Wallpaper I made ^^
Dr Imperial
I just wanted to show you guys this wallpaper I whipped up in photoshop. Well I didn't exactly "whip" it up....it took more than an hour what with all the screenshot taking and stuff. Tell me what ya think please!
ZenRgy
Not bad, a bit cluttered for my tastes.
Ulivious The Reaper
it doesn't look bad, but not the kind i would use, to bright o.O good placement, you used an odd amount etc etc not bad
Jeff Highwind
This is why I never use screencaps for sigs or backgrounds. Not only is it near impossible to properly crop them but they are a devil to work with.
Sad to say I am not gonna pull any punches here being somewhat of a professional of photoshop.
As Zenrgy mentioned your image is too cluttered; I can already tell that you wanted the war to be the focus since you did not make him blue and faded him in the background, but keeping all your other characters at 100% opacity stole the focus from him the moment you set eyes on the image. The screencaps themselves are poorly cropped, the remnants of the background give the overall project an unprofessional look; Also the screencaps (or the image altogether) is pretty low quality causing multiple sattelite pixels to appear, making the image look bad. The background you used/made (cant say for sure) is really good, but you never should've distorted the area behind the blue characters because once again it steals the focus from your warrior and also disrupts the general flow of the image.
There is a way to make this wallpaper work, but you have to work alot more than an hour and have some knowledge in the mechanics of the pen tool. If you use the pen tool to crop your screenshots you won't have all the background trash that destroys the wallpaper. If you want to keep all the characters in there and still make the warrior the focus then I highly recommend keeping all the characters in a organized fashion with an opacity of 30% and overlay the blue color on them with either an Overlay or Soft Light blend mode. And finally, above all else, try to keep the quality of the image as high as possible to where you can upload it to your imagehost. Quality of the image is the key between well done and cluttered with trashy pixels.
Hope this critique helped you in any way.
Sad to say I am not gonna pull any punches here being somewhat of a professional of photoshop.
As Zenrgy mentioned your image is too cluttered; I can already tell that you wanted the war to be the focus since you did not make him blue and faded him in the background, but keeping all your other characters at 100% opacity stole the focus from him the moment you set eyes on the image. The screencaps themselves are poorly cropped, the remnants of the background give the overall project an unprofessional look; Also the screencaps (or the image altogether) is pretty low quality causing multiple sattelite pixels to appear, making the image look bad. The background you used/made (cant say for sure) is really good, but you never should've distorted the area behind the blue characters because once again it steals the focus from your warrior and also disrupts the general flow of the image.
There is a way to make this wallpaper work, but you have to work alot more than an hour and have some knowledge in the mechanics of the pen tool. If you use the pen tool to crop your screenshots you won't have all the background trash that destroys the wallpaper. If you want to keep all the characters in there and still make the warrior the focus then I highly recommend keeping all the characters in a organized fashion with an opacity of 30% and overlay the blue color on them with either an Overlay or Soft Light blend mode. And finally, above all else, try to keep the quality of the image as high as possible to where you can upload it to your imagehost. Quality of the image is the key between well done and cluttered with trashy pixels.
Hope this critique helped you in any way.
amish lifeguard
Or rip someone else's wallpaper 
Dr Imperial
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Highwind
This is why I never use screencaps for sigs or backgrounds. Not only is it near impossible to properly crop them but they are a devil to work with.
Sad to say I am not gonna pull any punches here being somewhat of a professional of photoshop.
As Zenrgy mentioned your image is too cluttered; I can already tell that you wanted the war to be the focus since you did not make him blue and faded him in the background, but keeping all your other characters at 100% opacity stole the focus from him the moment you set eyes on the image. The screencaps themselves are poorly cropped, the remnants of the background give the overall project an unprofessional look; Also the screencaps (or the image altogether) is pretty low quality causing multiple sattelite pixels to appear, making the image look bad. The background you used/made (cant say for sure) is really good, but you never should've distorted the area behind the blue characters because once again it steals the focus from your warrior and also disrupts the general flow of the image.
There is a way to make this wallpaper work, but you have to work alot more than an hour and have some knowledge in the mechanics of the pen tool. If you use the pen tool to crop your screenshots you won't have all the background trash that destroys the wallpaper. If you want to keep all the characters in there and still make the warrior the focus then I highly recommend keeping all the characters in a organized fashion with an opacity of 30% and overlay the blue color on them with either an Overlay or Soft Light blend mode. And finally, above all else, try to keep the quality of the image as high as possible to where you can upload it to your imagehost. Quality of the image is the key between well done and cluttered with trashy pixels.
Hope this critique helped you in any way.
I greatly appreciate the critique, and you made alot of good points that I will think about.
But something to point out - I am using Photoshop Elements 5.0, and not CS2/CS3. If I had CS2/CS3 I could make this thing a hell of alot better. but I dont cause it is $600
Sad to say I am not gonna pull any punches here being somewhat of a professional of photoshop.
As Zenrgy mentioned your image is too cluttered; I can already tell that you wanted the war to be the focus since you did not make him blue and faded him in the background, but keeping all your other characters at 100% opacity stole the focus from him the moment you set eyes on the image. The screencaps themselves are poorly cropped, the remnants of the background give the overall project an unprofessional look; Also the screencaps (or the image altogether) is pretty low quality causing multiple sattelite pixels to appear, making the image look bad. The background you used/made (cant say for sure) is really good, but you never should've distorted the area behind the blue characters because once again it steals the focus from your warrior and also disrupts the general flow of the image.
There is a way to make this wallpaper work, but you have to work alot more than an hour and have some knowledge in the mechanics of the pen tool. If you use the pen tool to crop your screenshots you won't have all the background trash that destroys the wallpaper. If you want to keep all the characters in there and still make the warrior the focus then I highly recommend keeping all the characters in a organized fashion with an opacity of 30% and overlay the blue color on them with either an Overlay or Soft Light blend mode. And finally, above all else, try to keep the quality of the image as high as possible to where you can upload it to your imagehost. Quality of the image is the key between well done and cluttered with trashy pixels.
Hope this critique helped you in any way.
I greatly appreciate the critique, and you made alot of good points that I will think about.
But something to point out - I am using Photoshop Elements 5.0, and not CS2/CS3. If I had CS2/CS3 I could make this thing a hell of alot better. but I dont cause it is $600
Jeff Highwind
I still use the old photoshop 7.0. I'm that old school. B|
combatchuck
Elements is perfectly acapable of doing what he suggested. The only things I've seen that are missing from Elements are Channels, CMYK, and some advanced image adjustments.