The 'Rate my Photoshop work' Thread

[Propagandalf]

And i've made this one:
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Please comment! I'm trying to improve so please give feedback!!

 

[Caspian_Rho]

And i've made this one:
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Please comment! I'm trying to improve so please give feedback!!

Render quality is your biggest negative here, BG flows ok maybe to bland overall.... But focus and centre are destroying it mostly. The colour on the render is overly heavy which is creating pull aganist the BG. I'd take down the saturation more on the render and provide something dynamic behind to focus attention....

 

[Propagandalf]

Render quality is your biggest negative here, BG flows ok maybe to bland overall.... But focus and centre are destroying it mostly. The colour on the render is overly heavy which is creating pull aganist the BG. I'd take down the saturation more on the render and provide something dynamic behind to focus attention....

Tank you for the advice

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And what about my sig, just one post above the wallpaper?

 

[Caspian_Rho]

Tank you for the advice

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And what about my sig, just one post above the wallpaper?

Hmm, what I'm getting here is a few things... no definite render edge. Which isn't usually so important, but the BG is a little busy so in essence it looks like it's eroding your centre piece. Usually in these kind of sigs, I'd tend to keep one defined render layer on a lowish opacity depending on everything else. smudge out below layers to blend into the bg. What you're essentially doing is reversing the flow of the erosion and giving the sig a centre and focus. Text is almost done well, again lacks defination and the bg feels like it's eroding into it.

Overall light flow is a huge problem, decide what direction the light is coming from i.e. in this one right to left ish and build the sig acordingly, you could make it darker on the left which enhances your text right away too.. but it's alot easier telling someone how to build it than to work back through and make suggestions

 

[Propagandalf]

Hmm, what I'm getting here is a few things... no definite render edge. Which isn't usually so important, but the BG is a little busy so in essence it looks like it's eroding your centre piece. Usually in these kind of sigs, I'd tend to keep one defined render layer on a lowish opacity depending on everything else. smudge out below layers to blend into the bg. What you're essentially doing is reversing the flow of the erosion and giving the sig a centre and focus. Text is almost done well, again lacks defination and the bg feels like it's eroding into it.

Overall light flow is a huge problem, decide what direction the light is coming from i.e. in this one right to left ish and build the sig acordingly, you could make it darker on the left which enhances your text right away too.. but it's alot easier telling someone how to build it than to work back through and make suggestions

Thank you for commenting it
I just made this sig. it's more simple i think

Is it any good?

 

[Caspian_Rho]

Thank you for commenting it
I just made this sig. it's more simple i think

Is it any good?

it's ok, but suffers similarly to the rooney tage. negative space can be good, so don't feel the need to put something into it e.g. most of the space around the writing takes up most of this sig, In this instance it's not a good thing. Border pixel is too wide, and the render is too over-saturated compared to the bg so use layer adjustments to eith put in a filter to bring everything together or a gradient map

 

[houghtie14]

first try im ashamed, oh well everyone has to start somewhere tips for a noob?

 

[Caspian_Rho]

first try im ashamed, oh well everyone has to start somewhere tips for a noob?

this is a very good first try..... most of the frustration for beginners isn't doing the right thing it's knowing HOW to do the right thing..... I'm gonna ask you to critque it and say what you think needs done better (H)

 

[houghtie14]

this is a very good first try..... most of the frustration for beginners isn't doing the right thing it's knowing HOW to do the right thing..... I'm gonna ask you to critque it and say what you think needs done better (H)

well i think ashley looks good but still not very smooth which i have no idea how to do it. Any help appreciated

the background is very poor. what makes a good background and how can i apply this?

the text isn't blended very well into the sig as a whole but i wouldn't how to do this.any good font packs would be greatly appreciated

this is the first photoshop i have had so you'll have to start me right at the bottom :s

cheers for helping

 

[Caspian_Rho]

well i think ashley looks good but still not very smooth which i have no idea how to do it. Any help appreciated

the background is very poor. what makes a good background and how can i apply this?

the text isn't blended very well into the sig as a whole but i wouldn't how to do this.any good font packs would be greatly appreciated

this is the first photoshop i have had so you'll have to start me right at the bottom :s

cheers for helping

You don't need font packs and anyone that says you do doesn't know what they're talking about. The font in my current sig is a stock font, just using warp, bulge A point text ect. is enough for any text.

Keep the size of your sigs to around 450 ish long and 140 ish high. Anymore and you will tend to fill it up needlessly and complicate the process. The bottom of this sig works quite well from a design point of view, you have your focus and centre piece. So other than some better text work and some scatter smudge behind ashley I'd pretty much leave the bg dark or white and render a lighting effect from left to right on ashley to lift it a bit andtake the colour saturation down on ashley a little it seems to be bleeding quite a bit (usually product of a poor quality pic).. i included a couple of examples in my own tags for the scatter smudge technique just to show you the effect in action:

 

[houghtie14]

You don't need font packs and anyone that says you do doesn't know what they're talking about. The font in my current sig is a stock font, just using warp, bulge A point text ect. is enough for any text.

Keep the size of your sigs to around 450 ish long and 140 ish high. Anymore and you will tend to fill it up needlessly and complicate the process. The bottom of this sig works quite well from a design point of view, you have your focus and centre piece. So other than some better text work and some scatter smudge behind ashley I'd pretty much leave the bg dark or white and render a lighting effect from left to right on ashley to lift it a bit andtake the colour saturation down on ashley a little it seems to be bleeding quite a bit (usually product of a poor quality pic).. i included a couple of examples in my own tags for the scatter smudge technique just to show you the effect in action:

mate those sigs look class
ill take all you said into account and have another bash at it
Who is the biker i was thinking of doing a sig with randy de puniet from motogp
one question how do you render a light effect?

cheers

 

[Caspian_Rho]

mate those sigs look class
ill take all you said into account and have another bash at it
Who is the biker i was thinking of doing a sig with randy de puniet from motogp
one question how do you render a light effect?

cheers

the Gp rider in that tag was James Toseland, he's since been relegated back to SBK again

To do lighting effects goto Filter>>Render ligting effect.... the other effect there you'd use behind renders is lens flare, which comes in handy for setting a light source.

 

[houghtie14]

the Gp rider in that tag was James Toseland, he's since been relegated back to SBK again

To do lighting effects goto Filter>>Render ligting effect.... the other effect there you'd use behind renders is lens flare, which comes in handy for setting a light source.

loved toseland shame he did go back to WSBK but he wasn't skillfull enough to stay in motogp i think would be great to have a briton back in the gp though

i tried the light effect and lens flare both look brill what would you recommend as to creating a background for my sig?

cheers

 

[Caspian_Rho]

I'd maybe look for some C4d renders, that's a step-up, but one in the right direction and as simple as importing in a pic.

 

[Danny]

Not really used PS in about a month, been bored so had a little mess around and here is what I came up with.

Also, anyone know where I can get more renders like that?

 

[Caspian_Rho]

Not really used PS in about a month, been bored so had a little mess around and here is what I came up with.

Also, anyone know where I can get more renders like that?

yeah not bad at all, really need to disguise the lens flare and maybe use the 105mm prime instead of the 35mm prime and 300 zoom, knock it down a couple of points. Pull the flare centre in behind the render and add a sharpen layer to the render hard to tell if you used a sharpen though.... sent you a pm as well

 

[iota4u]

not the best sig maker in the world, but i had a pop

it's not supposed to be ultra fancy.. it is well..street..

 

[houghtie14]

had another go im gettin better i think/hope

 

[Dec]

Just done this for Matthew Leone, just a quick thing. Thoughts?

 

[james_lwau]

Lads could someone please photoshop a logo that I drew myself into a proper image please!!