Good Grief Graphics

The website has already been commented on so I shouldn't have to worry about that. Reccomendation though: Create the entire site in photoshop, then slice it, save for web. (Or export to imageready, etc.) As far as the portfolio, I see potential, but the images lack something. What I think I see is great ideas that aren't expressed as well as you want them too or not as well as they could be. The ideas for some of the images are excellent, but I just don't like how they look right now. For example, on your image "Mindscape," I love the idea but can't stand how it was done. The typography isn't done well at all, which is usually the most important part of an image with text in it. The way that the 2d images were combined with the 3d wireframes messes with the whole image. Of course, it appears that you painted parts of the images, if not all, which is something I cannot do and probably will never do. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ My favorite company, look into their work if you want to. Sorry if this sounds like too much criticism, I'm just trying to help somewhat. EDIT: Oh, yeah, I also don't like the idea of your use of textures the way you use them, such as in the image "Mirror Mirror." It gives a look to the mage that is too, I don't know, basic.

Just to let you know, I used a brush exactly one time each for the first two. The ony time I used one was whne I clicked one time to make a slight variation, a box sort of, behind the text "accidental design." With the first two I started out with a photo I took a while ago, actually, all of them are from pics I took. I haven't experimented much with borders because the main point of my work on images isn't for signatures. If you want me to send you a psd file of the full size of the first one, then I will do that.

Can't forget AMD, which is what I use. (3500+ AMD 64) I've been using windows since windows 95 came out, and it's what I'm used to. I hate microsoft, but unfortunately, Windows is the only OS that I'm used to. I know it pretty much inside and out, at least as much as I coudl learn, and some things about it frustrate me. But, I can't do anything about it.

It's not the final version of it, I just haven't had any good ideas for it so I haven't worked on it for a while. Plus, lol, I'm not against guns. (I own three guns myself, a winchester .300, remington 870 20 gauge shotgun, and of course a .22 rifle.) The gun in the image is from some grat aunt or something of mine who died, it was in her house or something when it was cleaned out. Or something, I'm not really sure.

The resolution issue I was talking about had to do with my monitor, not the images.

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ I've never really done grunge before. Tell me what you think. btw, I use 1600x1200 on a 19" monitor, so the sigs may seem a tiny bit big to you. They also all started out as pictures, and all but the last two sigs (I think) use a combination of several pictures. That's why they look like crap, as my dig cam sucks.

I took an iq test online when I was like 11 or something, and it tookk into account my age and gave me a 170. Of course, that dosen't mean it's right. Although, I am in calculus as a freshman.

Typography can make or break an image, sometimes it can be more important than the image itself. I'd reccomend looking at examples, from somewhere such as http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (My favorite design company.) or the computer arts magazine. http://www.creativebloq.com/computer-arts-magazine

Tablets are pretty much useless in programs that don't allow the pressure-sensitivity and tilt of the pen to dictate size or opacity of the brush. It's possible to get a good paintingi n paint if you go pixel by pixel, changing the hue, luminosity, and saturation of each pixel perfectly right. But who's going to spend their time to do that?

As far as win 95 and win 98, I doubt that. It's not like bluetooth is a onnection with long range, so you really have nothing to worry about. Most people have turned off bluetooth on their phone anyway, as burex said.

Obviously though, you CAN free transform an image too much. Man, I really need to upload my newer work, I made this sig months ago. All my newer sigs are basically smaller versions of the larger files I work on.

Image format? It's a format that is non-windows but lets windows run it or osmething like that. I think you're thinking .pdf, whcih is an image format.

How much of it did you do, all of it, and did you use pictures that were seperate and combined them in that way to create that wallpaper? I liek the lighting effects used, except that the wallpaper looks a little washed out or something, needs a little more saturation maybe, but I'm not completely sure. Also, it loks liek you used one font for the entire thing, you should try to combine different fonts to create a better look overall in the image.

I usually create around 3-5 different verisons or so of any graphic I'm working on, and I almost never consider something ocmpletely done. I'll have to upload some of my latest work, I've done osme really interesting things lately.

Yuo should use the bevel and emboss layer style very sparingly if you want to create good graphics.

I never figured out the api thing in vb6, and now I haven't used it in years and I forgot everything.

I'm pretty sure this story isn't true, this quote dosen;t sound very true. "When contacted by BBspot.com, Brett Tyson said, "I don't know what the hell is going on dude, but this suspension gives me more time for fraggin'. Yee haw!""

For one thing, firefox isn't like a video game where thery make verison 1, or 2, or whatever. They are constantly trying to improve the product. Another thing is, Firefox is in someway involved with google now if I'm remembering right, so there's some money right there.

I don't like the animation at all personally. Other than that, it's pretty good.

And the person who made cwshredder, the only tool that would get rid of the newer versions of cws, gave up. CWS was getting impossible to remove.

I need to take screenshots of this awesome tut that I came up with and put it on my site. Basically, it involves a gaussian blur of about 4 or so on an image, and then edit>fade gaussian blur and use the blending mode "Lighten." Darken also gives an interesting effect. If you can learn how to combine filter effects with fading ( and Blending modes) It will help you out a lot in some images. I will post this within the next couple of weeks and here too once I take screenshots and everything.

For some reason, ie is freezing up every time I start it... Not that I care because I don't use it. Was I supposed to see somethign on that link?

Go through clantemplates.com and se how most of the sigs looks so similar.

About Microsoft... People have been complaining for years and not until sp2 did they actually put a pop-up blocker in ie... Pretty sad. Microsoft is good at dominating markets, even with horrible advertising. They aren't good at making quality products. I mean, just look at all the windows operating systems. Need I say more? Don't let me start on windows me either...

PS is easy to learn but impossible to master. Well, you can learn things, but you never really master it. For example, I'm just now learning the ability that the lighting effects filter has when combined with layer masks that have been gaussian blurred a little bit. (Read Colin Smiths tutorial on the guitar he made in ps at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/)