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 Post subject: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
PostPosted: July 9th, 2011, 1:23 am 
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well, I was playing around on photoshop (yes, at half past midnight) and made a couple of banners. (some I'd made previously) here's the results, but how can I improve on them?

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^on this one, how do I make the colors of the pictures of Frodo and Boromir look like they are equal and fit in the banner? Boromir looks more bluish, while Frodo is brighter and reddish... I played with the hue and saturation, but it didn't do much. :confused:

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^on this one, is there a way to make just the people stand out without brightening the background too?

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thanks for any help. :) I know I'm just starting to play with the whole photoshop thing, but eventually I would love to be as good as some of the amazing graphic artists here! :)

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
PostPosted: July 9th, 2011, 10:32 am 
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For your Frodo/Boromir one, I think you should play around with the gradients and see where that takes you. :) My banners just started improving this past month, so don't be frustrated/worried if it takes you a long time. :D

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
PostPosted: July 9th, 2011, 11:08 am 
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You've got a really great start, seriously! :)

I'll try and write up something more in depth later, but for the moment:

Harthad's got a good point on gradients. They are so helpful.
You can do clipping masks (right click on stuff in the layer window) which lets you isolate. So, for example, adding more contrast to the Frodo and Sam picture without doing the background - just add a clipping mask to a contrast layer.
Sorry, these probably don't make much sense. I'll try again.

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
PostPosted: July 9th, 2011, 3:43 pm 
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thanks so much, Harthad and Nurr :) I'll try that with the gradients, and if I can figure it out, the clipping mask too. you're so helpful!

edit: I tried doing this to the banner, though it didn't work like I wanted it to. oh well. :P

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
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I would try blending with background. It makes graphic more etheral plus gives all images rather close coloring.

But you are doing geat for now!

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
PostPosted: July 14th, 2011, 3:50 am 
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Just have to pop in and say I love the Faramir banner! :)

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
PostPosted: July 22nd, 2011, 1:42 am 
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thanks, guys. hopefully I'll have another shot at it tomorrow.

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
PostPosted: July 23rd, 2011, 6:30 pm 
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here's a few that I made today. I kind of like the Sam/Shelob one.

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
PostPosted: July 23rd, 2011, 6:38 pm 
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Great improvement! :)
the blending on the Galadriel/Frodo banner works very well. :)

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
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I agree with Legolas, the Galadriel/Frodo banner is pretty awesome. :) Your blending is great, especially on that one and the first one. And the glowy text on the second Sam banner is cool. :)

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
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I love the Sam/Shelob one! Your blending is awesome :)

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
PostPosted: July 24th, 2011, 11:29 am 
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awh, thanks guys! practice seems to be improving things.
and just a question... does anyone have ideas for fonts? I need some that really work with the LotR theme, and I use the same fonts pretty often.

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
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For LotR theme, that will be useful :)

http://www.thehutt.de/tolkien/fonts.html

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
PostPosted: July 24th, 2011, 11:34 am 
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oh, those are awesome! thanks so much! they'll be perfect. :)

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The Galadriel one turned out really well! It blended together quite nicely. :) And I really love the composition of the Frodo and Same one - especially the picture on the far left.

Other good fonts are the Jellyka ones (that you can find here: http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=jellyka )

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 Post subject: Re: some banners on photoshop - any help or ideas?
PostPosted: July 24th, 2011, 1:10 pm 
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thanks, Nurr! gorgeous fonts. I downloaded a few of them. :)

here's a couple more I made just to play with some fonts. I think the first one has too many pictures. :confused:

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and on this one, I was going for a different picture of Frodo, but all the others were too small so I had to use this one.

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and this one I barely did anything to, I just loved the picture! :P

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