Hey guys,

I've just finished this wallpaper (it's my first real wallpaper ^^) and I would really like to know how it can be improved. I think the extracting might need a little more work, but I really have no idea how. Has anybody got some tips? And how about the text and colors? Do they clash? Is it too simple? Any other comments?

here's the link:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/deedreams/wallpaper_nami_robin.jpg

Ohhhhhh
I was curious to know in what anime has based your wallpaper
and.....
you dont know how I detest OnePiece!!
my opinion not is necessary
.-.

but good job, anyway

deedreams

Hey guys,

I've just finished this wallpaper (it's my first real wallpaper ^^) and I would really like to know how it can be improved. I think the extracting might need a little more work, but I really have no idea how. Has anybody got some tips? And how about the text and colors? Do they clash? Is it too simple? Any other comments?

here's the link:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/deedreams/wallpaper_nami_robin.jpg

not bad, but you should ad something more...or make a scene or something(like add princess vivi?)
it's to empty...and you could maybe try cleaning the pictures

When my lines aren't quite as smooth as I'd like them to be I use a bit of the blur and smudge tool to smooth it up a little. I like the shadows behind the characters. The wall is very loud, almost too loud, but if that's what you're going for then it's fine ^-^

I kind of like the simplicity. It's not really empty to me, but maybe I'm just weird...

Hope I helped some ^^

I like the font you wrote 'Rock' in. What's it called?

I like it, One Piece is so cool ^^ ... I think something is wrong with the fonts, I don't know, maybe it can looks better with some stroke.

ichigoxkiss

I kind of like the simplicity. It's not really empty to me, but maybe I'm just weird...

Hope I helped some ^^

I like the font you wrote 'Rock' in. What's it called?

LOL! Me too! Haha, the font is called Dear Joe btw ;)

Thanks so much for all your comments. I cleaned the images a bit... and the extraction... hope this looks better:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/deedreams/wallpaper_nami_robin2.jpg

so what do you think?

Wow that really cleaned up the extractions! The colors are way better! I like the wall alot. I think it's great and you could submit it right now. If I had to give you some suggestions they would be:

1. The only extraction problems I can see is the aliasing on the left character's (Nami?) right leg. It's pretty jaggy. So is the shadow of it. A little bit on the other character's legs too, but it's not so bad.

2. The shadow's disappearing in the white is cool, but what does it look like if they don't? If the shadows just continued the whole way up? I think they would have to be lighter colored and softer on the white wall, since it's brighter and you don't want the shadows to look the same on such different surfaces. But give it a try, it might look neat.

3. Personally, I would pick another color than pink for the background...maybe blue? Orange? Try it out. You might like it better. (you'd probably have to change the text color too).

4. Text: the word "girls" is disappearing. It is hard to read. You should give that whole text a little shadow, to help it read better and separate it from the background better.

Thanks so much for the great tips, beamoflight! I hope this looks better!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/deedreams/wallpaper_nami_robin3.jpg

I'll try and see if they accept it ^^

That definitely looks better! I like the orange. final comments:

1. The "Bring it on" is now lighter than the "because we girls"... so make them match. And capitalize "because".

2. The exclamation point dot is getting lost in the the tail of the word "rock" so, if you can, separate it just a little.

3. try reversing the shadows... so they're darker on the white parts of the wall, and lighter on the colored parts, it might look even better than it does now.

ok, s'all i got. good luck submitting.