joint shop has some competition.

I could become your partner, i use cs3 but i'll be getting cs4 soon, but i don't have any avatars/sigs to show at the moment because i'm using my windows not my mac i'll post some later

Yeah okay that'd be cool. I'm hoping/wanting another person too, i'm sending still asking some people...

DarkJolteon wrote:

hey i like the Jolteon one,

Lol yeah you would... But it's really over done... -.-


(If you want that in your sig add me credits, because after i grey scaled it i couldnt undo it or add anything, and since i forgot to add my credit... yeah...)

Here is a preview of some of my signatures, are you interested in me becoming your partner in a GFX shop?











i also do avatars but i can't make any at the moment, the only one i have is my hypno one.

To be honest, your renders dont seem to blend in with the background in my eyes. It may just be me but thats what I think

Darkhunter - I love your Venusaur, to me it looks brilliant.

GaiaAero - I was told that, so some banners i have made people recently, like on page 3 or something has got tons better effects and to me they blend in. If i make a shop i'll update it, if not, well atm i can't be bothered.

the colors on this one are adorable



but the render doesnt fit it, since you have photoshop, maybe you could try what gaia/ami does.

smudging

use the smudge tool on the smudge brush, on your smudge settings, while duplicating the original layer, while editing the non duplicated layer, so you can like see the layer o top which is like the duplicated layer, and duplicate the duplicated layer some more, and set some blending modes, while duplicating to make it looks as better as possible, but still well balanced.

TL;DR duplicate the original layer numerous times while editing most of them.

EDIT: Maybe I can show you an example with the same brush you used on that pic or so (about blending in and stuff, not the smudging)