Overkill

Another PDN artist who has such great potential and knows how to put it into good use. Makes life worth living to see something like this once in a while. Keep up the spectacular work! :wink:

This is more difficult than regular 'signature' making since you have to make everything look great. Well, here are my attempts. This is kind of 'half undone' since I ran out of ideas what to do next. This was more of a success and I think it turned out better. I hate making backgrounds, it's so difficult. Please advise! :?

Well, it really depends on how much he wants to shrink a picture and how big the picture really is. Expired is right though, increasing the resolution of a small image doesn't match, but it does work while doing it vice versa. And like Max said, the 'Sharpen' tool is another alternative.

Make a new image, totally blank, with the resolution of 80x200 pixels. Then go to 'layers' and select 'import from file'. Find your images and move them side by side. When you first select the image, you should see 'knobs' at each corner of the picture, these are mainly for shrinking/increasing. Just click on the center of the image, hold down the mouse button and move the mouse around and fit the picture in the desired location. Repeat the same with the other piece. Whenever you want to move one of the pictures again, just select the layer with the picture and use the 'move selected pixels' tool ( ). 'Hope that helped.

Well, your best option would be to maintain the ratio while resizing your image. When having the resizing tab open, make sure you have 'By absolute size' ticked and under that tick 'maintain aspect ratio'. By changing one of the values, be it width or height, the other gets calculated automatically according to the picture's resolution and the number you entered. Good luck.

There's nothing to 'rip off'. You'd be amazed how many of them there actually are. There are dozens of those 'silhouette' themed islands/landscapes. :wink: But yours looks greater, it's simple, perfect and slick.

You have great, clean work. The current and the former signature are greatly done. They look very 'slick'. Keep up the great work. Will be hoping to see more from you.

I can't believe I haven't seen this topic before. I'm glad I stumbled upon some random thread which had a link in it, leading me here. I've always wondered what a tag was. I'm going to make a tag nao, lulwut!

You can by using the 'Add(Union)' selection mode. Or did you mean expanding the canvas? You can also do that by resizing the canvas.

There is no tutorial 'how' to use brushes. You just have to experiment yourself and see how it fits. You might not get the desired look at first, but that's why 'practice makes perfect'.

Stop spamming/advertising, please.

Just out of curiosity - what kind of skin are you looking for? Human, animal, 'alien'? As far as I know, there isn't a tutorial for making skin, but I could be wrong.

Darn, I wanted to post first, but the forums were going down. I was swearing and blaming my 'Internetz'. At least I saved the post in my notepad .. >_>

Well, I hope you mean 'how could you have a single storage folder for your PDN creations', am I right? Well, whenever you save your work you have the opportunity to select the place where you'd like to store it. I guess you'd like to store your work in a single place among your other work. Well, with Windows usually comes a folder 'My Art' so I'd suggest you use that or manually create a folder somewhere. Whenever you want to save again you should just select the folder you made. Or do you want PDN to select the folder automatically whenever you save? I'm not sure if it's the answer your looking for but please notify if otherwise.

Sorry mate, it's probably the most inappropriate board to post requests since this is for personal galleries and other exhibitions. Your best bet would be to try at 'General Discussion & Questions' board since your topic will most likely get locked here. Welcome to PDN & good luck! :wink:

Did I misunderstand or did you mean save a picture under the .pdn format? If so then I wouldn't believe you if you said it takes long to save since for me it saves it before I even manage to say 'lulwut'. :shock: As for the thread's query .. until something like this is implemented your best option would be to write down your steps as posted in another topic (of what's name I can't seem to remember).

Looks quite interesting, but I suggest you get rid of the white background.

Well, I'm not sure, but re-installing might do the trick, if you have the installer that is. If not, you can always download PDN again. I'm not really sure if you can 'crate' another executable, 'doubt it. Did you check your recycle bin to see if you have emptied it?

Just one question about smudging which has really bothered me. About Silver Surfer's definition. When you smudge on a light background then you don't tend to get any visible results. I was just wondering; if you are using smudge on a light background, do you usually add the darker tone yourself? For an example, do you make a black line under the eye and smudge it to make the eye look wrinkled? The Joker face looks great, the best I've seen so far since it looks real.

Link. Link. This is the closest result you might get for your desired effect.

These are called 'brushes', these are like regular brushes, but instead of a dot, they contain a figure such as lines/curves or other structures you might see in pictures. At PDN forums you probably might find work done with brushes which are converted from Photoshop. And the answer to all of your troubles .. Click Me!

Congratulations mate, you did it. Even I failed to follow that tutorial and yours came out so great! >_>

Wicked work, as always. There's always new to expect from you, Ash. Darn, I'd kill to be able to use Smudge like you. Any tips on how you create such amazing definitions for the objects? Such as the wrinkles and the overall definition of the 'Silver Surfer's' face structure. Amazing work. Expecting to see more and more from you.

Hmm .. what about face 'definition' like wrinkles and such; referring to Ash's smudging work with the 'Silver Surfer'. Although I wish he would post tips of his 'leet' smudging since I'm dieing to do something similar. Nonetheless, the lady is improving, just keep trying, I'm sure you'll eventually get the desired look. Good luck!

The foliage's definition looks great. Great work you have here!