Burgin

I tried doing this technique awhile ago and does sometime come out well, I do it a different way though. Although your tutorial is very good and explains alot. Nice one and keep it up.

I doubt its a problem with the company, maybe its a virus you downloaded. Just remember Companys aren't going to send out viruses. Also think Microsoft owns Excel and wouldn't dream of loosing their customers.

Firstly, them wallpapers are blurred, i wouldn't expect anyone using them that much because of the blur. When doing them try not to stretch the render. as it blurs them and make them look low quality. Overall I can see you have attempted to do effects for some of the wallpapers text, like the Sub Zero one, that could be imrpoved mate. The rest seem to be ok though.Your photomanipulations are ok, the best on would have to be the naked gil one, uve done well with it, but the wings i feel don't look like they are with the girl, they seem more of a picture just stuck on. Hopefully this Criticism will help you in a lot of ways, atleast i hope it does. Nice attempts,Burgin!

Yh ive seen his great works, his names Subcity he makes many great photomanipulations..He's also on my friends list and has inspired me to carry on doing things like this.

I suppose there ok, but could be better. The signatures are in my opinion to big and reducing the size would help. Trying to add more depth to the background will help your sigs alot aswell. Good work and keep it up, ogh and welcome back!

You should have chose an image with a connection for the text 'Farmer Boy' it looks like the image quality is also poor like others have stated. Sounds like fun though for a project.

It looks to me you have too much spare time on your hands to create so many signatures. One thing i would say you need to improve on though would be to improve your text. Knowing to use great text effects help keep the greatness of a sig and its ability to catch the eye. Remember this as it will help alot, nice one though,Burgin.

A very nice style you have there, alot of the blur effects going on there. One thing that looks abit repetitive though m8 is your text, you use the same effect all the time, i think that you should expand on your creative side and come up with mroe unique styles. Your vector style is very good though nevertheless and will surely please alot of people. To me your a great sig designer and would like to talk to you on msn for advice etc. Please add me on msn if you have it, my address is JakeBurgin53@hotmail.comNice sigs and keep it up,Jake!

Yh i understand that i need to lower the contrast, however im onto new stuff now and havn't got the time to improve them. Thanks for the comments though.

Thanks for the comments. I used textures for most of them, while using the burn tool aswell. Some brushes came into action a few times, and i had the final image. The original Pictures i used im not sure where they are as it was quite a long time ago when i did these. Hopefully i can look around for them again and find them lurking somewhere, but i can't be certain. Thanks for viewing,Burgin!

Well Flash is a great program to use for vector based animations and drawings. Ive been learning aabit of it, but can get abit complicating when making animations, it must be hard for you cartoonists and aniamtion makers. Lmao, I think Flash does a great job in offering alot of features and thinga you can do with it.

Well i love photomanipulations and love the outcomes that can be produced. I particularly liked doing dark art stuff and I soon will be doing more. At the moment here are my works that ive made so far. Please feel free to leave comments behind or contact me at JakeBurgin53@hotmail.com for any questions you may have. Enjoy!

Well to be very clear about the comparisons between the two programs, Adobe Photoshop is the most powerful and offers more effects and tools, however Paintshop Pro is great for beginners, but ive not used it that much at all. Photoshop in my opinion would be the best for anyone wanting to create graphic projects or web layouts, its easy to learn and the outcomes are fantastic. Photoshop im sure overall is the best for designers and offers more resources in communitys such as deviantart.com

Yeh for a beginner you look like your improving alot, the core is a great effect and if you take more time to study the filter effects you can come up with even more effects. The photomanipulation is looking great and really has made it look better. Nice technique you have there and when you master photomanipulation, the possiblilities are endless. Ive done some really creappy Dark Art projects and always turn out great and look real So I should post a new topic soon showing this work, hopefully you will get better to achieve more than you thought. Be sure to check my new topic out and nice attempt,Burgin!

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