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You're hardly a newbie to Photoshop. I think your skin looks great! My only real visual confusion was in the shadow of the middle section of the player image. I've done a quick modification of your image to show you what I mean. The shadow wasn't right to my eye (but I'm hardly an expert).
I like yours a lot more than the original. You have a very good sense of balance. As for using styles: many tutorial authors use them, they are part of Photoshop and not second-level.
Hry: whatever gets you through the night is all-right! Even if you use third-party plugins, or a vector or 3D app: what counts is the result. And your result is very fine! [righton]
erik, since youre a mod, is there any way to display attachments as links insted of showing the image? it will be better for the 56k'ers (im on cable) and because i live outside of the US and my ISP is crappy
b.) i used styles, im not skilled enough to spiffy it up by hand
I happen to love styles and have spent a great deal of time learning about them. While there may be styles tutorials which are very valuable, the best technique is to start a collection of free styles and analyze how they are crafted. Modifying them and observe the changes and, rapidly you will evolve to creating original ones. A great source of free styles is found at the Adobe Studio Exchange where Photoshop artists have uploaded some of their creations for download and use, generally without restriction and royalty free.
If you can obtain a copy of "Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click WOW!" by Jack Davis and Linnea Dayton (you can buy used ones at Amazon.com) not only will you find a great collection of royalty free styles but a small book which will do a great deal to shorten the time it takes to learn styles as well as Brushes, Tool Presets, Patterns, Gradients, Actions, and Rollovers.
P.S. Your version of the skin really does look great! [righton]
its been a long time since i updated this piece, ummm... i want someone to help me with some things that i cant do myself... im thinking about posting the PSDs (with irrelevant layers flattened) here so you guys can tinker with it a bit, sounds cool?
Most likely you will have to place the file on some server to which you have access and provide us a download link. I doubt if you could get a Photoshop file below 150K which is the size limit of the forum for any attachment or image per post. I'm sure people will help though...
When you open the new message page (or reply page which is the same) you see at the right-hand side below the subject message boc URL . This adds the square-bracketed URL needed. Then fill in your heitchteeteepee and the rest and finally click on close tags (red, just below it.
That way only the url will be shown, not the pic itself.
Sorry for responding a bit late, but I must have lost somehow the indication something had been added to this thread.
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