Art First banners ;p

[Oceanborn]

Hmmm. Actually, I'm a bit of a manga scanlator, so I'm somewhat familliar with Photoshop. The hell. Duh-oh. *Doesn't know how to put this*. Well, uh-huh, err, I threw a like in the Arts for and, well, uh-huh, err, I kinda thought I'd make my very first flowers of evil. Something acidic (notes: brrr, it's dumb!). Something nostalgic XD (notes:yepp... That's a Tsutomu Nihei Neo...). Something even more nostalgic (:drools: **We-e-e-eiss...**... Plain and minimalistic, still like it @_@)

- So, ahemmm... Do I have any sense to, errm, continiue trying tha' stuff?

[sakurasuka]

[CENTER][COLOR=Purple][SIZE=1][FONT=Microsoft Sans Serif]The first one isn't too bad, I like your chioce of colors and the placement, though it ends up sort of boring and not really anything awesome. It was a good use of space, though, I'll give you that one. And the font looks nice... I may have used a slightly different shade of blue on the font, though.

The second I really like. It's just got a good feel to it, really. It all matches, the colors, fonts, pic, everything, and that seems to be rarer and rarer lately. I don't PERSONALLY like the pic, it's a little dark for my taste, but I really do LOVE how you did it. Nothing I would cange except I might do a little color burning around the edges and maybe darken the font a bit. Maybe a dull grey? I dunno. I can't really find anything WRONG with it, though, great job!

The third is a bit bland, but not too bad... Not nearly as good as the other two, to say the least. Anyway, stick more to those styles rather than this one.

Overall, I love everything you did. It's really awesome, you could become a great banner maker! You're already really good! I just got PSP8 not too long ago and I'm still learning about some stuff, so I'm really not all that experienced either...

Well, good luck!
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[Oceanborn]

Wow. Thanx ;p Well, guess I'll go try some more ^___^ (taptaptaptaptap... Now where do we put that layer... Aha, and now thet font, let's mess it a bit up... Mwuhahahaha!!!)

[color=teal]EDIT:[/color] Another pack... Played aroun with PS this night... Kind of...

[color=teal]Double posting is never acceptable, even when bumping a thread to show more artwork. I suggest that you get a friend to post in response to the old pieces, or delete your previous post first. -Syk3[/color]

[sakurasuka]

[CENTER][COLOR=Purple][SIZE=1][FONT=Microsoft Sans Serif]Wow, you've obviously gotten much better than the last post even!

On the first one, I have a few complaints. First, you can't read the font too well, you should've made it bigger or clearer. The image itself isn't bad, I kind of like it. I like the quote, though, and I can't tell what effects you used on the image, but whatever you did turned out seamlessly perfect. 8.5/10 Kudos!

Even I can't see much what's going on the the second. If that was your banner, I wouldn't even glance at it twice, it would make my head hurt >.< I love the fonts and the backgound, but they do not look all too great together. Besides, the only thing I could read is 'This thing is disturbing my eye' I love your choice of colors, though, if that means anything. I will not give a rating on this one, for there is little to rate on.

Third one I love the pastel look, and how the backgound looks like crumpled paper. The font really matches this, though I would have gone for all the same color, rrather than a gradient. (You did use a gradient, right?) But anyway, it all matches. For your fifth work in photoshop, (That you posted, anyway) you did awesome. My one issiue with this (other than font color) would be that there isn't anything spectacular about it. In the first one, you really drew people in (IMO) by the picture and the font and how everything was just... Edgy, kind of. This one could be one of the awesome ones, it just needs some kind of effect... Something different, you know? I can't quite put my finger on it, but I can see this being one of the better banners made on OB, second only to the likes of Ozy, Retribution, Boo, and the likes. Better than many of mine, that's for sure. 8/10

Fourth one, you need to add a different quote. It needs a quote there to fill the space, but that's not what it needs, I don't think. Something short and sweet. I think if someone has to spend more time readiing a quote than looking at the pictures and effects, that's just not quite right. Anyway, lovin' the picture and the transition from PICTURE-BG-TEXT, I think it looks a lot better than a simple gradient or something. The blue should maybe be a little more purpleish, kind of a dark indigo. The font and colors match perfectly, and it all flows except (in my opinion) the quote. But it really was an awesome piece. 9/10

I've found (In all of your work so far) that you are great working with colors and pictures and making them flow, and you even choose perfect fonts most of the time. My only real beef is I think you should work on your no-picture banners a little more, you have the potential to be good with tham too. Also work on your text in other banners, it needs to either be short or flow. Really, the only things I think you're not the greatest at are the things that don't matter like text, because to get around that you can just write usernames instead of quotes because you work really well with fonts. Keep up the awesome work, and I hope to see much more of you!

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[Oceanborn]

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(makes big eyes) Wow. :catgirl:
Thank you. It are, errr, people like you that keep me on not throwing away the Photoshop @__@ (Duh, something's wrong with that sentence... Me bad english...) ...Well anyway, domo arigato gozemasu ^_____^. And oh, yes, How did you count the pics as 1-2-3-4? Is, say, Lain the 3d or th 4th? Nah, I didn't use any gradient anywhere, rather inner/outer shadows since most of the grads didn't really feel any good.
(bows)