I've been working at these since I got home from school today, so CnC away plz. c: Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler One problem I can sort of see already: brightness. god plums y so eye raepy
actually, I think the brightness works well on these. I don't know about the other's opinions, but I personally like it. It works well with the way you made the pictures. I mean, the color and the sort of oldness, grainiess?, seems pretty cool. I think these are well done. The first one is probably my favorite, while the second is of course my second favorite. Not really all for the 3rd. It's just not all that interesting a scene to me
Huh? Plums, those are amazing. I don't see brightness as a problem. In fact, making it darker would ruin it. Don't change 'em. They're outstanding.
These are really nice, I like the concept so far. Of course, the brightness is a bit of a distraction. Maybe if you added more contrast in the blacks, it would make it pop a little more. The only problem I have is with the first one, the grainy affect you have on it. I hate grainy affects for some reason, it just kinda screams at me bad quality, honestly. .-. That's just my opinion though. Good job, though. Keep going, dear. I want to see more from you. <3
WAIT, YOU MADE THIS?! wow these are incredible, the brightness is only a noticeable problem in the first one.
Didn't think this really warranted a new thread. :B I am trying to get better at smudging more. Looking at quite a few tuts. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut that may/may not happen for a good while. Anyway, I know the left side looks empty, and I want to put something there. I just don't know what to put there. :x CnC plz bbys <3
Okay...hmm. The Mami one is my personal favorite. I really like how the light compensates for Mami's own color. However, I think the blending modes you're using are a bit rough. Try to work more with opacity and lighten/screen. Overlay is good, but it usually gives off really contrasted results. But anyhow, the grainy look feels okay to me in some parts, while in others, it feels a bit strong. Opacity and erasing, get textures to work how you want them to work, not how they fall there. The second one really throws me off. It's really...I don't know. It's not as good as the first one. The color scheme looks somewhat lacking, and the overall image doesn't really strike me out as anything more than a sephia filter over the actual image (I know that's not what it is, but yeah) However, I see you tried to work with effects a bit and that's good, you positioned them well enough, and managed to make them flow seamlessly into the action of the stock. The third one is okay. But it really looks like it's just a texture slapped there. And here's where I have to say again, make textures work for you. Sometimes putting them over something in some blending more works, but sometimes it doesn't. The border of the texture here seems really bad, so cropping that out might work. I would also suggest lowering the opacity of the texture itself. I think one of the main problems is that the image is big and your eye goes to the center of the image due to lack of color. I suggest you try to add some light to the focal, and maybe some color, so that the eye gets attracted to it. And...some text may be nice. As for the Riku tag...it really shows that you're learning how to put things together. I like the overall use of smudging and effects. This is your best one yet. Very nice. You're improving a lot.
