Secret Scoobie
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Post by Secret Scoobie on Aug 15, 2009 6:46:03 GMT -5
Yay! Maxxie banners He's so gorgeous! I love the dancing one, screencaps are great, and super cool blending on middle two images. Anyway you can make the images a little brighter or sharper, they seem a little fuzzy to me. maybe it's my eyes?
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Post by Secret Scoobie on Aug 16, 2009 8:46:56 GMT -5
Yeah that looks so great I love it. I love the way you used the text in that banner too I never notice when my images are blurry in banners because I stare at them for so long. It's like with HD stuff, you don't realise how clear it is until you watch it side by side with regularness.
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Post by willow333 on Aug 20, 2009 12:01:49 GMT -5
I love the one of Willow and Tara with the hands in the middle. It says Trial 13 above it. I am assuming it is a representation of Hush when the held hands to move the drink machine.
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Post by Secret Scoobie on Aug 20, 2009 21:54:59 GMT -5
I'm loving your work Raz. I think you have blending and image positioning down pat. Have you tried experimenting with downloaded fonts and stuff yet? Fonts are the trickiest part of a banner most of the time, but when they are pull offed perfectly they make such a difference to the overall look.
And I don't know if you already know this but I thought I would tell you anyway. With your layers (even text layers) you can right click on them in the layer box and go to blending options. There you will find lots of options that will go around the outside of that layer - so if it is text, you can add a 'drop shadow' 'outer glow' 'stroke' 'pattern' etc, and make it stand out or blend in better. You can also do this for images, but depends on the shape of your cut out as to whether it looks good or not. It's most useful for text I find. Have you used that before?
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Post by Secret Scoobie on Aug 22, 2009 5:55:27 GMT -5
S'all good. I know I still love to learn new easy things to try, and you taught me about screencaps!
So many skills, so little time!
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Post by drusillacakes on Aug 22, 2009 6:44:04 GMT -5
LOL, Willow FAIL.. cracks me up. Also love the Glory one! Funny stuff there mister.
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Post by Just Willow on Aug 23, 2009 22:24:25 GMT -5
oooh, lovin' the new Twillow one! and the Felicia one is nice, too. i kinda feel like you stole my idea.....haha, no, i'm kidding. it's awesome!
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Post by drusillacakes on Aug 25, 2009 22:26:11 GMT -5
I'm going to steal the idea from both of you Been watching that MV like crazy and thinking about making a Guild banner myself. Also, I love Felicia's nail polish!! I kind of want to just make a banner about her nail polish. That's random right? I know. LOL
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Post by Secret Scoobie on Aug 25, 2009 22:38:43 GMT -5
All these Felicia banners.. I don't think I'll finish mine! I was too slow and now theirs 3 already on the forum LOVING them, but don't wanna steal anyones ideas!
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Post by drusillacakes on Aug 26, 2009 23:49:24 GMT -5
Ah yes, "steal" would be the wrong word. I guess what I meant was, "inspired" to rock some Guild/Felicia Day love.
In other randomnesss, I actually tweeted Felicia Day today, and asked what color nail polish she wore in that video-- I must be going mad. But I really wanna know!
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Post by Jsebold87 on Aug 27, 2009 20:39:02 GMT -5
Really like the 2 new Willow ones. Great job on those. The Stardust ones are really nice, they look awesome
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Post by xaphania on Aug 28, 2009 9:54:54 GMT -5
All your latest ones are great My only criticism would be the text - it looks quite grainy. Make sure in your program, that you have the anti-alias tool selected. I'd also maybe recommend using the eyedropper tool to pick out colours from the banners to use for the text (course, sometimes a bright contrasting font colour looks best.) Hope you don't mind the concrit I think my favourite of your recent banners is the Guild music vid one.
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Post by xaphania on Aug 28, 2009 10:05:39 GMT -5
Um... I only know my program, but here's a screencap from PSP, it will probably be different in PS. Basically it just makes the text less jaggedy looking. In PSP you get three options - off, smooth and sharp. I usually set it to sharp. From looking at some of the text on your banners to me it seems like the anti-alias is set to off. Okay, I'm glad
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Post by xaphania on Aug 28, 2009 10:21:41 GMT -5
Haha, well, glad I could help I did think it strange, as some of your earlier pieces had smooth-looking text.
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Post by Jsebold87 on Aug 28, 2009 16:39:46 GMT -5
Thanks!! One day I'll start doing more characters other than Willow.... one day.... Would love to see you make some Anya ones, but I'm just biased
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Post by Secret Scoobie on Aug 29, 2009 3:21:51 GMT -5
And make some Oz ones - Oz appreciation month next yeah?
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Post by caitaintdead on Aug 29, 2009 19:35:40 GMT -5
I think you did really well on the Body one, it's definitely one of the more difficult to tackle episodes in my opinion. Can I ask a silly question though? Why can't I view your old art in this thread? It's probably just my computer though Anyway, I'm enjoying the art of yours that I've been seeing around. My only criticism of your current sig though is that it's actually making me super hungry for a massive burger. Yum!
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Post by caitaintdead on Aug 29, 2009 19:38:02 GMT -5
Cancel out my entire, can't see them thing. I can see them up the top of your thread Muchos happy now!
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Post by Secret Scoobie on Aug 30, 2009 4:02:56 GMT -5
LMAO, The Anya intervention one is so funny, I love it. The caps are great and the way you put it together too. Massive comic effect!
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Post by Jsebold87 on Aug 30, 2009 6:00:44 GMT -5
Love the Anya Intervention one, really well done. Great job!
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