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Coming Back: The Next Priestess

Discussion in 'Audio and Visual' started by EtherealSummoner, Sep 26, 2011.

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  1. Sep 26, 2011 #1
    EtherealSummoner

    EtherealSummoner Lamentations 3:22-26

    Ok. I was thinking about giving all of this graphic making another try so I am on a month trial for right now. I think that I am liking this trial way better than Gimp though. I can do much with this one. What do you guys think about this picture. DX AND GIVE ME SOME HONEST COMMENTS!! Honest Comments will let me decide if I should go back in participating in the SOTW or not.
     

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  2. Sep 28, 2011 #2
    Kitty

    Kitty I Survived The BG Massacre Staff Member Administrator

    The stock image looks distorted, like it was resized incorrectly. The effects lack flow and depth and are a bit boring. Text is kind of "meh"- not 'oh my gawd, my eyes!", but not exactly captivating, either. I think you've done better work.

    That being said, making one not-so-good sig is no reason to give up. If you've got the trial, may as well use it and participate in sotw and stuff. You never know what could happen.
     
  3. Sep 28, 2011 #3
    EtherealSummoner

    EtherealSummoner Lamentations 3:22-26

    Meeeh... the others didn't say that it looks distorted at all and that the flow is ok to them; they did say that it looks boring since I have Elysia gray...I wasn't even aiming for an "EPIC DUDE! JUST EPIC!" picture. I was aiming for a serene picture. The people on the other site said that it is just ok but would be better if I actually made an attempt in actually giving her color instead of being afraid of adding it in.
     
  4. Sep 28, 2011 #4
    Kitty

    Kitty I Survived The BG Massacre Staff Member Administrator

    I sometimes don't know why I bother, because it seems like whatever I say is disregarded.

    Possibly, it could be my computer, or my eyes, but I doubt it, because none of the other images on my screen look distorted. What the image looks like to me is that it is tilted backwards, if that makes sense. I suppose it could also be a blending or stock image fail rather than a resizing fail, but either way, it still looks bad to me.

    I won't say there is NO flow, but it is rather lacking, despite whatever GFX Expert on another site said. And the lack of depth is very evident. The effects are also extremely simple, and while that's not necessarily a bad thing, here it does look like you're a newbie trying to figure out what's going on.

    You can make a really fantastic signature that gives off a calming effect. Excusing this for being mediocre by saying you were trying to make it "serene" not "epic" is a little sad.

    And I personally disagree that trying to add color to the girl would make much of a difference. It might catch the eye a little better, having some different colors there, but it wouldn't change the other things about the sig that need work.

    I'm not trying to sound like a bitch, but you said you wanted honest feedback, so there's my two cents.
     
  5. Sep 28, 2011 #5
    EtherealSummoner

    EtherealSummoner Lamentations 3:22-26

    -.- I never did disregard anything. ??? Image tilted backwards?? ??? Yea. It must be your eyes on that part because that does not make sense. And yes, I honestly said that I just wanted it serene and not epic because I just want to just do a test run and to see on what I can actually do. I just assume that it is a blending lack/fail.
     
  6. Sep 29, 2011 #6
    Vor

    Vor Princess Eater

    I know, I do stuff like this on other fourms, I give CnC, but none back:( and then they don't use it to help themselves

    My $2, It's a little bland for my eyes, and a there's too much white, It hurts my eyes. The flow is not well defined and is all over the place, like an explosive style. Explosive flow is sometimes good, a friend of mine on another fourm uses it, but it's for you = looks like a piece of shit in my eyes, I'm not kidding.

    Depth, really work on that, because It looks so real, that people will think it's a picture taken outdoors, not just something that you pasted on a background and added sparkles to and wavy lines. Also resize a render with it's width and height changed together, so you never can get that result again

    Text looks terrible, never just put text on a something with a color that's different than anything else. That just draws attention away from the render and effects provided and looks bad, unless you want text to be the focal. Always put text close to the render in a color that does not stand out and is readable. Remember, Simple fonts= Godsend for non-text focal tag.

    Other than that, Everything is okay. Placement is good.
    This is probbably the best thing people need to learn, how to take criticism, It's not supposed to be negative, but someone's own opionion on a tag. Personally, You've done better on gimp like Kitty said.
     
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  7. Sep 29, 2011 #7
    Plasmos

    Plasmos Plasmos

    What does that have to do with another person's critique?

    And why would you place a tag that oversizes the limits anyways? Obviously you didn't check your image size before you finished it. Also the image looks totally cropped wrong, like you tried to bunch in the entire picture and it came out all wrong. The glitter isn't working either.
     
  8. Sep 30, 2011 #8
    EtherealSummoner

    EtherealSummoner Lamentations 3:22-26

    -____- *Sigh* Sometimes, I don't know why I even bother asking for honest critics. I accept it, yet all of you act like it is a bad thing to give criticism and you guys yell at me and truly act like b's (Mainly Kitty because she is the main one who truly do that whenever I say something) whenever I say something as to how and why I made the picture the way it is. I take what every one of you say and mix it up with other people's comments that I have heard in order to get a clear view of how it actually looks like. That is what I do. If I stop hearing negative comments that has nothing to do with the picture such as "I don't know why I even bother" like you did Kitty, then I would feel better; I actually do take in criticism but I want to take your head and slam it on the ground every time you talk like that when you act as though I never regard something. Stop saying that, just give in the criticism, and allow me to take your crits with others. That is how I truly change something. Now I am done complaining.

    As for the tag, it never did oversize the limit. ??? I don't know. it must have been something that I had did in the program that actually made it look oversized. As for the text, I wasn't real sure if I even should have it pink in the first place. I usually find texts that matches the character (Which is what I did with this picture) but I guess I will just have the text match with the background from now on. I will not add in too much brightness next time.
     
  9. Oct 27, 2011 #9
    DarkAngel

    DarkAngel Banned

    I like it alot, though It could probly use more color on the person its self...
     
  10. Oct 27, 2011 #10
    EtherealSummoner

    EtherealSummoner Lamentations 3:22-26

    No. It is not good. Really. It is not. Know why? I have left out some important elements ever since I went on photoshop. One of them is blurring and when I had started using it, it came out a lot more useful. In the SOTW 12 competition, I had used blurring on Lenneth but I did not know what to the heart background. When they kept on saying blurring, that is when I realized that there were some other filters that I had to used that I kept on overlooking. ^_^ So now I am happy and I think I can make better pictures form now on.
     
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