New Sig

[bearski1891]

trying a different type of brush, what do you guys think?

if anyone wants it, ill reduce it, quality doesnt take too huge a hit actually

[citybirds27]

I like the background a lot, nice brushes, but the picture I don't like, did u mess up on cutting on the football or is that just the BG?

[bearski1891]

i didnt do the cut, i got it off psdcentral.net. but i think what your seeing is just the lighting

[South Park Cows]

The bg is overbrushed... try working with shapes and stocks to add depth and details to the bg. I rarely brush, and when I do, I never rely on it. Also play with graidents and lighting effects to put more focus on the pic. Right now the eye kinda wanders around when instead it should be drawn to the player. The font isn't doing it for me either. Change that up to a more simple font.

[bearski1891]

if you dont brush, how do you make your backgrounds?

[Child_of_God_08]

if you dont brush, how do you make your backgrounds?

Like SPC said, you can use stocks. C4Ds work too. I'm learning to rarely brush myself, but I'm not too good with blending stocks, shapes, patterns, and C4Ds yet.

[bearski1891]

stocks? C4Ds? i have no idea what those are. can either of you explain?

[citybirds27]

stocks? C4Ds? i have no idea what those are. can either of you explain?

I think stock is the patterns they give you and I don't know what C4D's are

[Child_of_God_08]

Stocks are just images, any picture. C4Ds, cinema 4Ds, specially made images using a program, but I don't remember what its called. An example of a C4D (big):

http://www.gamerenders.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=253394

A site for stocks:

http://imageafter.com/

I think I used a C4D in the Edge sig that I just posted. I doubt that I used any brushing in the bg, but I made it a while ago so Idk.

[South Park Cows]

Stocks are basically just photos of anything. Check out http://www.imageafter.com (the site I mainly use for stocks... plus they have a lot of nice textures).

And C4D's are just renders made in the program Cinema 4D. You can find some on deviantart or just google.



Edit - I'm slow, COG basically covered it.