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lovefrompaige · May 2013

Did this last night on my day off. Any advice on what should improve or what you think is working? It's been months since I touched photoshop and I've really lost my touch. <img src="http://i1090.photobucket.com/albums/i371/StormGrEshAm/Random Graphics/7895161224_8e3a14ba7e_zps350202d1.png" alt="http://i1090.photobucket.com/albums/i371/StormGrEshAm/Random Graphics/7895161224_8e3a14ba7e_zps350202d1.png" class="bb-image" />

MorganSmith · May 2013

Omg! I love this one! No need to critize!

ivybear93 · May 2013

I agree ,i love this (jealous of your photoshop skills

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lovefrompaige · May 2013

Thank you both, I feel like being gone for so long, I might've lost my touch

But thank you (:

SirPopcorn · May 2013

I absolutely adore it but my eyes keep getting distracted by the slight blurry look around the dogs ears and right side of its face. You'll never lose your touch! It'll always be there, waiting for you :P

lovefrompaige · May 2013

.clozobozo. wrote:

I absolutely adore it but my eyes keep getting distracted by the slight blurry look around the dogs ears and right side of its face. You'll never lose your touch! It'll always be there, waiting for you :P

Lmao that was because I cropped sharply and was impatient to fix it. XD Wasn't sure if anyone would notice. But thank you Clo (:

tarnish · May 2013

morgansmith159 wrote:

Omg! I love this one! No need to critize!

Everything can be improved upon, especially art. Anyways I'm not a huge graphics buff but I'll say some of the things that stick out to me. 1. The position of the dog. His head lands smack dab in the center of your image making it not as appealing to the eye. There is a 9 square rule or rule of 3rds. Of course rules can be broken but you have to know the rules and know when to push them or break them entirely. I think a solution is maybe crop a little off the top so its not a complete square. 2. The dog is blurry in some spots like it was already pointed out ^^;. 3. The opacity on the dog is so low that it just fades into the background too much. The dog has naturally beautiful coat colors that can bring more variety of color to your image instead of just red/yellow/oranges. I'm not sure if you were trying to hide something by lowering the opacity so low or not but the photo of the dog you picked has a nice coat color that would have aided to the graphic if they weren't so muted into the background. 4. This is more personal taste perhaps but all the filters on the background.. I had to do a triple take to see what the background even was. It just seems like too much being layered on like when a girl wears too much makeup. 5. I like the font you used

What's it called? I normally struggle on font choices if I ever try to make something. I believe it will forever be my downfall, haha. ^^; Your graphic certainly isn't bad at all

. I was just giving suggestions and a few were more of an opinion but I think that's what most critique is if it doesn't relate to proportion or image quality. I hope some of this helped. I love when people ask for critique and I try to ask for it on my own things. What frustrates me are the people that say things are fantastic and couldn't be made better- there are always room for improvements. If art is something you love, then you'd want to improve ^^. Anyways, nice Paige =DD I hope to see more ^^

lovefrompaige · May 2013

tarnish wrote:

morgansmith159 wrote:

Omg! I love this one! No need to critize!

 Everything can be improved upon, especially art. Anyways I'm not a huge graphics buff but I'll say some of the things that stick out to me. 1. The position of the dog. His head lands smack dab in the center of your image making it not as appealing to the eye. There is a 9 square rule or rule of 3rds. Of course rules can be broken but you have to know the rules and know when to push them or break them entirely. I think a solution is maybe crop a little off the top so its not a complete square. 2. The dog is blurry in some spots like it was already pointed out ^^;. 3. The opacity on the dog is so low that it just fades into the background too much. The dog has naturally beautiful coat colors that can bring more variety of color to your image instead of just red/yellow/oranges. I'm not sure if you were trying to hide something by lowering the opacity so low or not but the photo of the dog you picked has a nice coat color that would have aided to the graphic if they weren't so muted into the background. 4. This is more personal taste perhaps but all the filters on the background.. I had to do a triple take to see what the background even was. It just seems like too much being layered on like when a girl wears too much makeup. 5. I like the font you used What's it called? I normally struggle on font choices if I ever try to make something. I believe it will forever be my downfall, haha. ^^; Your graphic certainly isn't bad at all . I was just giving suggestions and a few were more of an opinion but I think that's what most critique is if it doesn't relate to proportion or image quality. I hope some of this helped. I love when people ask for critique and I try to ask for it on my own things. What frustrates me are the people that say things are fantastic and couldn't be made better- there are always room for improvements. If art is something you love, then you'd want to improve ^^. Anyways, nice Paige =DD I hope to see more ^^

Amen, thank you Tarn, exactly what I was looking for. 1. I agree with you there. Didn't think about it. After all this took me about 5-10 mins, so I could've spent more time on it XD 2. - 3. I was trying to hide something! The dog this picture was made for is actually Black and white whereas this pit is a blue and white. I had hoped by lowering the opacity, it was less noticeable. I don't think I was successful in that part though haha 4. Now that you point it out, I agree too. 5. I can't think of it off the top of my head. But it bothers me. My personal taste is to have the subtext much smaller then the text itself. On my lap top, it looked fine. Now that I'm on my desktop, I think I could shrink it down just a tad. Enough to where it's readable of course. Thank you so much for your words of advice Tarn!

lovefrompaige · May 2013

ivybear93 · May 2013

I love the ripped paper look of the second pic but the writtings hard to read a bit

Simm · May 2013

If you want to create some more, I've got a bunch of eventers I need dog manips for. and because you love meh you should create a Jason & Charlie banner (from the show; Revolution) for me, because I love them as a couple and it's taken FOREVER for them to get together.

I love love love the top Bulldog manip. The contrast of the bulldog itself is awesome, and BUBBLES. hehe. I must say, I personally dislike the font, the bubbles (= fun) vs. the font (= not fun) kind of clash in my opinion. But otherwise I really like it! Like Ivy said, the font on the ripped paper manip is very hard to read, if I didn't have a headache I'd probably try and read what it says. Out of the Saint Bernard ones, the forum size looks a little too contrasty, the SB on the right looks.. off. o.o But I love the second one, probably because it's of a bigger size and not smooshed into a forum size. But keep up the good work! And you should totally make a few dog manips for me! (my racing greyhounds really need some lovin'!)

MorganSmith · May 2013

Honestly I think you are great! Maybe try working on transitioning backgrounds like on the third picture! But I would happily pay for alot of grahics!

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