My Professional Opinion

Discussion in 'Signatures' started by Clash, Jun 22, 2010.

  1. Clash

    Clash The Go-To Guy

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    Please try to keep to one at a time.

    Referring to both...

    separation of FG and BG is great here. Both pieces offer good depth.

    Coloring needs a little more consistency. When designing on this small of a scale, it's good to limit yourself on colors. I try to stay within a tri-color swatch (including a monochrome scale of each color) Or 2-tone. A good way to wash out some extra color is making a BW adjustment layer, then dropping the opacity. I'd explain the technicality of how that works, but most people would fall asleep if they even bothered to read it.

    In a nut shell, 256 colors offers a few million colors (depending on if you use GIF or JPG) that can get out of hand in photographs or multicolor pieces like this.

    A B/W layer makes denominations of certain pixels pure black, pure white, or 50% gray. When you bring the opacity on that down, some colors stay black or white and some show through, and some are less saturated.


    Anyway... :slow:

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  2. Clash

    Clash The Go-To Guy

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    One? I think you need to recount.
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    I'll stick with this one because the other one looks lossy (on purpose?)

    Like the concept, hate the color.

    Centered comps are a common mistake. We naturally want things to look symmetrical, but that kills all interest to viewers. No flow, no balance, no real design.

    This cut has potential to be used in a great composition. Putting it on the left side then putting type or a logo where he is looking or at the tip of his nose makes a bit of a flow.

    4/10
     
  3. Clash

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    RE: My latest i know text is bad but i just didnt know what to do with the text

    Try designing backwards. Build your signature around your text.
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    Not much to say on this one.

    Bad Text, no composition, no flow, blown out highlights, random brushing, over filtered cut-out, and poor coloring.

    Can't save this one. I'd head back to the drawing board.

    1/10
     
  4. Kwayetus

    Kwayetus Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the advice man. :p
     
  5. Clash

    Clash The Go-To Guy

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    NOTES:

    - Please only post one piece at a time
    - If I missed you, I can not see your piece. Please only upload to www.imageshack.us or www.tinypic.com to ensure your host is not blocked by my firewall.
     
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    I know I am bad at sigs but I might as well.
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  7. Kwayetus

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    May I post again?

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  8. Clash

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    So you want to hear it from me just to be sure? :ohu!:

    Well... the coloring isnt that bad, the image quality is ok and the layout really isnt bad either. This isnt a great piece, but it's not terrible. The typography needs to ho back to the drawing board. The font and treatment for that are horrid.

    3/10
     
  9. Clash

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    Great layout on this one. Text placement is spot on.

    Filters and levels really destroyed the coloring in the original image.

    The intense highlight behind the cut-out is detracting and takes away from the image.

    I give it a 4/10
     
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    lets try again haha

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  11. Clash

    Clash The Go-To Guy

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    I like your image treatments a lot. Coloring is much better on this one.

    Great depth of field with the type, however you could use some shadowing to separate it from the cut-out...looks attached to it.

    Not much else to say on this one.

    9/10
     
  12. Titan

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    (Edit):Thank You Clash
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  13. Clash

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    Great piece hands down. Really hit the nail on the head design wise.
    10/10
     
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    Thanks
     
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    1st using Photoshop CS5
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