Casteal's graphic arts thread

[crashNUMBERS]

How do you change the color of a single word's base?? What Im trying to say is how do you have three colors in one word??

[Apollo]

Your work is beautiful. <3 I love your wallpapers especially. ^^

[Cybele]

How do you change the color of a single word's base?? What Im trying to say is how do you have three colors in one word??

Blend modes. ^^ Usually overlay will do that. You can also use gradients.

And thanks everyone. ^^ I usually use a lot of textures, only a few brushes. Here's another wallpaper I made last night. ^^ And a Rydia wallpaper as requested by a certain Rydia fanatic. *points to Ultima Shadow*

[Rusty]

I love your work! You're very talented. My favourites are the wallpapers and sigs of Rinoa you have done

[crashNUMBERS]

Blend modes. ^^ Usually overlay will do that. You can also use gradients.

Yeah but I dunno how you use all that stuff. I dunno how to use gradients filled in letrters and words. Im not sure GIMP can do that...

[Ultima Shadow]

And a Rydia wallpaper as requested by a certain Rydia fanatic. *points to Ultima Shadow*

It's awesome!

[Cybele]

Yeah but I dunno how you use all that stuff. I dunno how to use gradients filled in letrters and words. Im not sure GIMP can do that...

I found a tutorial community for gimp on livejournal. Maybe it could help.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/gimp_users/

Thanks everyone. ^^ Also, here's a wallpaper I made. ^^

EDIT: And my new sig I just made. ^^

[crashNUMBERS]

Wow. That sig of the blondie girl is pretty nice. As the less people say this phrase Im about to say the better. I think that sig is wow. (XD) Thanks for the GIMP community...

[Rye]

Nice work! I love your wallpapers, nice use of Dresden Doll lyrics. xD

[Holy_Aeris]

OMG i just checked out you LJ, and WOW! You are one talented person when it comes to gfx!

[Epiphany]

Nice work! I love your wallpapers, nice use of Dresden Doll lyrics. xD

Also the Staind. I like, I like.

[Lady Selphie]

They are REALLY nice

[Cybele]

*revives thread because she's too lazy to make a new one*

More wallpapers and sigs. I also have a site for my graphics up now. =) The link's in my sig, just click on the image.

[Ultima Shadow]

You rock, Starry!

[Madonna]

I think you have a wonderful knack at blending images together; the way they subtly merge together and how you recolor them to match with each other is masterful. I like your use of effects and how every image you do turns out great. Despite that, I do note like the most recent batch of signatures; they're pretty, for sure, but they do not hold any interest for me. I cannot give you a concrete reason why.

With the wallpapers, I dislike the first; it's kind of plain and not much are done with the base images of Squall and Aerith, while background is pretty but doesn't really incorporate the two. The second wall kicks the first one's butt, with two more base images just there, but the background is more interesting and livens up the whole picture, and there's that little procession of screens which is cool. The second wallpaper is more than just a randomized backdrop, a couple of base images tacked on, with minimal associations. It's good.

I think you shine with your last three walls, though. You when I was praising your blending skills? This is totally why. I like how you made these wallpapers complete images, rather than a defineable foreground and background. They have layers, but they overlap and intertwine in such a way that they mesh together into one image.