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I have seen this style of artwork used in headers all over the internet (see links below), but I just cannot seem to learn how to create anything even remotly resembling the style. Also I cannot find a tutorial anywhere on even how to being to create one. Everytime I create new masks for my lines or change the opacity it can never work correctly. I also didn't know what kind of style this would be and thus me not being able to find anything through the boards search feature, so if it has been posted before please don't hammer me ;(.
I guess if anyone knows how to do such artwork or has a link to a tutorial on how to create it please respond.
http://www.n-sane.net/header_logo2.jpg http://www.zhonet.com/ http://team3d.net/images/ui_banner.jpg http://envex.levid.com/wew/images/ui_banner.jpg

All images are copyrighted to their respective sights.
I hope this explains what I am after.

Thank you, and I look foward to becoming an active member of this board.

-RabbitStyles

I'm not entirely sure which part you are having trouble with as there are several different techniques involved. The only common visual motif I could see was the layered colors and geometrics. The only trick there is to use many many layers with multiple blending modes (start with modes like overlay, screen, soft light, and color dodge).

If you could explain more specifically what you are looking for, like what elements you can't get right. Also, posting what you've done so far might help.


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Yes, I am talking about the geometric overlay. Thank you MindBender, I was having a real hard time putting it into words. Attached is an image that I have created with gradients, motion blur, liquify and scanlines. I would like to add an element of geometric overylay to it but I am unsure where to begin. I guess I will try to create many layers of geometric shapes, change blending modes and see what happens. Again I know it can be kind of hard to explain what you mean in words but I thank you for taking the time. Also a tutorial would still be great. Thanks for all your help in advance.
http://blue.silent-x.net/banner_ex.jpg

-RabbitStyles

Can't really offer too much help, but that's looking pretty good so far RabbitStyles

there's loads of tuts for stuff like that...like this one: floodcard tut

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As this has come up before I made an FAQ:

:FAQ: Trendwhore wallpapers/backgrounds/headers

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FAQs: Emperor

w00t! Trendwhores unite!

On the topic of 'trend whore'. I would not put something that everyone else is doing on a website just because they are. But when there is something out there that you can't do and it looks interesting I see no valid argument in not trying to recreate it for your own use. Everything that I have learned has come reapplying other ideas in a new way. I think it would be wrong to create something exactly the way someone else did it (ie: drawing layers and layers of crystals as the main image) but maybe down the road I could apply the same techniques in a different way.
I am rather upset that just because a lot of other people are doing it that so many people would call it trendy and cast it aside. Writing books in english seems like a 'trendy' thing to do. Maybe you shouldn't... Oh wait, how about you develop your own style based on authors you like.

I do not support copying or mindlessly following what others have done an mimiking it. But for the sake of progression how about we stop calling people trend whores.

-RabbitStyles

hhmmm...clam down there!!! ... As for trendwhore stuff.... it is in a way trendwhorey, but there is nothing wrong with it to (as you said) recreate it for your own use. So go full steam ahead, but add your only style and ideas to it (to which you are).

If I get you right you want to create artwork like what you posted, right.... but some are 3D crystals, overlayed with blend modes (to which emps FAQ link will help out with). The other one is a photo/image montage that is stylised with blend modes and colours.

So if you want to create that style....

1. Try links posted above to help you, to get some idea of making the style.
2. Study the artwork.
3. Try more and more to practise/play with it.

But really your artwork is on the right track, just add more layers of either the same objects and blend them in more, with modes like overlay and soft light. But really it's easy. A good way start off if your not arty as in painting it all digital, is to start of with photo of say night time shots and add your details on top like graphics, type ect. but starting off with photo you can:

- Blur it (any type of blur will do, but really blur it till you can?t till what it is)
- Duplicate it a few times (Ctrl+J).
- Reflect it and distort it with the freeform option (ctrl+T), on all of them duplicate.
- Change opacity and blend modes.
- Play with it and add more things, like lines, shapes, ect to add more focus to the image, rather than a blurry image.


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RS - easy fella.

nobody is saying you shouldn't understand how to do these things, or that you shouldn't want to learn.

But your logic is slightly flawed....you say "for the sake of progression" we should stop calling people trendwhore, but it is exactly for the sake of progression that I criticize the trend whores....

=)

I was kind of surprised when I came to the Asylum, it's the first place I ever saw such "trend whore" graphic styles, and labeled as such... surprised because I'd figure if all of you people were calling it trendy, I should've seen it before, but I can't really recall more than one or two instances when I saw a page that looked similar.
Back to your regularly scheduled.. uh, whatever.
-Xel

RabbitStyles: I wasn't implying anything derogatory. Its what we've always called that style. If you want to find out how to do it then the information is there

Xel: You clearly don't go to the right places

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http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=trendwhore+graphics

Xel/RS I don't think it's either an insult, nor an Asylum invention - it's a name which has been applied to a particular style - is all.


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Well, actually, (and I speak only for myself here), it *is* derogatory, and it is meant to be.

It is certainly not an asylum invention by any means - neither the style that currently attracts that name, nor the name itself.

However, as I said before, it's not necessarily a particular style, and the name is not indicative of the style itself, but of the people creating it.

And I had always thought it to be rather self explanatory -

trend -
Current style; vogue: the latest trend in fashion.

whore -
1. A prostitute.
2. A person considered sexually promiscuous.
3. A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.

So....someone who whores themselves out to the current style and trend.

At the moment, the big style(s) that have been treated this way are all this crystal/pixel font/colordodge/swirly stuff shit, and all the so called 'grunge' stuff. And as each style get molested more, and more trend-whores jump on the wagon, the quality ineveitably degrades exponentially.

That's all I'm saying....

=)

DL: Good point - what I really meant to say was that it wasn' really aimed specifically at RS but more at the 'movement'. Learning how to achieve trendwhore styles is by no means wrong or a wasted exercise - redesigning your site by the tendwhore manual is another matter.

The various facets of trendwhorism are flexible (although the ones we usually point out tend to be staple items of a trendwhore's diet) and I'm sure new styles get introduced and spread around.

It is also worth pointing out that we aren't being reactionary old farts not appreciating what 'the kids' are doing - instead we would much rather people found their own style and explored and played with it and saw where that took them rather than just following a style because they thought it was cool.

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Or (even worse) following it becuase someone else thinks it's cool and they want to be thought of as cool.