I'm LOST!!!!

1 year 5 months ago

"Actually I like it more without the clouds. They're too finely detailed for the background, compared with the buildings and their bright whiteness distracts the focus of the wall. A beautiful clear night fits the mood much better. I would suggest lessening some of the twinkle of the stars, however, and try to work in a very gentle darker blue-to-lighter blue gradient or something so the backdrop isn't a flat colour.

The tower with the spire makes it too obvious that you repeated the skyline... edit one of them so they look different. For some reason they don't look quite upright. You may want to try adding some depth to the city with another skyline layer in a fainter shade of grey behind the original.

I can't really say anything about the foreground artwork... it's well extracted and the colours work OK. Just one thing that needs fixing: a highlight sort of beam of light coming down across the front of the roof onto the window of the car that shouldn't be there. Just paint it out with the clone tool ;P"
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My new wall of Tsukihime

1 year 5 months ago

"You need to add some depth to the brick wall - move the bricks to a new layer and play with lighting or layer effects to get some shadow cast on the lighter grey concrete. Try cleaning up the extraction a little, for example around his hand and the knife. Rather than blood on the wall, try an arc of blood following the motion path his knife would have just made through the air. As for the text, try a non-serif font that's a little larger; place all the text on a single line and move it lower down. Rather than white, dark red or brown would work better."
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Summerday

1 year 6 months ago

"Not bad, but the first thing I noticed is that the lifering is translucent so you can see her legs, but does not show the sea through the rest of it. You should fix that :P

There is a bright reflection on the sea but no sun visible in the sky... try adding one in with some sort of sun ray effect. The birds should be off-white blue-grey rather than black; one of them appears to have a drop shadow which makes it look flat as well. Likewise, try using blue for the text so it blends in more than stark black."
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SOmeone knows about new ipod's releases??

1 year 6 months ago

"Shame it's tied to Cingular at the moment. Also, the OSX system it uses is a closed system, not open to third-party developers, or so I read on various sites. Looks beautiful, though ;D"
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what do u think ?

1 year 6 months ago

"Well you've used someone else's wallpaper as a background. I've seen those dome things and the seasons set of vector artworks using those tree pieces on deviantART. How about making your own background? D:"
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Hi there... need some opinions

1 year 6 months ago

"Given the giant cat ears and the style... I'd guess it was artwork by Suzuhira Hiro."
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new laptop

1 year 6 months ago

"The Acer Ferrari line are worth looking into if you want a gaming-suitable laptop that isn't going to break your bank balance. My brother has one from a few year ago which managed Doom i flawlessly, so I assume the newer models should be able to handle any of the more recent titles."
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Chaotic Chaos

1 year 6 months ago

"I think you should try to hint in the outline of her left eye. Make it look really seductive ;D Apart from that I think this wall is good to submit!"
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Hi there... need some opinions

1 year 6 months ago

"Nice changes, I like the way you have dark curtains now. How about doing the same effect as the text on the flowers so they're engraved into the desk as well? If you're having a candle in the wall it should add a yellow-orange glow to its surroundings and the surfaces it lights up. If you do it right it'll add a nice focal point for the wall."
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Rate this paper

1 year 6 months ago

"Well there's a random blood splatter one the right side and some text on the left. If you took either idea and used it across the entire wall for more consistency, that might help. If you decide to stick with text, try rotating it slightly so it isn't horizontal or something so it looks more decorative than intended reading... not really sure what else. I'd have reCGed the white areas so they look perfectly smooth and clean. Better luck next time with the submission, I guess D:"
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Hi there... need some opinions

1 year 6 months ago

"I like this one more than your first 'girl at the window' wall :P But the whole thing seems more nocturnal than a 'lazy day' theme. Try thinking of a more fitting title; in the meantime there are some yellowish highlights on the windowframe that should be white or light grey. You could adding a bit of blur for extra realism; create a selection by Ctrl-clicking the curtains layer, then switch to the window frame and underlying layers and add a soft Gaussian blur. But only do this at the very end, when you're sure you're not going to change anything! You should also try darkening the girl selectively; like gently painting over her black tights and shoes, around the lower edges of her dress with black (avoiding other areas like her skin, arms and hair) so she appears to fade into the darkness of the room. It'll add a touch of mystique."
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Another wall, duh..help please? :3

1 year 6 months ago

"Yeah it's pretty good for a few hours' work. I think you do need to clean up some of the edges on the window frames; in addition there is a bit of a stippled mottled texture to parts of the frame that you may want to smooth over. As for the rest of the wall, your clouds should be set to blend onto your sky rather than be opaque cutouts. Try using the screen blend mode for the cloud layers, over a dark blue-purple sort of gradient for the sky. The cloud shaped like the horsehead nebula is a nice idea, but it doesn't fit the style of the rest of the clouds you've used! Aim for a more consistent style; or use your own brushwork using real clouds as a template. You should also add some white soft glow to the moon; adding both inner and outer glow layer effects work well when in my experience."
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Stuck on bg

1 year 6 months ago

"Scorched landscape or some sort of abandoned town would work well; so might a castle or something with a lot of stonework. I thought what might be cliché yet easier is some sort of high-altitude abandoned temple - work in a stone floor and some broken pillars and whatnot, then devote most of the space to a dusky sky with lots of detail like clouds, mountaintops, bird and the like."
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Rate this paper

1 year 6 months ago

"It's not bad, but the image needs a bit of cleaning and the text needs to be refined. There is some blockiness in the white areas on the mask. Either that was from JPEG compression or the image needs cleaning; if you haven't done so I'd recommend vectoring the outlines for the two characters as it's a very simple image.

I'm not sure what is going on with the background but it looks to me like a random spray of different brushes. Try using a grunge set from deviantART or somewhere for a more suitable effect. As for the text; I don't think you need that 'awakening' or faint 'ergo proxy' at all. The two captions look good but should be in opaque white, not a translucent grey. I'd strongly suggest making them slightly smaller and moving the right hand one so it doesn't come near the edge of the wall. Try and have similar margins for both pieces of text. You should also try offsetting the lines so they don't have that 'left justified' look - put each line on its own layer and play around with different arrangements until it looks cool."
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Samurai Champloo wall

1 year 6 months ago

"Not bad, but it could do with some more contrast; try making the shadows on Mugen darker. There are a lot of clean lines and the design seems pretty consistent, except for the fuzziness of the blood splatters and the background texture, which seems to have a weird 3D embossed look to it. You may want to vectorise the blood; I also think the text might work better if it was aligned along one of those arrows if you were to make one more prominent."
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Samurai Girl Wallpaper

1 year 6 months ago

"I have to say, the scan extraction and cleanup is pretty good here. The sky to water transition seems practically perfect, but I can see you've used a wave filter on something that stands out too much. Similarly, the lens flare was probably a mistake, unless you're going to recolour it to white and set blend mode to screen, then mask out the further-outlying specular effects (the ones seen level with the horizon). I don't think you need those lilypads, but what you can do is try and hint in some sort of floor from which the foliage can sprout. Use some sort of gradual desaturation on the portions of the plants that are underwater.

Your birds seem a bit transparent where they should be opaque; I think you can afford to brighten the text as well so it stands out more. Those flower motifs could be solid bright white and it might look nice against the cloud-scattered sky."
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5 Centimeters Per Second - Need help with this one! [UPDATED]

1 year 6 months ago

"Delacour is right. Makoto Shinkai's illustrations look great as they are and can be used as walls if simply cropped to fit. If you wanted to make a wall from this animation maybe vectoring a screenshot from the trailer would be a better approach."
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First Wallpaper(s)

1 year 6 months ago

"Second version is much better... looking forward to something with funky brushwork and typography ;D"
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Hitori no Yoru - Crazy Girl

1 year 6 months ago

"Not a bad extraction but the line of the left thigh could be softened a little. Given the colours of your character, a mostly blue and grey wall with orange or red as a highlight colour would be more appropriate; try using a gradient of black to blue for the sky and a mix of bluish greys for the grass. Grass does NOT look that green in night lighting without artificial sources of illumination; the amount of hue variation seems to be too high as well. Try and flip some of the grass layers so they lean the other way so it looks more natural. I like the butterfly brushes but the transparency makes it look tacky; fill in their outlines with another colour and things will look more realistic. Onto the clouds; there's a horizontal cutoff line above your text that needs hiding. Your clouds look too speckled; I can see you've played with the smudge tool but you need to finish that off and then start to build up some softness or fluffiness with a soft-edged brush, very low opacity so it doesn't look too much like a layer of smoke. The moon looks fine so far, as does the text. My only suggestions would be that you could get away with bright orange text without a glow and it should probably be placed lower down so it isn't right in the middle of your negative space."
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