Gamer_World14 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 I agree. You'd be awesome at wallpaper. :wink:Lol, you would too DS! Why don't you ever make any? Quote deviantART | Paint.NET Gallery | bennettfrazier.com <-- (My new Website!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwicky Posted September 30, 2009 Author Share Posted September 30, 2009 Thanks you two, and I'll add a wallpaper to my to-do list over these holidays then. It's probably good to do something other than signatures all the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer_World14 Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Thanks you two, and I'll add a wallpaper to my to-do list over these holidays then. It's probably good to do something other than signatures all the time Great, I cannot wait! Quote deviantART | Paint.NET Gallery | bennettfrazier.com <-- (My new Website!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwicky Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 It's that time again, I present a couple new things, as well as my first wallpaper! Hopefully you've already seen this, but it's my latest signature set. I also made an alternate version of the signature, experimenting with a few things Here's my entry for the 25th SOTW Competition, we had to work with a set colour scheme, and the competition was titled Dark Emotion. And last but not least my first wallpaper in this gallery! It's not particularly original or brilliant, but its a start right? Click for full size, its only at 1024*768 size because my screen is not big nor my computer very powerful Comments appreciated as always! Thanks for visiting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharp Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 The sigs all look pretty cool! For the wallpaper, the lines seem a bit thick and taper off too quickly, and the colors are a bit bland, but as you say, it's a start Quote [Glass Ball Tutorial] [My Gallery] [starscape Tutorial] [My Sig Tutorial] [My dA] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer_World14 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I like the update Zwicky. Glad to see that you made your first wallpaper. I like it Keep up the great work, and hope you enjoyed making the wallpaper. Also, I like your sig update. Quote deviantART | Paint.NET Gallery | bennettfrazier.com <-- (My new Website!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sozo Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 You've put out a lot of good signatures lately Zwicky, keep it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zwicky Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 I really shouldn't be making a gallery update right in the middle of exams, but here it is folks! I've changed the layout of my gallery, and posted a nice and large welcome picture, it's hard to miss (the one below is a clickable thumbnail because of its size). I think I subconsciously took a few hints from the new Office 2012 logo. As well as adding in my latest signature set, the purple space one. I've been wearing it for a while, but have been waiting 'til the next update to slot it in. I also have a new wallpaper, which I actually made nearly 6 months ago but thought I had lost! And last but not least I made a gallery banner that I only ended up using for a day, it got replaced by my orange friend above. It's in the Other section of my gallery on the front page. I tried to make my own version of the Mac OS X 10.6 RocketDock skin for use as a gallery banner. I used this photograph from InterfaceLift as the background. That's from me, hope you enjoy! Now I need to get back to my Accounting study! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharp Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 I like the B&W gallery banner better The orange one looks cool too though. The wallpaper looks cool too, I especially like the swirly white lines. Quote [Glass Ball Tutorial] [My Gallery] [starscape Tutorial] [My Sig Tutorial] [My dA] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberSpace Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Cool stuff. Orange is my favorite color! Also, what font do you use for the "welcome to my gallery" on the first post? Quote Are you ready? Glossy Web 2.0 Style Text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwicky Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 Cool stuff. Orange is my favorite color! Also, what font do you use for the "welcome to my gallery" on the first post? Thank you, the font's called called Rezland, click for the dafont page, you can download it from there. Handy hint, it looks smoothest if you duplicate the text layer and then merge it back down for some reason. I think it appears as just "rez" inside Paint.NET. Hope that helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sokagirl Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Very nice , love your signature and avatar combo .. And the Gallery header is out of this world . :AddNoise: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer_World14 Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Yeah, great job. I really like the update! Those colors you choose always rock Quote deviantART | Paint.NET Gallery | bennettfrazier.com <-- (My new Website!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwicky Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 Thank you both Sokagirl, 666 posts! Is it a sign? :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snogry Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 I like your work Zwicky, nice effects and colours. If you don't mind me asking, how did you achieve this effect?(the background) It looks awsome. Quote | My Gallery|Acrone's Den| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwicky Posted December 13, 2009 Author Share Posted December 13, 2009 I cheated a little bit actually :wink: I used a render of some light-rays, and turned it greyscale/black and white. Then on a separate layer above, I painted big blobs of the various colours I wanted to blend together with a very large paintbrush size. Then I Gaussian Blur-ed it a lot to mix it all. (see Crimson's tutorial for that part, he explains it better) Then simply set that layer's blending mode to Overlay to achieve the coloured ray effect. Play around with transparency gradients from there to adjust it to your liking, ie I had a separate black background that it all faded into. But yes, if you were going 100% PDN, which I highly recommend, instead of using a light-rays render you can try and make your own. Render normal black and white "clouds", fiddle a bit (ie pencil sketch or an effect of your choice) and then use a large Zoom Blur. The light rays need to be greyscale for the overlay to work properly. Make sure the overall contrast is quite high or you wont be able to make out the "rays" Phew lot of writing, too much probably. :oops: Hope that helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbieq25 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Awesome works Zwicky! Very pleasing to look at & great colours. The fonts you use are super too. Like the way you have set out your gallery. Hard to choose a favourite one. They're all so good. Quote Knowledge is no burden to carry. April Jones, 2012 Gallery My DA Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snogry Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I cheated a little bit actually :wink:I used a render of some light-rays, and turned it greyscale/black and white. Then on a separate layer above, I painted big blobs of the various colours I wanted to blend together with a very large paintbrush size. Then I Gaussian Blur-ed it a lot to mix it all. (see Crimson's tutorial for that part, he explains it better) Then simply set that layer's blending mode to Overlay to achieve the coloured ray effect. Play around with transparency gradients from there to adjust it to your liking, ie I had a separate black background that it all faded into. But yes, if you were going 100% PDN, which I highly recommend, instead of using a light-rays render you can try and make your own. Render normal black and white "clouds", fiddle a bit (ie pencil sketch or an effect of your choice) and then use a large Zoom Blur. The light rays need to be greyscale for the overlay to work properly. Make sure the overall contrast is quite high or you wont be able to make out the "rays" Phew lot of writing, too much probably. :oops: Hope that helps! That explains a lot... Quote | My Gallery|Acrone's Den| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwicky Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but my inner optimist will take that as a compliment! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 You've had a lot of good signatues out lately, Zwicky. Your current gallery header is niiice. Good colouring on it too. How did you achieve the brush style in your current signature for the text? Is it a font? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwicky Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 Thanks Wilson Yes it's called LeviBrush. I chanced upon it while making my Coldplay signature set trying to replicate the Viva la Vida font they used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwicky Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 It's been less than a month after my last update, but some of you may have noticed the flurry of activity of me spontaneously changing my sig and avatar a lot :wink: I was randomly reading a thread in the Alfredo when someone mentioned a technique that I'd never used before. These following sigs are the results of my frenzied experiments, and I'm very pleased with the outcome. The first one, and the others to a lesser extent, are Kemaru-inspired, mainly in the flow and colours. That's all from me, enjoy! Comments are appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sokagirl Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Cool new signatures and those wallpapers are nice too .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0(-.-)0 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 What I love about all of your stuff is how clean it is. Its clean and its a joy to look at. Really. Wow. Quote - Any thoughts? - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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