First Ever Banner

by **CBLCommish** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:51 am

Well, I was able to get Adobe Photoshop 7 on my computer and I finally made my first banner. I followed a tutorial on pixel2life and customized it myself once I got the hang of the tutorial. What do you think?

I've added another banner . .

You all can see the evolution of my skill right in front of your eyes.

I just went crazy with this signature, this is by FAR by best work ever. This was all from scratch too . .

by **Jackal** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:00 am

It looks nice, but did you just render clouds & add the red color? Atleast that's how it looks a bit to me.

Pixel2life is great, there should be more stuff around, but for a first time it looks nice, just keep going now.

Not that I'm an expert or anything, you'd have to take that up with Colin. :lol:

by **CBLCommish** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:04 am

I just added a lot of layers, played with some Grunge brushes I downloaded, it's hard to explain, but that's basically the 'gist of it. I tried my best, I'm going to keep practicing, I was encouraged with what I was able to do. :lol:

by **FendeR`** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:06 am

I can see how you did it. Not bad, pretty good for a beginner actually. Just keep messing around with brushes, opacities and blending modes until you get something you really like. You don't have to stick to form in anything you do in Photoshop for the most part, just tweak it until youl like it.

by **CBLCommish** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:08 am

Yeah, I'm going to download some more brushes and just keep playing around with it. Practice makes perfect.

by **Cloudy** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:51 pm

I love the second one...
The font looks so special...lol

That can be a logo for some shirt company (Y)

by **CBLCommish** on Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:03 am

Thanks for the compliments, I appreciate it. What do ya'll think of my newest design?

by **cklitsie** on Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:06 am

My advice would be try not to use too many fonts in 1 graphic.

by **CBLCommish** on Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:59 am

Alright . . I'm assuming your talking about the Hawks signature, I wanted to at least give some recognition to the Old/New School change. Ahh well, your advice is heeded.

by **cklitsie** on Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:06 am

It's not like I'm a graphics expert, but I just think three different fonts do not go together in one signature, at least not those three.
I have to admit though, it's not bad at all for your third or fourth sig, pretty good man. (Y)

by **CBLCommish** on Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:02 pm

Thanks . . well, the Atlanta Hawks text came with the logo, I couldn't help, but hey, I'm trying.

by **Ruff Ryder** on Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:42 am

The Gordon one is pretty good, but I (myself) aren't real fond of the inner/outer glow on players unless it's real big. Anyway, save your jpgs in higher quality.

by **CBLCommish** on Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:49 am

Any tips on doing that, saving in higher quality?

by **cklitsie** on Sat Jul 09, 2005 2:58 am

When you select "Save as...", select a number like 8-10 when youhave to fill out that number of jpg quailty.
If you save with "Save for web" pick "jpg high".

by **CBLCommish** on Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:02 am

Aight, cool, thanks for the tip. Where do I do that, in Image Ready and where?

by **Jackal** on Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:49 am

In Photoshop, when you're done working on an image, go to File, then click on Save As For Web...(alt + ctrl + shift + S)

Then you'll get this screen:

Mess around with the quality bar and save it to wahtever type you want it, et voila. High quality pics. That's Photoshop CS btw.

by **FendeR`** on Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:55 am

I'd just like to add to that, you can lower the quality to about 60 without actually losing too much. That's only if you have to squeeze the file size down though, obviously you want it as high as possible without being over your chosen size limit (here's it's 50kb).

by **Jackal** on Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:34 am

If saving in Photoshop, you can just specify the size you want your file to be. So that shouldn't be an issue.

by **CBLCommish** on Sat Jul 09, 2005 2:38 pm

Thanks very much fellas, I appreciate the explanation. (Y)

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