Gookin's Picture Thread

Hey! So now that I have introduced my PSing skills (or lack of) in HostileIntentions Sig competition thread, it thougt it was time to create a thread so that you guys can comment on, give advice or even enhance some of my creations.
I'll start off with a few sigs I have made recently. Some are for my alt C4SHM3R3.













I would really appreciate your comments and/or advice on how to further my skills.

Thanks

-Gookin

Neutrino7 wrote:

All are pretty good but this one's reflections on the glasses is too strong. It needs more transparency. Also the lighting spot on the left side of the glasses is too strong.

Nice pictures 8/10

Some nice siggys there dude, ncie job

Neutrino7 wrote:

These are my favourite.

You know my opinion on the first one: Sharp man, sharp. The second one is very hazey, dawn like, plus a very nice shot in general, crisp. I really like it. The textures on the 3rd one blow me away, I love the clothing details, and the green on white code is a very nice change of pace.

All in all, you've got some impressive stuff there. My only advice would be to perhaps lightly smudge any aliased textures out, like on the rim of hi glasses in the first one, and around the corners of his face. Keep it up, dude.

Thanks for the feedback people. I'll be putting all the advice into praactice for my next project which will hopefully be a decent big picture of Gookin AND C4SHM3R3 together. If I can pull it off of course.

Good luck!

As promised, here is my latest project. As always feedback is welcome. I was really pleased with what I managed, however.



Yeah, it's big!

I really like what you do with shading. Makes it seem more crisp for some reason. You're not a PS n00b by any means.

Very nice indeed, nice job

Oh my...

That's very impressive. Try working on the end strands of her hair, the jagged bits, see what you can do to smooth  them out.

But regardless, that's very sexy, indeed. TGS For the win!

Very nice, I'm loving that logo.

As I've said elsewhere Gookerz, very sexy.

HostileIntention wrote:

Very nice, I'm loving that logo.

Ah-thankyou.

Wait... damnit. Which one do you mean?

Is there a tutorial on hair anywhere. That's my next obstacle, then onto rain and splashes!

Neutrino7 wrote:

Is there a tutorial on hair anywhere. That's my next obstacle, then onto rain and splashes!

Sadly no, someone needs to make one.   Looks at Pyraci

I meant the TGS logo, I've seen alot of art with logos that you guys have done and I like the style.

Heheh, ta.

Neutrino7 wrote:

Is there a tutorial on hair anywhere. That's my next obstacle, then onto rain and splashes!

Hair can't reallt be taught. My method can't anyway.

You take a smudge brush, you set it really high. You go nuts. You beg for a good result.

Yeah, basically just the smudge tool, set to like 1px, soft, and just add depth to the hairline. Then thicken it smudge a few pixels, and work the end of the hair until looking good. Make sure though that the hairs narrow at the end, so you don't get spaghetti, Raggety Anne hair.

Ok cheers guys, i'll work on a pic tonight and post it.

Thanks again for all the help

-Gookin

So, yeah, I had a go at the hair thingy. It worked out wuite well I think:

Pre-enhancement:


Post Enhancement:


#Edit#

Oh and here's something random (i.e. d4sh being a manwhore!)

No feedback? Hmm well i'll be working on another picture or two over the course of this weekend so look out for the additions!

Nice one Gookin.

d4sh IS a manwhore. I mean, he is the dancing Chuck Norris after all.

EDIT: Edit since G ook gets censored.

*I swear these forums will be the end of me...*

Crisp, very smooth. Some neat hair enhancements too. Good work!

New sig and a new pic. My new hairstyle rocks!





As always, any feedback is immensely welcome!

Holy *poop*, Gookin is even sexier than before!!!! <3

Also, good work dude, I like the first one better though

- D

Nice job!

New pic. For those of you who have been following my story in Syntax: Next Renaissance, this contains a small glimpse into future chapters of the story!

Time to give my thread new life!

2 new sigs and a new pic (to go with the RP story found here: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300009926)

V nice xD

Wow it's been a while since I posted in here!

Well, here are some of the MxO creations I have done since I last posted!











I've also been working with text for MxO, and Guild Wars. Here's the text works and some Guild Wars stuff.







This is the sig of the banner I made for my Guild Warsa clan site. It took me a long time to complete and I was very happy with the end product.



The full size banner/background can be found here:

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/...tebannerxf5.png

Well, that's all for now. I'm hoping to do some more larger MxO images soon. Enjoy!

Ok so I decided that, this afternoon, I would randomly play around with things in Photoshop. Once something had begun to take shape, I 'ran with it' and managed to make this! (Note: The real size is 1440x900 px to be my desktop background. This image has been resized.)

Yet another sig!

Neutrino7 wrote:

Seks! Can I have a link to the big original?

I saw some planet scenes in another thread on here and thought it looked cool, so I had a go at creating my own.

Here is the smaller version of the finished product.

koolz

Hehe, another update. I dream of becoming an RSI idealist someday, so here's some more progress. Comments are always welcome!

/shamelessplug

>.> 
<.<

I think i'm safe.

*runs away*

Y'know I love y'r stuff Gooky!!!! You've really come along

- Ð

Considering you were my main source of help while you were in TGS, Draggy, I have you to thank for most of that!

What?

Everyone else was doing it!

#edit#

Reworked the explosion to give it some depth and movement... or attempted to anyway!

Neutrino7 wrote:

What?

Everyone else was doing it!

Myes they were! Great stuff!

Great image. The broken windows add a nice detail to it.

Yay for war art!

(Sorry about the size!)

Ok so here is something I made using the tutorial in my new favourite magazine: Advanced Photoshop

It's hot, but not a very good contrast I think.
Try bringing out the colors a little bit more, that ought to do it.
Though I'm having a hard time seeing what you actually did to the picture, perhaps you could post the original?

There is no original. It's a composition of 4 stock images and then enhancements upon enhancements.

Here's a sig I made for Aiyalla:

Ah, so that explains your carpark-out-of-sight-meet with her. :P Fantastic! :)

spha x