Are you listening?

Ketchup_Bomb · Post by **Ketchup_Bomb** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:24 pm

I haven't been in Photoshop for... 20 months? Sounds about right.
Anyways, I wanted to shake off the rust and try it out. Sadly, I've forgotten a lot, Photoshop has changed, and a Mac has different quick keys. ;_;

After all that and about an hour, here we have it:

Go easy on me, it's my first day...
:p

DEEhunter · Post by **DEEhunter** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:40 pm

Looks good! But the colors on the face dont go that well with the inorganic background.

SHOUTrvb · Post by **SHOUTrvb** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:21 am

Haha, you actually managed to get better without opening Photoshop.

I don't like the looks of the sound "waves" and how jaggy they are, and the text is over blurred in some areas, but over blurred in others. Fix that part and I'd say you're set. I for one dig the background.

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:56 am

Honestly I don't like it much at all, but after 20 months I don't think anyone can blame you. The background isn't terrible, but it could be better, and the sound waves seem a bit too solid.

HPDarkness · Post by **HPDarkness** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:56 pm

Oh noes! You went from PC Photoshop quick keys to Mac quick keys =[
I have that problem when I use the Mac at my school.

The sig looks nice, but the small text looks a little blurry, and the sound waves are a little too solid, maybe if you changed the color to white, and turned the opacity down to like 40?

DarkShallFall · Post by **DarkShallFall** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:01 pm

Looks nice. The small text does look blurry. Also the background seems weird compared to the render. Over all its pretty well done and has a nice concept.

Ketchup_Bomb · Post by **Ketchup_Bomb** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:26 pm

HPDarkness1 wrote:The sig looks nice, but the small text looks a little blurry, and the sound waves are a little too solid, maybe if you changed the color to white, and turned the opacity down to like 40?

Check:

vs.

I changed the waves to white with 45% opacity, changed the text anti-aliasing to 'smooth', and stroked the text with a black border set to 45% opacity for better view.
Still blurry? Mind that I didn't want it to be super discernible. I wanted you to look hard if you wanted to read it.

Where is the option in PS to space text characters farther away from each other? Like "Hello." to "H e l l o ."?
/me can't find it.
Thanks for the suggestions too, guys.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:59 pm

Ketchup_Bomb wrote:
HPDarkness1 wrote:The sig looks nice, but the small text looks a little blurry, and the sound waves are a little too solid, maybe if you changed the color to white, and turned the opacity down to like 40?
Check:
vs.

I changed the waves to white with 45% opacity, changed the text anti-aliasing to 'smooth', and stroked the text with a black border set to 45% opacity for better view.
Still blurry? Mind that I didn't want it to be super discernible. I wanted you to look hard if you wanted to read it.

Where is the option in PS to space text characters farther away from each other? Like "Hello." to "H e l l o ."?
/me can't find it.
Thanks for the suggestions too, guys.

Depends what version of PS you are using, me on CS3, here is a pic.
PIC

Ketchup_Bomb · Post by **Ketchup_Bomb** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:04 pm

Thanks bcnipod.
DarkShallFall helped me out. I was looking for the button to pull up that menu. I knew what I was looking for from there. :p

DRL333 · Post by **DRL333** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 7:49 pm

Yay, you made a new graphic, it's like the second coming of Jevus!

Hmm, the white mask could use some blending.