Preserved Topic: Hi - New user and opinions please

Hi all....I am a first time poster and a long time reader. I have gotten a lot out of reading this site. Thanks. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

I recently made myself a new wallpaper and I would like to get some opinions on it. Its nothing too special. But please rip it apart if ya like.

Thanks and I hope to talk to ya later.

-- CarltonCig --

I am SUCH a moron...I am giving SUCH a good first impression. I forgot to post the URL to the wallpaper. its:
http://www.geocities.com/crebofborg_2000/wallpaper.jpg

Thanks

-- CarltonCig --

welcome to the forum CarltonCig. Don't worry about the link thing, definitly not the first time it has happened, and not the last either I am sure. The wallpaper is pretty cool, I am more a fan of "tiling" wallpapers, but I have nothing against yours...

"There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go."
-- Bill Gates

Welcome to the forum CarltonCig, I think your wallpapers pretty nifty. Im not too crazy about the text being there but it'll do I suppose.

Hi CarltonCig, I too am new to all of this, only been doing it about 9 months, but I'm really enjoying it.

I like your wallpaper design, but for my tastes the blue is too much. (But what do I know I'm just a beginner)

Just a beginner . . . .

Wow, nice job on the wallpaper. I like the glass sphere, it looks good.

welcome to th forum thetrixster, a whole lot goes on here, raving, teaching, and learning.....have fun.....

"There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go."
-- Bill Gates

[This message has been edited by timothymcnulty (edited 14-07-2000).]

i like the wall paper--all of the elements adhere to the same, solid theme and sense of design. i'm always partial to blue colors and you've polished it up nice and purty.

good work, glad to have you here.

cheers.mikey.milker

Thanks for the welcome timothymcnulty.
Looking forward to spending some time with you guys, hopefully I'll learn some stuff.

[This message has been edited by TheTrixter (edited 14-07-2000).]

Way cool CarltonCig...nice piece of work...
Welcome to the Asylum....

...Trixter also welcome....good to see a fellow Brit here... <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

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[This message has been edited by Phil (edited 15-07-2000).]

Hey...ya know they could writye one of those 'So you want to be a whatever' books about all of us...entitled "So you want to be a raving lunatic"




What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine to - First Rule of a Dictatorship

Nice work man, really nice. way to go. if i may speculate, you used some of Phongs tutorials havent you? good work nontheless.

Never Pet a Burning Dog
Rend

Yeah I read some Phong a while ago. But I didnt read it to learn anything specifically for this pic. I dont usually like doing things just like they are in tuts....It lacks imagination.

-- CarltonCig --

umn dude are u gay?

Crono! That seems uncalled for.. did I miss an arguement somewhere? What does it matter if he's gay or not? Are you gay?, is that some kind of bad pick up line?

I likes his wallpaper, myself. And I don't think Phong's tuts are gay. (He's actually where I learned from before I found this site).

Anyways, please go into more description of why you feel *whoever* is gay..

- Dan -

Cr0no - Yes. So did you like my wallapaper?

-- CarltonCig --

Yikes! I wasn't expecting that.. Is that some kind of joke?

- Dan -

No...No joke.

-- CarltonCig --

Nice style. Sort of a '50s theme kind of thing.
If you're planning on using it as a web background, you might want to 'bleach' it out, so the foreground elements will stand out.
Just dropping contrast and bumping brightness would work, but I prefer putting a pure white layer above the graphic, then dialing up the transparency until it looks right.

[This message has been edited by Das (edited 21-07-2000).]

Not bad...I'm not a big fan of the color scheme, but it's still aesthetically pleasing. How long did you say you've been using photoshop? I hate to bring this point up, but it looks like you took 4-5 different phong and ozone tutorials and slapped them together...

Oh ya, welcome to the forum <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">. Please don't take anything I say personal, I'm usually a harsh judge of work that is posted. :P

[This message has been edited by mbridge (edited 22-07-2000).]

Thanks McBridge....

Ive been a piddler with PS for about 3 years. Ive been learning a lot more lately (Of all the ppl I know IRL who use PS I am the only one who can do stuff with Alpha Channels.....Sad)

I have read a lot of tutorials....but a lot of the things Phong has on his site I have been doing for a while...

-- CarltonCig --