[ACCEPTED!!!] XGC DRAGON SKIN'S APPLICATION

[XGC Radioactive]

I'll get up with you on Skype sometime, you can watch the process I hi through to make a basic Sig, and see what all happens. I don't have a Mic for my pc so we'll to talk on xbox

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

Ok sounds good!! I read the helpful hints posted in the url.

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

I will get home and be ready around 7 p.m. I plan on staying up late tonight so just let me know. I also am available tomorrow for instruction. I am really looking forward to this because there are so many different methods to use on each sig and I look at everyone of the designers images and I honestly wouldn't know how to create some of the effects.

 

[XGC Radioactive]

I'll be up for tonight if you can. I've been sick the past couple of days. I need to fill some requests, So I'll create one, then recreate it with you watching. Sound good? I get off around 5:30 Central time. (I've also got to install skype and learn it)

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

Yeah we will see what we can work out for sure.

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

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[XGC Radioactive]

I love it! The only thing is when you resized it, she got a little squished

 

[XGC Radioactive]

And theres a small outline around her hair, though you did a great job

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

Thank you it took me quite awhile because I was playing around with everything we went over.

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

I tried to get her hair right but the image she came on needed prepped before doing anything with her. The white outline messed up the conversion to alpha. I will keep that in mind next time I have an image like this.

 

[xxThanatosx89]

Either way nice job

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

Thanks Famine

I am not done with these yet. I can't figure out what to put in the background of these yet. I think I am going to sleep on it. It is going to have to be a blue background of some sort.

 

[SYN MsTwiztid]

I tried to get her hair right but the image she came on needed prepped before doing anything with her. The white outline messed up the conversion to alpha. I will keep that in mind next time I have an image like this.

One way to blend her more would be to take your eraser tool, change the strength to about 50% and then slightly erase the outline. Overall, its a wonderful improvment. =) Keep up the excellent work

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

I like that idea. I kept trying to use the paint brush and spray and smudge. All of those methods made the image look bad. I couldn't get the effect that I wanted. You are right with the eraser I could have probably gotten the effect I was looking for. Thank you!

 

[XGC Radioactive]

I'm suppose to write down what we did over skype, so that the higher ups know that I'm acutally trying to help, and not slacking.

We touched on C4Ds mainly, here's a quick tutorial on using them in sigs.
http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/87/t960958-deviants-basic-gimp-c4d-tutorial/

and here are a few that I use in my sigs

Sunspot
explode
energy

really all you need to do is spend a few hours on google, search for "_____" C4d, and save all the ones that look cool.


start stocks are also great to add depth, texture, and effects. here's a few

one

two

three


and again, just search for images that you like and just build up a file!

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

 

[Rave]

These two are your best in my opinion. Maybe do a slight sharpen of your focals so that they "pop" just a little bit.

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

 

[XGC Radioactive]

looks great, just keep in mind that a 200x500 image is actually against the stupid forum rules -.-

A very helpful article to read is called "the rules of 3" which applies to most every form of art and photography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds

 

[XGC Dragon Skin]

Copy that. I was really interested in creating them. I will hit up the test images when I have time this week. I think I would help to do another skype exercise as well. Just let me know when you have some time to spend on it.