New To Photoshop - First Pic

[Zedzy]

I'm really new to photoshop, and I was wondering if you guys could C&C the pic I've made. Please remember that I am new to photoshop.

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Though this might be obvoius - please only post something to help me get better.


New smiley :thdown: matches :thup:.

 

[FireEffect]

Just keep experimenting to get results, photoshop is a really powerful tool when you get better at it. Its pretty good, for a newbie.

 

[Zedzy]

Just keep experimenting to get results, photoshop is a really powerful tool when you get better at it. Its pretty good, for a newbie.

Thanks . I just try random stuff, and keep what I like.

 

[FireEffect]

Do you have anything else you did that you can show?

 

[Zedzy]

Do you have anything else you did that you can show?

I made a magazine cover for school....

Edit: Covered revealing parts

Made that a while ago though.

 

[FireEffect]

I like the effect on the car oin that one, good job.

 

[sqrage]

You spelled motor wrong.

Also, I think the text and the background should be more detailed and car related. It's also low-quality.

 

[Zedzy]

You spelled motor wrong.

Oh, whoops.

Also, I think the text and the background should be more detailed and car related.

Good point.

It's also low-quality.

It's low quality, because my teacher would notice a difference :thup:, and space on my comp is kinda tight :thdown:.

 

[Romek]

My Graphics teacher is a pro PSer xD

You stretched the background image on your pic.
You didn't do much else did you?

 

[duyen]

You spelled motor wrong.

You also spelled interview wrong.

 

[Zedzy]

You didn't do much else did you?

I could give you the PSD to show you what I did.

You also spelled interview wrong.

I'm really starting to hope that this was my first draft...

 

[Romek]

I could give you the PSD to show you what I did.

Nahh... Just explain it

 

[Zedzy]

Nahh... Just explain it

Umm, might take awhile.

• I looked for simple warcraft 3 renders, I decided to use this one.
  
• I then proceeded to remove the sand underneath the murlocs feet.
  
• I tried to back my own background with brushes, but that completely failed, so I got the one that you see now.
  
• I stretched the image (which I regret now ) to make it fit.
  
• I copied the background, then covered it with a 50% opacity blue bruch, to make it closer to the murloc's color.
  
• I then put the blue background layer to 50% opacity.
  
• I decided to use the zoom filter, to make the focus more on little murky. This created a very neat effect, with the blue background giving the shape of the objects, and the normal one, mixing colors with the blue, and zooming (if that makes any sense.
  
• I thought it looked nice so far, except that the murloc stood out too much, so I copied him, guassian blurred the copy, and set it to screen to soften out and sharp edges between the background, and the render.
  
• The background was Stranglethorn, so I thought that it should reflect that more. I colored a whole layer green, and set the opacity to 10%.
  
• Finally, just for the sake of randomness, I added the little sparkles.
  
• The picture was acually much taller, but I found it much more appealing to set it to the size that it is now.

I left out the part where I took the fin and copy and pasted it about 50, then realized that I didn't like the way it looked (among the other things I took out )

 

[juty]

Certainly 1 off the better first attempts at PS I think your first is better than my currently and I have had about 10 attempts as people have said it requires allot off time and practice all up it is a good attempt and I can see you making a lot off good work into the future

 

[Zedzy]

I created a geography poster for school, and here it is:

I want you to focus on the penguin (not the words (don't read the words)), how could I make him better?