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Edit: Thanks fena & HOLLA for helping me through,
additional comments/crtiques are welcomed <3

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Edits:

V1 - Text altered


V2 - Lens flare


V2.5 - Lens flare with original color


V3 - What he requested was just way too much text to fit in...

Can I critique? :3

Do it do it

I can't critique, cuz im no art wiz.

However, i REALLY like!

Okay, then!

Stock: I'm loving the stock. The four-leaf clover fits in perfectly with the peace banner. And I find the picture symbolic as well: we all hold the answer to peace in our hands. The stock choice certainly was a good one.

Lighting: I'm not so sure about this one. You put the lighting on the upper half of the clover, towards the top middle. I'm assuming you used a white soft brush and then set it to soft light / overlay and changed the opacity? The thing about this tag is that I think the message itself is just as important as the stock and the picture, if that makes any sense. With other tags, say the "Secret" one HOLLA made for me in my Sig right now, the message isn't that important. It's just my name, and the word "secret". But in this tag, I think that more emphasis should be put on the actual message itself.

Text/font: ... which leads to the text and the font. I like the text, but like I said, I think you should lay a little more emphasis on it. Especially the peace part. If you take a look down to my Sig (the one on the swingset), HOLLA did the text for me. You can see that he emphasized the word "always" - this time in a different color. To me, it really brings it out. Regardless of how you choose to emphasize your word, I really think that "Peace." should stand out from the rest of the text.
A quick question - I see that you used some clipping masks on the text that overlaps the guy's right finger. What does it say?

Colors: Love them.

Border: Very unique. Looks good on this tag.

Rating: 8.5/10. Looks great, Milly, especially since we don't see much of your work around here. I think if you changed the text, it'd be close to perfect.

it gives a really good vibe because the colors are very soft and smooth
the green leaves really do make the sig awesome
i like the think brown border like rectangles
but i would change the text up a little to improve the sig

@fena

You're right on the peace part. I'm tweaking it around as we speak.

The lighting, as you brought up, yesh its done by a noobish white brush set on lighten, but thats okay. Noobs have it the noobish way, like dying and going back town and say "HA, i saved 5k, i didn't use a scroll!"

Anyway my point is, its hard for me to use lighting somehow to enchance the text. And I thought it'll be natural the light is suppose to shine from above so the light source is in the direction of 1'o clock.

I hope i can come up with few versions for the text.

And i'm glad you liked the border. The sides were empty so I thought it'll fit in.

@Faiien

Thats like the first "good" I see coming from you since ages of empires!! Keep up with the good comments. Remember hun, anything negative can sound good depending on how you say it

I love the simplicity of it. Personally I would have added a contrast layer just to give it a little more umph. As far as lighting goes I like the look of it, but personally I would have maybe thrown in a small lens flare and messed around with the angles so it would appear as though hitting off the clover and reflecting, maybe throwing in a lightly opacitated gradient (black to white) to add to the effect further. The clover has a few small places of where light is hitting it, only problem I don't really see "a light." I agree with fena, unique borders and it fits the sig. Everyone has their ins and outs of how they tackle text, but yeah the way fena was describing it is how I would have done it. Considering the message you are trying to convey, I would have pushed that message further and emphasized one of the words. I probably would have taken the eye dropper tool grabbed the green from the clover and emphasized on "peace." I'm not exactly feeling the placement nor the color of the "michaelol" text. I think it's a little too distant from the other text, it's a little thick, i'd lower down the font size and change the font entirely, as well as change the color on it. I would go with something around the same color scheme, just a tad bit brighter, and since I wouldn't want it to stand out too much i'd make the opacity around 80-90 on it. The text fena mentioned that's overlaping the finger is a distraction for me. It seems really out of place. I'd take that out if possible. Over all I really like the message being portrayed in the sig, I think you captured the emotion perfectly. Just a few minor changes here and there I would make. Over-all, Great job. <3

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Woah, enters ftw, Holla. <3

wow, i love it

@HOLLA

You're right on the name being too thick. Thus i put a space between the letters and tried to make it not too "stuck together"

Lens flare, what a PRO idea! I know I didn't play around with it too much but overal it gave me a satisfying effect. After I have the lens flare, I think I understood what you meant by "you didn't see the light".

Clipping mask on finger. Yeah I failed that one, erased over the finger tips. It was my first clipping mask, in PS7.0 too. What the heck is "group with previuos" anyway, I was so confused.

The text is hard because there's way too much to put in there. So I guess keeping it simple is the key to this one. Its my first time ever getting so frustrated over text placement. It usually comes naturally.

The way the light is hitting the clover in V2.5 is so much better. You can really tell the difference, it brings out the clover and it makes it look that much more realistic. There is a small rainbow colored effect on the soil underneath the clover, probably just from the lense flare, I would take out your eraser and get rid of that small part. The text is great, It seems a little big though. I would scale down the font size by 1 or 2. It looks a lot better, good job on tweaking it <3

V1 ftw

Eh don't you think the reddish color on the hands are kind of nasty?

the v2.5 Is really really really sexy! I like it a lot. I never knew you could do that kind of thing milly I'm shocked! (in a good way)

agree with above

v2.5 ftw!!

I didn't know either =(

I think finding good render = crucial. Then you come up with a good image in your mind and start working towards it.

I was lucky because as soon as I saw a good sig request I grabbed it.

imo the reddish color gives the sig a more earthy feel
when the hands look completely white it looks unnatural
but thats just me all of them look good

Thats what my boyfriend said to me too. He thought it was Alien hands. I should play with more gradients until I find something perfect.

I love version 1 with for the simplicity and what you did with the stock, I would say more but it seems everything I may or may not have thought of has been covered. (Party that with the fact I can't read through those long posts all in one breath :p and I don't want to say something redundant)

Yeah v1 its simple and the leaf looks cute but I decided it was a bit borring. Of course the person who's picking this up can choose whichever version he wants.

Also you're a new face here <3 Nice to see more ppl lurking around AC.

I think everything has been more or less covered but ill say on thing, I like it.

haha it looks very gewd oh and my myspace is http://www.myspace.com/LomfgL it's on private though. i think i will use the last version


edit: lol i forgot to say. THANKS!

ol3n, you graphic-cardless artist!



I'm glad you liked it.
Eh the last version eh? But that one doesn't have the lens flare thing.
Oh well whatever you like =) I'm glad you didn't call me noob cuz I am. And I'm adding your myspace so expect some Chinese-looking girl.

Edit: Nooo I can't add you, PM me the stuff xD

what stuff lol