Another Effort

No one gave me any feedback for my last one in my last topic, and if I were to post there again, it'd be like a triple post, so I figured I'd just make a new topic.

Anyway, I've been practicing this stuff. Here's my latest try:

That's not bad at all :o

The colors are a little wonky, but you have some decent effects going on, and okay blending.

Really focus on where you want your lighted areas so your focal/tag isn't over lighted.

I like it, you've got some nice effects going on there. Like Kevin said, watch the lighting, it's overall too bright. I think it's maybe blended a bit too well, especially at the bottom of the render. I feel like cropping off some of the bottom might be better. But good job overall, keep at it!

I played with the colours a bit, and it's a little more orange. I had this originally but I felt it was a little too orangey. I also made it a little darker overall. The cropping idea was a no go, because of the light source at the bottom left of the sig. It was cut in half when cropped, which looked awful imo. As for the lighting in general, this:

http://www.renders-graphiqu...atsu.png

was the original render, and, as you can see, the light sources come from all around.

Anyway, this is the sig with your suggestions.

I personally like the first one more.

^I agree

how long have you been tagging ?

I'm guessing about two to three months.

He seemed like he was only just getting interested in tagging with one of his first posts on the site. Don't remember when that post was, but he joined the site in late February. So sometime after that would be my guess.

Yeah, the lighting was better in the first, you darkend it out too much contrasting looking light.

Since I've been on this site. I don't make signatures often but I'm in a photography class where we use Photoshop a lot, so I've gotten fairly familiar with the program, even if I don't make that many.

And yeah, I kinda like the first one better. I'll make another sig soon.

Ooh I dig the effects and the color scheme almost works. What I would do is orange-ify the yellow a little bit. If you haven't done so already, study color schemes and the color wheel to know what colors work with each other.

EDIT: Didn't see the second version. Waaaay too dark, haha.

« Last edited by Krow. on May 4th 2012 »

Have you tried playing around with gradient maps?

Holy Crud, just noticed Blayne came back :D

I'm okay with the colors of the first one but I think you need to put more focus into your focal. Seems to be overpowered by what's going around him.