An Aspiring digital artist in need of help

Valkyrie250

Valkyrie250

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2008

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As the title suggests I do love looking at the wondeful art people have posted here. It is so beautiful and I want to make some of my own. Sadly I have no idea how. I know how to take screenshots and everything....but I want to know so much more. How to make the textures just right and how to just make my art beautiful. My biggest thing I would love is to get my own little signature on my pics. Such as where someone posted a screenshot and then has a little name posted on the bottom. The other main thing I want is to figure out how to get rid of the chat boxes. Anyway's enough of my ramblings. Hopefully some kind souls on guru will be be kind enough to help me with my dilemma.

~~~Valkyrie

assassinx

assassinx

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2007

www.youtube.com/etherosx

In Memorium [iBot]

R/A

the default command for hiding/showing the UI is ctrl + shift + h.

if you want to add a signature of some sort to your screen shots, a simple way to do that is to open your photo in whatever photoshop program you have or even ms paint, select the text tool and then place it in the spot you want then choose your font, etc. and position it where you want it.

as far as this goes, that is as much help i can give you on the subject, and hopefully someone else can elaborate from where i have left off!

best of luck, hope to see your work soon!

Mr. G

Mr. G

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

S. Wales

Mo/Me

If (like me) You've only recently started dipping your toe in to see what it's like you might want to check out Tommy's Canthan Workshop

It's a sort of trade show sort of thing - and a great place to practise your skills (or develop some new ones)

I know I've learnt a lot from it personally.

Valkyrie250

Valkyrie250

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Join Date: Oct 2008

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Ok here's my first piece of artwork hopefully you'll like it.

Valkyrie250

Valkyrie250

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2008

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yeh I know it's just a screenie I was just calling it artwork lol. This is my real first artwork, it's not GW themed, kind of chinese inspired, but I dont think it's good enough for the contest tommy's is holding. Hope you guys enjoy it.

Perynne

Perynne

Site Contributor

Join Date: Oct 2006

Finland

Runners of the Rose [RR]

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If you want an ok free image editing program that is not MSPaint, get either Gimp or Paint.net. They should be good enough to learn how to use image editing programs, and then later on if you find that you like what you're doing, you can get Photoshop (which is not free).

And yeah, screenshot manipulation is not really artwork, unless you take several different screens and combine them in a new way, with special effects and stuff thrown in.
Also, when you're taking screenshots, remember that you can resize them or crop/cut stuff out of them to get the finished product that you want.

Good luck with learning about art!

Edit: There's a great guide on how to take screenshots at the Screenshot area. You can find it at: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/h...t10050346.html

Tommy's

Tommy's

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Dec 2006

[Bone]

Mo/

As looking at your screenshot, the close and minimize buttons still shop, aswell as your menu button. Like assassinx said, if you press ctrl+shift+h together, those things disappear, and when you press cntrl+shift+h again, they come back again. So you dont have to hide every thing manually (you cant even hide everything, like the menu button). Good luck on it

Yasmine

Yasmine

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2007

The Lost Souls Of Jugdement [KJCD]

If, as in my case, when pressing cntrl+shift+h, instead of hiding your gw interface, vista opens you a very helpful "guide and technical support for windows", just press shift+print screen when taking screenshots - it will get rid of your UI in the screenie.