Hey, check out this bit o' nothin I made up in PS!

If you hadn't stated that was PS, I would've so said you made that in Paint.

Hey! I need help on advanced PS features, noone helps, my work looks crappy. Same with jk2radiant, jed, and all that crap. *groans* and now everyone takes it out on ME... owell. It is not my destiny.

Learn to use layers, you must. Along with layer transparancy, and less white[well, black]space.

Improve, your PSing will.

Everyone can past some pictures on a bigger one and add text to it. Hell even my sister can do that!*

*If you knew my sister this would mean a lot

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Remember, if all you ever do is follow tuts, then you are no artist. Only someone who copys other people's work.

Make your own style, become different. If all we ever do is something anyone else has. Thing's get boring! I've done this far to much myself.:-(

You copied a bunch of pics, slapped them on a background...and put text.....SotD people, S...o...t...D.

If youre not going to post anything constructive, dont post.

Macro- You might want to learn how to use layeers and transparencies to make the image look more interesting.

I don't mean to be mean, but I'd have to agree with the last three posts. It's not really worth being posted for showcase and it does look like you just cut and pasted pictures and put text. Try some interesting effects and stuff

Not an excuse from where I sit.

I've been ysing that program (Photoshop) for about 8 years now. I didn't know jack when I started. I learned via experimentation. Then I followed a few tutorials and learned more.

Pick a filter, and play with it. Drag things around. Play with options in the menus. You will NOT get any better otherwise. Even tutorials won't help you. You need to get in there, and play with everything. Make big errors? That's what the History is for. It corrects things Undo won't. Learn about it.

As harsh as that may sound, it's the downright truth. Help and tutorials will only take you half-way. It's up to YOU to figure out how things work and how to apply them.

Not entirely true. While certain filters are helpful (blurs and stuff) other filters like lens flare are overused too much. Experiment with different blending techniques and brushes. Look at tutorials and ask people how they made things.

Some people deserve PSP more than others, like me. I deserve PSP. I wouldn't use it for MSPaint edits, no. I'd use it for the good of humanity. Please God, give me what should be mine.

Again, depends upon what you use it for. Generally speaking, yes, it's far too overused. But there are loads of places where it can be used to base or be used to construct another effect on.

just clearing it up. Dont want any more filter happy PS newbies running around.

That and layer masking. You can do good collages with layer masking.

Thank you, kind gentleman, for making my day a tad brighter by posting an image of lovely miss Portman.

Okay, I have some ideas. I'm assuming you want to stick with the "screencaps from the movie" motif.

1. Smaller picture of Nat. Yes, she's hot, but she doesn't need to take up half the picture.
2. Some sort of border.
3. Center the text.
4. This was just an idea I had, but you could add some sort of Star-Wars-ish hologram projector in the middle that would be projecting the pictures... that way, you could add beams and stuff going up to the pictures, which would make it more interesting.
5. Something in the background. That's what the blue scribbles are supposed to represent.
6. Perhaps you might want to add some sort of smaller border around each picture.

Here's a quick example I whipped up in Paint, just to show you what I mean.



Hope this helps!

*ahem*!

http://forums.massassi.net/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24983

Actually i was trying to do sorta like a "trailer in a pic" sortof thing.

...considering that the only time you'll ever see a lens flare is if you're, say, looking at the sun through a lensed device, I'd say so.

Of course! I forgot to add a lens flare! So here's my MSPaint rendition of one.

Get some new pictures (Pictures that do not go out of the box)

Anyway, Natalie Portman is hot, eh? She's my girlfriend. :p

I would suggest using a picture of Palpy from AotC rather than TPM.

Kyle, I like the idea of the lens flare lighting up Natalie's chest. mmm...anyways yeah..the only thing keeping me from telling you that it needs serious work is the pic of Natalie.

Haha, the funny thing is: I didn't even realize that that's where the circle is centered on. It was just supposed to be a lens flare off of Buddy's lighning in the other corner. But now that you mention it, it kind of looks good there.

I taught myself everything I know, you can do the same.