Melchan's Newbster GFX

[❖ Tama]

Its ok Melchan can do w/e she wants :3

[melchan]

Time to post all the stuff I've been doing. It's been awhile. I've been doing these for 2 days total. Momo's cute~

[❖ Tama]

i love your close up avvys

[/ Toki /]

I remember when I use to do close up avatars. They were actually my first gfx stuff before I started learning sigs. Anyway there nice and easy. Makes me wanna start getting back into them. XD

[melchan]

Yep. Thank you guys. Always so nice. I've been trying. I want to try learning how to make sigs that don't have the vector style.

[/ Toki /]

Vector style is basically using that type of brush. As a substitute for background and stuff. However to make sigs without vector is simply using different brushes and switching it up to how you would like. Like backgrounds can be made with the render or by using the renders colors and blending in with a background or gradient brush. It can also be used by smudging but I think you already know that....

Anyway what I dont really see in your work is c4d/effects/wallpapers. You can use almost any type of pic or background for gfx. Some you may like some you may not but I'll see if I can find a tut that covers the basic of different stuff... o.o

Either that or you can ask me questions and I'll see if I can answer them.

[melchan]

I actually have a question. I know that there's someway to make it seem like a line is wrapped around the render. I wanted to know if you knew how to do that.

[/ Toki /]

o.o First get the render and then the same way you make a border around your sig. You make a stroke around the render by itself. Okay?

[melchan]

I meant like this snake.

SPOILER: Click to show

[melchan]

Just a little something I did. I'm happy with the outcome. Took a lot of duplicating and morphing to make it come out like this.

[❖ Tama]

If the red line is how you want stuff to wrap around ill make a tut for you. Is that what you meant by wrapping around?

[melchan]

Yes it is.

[❖ Tama]

Would you like a tut?

[» Comatose]

Isn't it just drawing it around the target render and then duplicating/manipulating/erasing layers and portions. Not too complicated. >>;

But anyway, you're doing great Mel-chan. <3

[❖ Tama]

You can do 2 things...

1:
Make a new, transparent layer on top of what you want to circle around. Then take the brush and make loops or squiggly lines going around the render even on it. Then just erase parts on the render to make a circling effect.

2::
You can make the line stop before hitting the render to make it look like the line is going behind then make the line reappear where the line looks like it would reappear then make it wrap above the render and so on.

You can do these with dots or a line or anything

[melchan]

Thank you guys. I'll try it with something. I always wondered how they did it. Can't belive I couldn't think of that myself...

[melchan]

Time for an update!

I sort of like this one. There is one empty space which I wish I filled.


{EDIT}

Okay. Made this one. LOVE IT!

This one is alright. Wish it was better...

[melchan]

Oh~ BTW, as you can see, I've started to use real pic backgrounds. I must say, I like the effect! Smextical! I REALLY like the Tsuruyu-san one.

[Oyushi]

I have a suggestion for wrapping things around like Tama was teaching you. If you are using photoshop you can do this, if not you can probably ignore me. What I do is I have the wrap around-ee on the bottom layer, and lock it. Then I drop a transparently layer over the top. I put on the full picture of the wrap around-er on the top layer and make sure it is in the right place etc. Then I unlock the bottom layer and select it, with the top layer hidden. I then use the magnetic lasso to go around the edge of the thing I want to wrap around, basically, that just lets me select it easy as. Another way you can do it is with the magic wand if you're hand with that. Then once I have the bits I want covered and only them (eg no bits I want showing) selected, I then got to the top bar with file etc, and go Selection-> Inverse. Basically this selects an area which I want to be showing (and normally its faster to grab the bits that you want to cover and then go inverse). With this dotty selection thing still in tact I unlock and show the top layer, and go to that, then press delete. Basically, if you don't click off your selection, you can take the same selection mask to other layers, and since I had selected the bits I want showing, if any parts of my top layer got into these parts, they be wiped off when I press delete, thus leaving only the bits I want going in front there. I probably explained that all really bad, but thats just how I do things.

[melchan]

Okay so an update... I've gotten photoshop CS2. I still don't know how to work it so... I'm gonna be practicing that for awhile.