Preserved Topic: **JANUARY 2003 SIG CONTEST** (Page 2 of 3)

Dang... I was gonna do the eye of Horus... Oh well, time to get creative.

Not much, but here goes...

another



ani-got way too big

*dang missed it by one bracket, one day ill make a post without having to edit it...


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Almost ashamed to put this next to that ring..
Yuck... Back to the drawing board.





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Tried to paint the ring....

I guess a crown could be considered jewelry


A wise man once said;
"I don't know!?!?"

kaboi - i like it much. Good work. Maybe could be a bit smaller though.

Mal - hook it up with the correct matte and it would be pretty cool. Maybe add a little more shading and definition to it as well, it is looking pretty good.

[killing the sig again... gotta remember that]

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mood ring with pearls..

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Thank you,

The Management

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very cool suho - the text does look a little wrong... the only advice i have is that although the text shoudl be distorted along the x axis (the imaginary straight line underlining the text should now be "u" shapes), the y axis should suffer very little distortion (if it were arial, then the letter "I" should still be pretty much straight up and down).

hope that helps.

edit: also, i seriously suggest a layer blending mode for the red text on the ring. some sort of overlay, or something could be really effective, i think.

edit 2: non competition sig destroyed.

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Yup, that's exactly what I was thinking about in terms of distortion. I'm working on a new version right now...

Overlay layer blend... I'll have to look into that. I'll mess around with a few things and see what I come up with, although I have to admit that I'm not really sure what you're aiming at.

[Edit: OK, let me rephrase that: I have no idea what you mean when you say "layer blending mode" ]

[This message has been edited by Suho1004 (edited 01-14-2003).]

Not a problem.

Take a look at your layers palette. You'll see a few things. Among them, the word normal in a drop-down menu. Shift through them, overlay is in there somewhere. Those are the layer blending modes. Many other tools (airbrush & pencil come to mind) also have different blending modes that, in practice, are similar to (read: exacly the same as) the layer blending modes.

Some of them aren't exactly straight-forward in what they do, others are. There's a tutorial on thinkdan that caters specifically to blending modes.

Hope that helps.

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(thanks Emps, forgot where I was )
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Thank you,

The Management

[This message has been edited by Suho1004 (edited 01-15-2003).]

i gotta love that one!

"Trust" is a dirty word that comes only from such a liar but "respect" is something I will learn...if you have faith!!

Thanks, Yannah. It took a lot longer to get right than I thought it would.

This gonna be one toughie to judge.......very nice work everone. Amerasu and suho, nice latecomers.

made mine abit smaller.

latecomers? we're barely halfway through the month!

suho - i'm glad you got my point - layer blending doesn't always achieve the desired result, but the red text does now look like part of the ring. ...and i'll just employ some paralipsis by not mentioning that i think that the 'master suho' should be engraved a tad shallower than it is, because that would be getting picky.

Just have to say one thing Suho: gold isn't yellow!

=(

As it stands now it is awfully bright and washed out, and looks distinctly....yellow. Which also means disticntly non-metallic.

The text in the latest version is much better (I also prefer the version without your name), but the color on that is also too saturated and primary.

Not sure if that helps at all...but hopefull it at least makes sense.... =)

DL: Yes, I was afraid of that. It is rather yellow, isn't it. I had a difficult time picking out the color. Maybe I should go back and look at some pictures of real gold...

Also (and I suppose this one is for Moth), I'm wondering if I should take out the old versions when I post the new ones (to cut down on thread size), or leave them up for comparison.

A hue of 45 makes a pretty good gold. I usually give it a stauration of 50 and lightness of 0 when I'm doing an adjustment layer.

Suho: If you're any good at mixing colors (magenta, cyan, and the like), you may want to take a look at Image -> Adjust -> Variations. It's a bit more intuitive than sliders (in my opinion).

$.02

Damien: Interesting... that sounds pretty close to what I came up with.

Raptor: Alas, I suck at mixing colors (in fact, it's a wonder I can produce anything halfway decent with PS). However, I am pretty good at Google, and I've been looking at a lot of pictures of gold. I think I've got a decent color going, but we'll just have to wait and see.

Incidentally, I figured out what was bugging me with the lettering (and I think this is what reitsma was talking about): it needs to be vertically skewed. So I'm working on that. I'm also working on making the Tengwar script look like its actually glowing--after slapping it on top of the newer, more realistic gold gradient, I realized that it actually looks like crap.

So, anyway, I've got a bit of work ahead of me. I will post the results when I get to them, and I'll probably delete the previous rings and slap them all on a page somewhere that I can link to--don't want to be hogging up the thread here.

[Edit: It's been done. For those of you who are wondering where my original posts and rings went, please go here for the old content plus my latest efforts. Please direct all comments to that thread. Thanks.]


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disney's twelve principles of animation

very usefull stuff!

Before I make a sig i have 2 questions...
1.) Does a animal tag count as jewerly?
2.) Do ducks have tounges?

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It is your imagination go with whatever is in there. Duck in my world might have toungs, in your world they might not, I don't really think that is material.
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Duck, animal tags count as jewelry. However, I expect them to sparkle and be more than flat pieces of metal.

Ducks do have tongues... havn't you every seen Daffy?

oh yea good point : )

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Poison ring. : )

Medallion?

Some pretty good entries. I don't want to give any specific critiques 'cuz I'm the judge.

I am looking forward to seeing what all will be here at the end of the month. So come on and give me more sparklies

Hmmm... pretty quiet around here. Listening. Only hear the echoes of my footsteps. I hope there are going to be some more entries.

what? its still... January? sheesh. *walks away*

There will be at least one more, my friend...

One entry to rule them all,
One entry to find them,
One entry to bring them all and in the darkness bind them...



[Edit: Heh, and ain't that a trip! I screwed up the quote!]

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>>One entry to rule them all,
One entry to bind them,
One entry to bring them all and in the darkness bind them...<<

LOL! What makes it even funnier is I just got back from watching The Two Towers...


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tick...tick...tick...tick... Time's running out. Everyone better hurry and post their entries soon.

OK, just wanted to sneak these in under the wire. I'm submitting them both as entries because, although I originally was leaning toward the version without the English text, I now can't make up my mind. *sigh*

-and-

OK...here's a joint entry from me and Luxo_Jr...not mcuh, a quick job...but, here it is

Made possible through the Fist Of Luxo_Jr (tm)



Here's hoping the transparency works

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late late entry...




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Clever, Skaarjj/Luxo_Jr.

Oddcat: I assume that's a tongue barbell? Definitely original!

Nicely done. Melikes