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« on: April 16, 2003, 05:00:26 PM » |
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Hey all dunno if you remember me but i'm still here checking the forums most everyday and i would like to show my latest gfx. don't worry the text is bad i know but i am working on it  . the image is at http://animerus.lunarpages.com/soon.gif also what is best graphic file format should i use i want small file size as possible but also good quality. |
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« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2003, 06:20:49 PM » |
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If you're using Photoshop, hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to bring up the save for web thing. Here you can tweak between a .gif and a .jpg and the amount of colours/compression that you can have. Tweak until you have a happy medium. Generally, photos or images with lots of different colours are best saved as .jpgs and flat or few-coloured images work well as .gifs.
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« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2003, 06:27:17 PM » |
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aight thanks bud ya i am using photoshop i'm still real new to it but decided to fiddle around and i made that and liked it my image.Oh ya i got a better image at http://animerus.lunarpages.com/soonish.jpg please rate that one also thanks. |
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« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2003, 06:50:47 PM » |
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It looks good to me. I've never really been into the abstract side of photoshop art, though, so don't value my opinion too highly. Heh.
Anyways, you're right to be saving those images as .jpgs. You get a lot more bang for your KBs that way. As a counter example, my signature image is saved as a .gif because it's only got, like, 8 or 9 main colours in it. The antialiasing is then faked by dithering (mixing pixels to give the illusion of a different colour).
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« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2003, 07:08:01 PM » |
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still came out good in the end i heard that jpg is for more quality but also larger file size and gif is more websafe or something like that.
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« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2003, 07:09:48 PM » |
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I sincerely liked the first one better. More subtle and peaceful.
you should maybe lower the opacity of the lightning and change its color somewhat to reflect the main color theme you have going on.
Also. yes saving as a jpg is better because you have small areas of different colors all over the image. gif's are better if you have big blocks of the same color...
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« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2003, 09:04:48 PM » |
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All right thanks bud I did just start using photoshop last night so ya i used paint shop pro earlier which aint a bad program it just doesn't have the same capabilities as photoshop.
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« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2003, 12:20:15 AM » |
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well photoshop is mostly more..professional that paintshop. Not to say that paintshop is bad. But i do love my photoshop |
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« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2003, 03:11:51 AM » |
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Try to make something that you yourself have thought of and not copy one of them spike tutorials, your work will look alot better and people will respect you more for it. Why not play with the dodge too to bring out some highlights? make it look a bit more 3d.
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« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2003, 06:26:31 AM » |
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Thats what i plan to do but using a tutorial helps me see what are some capabilities photoshop has that otherwise i wouldn't have known what it was for you know what i mean? oh ya and tru dat paintshop pro isn't bad but photoshop is way more professional.
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« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2003, 08:27:40 PM » |
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yes. It is Flare is right though, you should follow tutorials but...dont follow them exactly,. Learn the techniques that the people use and then use them toward your own sense of style. You will come a lot more ahead of the game that you would be if you followed tutorials exactly. Tutorials and lots of experimentations are the key to any mastering of a software program (if you wanna be self taught at least) |
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« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2003, 10:08:04 PM » |
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wooohoooo I'm right about something thats gotta be a first time lol and ya i am self teaching myself this and it aint the easiest to get good gfx out of but i plan to work on that.
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« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2003, 09:12:25 AM » |
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It takes a couple months with ps to get anything really great out of it (that is again, for self taught people. that aren't artistic geniuses  ) |
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« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2003, 10:29:58 AM » |
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now you dis me darn JOKE i got a creative mind though just waiting for a good place to stick my talent out (if i have any ) i just gotta give it time and i don't think i will be dissappointed. |
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« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2003, 01:46:13 PM » |
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Lol.....Meh needs cookies  |
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