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[XGC Dragon Skin]

1) GT and user name
XGC Dragon Skin (for both)

2) What type of program are you using?
I have been using GIMP 2.6 and now GIMP 2.8

3) How much experience have you had with your program and making sigs?
I have only been designing signatures for about three months now. I had zero experience with GIMP before that. I have been having an absolute blast designing since then.

4) Do you want to be a freelancer or become full-time?
I would like to become a freelancer.

5) Submit as many works that you have done (try at least 5)

This is the original animation of the Banner I was working on before I re-sized it. It was composed of 54 layers before it was optimized.

This is after it was re-sized.

 

[XGC BIZARRE]

Don't forget to do the test images...there are new ones posted every week here.

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

FIRST WEEK'S TEST IMAGES COMPLETE!

First Week's Test Images Complete!

Lights and Music​

Dragon Ball Z!

 

[XDC Soft Kitty]

I am noticing you stretch your images when you work. now i don't know too much about gimp but in Photoshop i know that if you hold shift while you re-size the image it will keep it from stretching and squishing. perhaps it works the same in gimp? i don't know don't hold me to it.

 

[XGC Radioactive]

In Gimp, there is a lock button on the resize tool options that prevents it from being distorted

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

I will definitely use the lock button from now on. Thank you for the advice XDC Soft Kitty and XGC Radioactive.

 

[xxThanatosx89]

What font is this

 

[XGC Radioactive]

Ambulance shotgun, if I remember. I have it.

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

That is correct XGC Radioactive. I also re-worked the ghost warrior sniper posted above.

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

I made a new sig for fellow clan members.

 

[XGC Radioactive]

I made a new sig for fellow clan members.

The thing is, I don't see much manipulation at all. It seems like a precrafted image that you added text and a emblem.

There's no issue with starting with a good image, but as a designer, we have to make is into our own. Try the use of fractals, C4Ds, and the smudge tool to add zazz. Keep it up

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

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I experimented with some different options in GIMP that I haven't really touched before today, so I figured I would try them out.

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

SECOND WEEKS TEST IMAGES!

Second Weeks Test Images!

Call of Duty Black Ops TEST IMAGE

Happy Carrot Top TEST IMAGE

Animation added to photo!

 

[xxThanatosx89]

Can u post the stock for the first one

Mlp idk how you rendered that but it looks bad try a softer brush to erase and make it blend to the background more go around the focal with a light blur tool dodge burn smudge also are good for blending

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

The brushing and smudging on the wall was supposed to simulate the movement of the air in the room as the rifle went off. It was supposed to be of the shock from the shot. I blended the background more because if someone came into a room shooting you wouldn't even see or focus on what was behind him but only on the person shooting. I increased the flash size because it was dark in the room. If he were standing outside I would have actually decreased the flash size to nothing. I enjoy working with cartoon looking images more than real images. I have a problem with editing real images because the image is already complete and already edited. All I can think of doing is adding items or writing to a real image.
I am planning on getting adobe photoshop CS6 within the next month. It seems like when I download images on GIMP they become pix-elated quickly especially after conforming to GIF.

 

[XGC Radioactive]

I have no such issue.

 

[xxThanatosx89]

Yea I use gimp I've never had that problem

 

[Sicafoose]

. It was supposed to be of the shock from the shot. I blended the background more because if someone came into a room shooting you wouldn't even see or focus on what was behind him but only on the person shooting. I increased the flash size because it was dark in the room..

A tip of advice. Don't create a graphic and try and make it look or feel like real life. I could care less about putting my self in a signature and trying to pretend what i would see.

What people want to see is something cool, blended well, easy on the eyes, and something that has some depth to it, not necessarily a realistic feel to it.

Then again i could have taking your words in a way that you didn't mean, in that case reject what i said lol.

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

I have been pretty busy with school the last couple of days. I read the comments and will try to improve on it with the next sigs. Still pretty new to this stuff and really appreciate the input.

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

Another sig done for a friend.