Custom Made Sig and Avatar [16]

[Stephanie]

Have a play about in [layers / layer properties]

 

[Chuck38]

Yes, that's what I was doing. That's why the fire is tinted a little.

 

[Stephanie]

The fire and the lines are due to your layers having a background unless thats the effect you want

The right hand feather has no background

 

[kado897]

Depending on what the colour back fill on the feather is you may be able to make it go away with the right blend mode. Good ones to try are Multiply, Screen, Overlay and Soft Light.

 

[Stephanie]

Hi Keith, the background on the feather was black I just find it easy to make the background transparent
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[ThrashZone]

I usually use Multiply to be able to see all of the layers without any blocking,
Then I erase the parts of the layer I don't like that overspill onto the others and switch back to normal or a different layer mode,
I don't start out relying on a layer mode to get a look but it is fun to test you might come up with something really cool by accident

 

[Stephanie]

Thats the trick Mike play around with things .. its fun !

 

[kado897]

Hi Keith, the background on the feather was black I just find it easy to make the background transparent
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Yes that is what I would do too.

I usually use Multiply to be able to see all of the layers without any blocking,
Then I erase the parts of the layer I don't like that overspill onto the others and switch back to normal or a different layer mode,
I don't start out relying on a layer mode to get a look but it is fun to test you might come up with something really cool by accident

I use different blend modes all the time. You can do some things that would be difficult otherwise. For instance when I create star fields I combine them with the Screen blend mode. If you sue a 50% grey layer you can use black or white brushes at low exposure to do a non destructive burn (black) or dodge (white) using overlay or soft light blend modes.

 

[ThrashZone]

Are we still talking about layer modes

 

[kado897]

Yes layer blend modes.

 

[Arc]

When I started learning graphics, One of the first educations I have got from Nick that how the layer blend modes changes an image dramatically.

A very minimal example. I made this one, long ago. I still like this background .... where different layers are used in different blend modes that changed the visual effect of the background very nicely.

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I cannot complete an image without using various blends.

 

[kado897]

Chuck. If you are getting serious about graphics and don't want to spend any money on it I strongly suggest you learn GIMP. It is the closest free gfx program to Photoshop. That's the route I took PDN->GIMP->Photoshop.

 

[ThrashZone]

Nice one Archie
GIMP is a good one to look closer at

 

[Chuck38]

I guess I'll have to. I'll try some blending stuff with Paint.NET and then I'll work on learning GIMP.

Thanks for the tips everyone!

 

[kado897]

 

[Chuck38]

If you have the project file saved open it again and save another as a .psd file and put it in a zip folder and upload it
Cheers.

Okay, lets see if this works..

 

[ThrashZone]

Worked fine Chuck,
Looks to me Layer#12 is the issue,
I changed the layer mode to (Lighten only) and came up with this one,
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[Chuck38]

Looks good, Mike. But I kinda wanted to be able to see the flag.

This sig is a mix of my different interests..

Battlefield 3 Guy, I like FPS games.
City Skyline, It just seemed to fit with the BF3 guy.
The Mustang, It's my favorite car.
The Computer and Monitor, That's actually my set up. An HP w2207h monitor with my PC cased in a Corsair Spec-02.
Snoopy, Well, I think you know.

And then layer 12, the Texas Flag. I was born in Texas.

Is there any way you could make it a little more visible?

 

[Chuck38]

Oh, yeah. And the explosions also just seemed to fit with BF3 guy.

I started with BF3 guy and then started adding in some more interests.

 

[ThrashZone]

That what I couldn't tell what the transition was it's the lone star state flag Yikes