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WARNING: Death ahead!

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Icons

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not nude, but close. you don't see anything
Ah. By far my favorite of all that i've made. This one is supposed to be an old postcard from the 50's. Obviously it's seen better days because it's ripped and torn.
warning: death
I have a version of this banner that's twice the size of this one and with a different font that looks more hand-written than Catholic School Girls. It's somewhere but i'm a lazy little crap and don't feel like looking right now.

These are the most recent graphics I've made. My style is vintage. I really like the way vintage photographs look, but I want to branch out and learn other styles. I would really appreciate harsh but constructive criticism. I want to improve badly.

 

[Giggity...]

Hey you posted you're thread =D

I cant say any more than what I've already spoken with you about, I like the vintage style on your work. Its a style that seems to be really popular around here and you do it well. Like I've already said I'm glad you don't abuse textures, and I think ciuex (sammi) will love you for that. You're use of lighting is very good, and you're creative with the arrangement of you're banners (epecially the death one.) Another thing is that you don't seem to have any unnecessary text anywhere which is also good, except maybe on the postcard one- try and keep text off of any important features like the face. You're colour choice overall is very good and that leaves me with very little to say against you, congrats its awesome =D I look forward to seeing more of your work =]

 

[cieux]

i already love him because he's one of my close friends lol

stop making your multiply/darken layers or w/e so yellow it sort of bothers me
go a little more grey
i don't have much to say ngl
you know the tiny text on venusaur's banner doesn't bother me
tiny text always bothers me
also the text covering her face... i mean the banner with the breasts
that is not nice. be gone with that bit

idk what to say to you because you're actually good
join the sppf talent brigade

 

[screamer]

ily so much for that post, samz. that made my day to know that i've improved.
hm, is there any particular image that's too yellow? im thinking you mean the two of Rose in the second row? i think they're too blue/yellow myself. it's exclusion, btw.
i'll try to do something about the text on her face, but tbh, i put it there on purpose just so i could get that little bit of the stamp in there.

btw two new banners here:

comments/crit? which one do you hate the least? in the second one she's more.... idk. i kind of want to add a border. what do you think y or n on the border? It's also my first time using that kind of texture.

'Ey Giggity... thanks for the compliments!

 

[Giggity...]

First one is better, defo. in both cases i think the hair is a bit too contrasted but in the second more than the first. The colouring on this is Beautiful. I love it.

 

[Warfare]

i guess i can say that you need to balance out the shadows and all, especially with all these exclusion-esque layers. either introduce some contrast and different colors, or focus on bringing back out some colors that you lost from previous layers. for example, selective coloring has a section for black, which can easily bring back the blacks that were tinted with blue from those exclusion layers.
you should also just clean your images a little before you start doing anything to them— they're really noticeable. just smudge or blur out small parts because it'll look better in the end.
there's a taste in design in your work, so i'm not too concerned about that though i would probably have to see more future work to be sure. however, just practice with colors and base editing i guess.

oh and if you want, i can write up some crap later on how i achieve some vintage effects like this.

 

[screamer]

oh and if you want, i can write up some crap later on how i achieve some vintage effects like this.

that'd be cool. it's such a nice effect.

also two new things:

this one's too yellow i think. a certain person told me how to counteract the yellow so maybe i'll edit this later. i just really loved the image and had to use it in a banner.

again loved the image. made as an imaginary shop header so that's why it says welcome.

edit:

there's a much much less yellow version of the same banner.

 

[Northern Lights]

^the last one even though the colouring is better, the text is difficult to see; the first may have better text but the yellow background with the yellow tint of the body doesn't mix well imo.

the second one has good colouring, good text and the background emphasises these but i dislike the blantant texture placement over her face and hair, as the detail and colouring in the hair gives the banner balance.

 

[Giggity...]

Agreed ^

The colouring on the newest one is wonderful though. What is that circular brush you use on the 'welcome' banner?

 

[screamer]

Well, I tried finding a brush like that on deviantart. I did find it, but it was thicker (about 2 or 3 pixels) and it wasn't for my program. I custom made it using the pen tool.

@nl - forgive this rather dumb question, but by texture do you mean the actual texture in the background, or the circles over her hair? if it's the former, then there is no texture there, I erased the part over her face.

 

[Giggity...]

Yeh I've been looking for that brush for ages It's driving me mad. I might just take you're approach and do my own.

 

[Warfare]

this one's too yellow i think. a certain person told me how to counteract the yellow so maybe i'll edit this later. i just really loved the image and had to use it in a banner.

blues balances out yellow. you can easily fix it through neutrals in selective coloring or color balance. just make sure you brush over the layer mask so that it doesn't affect skin tones as much. speaking of which, you're missing reds in your skin tones. it looks very one-dimensional with just yellows. if you have a hard time bringing it out, again use color balance or neutrals in selective coloring. you need to experiment with editing the layer masks of the adjustment layers you use so that it only affects the parts you really want it to apply to.

as for the vintage effect, i'm too lazy to provide specific directions or visuals, so i'll just give some steps and what really gives it the vintage look:
since vintage will have a darker washed-out look, you need to up the brightness and contrast before applying all that stuff; maybe like +20-30 on each. you also need to ensure that the colors won't be too dull, so up the saturation by +15-30 as well.
to further introduce colors, just play around the reds, greens and blues of the curves layer. try plotting more than one point for each color and add more reds, greens and blues without overdoing it (this really depends on your image).

that's just preparation work, the following is more of the effects:
add a hue/saturation layer and tick that box that says colorize. leave the saturation as is, but make the hues around 50-55. this layer should have the opacity lowered, maybe to about 45-60%.
go to your original image and go to filter, distort, lens correction. there's a vignette section that you can set to a high negative value (i just do -100 all the time) that will give it the burnt edges.
this part is really simple, but people don't realize that it gives that touch-up that vintage photos have: do a solid color fill with a hot pink color (usually with red-orange tints), and set it to 5% opacity.

it's pretty simple, and it really shows something too. when you color an image, you need to set up base colors that are necessary in the image so that you can easily bring it out or change it accordingly when you add more adjustment layers like selective coloring.

 

[screamer]

@warfare: I'll try that one day, thank you.

edited version:

Her top's a little more saturated, the background has some color in it instead of just black and white, border is thinner, text is smaller.

 

[Giggity...]

I think thats looks awesome ^^ I think the second one does definitley look better (though i would wouldn't i XD) I gotta admit though i'm not a fan of that extra bit on the border (y'know the thing i thought was leaves)

 

[screamer]

A follow-up/sequel to my Vine Whipped banner. Eh, I did what I could. Possibly other ones might be a Squirtle "shell shocked" one or a Starmie/yu "star struck" one. idk

This thing was a real pain in the ***. The coloring and all that wasn't the problem. The text was the problem. I had no idea what to put on the line so I have about 6 different versions with 6 different things written on it. Some go across the whole line, others are short.

 

[Giggity...]

Ah screamer I feel compelled to comment here now you commented on my crap. Once again your colouring is fantastic and i can't complain, the border and the white line are gorgeous and fit in just perfectly- do not change that! However there is a massive flaw in the text, i cannot read it!