I slipped and got myself a frog in the mouth.

[Rae]

1

2

(different placing of smudge layer + white, and a little nudge to the left, and some other random effects that I particularly couldn't remember)

I seriously need more training other than doing headers for livejournal. .___. comments. critiques. whatever you think is wrong with those two. PLEASE. And tips, while you're at it.

Oh, and forgive the lack of a decent flow.

(zetsuboushitaaa~ -bangs head on desk-)

 

[Salty the Hero]

V1, IMO.

What you did in V2 is a little random.

You should also try giving a small light source for the first one.

Good job, tho.

 

[Wevvy]

Lol @ title name.

That looks awesome!

 

[Rae]

Wev, while I myself get rather happy hearing someone saying 'awesome' to me, I think I'd appreciate it if I get...well, something more...umm...'building'? And I fully blame Hitman Reborn along with Fran's frog hat for the title x3

I actually thought the same, Salt. I was trying to make the second one more 'bright-and-color-wise' since I thought the first one lacks good color. -w- So, anyway, I've tried to brighten v1, but what I've done are mostly ruining the saturation and--at the same time--the whole tag. Any idea to brighten it without saturating the base stock? x_x I couldn't think of any, apparently .__.

 

[Salty the Hero]

I`ve tried but it didn't really help:

Though I advise you to try Gradient Maps if you problems with coloring. It could probably help you.

 

[Scolor]

I think they are pretty good!

 

[Rae]

Mmkay...while I didn't exactly get anything with the gradient maps (-w-)...I actually got an idea from the gradients.

*meddled with v2 -since I forgot to save the psd for v1- and got these two*

1. Switched back the smudge layer position into multiply on top of stock, redid the smudge a bit, meddled with coloring etc. etc.

2. Switched back smudge layer, meddled with base stock's brightness+contrast, etc.

Any better? I just couldn't seem to find any way to brighten by adding gradient layers here... -reason why the gradient map just couldn't seem to work-

 

[Salty the Hero]

That's a lot better!

1st looks the best since it has some color to it.