nsr - kitty

lavapockets · Post by **lavapockets** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:42 pm

OK, so I went off and played with photofiltre a little more (I know it sucks, but I'm at work and it was already on here). Let me know what you think. The first sig I tried was total garbage, but I think I improved a bit...I know the flow needs work, so any suggestions there would be awesome...

this was the original..

Rizla · Post by **Rizla** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:00 pm

lighting is accurate *but* washed out, thereby killing the right side of your focal point.

your effects are killing any sense of depth the original had, if you cover up a stock's depth you need to replace it with your own, on top of/incorporating your effects.

lavapockets · Post by **lavapockets** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:41 pm

Ok, should I have included more of the cat's body/original image to create more depth? Or would you suggest maybe having another image behind it? That was the main critique on my last sig... I want to understand, I'll go see if I can find some depth tuts

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:45 pm

lavapockets wrote:Ok, should I have included more of the cat's body/original image to create more depth? Or would you suggest maybe having another image behind it? That was the main critique on my last sig... I want to understand, I'll go see if I can find some depth tuts

Have some more effects overlapping, try shading, blurring. Where a lightsource is should also be a shadow. A lot of people tend to forget that. Try to create 2 'sides'. Light, dark. The can be left->right, or top->bottom, or vice versa, diagonal. Any way you'd prefer.
Right now the lightsource(to me at least) is in the bottom right, you can also see this very well on the cat. But in the top-left you keep on going with the same colours instead of shading them down a notch, or some other effect.

Hence, if I'd only listen to myself. >_>

lavapockets · Post by **lavapockets** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:53 pm

good point, I didn't really think about making it darker up there :banghead:

Rizla · Post by **Rizla** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:00 pm

Rizla wrote:if you cover up a stock's depth you need to replace it with your own, on top of/incorporating your effects.

Snudge wrote:But in the top-left you keep on going with the same colours instead of shading them down a notch, or some other effect.

bingo.

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:03 pm

Rizla wrote:
Rizla wrote:if you cover up a stock's depth you need to replace it with your own, on top of/incorporating your effects.

Snudge wrote:But in the top-left you keep on going with the same colours instead of shading them down a notch, or some other effect.

bingo.

And to think I still have to follow my education in this

lavapockets · Post by **lavapockets** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:07 pm

Ok, so more contrast between the light point and the shadow area, fix the glow on the kitty to not wash it out so much. This is so exciting, I will have something to do at work on Monday

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:09 pm

lavapockets wrote:Ok, so more contrast between the light point and the shadow area, fix the glow on the kitty to not wash it out so much. This is so exciting, I will have something to do at work on Monday

Yup, and some shading ^^

lavapockets · Post by **lavapockets** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:14 pm

arrrrg I don't want to wait until Monday now hehehe

Dugu · Post by **Dugu** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:30 pm

Use graduation and shades of color and light more. Your picture hits a line and then it looks like you found out what luminosity is and decided to max it for fun, it cancels out all the effects you use in the picture, background, and render. The little light at the left side has a better idea, where it goes bright to dark slowly. Even if you want max contrast there is always shades because it looks much smoother and blends better with matching colors. If you want a sharp picture to stand out, then instead of similar colors you should go for colors on the other side of the color wheel and then you can just blast the contrast and still have it look good. The background on the left looks okay but again to the right above the exposed film area I'm not sure why you went for a blurry/smudged affect. The left matches with the color of your cat and with the fuzziness of the fur, however the right looks blotchy. I think I know what you're going for however you may want to mix the light and dark oranges and yellows more rather than limit each shade to one area. Even if it is one pixel of dark orange in a blanket of yellow it brings out its surrounding, likewise for putting a drop of yellow in orange.

Rizla · Post by **Rizla** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:33 pm

dugu never leave, your critiques are ultra thorough and I love you.

MastaChiefX · Post by **MastaChiefX** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:33 pm

Rizla wrote:dugu never leave, your critiques are ultra thorough and I love you.

lol.

lavapockets · Post by **lavapockets** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:22 am

Rizla wrote:dugu never leave, your critiques are ultra thorough

+1 awesome feedback

except, I'm so noob that some of that went waaaay over my head

I will work on that contrast def, I see what you mean about the right side looking pretty bleh... emm, is luminosity the thing I did with the light in the bottom right?

_Shinigami_ · Post by **_Shinigami_** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:05 pm

Cats rule!

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:55 pm

I like it, i'd make the cat's left eye a bit darker though

lavapockets · Post by **lavapockets** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:48 pm

aww you know I picked this stock bc the cat looks just like one of my babies! hehehe

AND... :love:

my hubby, he's got gimp on a flash drive and never told me...now I can try with a much better program

Dugu · Post by **Dugu** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:54 pm

Rizla wrote:dugu never leave, your critiques are ultra thorough and I love you.

Hehe, I love your signatures especially the light effects. I'll be here as long as I play Silkroad and that should be a while.

lavapockets · Post by **lavapockets** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:06 pm

Ok, I darkened it up a bit, and added some more effects on the right side...but I think I am going to start again and see if I can come up something better.

here is the "something better":

let me know what you think please

Thanks!!