Up until now, I've always used PSP9. Today I got to try Photoshop. After an hour of trying to figure out the basics of its GUI, I spent a few hours screwing around.
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3713769/web/pictures/kerrigan%20sketch.jpg[/img]
Not bad, eh? Now, if I could only figure out how to simply adjust a layer's brightness, or how to make the mousewheel zoom more than ten pixels at a time...
Holy shit.
I vote this the best "First time in photoshop" thread/picture ever.
(Of course you were experienced before hand, but I was expecting some filter rape to some picture, not this beautiful piece)
Mostly it was just me drawing with a tablet - PS has a /stunningly/ advanced and comprehensive brush system. It's almost exactly like using real paint brushes. I did use an emboss to give the strokes some light and shadow, but that was the only filter. Slap on the logo and call it finished.
I was expecting something shitty and filter raped, but instead my eyes were raped with pure awesome.
On a note of actual critique, and didn't quite like the area in the chin and below as much. It seemed much too soft and blurry. The way you used filters is perfectly fine, I'm just wary of some filters, especially in the artistic category.
Yeah. It's not perfect by any means, but I was trying to keep myself going at a good pace. I have a really bad habit of taking FOREVER on things, down to and including making individual pixels just how I want them. Heh, that's why I like pixel art - I can make each pixel perfect in a reasonable timespan. ^^*
[IMG]http://i56.tinypic.com/2l8f22c.gif[/IMG]
I would have to say that the right area of the lips is kinda blurry, but not in the way everything else is... maybe you were going for that, I'm not sure... There isn't really anything too bad to say about this! Awesome job!
Would look better if it was a bit sharper I think.
I don't believe it, just my opinion. Don't ban me.
Thread title is so misleading if you actually read the post, which apparently only one other person did.
Whatever, awesome painting anyways.
my first time with photoshop included ferraris, contrast and disgusting filters, very well done even if you have prior PSP knowledge
not really a fan of the brush strokes you have and how the thing on the bottom left looks, also the hair looks muddy but its not bad, just could be cleaned up a lot
Seeing as you clearly already know how to draw (although you still have [I]a lot[/I] to improve on) I won't say it's good for a first. You chose some pretty bad brushes and you sharpened it to hell with something that looks like emboss... Yes?
There isn't much "first time in Photoshop" to it as all you did was make a new canvas, draw on it just like you would with any other program and then you applied a filter or effect to it.
Drawing in Paint Shop Pro versus Photoshop = the exact same thing.
enable the 'Navigator' panel, trust me, you'll use it. I have since CS2.
meh, I've seen better work scrawled in stalls of public restrooms.. Yea, as far as your question goes hit CTRL + U or CTRL + L to mess with layer brightness. I'd critique something but I'm not sure what you're going for. The painting is obviously damn good lol.
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