Kraq wrote:
I actually don't agree with the stock blending.
When you isolate "Naruto" and look at the colors, it looks like a bad gradient map was just slapped on, or random color brushing to make him fit the color scheme.
Do the lighting on his in accordance with the surrounding and leave his natural colors there.
Don't really like the piece, there are no solid effects. Maybe that's just personal reason for me not to like it, but the whole tag looks a bit "neutral."
I didn't slap the gradient map on Naruto. I did the brushing/smudging with a close-to-black color and then applied the Gradient Maps on the overall signature.
Got your point though.