Curse

William of Orange · Mar 15, 2005, 03:35 AM // 03:35

For me having made the background, overall I don't think it's too bad. I'm sure that somebody (cough*Death at the Door*cough) will have some criticism for me

It's all good though, I'm looking for good feedback, as long as it's constructive...

Edit: Forgot to mention that I need to go back through and fix up her face a little bit, where he head meets her neck the red got a little bit out of hand and makes it look somewhat funny.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y24...mancerRed1.jpg

Weezer_Blue · Mar 23, 2005, 06:20 AM // 06:20

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Originally Posted by William of Orange

I'm also working on changing around the Blue Flame one, so far it's mixed reactions on it. Some people like the blue; one guy said it looked like it was ethereal and he liked it. Others at another forum say it's too much blue, and I can definitely agree to that. I'll see what I can do; I may just keep the woman but change the background entirely...

I like the bluness... ethereal is certainly a good way to describe it.

Whosa Skylore · Mar 23, 2005, 12:44 PM // 12:44

theyre good the first 2 coulda been a little better, but they were your first so they wernt gonna be that great. i loved the idea for the monk one, maybe you should kleep working on that one. and the ranger one, as everyone said the ranger is to bright. and the third one the lady in the blue, it was good execpt at the bottom around her legs and hair it got kinda frizzy, i dont know if that was just the picture or something else but over all they were very good and better then i could have ever done ;p

Elonis · Mar 23, 2005, 01:10 PM // 13:10

for your monk backround picture i would polish up the test for Guildwars and make the monk head look like it is actually part of the picture.

just a thought.

William of Orange · Mar 23, 2005, 03:28 PM // 15:28

I'm kind of short on time to work on any of the pictures right now, since I have an enormous AP European History assignment that I need to start on, since it's due in about a month and I don't want to get screwed like our teacher said some people would. At some point I will go through those first couple of pictures I made and touch them up, because it is pretty obvious that the Ranger in the first picture does not really belong there, and then for the Bone Dragon eating the Monk, I'll just mess around with it and see if I can't create some cool effects for it.

With the third one (lady in blue flame), the hair was like that when I got the picture, except for me having to add some volume back in because the Magic Background Eraser which I used took out some of the darker, background-similar colored hair, but I see where you're coming from Skylore. I'll look into that one as well. I'm also going to be working with some of the screenshots which I took, but there was only one real action one. I just did think of an idea using the screenshots I took of myself playing the flute, the violin, and the drums on our Guild Island, so we'll see how that turns out in a couple of days.

William of Orange · Mar 25, 2005, 05:37 AM // 05:37

I took a bunch of screenshots on Saturday night right after we had gotten our Guild hall when I was playing some instruments. Decided I wanted to slap them together to make this...

Nothing fancy, I was just bored. The text sucks, but I'm too lazy to look for anything else right now. Maybe tomorrow if I have time after working on my European History project.

Mss Drizzt · Mar 25, 2005, 05:49 AM // 05:49

European History =Gross= Too many names and dates. And those filthy rats that caused the plauge. And that really evil Pope. All those cursade's eww.

William of Orange · Mar 25, 2005, 06:05 AM // 06:05

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Originally Posted by Mss Drizzt

European History =Gross= Too many names and dates. And those filthy rats that caused the plauge. And that really evil Pope. All those cursade's eww.

Well, I'll agree with you that it is a lot of names and dates, but the class itself isn't all that bad.

And in all fairness, rats only spread the Plague; it was caused by neglect of living conditions by humans, since it was commonplace for people to throw their refuse and excrements right out the window into the alleys, and it's never good when all of that junk ends up in one big heap after running down the streets.

And I'm guessing by "that really evil Pope" you're talking about Pope Boniface VIII? His sale of indulgences and whatnot only goes to show you that absolute power corrupts absolutely, regardless of if you're the Pope or not. The Church had pretty much been omnipresent throughout the entire Dark Ages after the fall of Rome to barbarian chieftains, and the power that excommunication had over the masses was sufficient enough to make anybody crap their pants if they even breathed the wrong way.....

...And look what you've made me do. I've gone off on a rant

Edit: And speaking of Crusades, have you ever heard about the Children's Crusade? There were actually three little ones, and without boring you with the details, lets just say they didn't really do much to help take back the Holy Land, though they did provide some excellent slave labor for the slave masters in Northern Africa

Mss Drizzt · Mar 25, 2005, 06:13 AM // 06:13

In truth I don't remberm all of it. I took 5 classes 15 yrs ago and would have to BUFF up on them to be able to give you names and dates. What really bothered my and the reason I stopped was a really terible prof. She was pregnant and mean. She failed me because I could not spell. (all the info was 100% correct) Went to the Dean to get a new grade. She reminded me of a Pope.

It was a Dark time in human history. I would go so far as to say the only time it was as bad was during WWII.

William of Orange · Mar 25, 2005, 06:17 AM // 06:17

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Originally Posted by Mss Drizzt

In truth I don't remberm all of it. I took 5 classes 15 yrs ago and would have to BUFF up on them to be able to give you names and dates. What really bothered my and the reason I stopped was a really terible prof. She was pregnant and mean. She failed me because I could not spell. (all the info was 100% correct) Went to the Dean to get a new grade. She reminded me of a Pope.

It was a Dark time in human history. I would go so far as to say the only time it was as bad was during WWII.

That's too bad then, because the teacher that we have right now is honestly the best teacher that I have ever had. That's too bad about the mean pregnant woman though, but it doesn't really mean much anymore since it was 15 years ago. I'll agree that it's not fair, but I'm not sure if you could go so far as to say it was as bad as World War II

Mss Drizzt · Mar 25, 2005, 06:21 AM // 06:21

I would but it just happend over a longer period of time.

The Moors took Spain
The war between England and France
The Plauge
The crusades
The slave trade
And the totaly debauchary
Abuse of power by the Popes.

Evil time in human history.

Agent Dark Bootie · Mar 25, 2005, 10:05 PM // 22:05

my sig pic was my first photoshop try
do you guys like it
if someone sends me a few screenshots of their characters, ill see if i can do it for them as well
im so bored
NEED GW
but seriously

William of Orange · Mar 25, 2005, 11:55 PM // 23:55

You had the screenshot of your character, and did a Magic Background Eraser to remove the darker colored background, which, in the process, also deleted some of the hair on your character that was most similar to the background (hence the somewhat choppy hair). Either that, or you did the Magnetic Lasso and accidentally chopped some hair out.

You then took that picture, copy it, and placed it against the Necromancer background which was ran through the Glowing Edges filter?

Text is Old English Text with an Outer Glow and a white Drop Shadow?

Nice effects for the first shot, but you'll have to talk to Death at the Door for some good comments, he likes to rip on peoples pictures, don't you?

It's all good though, nice sig.

Agent Dark Bootie · Mar 26, 2005, 12:12 AM // 00:12

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Originally Posted by William of Orange

You had the screenshot of your character, and did a Magic Background Eraser to remove the darker colored background, which, in the process, also deleted some of the hair on your character that was most similar to the background (hence the somewhat choppy hair). Either that, or you did the Magnetic Lasso and accidentally chopped some hair out.

You then took that picture, copy it, and placed it against the Necromancer background which was ran through the Glowing Edges filter?

Text is Old English Text with an Outer Glow and a white Drop Shadow?

Nice effects for the first shot, but you'll have to talk to Death at the Door for some good comments, he likes to rip on peoples pictures, don't you?

It's all good though, nice sig.

screenshot: yes
magnetic lasso: yarp

took some of the hair: yup
copied it: yes
necro backround: yes but i randomly messed with the color levels till it was an awesome purple lol
i used glow edges and also something else that i forgot for filters on the bg
and i used that one tool where you can distort the image and i moved the guild wars logo mixed w/ the purple background to make a sort of flame around her
then i sharpenned my copied screenshot a few times
not too much so it doesnt look like crap
and as for the text,........
For the tex, i used a font i downloaded, its the same font linkin park used for their "live in texas" cd/dvd
and i placed it precisely where i wanted
i copied the font layer twice and i made one have a filter i believe is called motion blur or something and i made it blur up and down
and then on the other layer i made it blur left and right so really there are 3 layers of text there
thanks for the feedback
this messed up so many times im just happy it came out right
in fact, imo, this is better than intermediate for begginers work bacause i have seen lots of bad photoshop.

William of Orange · Mar 26, 2005, 12:23 AM // 00:23

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Originally Posted by Agent Dark Bootie

this messed up so many times im just happy it came out right
in fact, imo, this is better than intermediate for begginers work bacause i have seen lots of bad photoshop.

Aye, that is true, there are a lot of bad Photoshops out there. I was not spared that fate for my first few pictures; in all honestly, they suck

I haven't worked a whole lot with Photoshop lately, but I have a fairly decent understanding of how to manipulate layers and what the limitation of the tools are. Either tomorrow or Sunday I'll be working with some screenshots from the past event to make a new sig image for William the Silent and myself, and I'll also try and make us nice backgrounds to use if we feel like it. I'll post them once I have finished them up.

Agent Dark Bootie · Mar 26, 2005, 12:29 AM // 00:29

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Originally Posted by William of Orange

Aye, that is true, there are a lot of bad Photoshops out there. I was not spared that fate for my first few pictures; in all honestly, they suck

I haven't worked a whole lot with Photoshop lately, but I have a fairly decent understanding of how to manipulate layers and what the limitation of the tools are. Either tomorrow or Sunday I'll be working with some screenshots from the past event to make a new sig image for William the Silent and myself, and I'll also try and make us nice backgrounds to use if we feel like it. I'll post them once I have finished them up.

id like to see them and i hadnt even realised that you put your char in a different background till it was said
i just thought it was a beab of light you were standing in
lol maybe im just not looking hard enough
but ya the layers were actually hard for me
usually i would have just TRIED to do everything on the same layer being lazy as i always am but i really wanted to make something i could use for a while

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in fact, im thinking of making a GIF for my avatar

William of Orange · Mar 26, 2005, 07:40 AM // 07:40

If you're looking to see some of the things I've made, which isn't really a whole lot, then head to my Photobucket account:

http://photobucket.com/albums/y24/Shizy00001/

I haven't really added anything in a while besides the picture at the top of the page, once I have some free time I'll start working on some projects again.

Agent Dark Bootie · Mar 27, 2005, 06:03 AM // 06:03

i made a new wallpaper but photo bucket nor image shack will host it
any suggestions?
its a really nice one imo

William of Orange · Mar 27, 2005, 06:59 AM // 06:59

What was the message it gave you when you tried to upload the picture? You may just have to save it in a different format, since the sites only allow certain image formats.

Agent Dark Bootie · Mar 27, 2005, 07:04 AM // 07:04

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Originally Posted by William of Orange

What was the message it gave you when you tried to upload the picture? You may just have to save it in a different format, since the sites only allow certain image formats.

actually its too big
its a wallpaper