Blossom, first PS sig

[David Wood]

I decided to do something in PS and this is the result, also the first time using clipping masks for a sig. Comments?

blossom sig.png

[sky-fyre]

always use splatter brushes for clipping masks.

[Cyrilshark]

Not true.

[David Wood]

Splatter brushes? That doesn't fit the flow.

[RomaGrafix]

You can use any brush for clipping masks if you do it right..

[David Wood]

Well, did I do it right?

[Cyrilshark]

No lol

[Maffe811]

IF the clipping mask is just to the left of her head, its ugly... sry, try again

[David Wood]

Well Shark, tell me how to improve.

[Seta Sojiro]

No, the clipping mask ain't that bad tbh.
Take of the BG and try some kind of a nice chinese city or mall or you know stuff stock with some adjustments and see how it turns out.

[David Wood]

Wow, I think that was your most helpful cnc to date. I'm not sure if I can take out the bg, it's a stock, not a render, but I can try, glad the clipping mask is ok. Thanks!

[Cyrilshark]

I'm so mad, I wrote a nice long CnC then Gimper logged me out... -.-
Anyways, a stock really wouldn't work with this kind of tag.
As said the clipping masks don't look right. I'd do this:
Get a small hard round brush, any color, then brush with the flow, making jagged
lines. Then with the same hard brush (spacing - 1, rate - 90-100) smudge with SHORT QUICK STROKES, then
make that a clipping mask of any random stock. If it doesn't go with the colors just runa some GM's. The flow isn't bad.
When making your own background, most of the time you will use C4D's (and either smudge or leave them) or an unsized render
of what you're using (and smuge it). This starts out some good effects to work with. Otherwise you would use a stock, which like I said wouldn't look good here. Until you get really good with the basics and more advanced aspects of tag making, forget about text. Most of the time it will make a tag look like crap, like here unfortunately. That shine in her hair doesn't add anything (though it doesn't make it worse either), I'd drop it personally. The smudging in the lower part of the render looks crappy because you probably used a (round soft brush) which will give you a blurry look. Keep up the good work!

[David Wood]

"Until you get really good with the basics and more advanced aspects of tag making, forget about text."
Well, this is my first PS sig, so I didn't have the same skills as I do in Gimp.

"The smudging in the lower part of the render looks crappy because you probably used a (round soft brush) which will give you a blurry look".
Well, I wasn't sure which brushes to use for the smudging. And it's not a render, it's a stock.

Yeah, the text I just wanted to try something different I just realized I don't have a light source. ;P

[Cyrilshark]

I know what you mean... one of my mosed used things in GIMP is copy-visible (shift-control C/Control V) and in PS it's called apply image or something I think. Anyways it still shouldn't matter if it's your first tag in PS, you still know the basics and all that it just may be harder/take longer to do.

[David Wood]