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[Nabooru]

Photobucket is a free image hosting service, www.photobucket.com, and is very effficient. That's what I use.

[Zythe]

I don't use layers in my banners either.  I haven't found the layering function in my program yet.  XD

Really? You don't know what you're missing! So you're doing everything in stages, in the order you want it to appear?

My god.

You'd be unstoppable with Photoshop.

[D~N]

a new one. used 5 layers (yay) it wasn't very hard.

[D~N]

sorry about the double post again, but it is something new.

just 3 layers, easiy to make.

[Goth Kirby]

lovin the "comin' at ya" banner, really nice

[Nevermind]

What program are you using, Nabooru?

[Ero]

Nabooru uses Ulead PhotoImpact 7, and shes damn good with it.

[Nevermind]

Yeah I can tell. My uncle uses that for his website images. I was pretty sure he used layers with it.

[Nabooru]

hehe thanks guys. Someday I will find the layer function. :nnsweat:

BTW DN, nice work on the banners! You are improving with every banner you make! I like the picture choices and positions you use on them. They tie in with the text quite well.

[D~N]

~thank you, nab and goth kirby! i just finised this one:

I like it a lot, what do you think?

[Nevermind]

I like the style. Just one thing, see if you can make those bullets more like balls of light so it doesn't look quite so much like she's firing caramel chew drops at them XD

[Sephrenia Katrov]

I like the style of the last one... looks far more professional. ^^;

[D~N]

thank you (and lol to laz)
is this one better laz?

[Nevermind]

Well, sorry to be picky, but now they like propelled chew drops XD

However, on a serious note, they do look [img]http://forums.legendsalliance.com/public/ALOT.png[/img] better. Try giving them an inner glow in the blending options, OR you can try some effects with the hue/saturation and brightness/contrast adjustments. If you bring your contrast up, it gets brighter and brighter but this looks dodgy on its own. So you then bring your saturation down a little, bring the lightness up a little, and then go back and adjust your contrast up a bit, then add some smudges if you'd like. You can just keep doing this however you like to fine tune your settings. It'd be [img]http://forums.legendsalliance.com/public/ALOT.png[/img] easier for you working the psd file, but here's what I mean.



You can also add an outer glow maybe for more effects, but if you do, do it AFTER you smudge, otherwise you'll just have all this glow sitting out the back.

[D~N]

thanks, much better than mine looked! here's what mine turned out to be, and a new one:




i did the link thing to practice layers, mostly....

[Zythe]

I'm really impressed by the fireballs. Did you make them in photoshop or get them from somewhere? EDIT: You need to change the trajectory of the bullets. Use a line tool coming from Samus' beam gun and free transform the bullet layer so it matches up better.

[D~N]

if i transform the bullets, there is a blank space, so i can't do it. However, i made a new one:

simple to make, and it came out decent, you think?

[Zythe]

Very nice. Maybe you could have lowered the opacity on Zelda so you could see the writing underneath her, or set the layer so she was opaque in parts and translucent in others, so match the text... then you could duplicate that layer and set it to something else that looks nice and then lower the opacity on that so you get a nice effect and can see the writing.

You're getting a lot better.

[D~N]

thank you zythe! this was the best i could do. Meh.

I'll try another soon. What should i do? ( I just love doing these!)

[Zythe]

Even that's a big improvement. I think you should try being bolder now... how about making backgrounds or modding images?

[Ero]

For that Zelda sig, if you have a blending options screen, then on the "The Legend of Zelda" text do this:



Should help the text show up a bit more.

[D~N]

XP don't got one of those XP
did what zythe told me. came out with this. was fun to make:

I have to fix my sig. This should be fun.....

[D~N]

sorry about the double post again, but it is something new....again.

i had to remake my sig (added kirby) because apparently "Miyamoto" didn't make metroid. phooey. well, there it is.

[Zythe]

Oooh. We have to do something wth the text, though. Try setting it to difference of in white if you haven't any glow options.

[D~N]

for which one, background or banner?

[Zythe]

Both. And they're both amazing.

[D~N]

thanks. unfortunately, i forgot to save it as a phtsp or whatever, and instead used jpeg. However, i made this, sorry about the jpeg thing though
(i'm in a kirby mood lately):

EDIT: new sig, how is it?

[D~N]

NEW AVATAR!

sorry about all these double posts, but it's better than a tripple EDIT

[Zythe]

Banner: good. Just ... the text is weird.

Avatar: good but too dark.

[D~N]

oh, i blurred the text. it looked WIERDER without the blur.
here's the ava, but lighter.

it got blurred, unfortunately. i hope it looks okay XP