McRebel42 USA Fan North Mississippi Hollywood Member since Oct 2012 7825 posts
re: Ok Fark Board I'm Just a Novice but Rate My Work Please (Posted on 12/28/12 at 1:13 pm to Nortizzle)
Yeah My biggest issuse I see myself is that but its because I just an image and fit it to at 800x300 to work on before shrinking to a 400x150 ... thanks Nort will try to keep in mine in the future
bdv1974 Georgia Fan South Carolina Member since Nov 2011 3784 posts
re: Ok Fark Board I'm Just a Novice but Rate My Work Please (Posted on 12/28/12 at 1:45 pm to McRebel42)
Teach a man to fish thread pinned at the top of Fark board... has a link to the place to get any font you want...
I like the ones that have the ole Miss transparent.. with what im guessing is the "grove" the one with the players.. too busy for me... but thats just me... the work itself and this is coming from a fellow rookie so take it for what its worth lol
McRebel42 USA Fan North Mississippi Hollywood Member since Oct 2012 7825 posts
re: Ok Fark Board I'm Just a Novice but Rate My Work Please (Posted on 12/28/12 at 1:53 pm to bdv1974)
Yeah I hear you out because even I somewhat thought it was too busy as well ... I guess I need to pay heed to the whole "less is more" logic ... But hey thanks
RonFNSwanson LSU Fan Browtown Member since Mar 2012 11913 posts
re: Ok Fark Board I'm Just a Novice but Rate My Work Please (Posted on 12/28/12 at 2:49 pm to McRebel42)
My thoughts:
You have way too much going on in all of these
Try not to make everything transparent
Like idle said, you need to add shadows to make things look like they are actually there. Not sure if gimp has a burn tool, but that is what you can use. Or just paint with 5% black.
Just keep your file at 400*150 and zoom in if you can't see.
idlewatcher LSU Fan Houston Member since Jan 2012 2997 posts
re: Ok Fark Board I'm Just a Novice but Rate My Work Please (Posted on 12/28/12 at 3:23 pm to McRebel42)
Ron pretty much summed it up.
In PS, there is a separate function called Drop Shadow where you can adjust the lighting (shadow), the degree of rotation among other things. Not sure about Gimp though as I've never used it.
All it does really is give things realistic depth.
It'll make it look like it's pinned to the actual wall instead of floating in the ether.