I have been putting my signatures in my "hobo218's signature works" thread, but I never end up getting feedback when I post in there. Anyway...here's the new sig. Made it for a friend.
Hmm, the motion blur thing doesn't look good. Just pixelated.
I like how you colored the render to fit the bg better, but the bg is just to plain So is the text.
Try duplicating the render about three times and place them around the main render in sort of a triangle, then make a gaussian blur about 4 pixels to the 3 duplicates.
Use the eraser at 0% hardness and start erasing the egdes of the main render so it blends in more with the background ands adds more depth.
Merge the 3 blurred render layers
Use a C4D behind the layer with blurred renders and change the bending mode of the blurred renders layer until you get what you like
Its pretty hard to explain without having my photoshop up and being able to show screenshots, but if done correctly it will make the render blend with the background alot better.
It'll be good practice at least, I did a bunch of practice boards the last few weeks but that's a bit different than actual repair. It's pretty obvious what's going on with those, so it's not very hard to trace the leads, and they aren't designed with faults so
Site is peaking on traffic for the recipes - Sundays are always the big days and we are 200 plus unique visitors an hour right now and it will be like that probably be around 3000 total on the site all day maybe more if Google desires it LOL
Anyway I have a power bench that I don't actually know how to use, but I'm assuming I can take the battery out and power it directly from that to see if any of them turn on.
If you had kids like me that grew up in that era you could just go to your closet and fish out one of the cords from the cord bag. I bet I have everyone of those cord connectors plus some