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salmon your issue is that you need to work on values and edge control. Your color selection is also very limited which dims down your paintings a lot. Your lighting makes no sense in a few areas but that's not the main issue.
[QUOTE=Noov;40748959]Maybe the brightness levels of your monitor's too bright, then? Turn it down a bit. I don't know if that'll fix it but might be worth a shot[/QUOTE] I have this problem with my laptop (only thing i do digital art on, I dont really have access to the main computer and its old enough it doesnt really run photoshop). I dim down the brightness when i'm done to get an idea of how it looks-ish on a normal computer but all the colours stay washed out and I never see my full blacks the same. (on top of weird arse colour calibration I just havent cared to fix) God I can't wait to get a desktop with a really nice monitor.
[QUOTE=Maloof?;40749110]unless he's rocking some sort of $1000+ professional level monitor he won't haha[/QUOTE] It's weird because even my monitor back in 2005 had it.
[QUOTE=rikimaru6811;40749461]It's weird because even my monitor back in 2005 had it.[/QUOTE] what do you mean by 'auto calibration'?
[QUOTE=Maloof?;40749566]what do you mean by 'auto calibration'?[/QUOTE] Back in those days whenever I fiddled with the monitor settings it would always end up too bright/dark/oversaturated and my father opened up the settings, I saw the screen display flickered and distorted but it made the screen go normal. Or was it auto-colorbalance? Reset? After thinking about it I'm not too sure anymore. I'm not into this stuff much.
That's just degaussing, where the CRT tries to get rid of any colour imperfections caused by magnets (etc) coming too close to the screen - nothing to do with calibration at all haha
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/NATzi3C.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=salmonmarine;40748876]I worked on it on my home computer, and thought the brightness was fine. I brought it into a school computer, and it was far too dark. I brought it back home, and I had made it far too light so basically fuck monitors[/QUOTE] definitely take the time to learn how professional monitor calibration is approached, and make sure that your monitor is as close as it can get to what is considered technically correct. this will make sure that your work looks correct across the most number of screens. and if you can't seem to get your monitor to display well, make sure that you check your image against both the curves and levels modifiers in PS. that will make sure that your values are spread across your image well.
If I continue with digital work when I get out of art school at the end of the year (which is almost certain) I'm definitely going to save for a decent monitor. I think my current one does colour [I]alright[/I] but it'd be nice to be working on a truly professional level. To be honest though I might just get a cintiq instead
cintiqs are amazing but for some reason i prefer a regular tablet over them most of the time.
I'd be super scared of breaking it or something; my current tablet has pencil/graphite smudges all over it, etc. But for line work it's unbeatable
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;40750616]definitely take the time to learn how professional monitor calibration is approached, and make sure that your monitor is as close as it can get to what is considered technically correct. this will make sure that your work looks correct across the most number of screens. and if you can't seem to get your monitor to display well, make sure that you check your image against both the curves and levels modifiers in PS. that will make sure that your values are spread across your image well.[/QUOTE] Nyeh, getting a well calibrated screen will just assure you that the colours you see are the most correct as possible, it will not assure you a most accurate results across other screens, because other screens got different calibrations and supports different colour-ranges. Some screens are very green, others yellow, some have a strong tint of blue, others red. Some screens are very bright, others are very dark, some screens show the cold spectrum better, others show the warm spectrum better. An image will be seen differently on every monitor ever (even if they are the same model). However, if you make sure to save your images in the sRGB color profile, then you can bet your ass that pretty much every monitor will be able to see the whole spectrum of colours in the image (with their own un-calibrated differences I've already covered), of course, at the loss of more colours to choose from, especially non-vibrant ones. It will usually make your image more saturated, but you will also assure that more people will see it like you do.
[QUOTE=Maloof?;40750897]I'd be super scared of breaking it or something; my current tablet has pencil/graphite smudges all over it, etc. But for line work it's unbeatable[/QUOTE] What tablet are you using? I'm using a wacom bamboo :/
I hope this is the right thread. Some weeks ago i made this Team Fortress 2 artwork: [t]http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/120/4/e/medic_artwork___team_fortress_2_by_prollgurke-d63m4gh.png[/t] If someone wants the cuts or the font or something, you can pm me.
[QUOTE=dgg;40750914]Nyeh, getting a well calibrated screen will just assure you that the colours you see are the most correct as possible, it will not assure you a most accurate results across other screens, because other screens got different calibrations and supports different colour-ranges. Some screens are very green, others yellow, some have a strong tint of blue, others red. Some screens are very bright, others are very dark, some screens show the cold spectrum better, others show the warm spectrum better. An image will be seen differently on every monitor ever (even if they are the same model). However, if you make sure to save your images in the sRGB color profile, then you can bet your ass that pretty much every monitor will be able to see the whole spectrum of colours in the image (with their own un-calibrated differences I've already covered), of course, at the loss of more colours to choose from, especially non-vibrant ones. It will usually make your image more saturated, but you will also assure that more people will see it like you do.[/QUOTE] By correct across the most number of screens i merely mean good, as there are infinite variations of color across monitors, and the ambient light of the room can have a great affect on display. What I mean is that a properly calibrated monitor is the baseline on which you should produce works, as it is the most likely to produce the best results on average on monitors that differ by whatever degree from the accepted standards.
If you're printing then your baseline should be whatever profile your printer uses (sRGB, Adobe 1998, etc). The only way you're going to get absolute perfect calibration is with a decent screen and the use of a physical calibration device like a Spyder
[QUOTE=normandy;40748903]Summer time! Doodlin' away. The finished version should be on my dA and my tumblr soon. [IMG]http://s12.postimg.org/5iq1tgczx/doodle.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] You don't post here enough
[img]http://i.imgur.com/rM3uz0K.jpg[/img] first speedpaint (or pretty much any finished art) from a long time, sorry for the large image size :s
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;40751060]You don't post here enough[/QUOTE] Well, thanks. Here's some doodles I did recently. [QUOTE][IMG]https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/548322_10200314930774841_527272837_n.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/936842_10200316572095873_1032331344_n.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/936311_10200316602176625_1501251438_n.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE] And some recent renders I never posted here. [QUOTE][IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/268824_10200315179141050_447572371_n.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/934069_10200316004161675_2136464119_n.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2013/130/5/7/stress_relief_by_dekdu-d64t91t.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2013/129/7/9/gaston_by_dekdu-d64q5cd.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49828537/paints/ssd.jpg[/IMG] A little bit of progress, what do you guys thinks? Does anyone know some good tutorial on how to color this in?
[img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/59663f15682ab3438bcbf9aecda1fb8c/tumblr_mn9cdebEzS1rt1xsno1_500.jpg[/img] Quick test made from creating custom textured brushes in CS6.
I need to get better at making brushes i want to make a real painterly one but i find getting crisp detail + that nice textural feel difficult in photoshop
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;40753367]I need to get better at making brushes i want to make a real painterly one but i find getting crisp detail + that nice textural feel difficult in photoshop[/QUOTE] Yeah, I know how you feel. I know that ctrl-paint sells a series on their website specifically on the topic but I'm not sure if it's worth the money. Learning how to make proper brushes would be nice.
[QUOTE=The-Chairman;40753405]Yeah, I know how you feel. I know that ctrl-paint sells a series on their website specifically on the topic but I'm not sure if it's worth the money. Learning how to make proper brushes would be nice.[/QUOTE] You'll get more out of it if you learn how to create brushes, with that knowledge you can create an infinite amount of different types of brushes. I create new ones almost all the time.
yeah for some reason it's really relaxing to make brushes for me. I feel like I get to design something really fundamental to the artistic process. Just need to get good at it!! right now im like make another textured square brush all day every day.
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;40745677]now that youve done coffee next up is painting like watecolor with bong water actually maybe that idea is a little [I]half baked[/I][/QUOTE] I'm actually gonna do this, that's a great idea!
A desert city. [t]http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/143/9/b/paleozoikum_by_lieutenantawesome-d66aeqf.png[/t] I was really satisfied with the sky, it looks like a sandstorm. And the perspective, well, i tried :/
a quick study of an abandoned building i can see through my window. [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/IMG_1619.JPG[/img] [editline]23rd May 2013[/editline] i messed up a bit on the perspective now that i look at it, ugh.
Quickie. At least I'm making progress. [IMG]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/143/9/3/mads_by_dbuhoss-d66av1d.png[/IMG] <3 MADS
Giving life to food is fun. [IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/e5c9f0772ccc1efa5c2fb2ac7c36d958/tumblr_mn9ofvtSpg1rc2okpo1_500.png[/IMG]
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