Thursday, March 23, 2006
Note: Wow, skipping school for two days is awesome :D I feel so relaxed.. I mights well never go school again. HAHAHA, Anyway, this article is uhh.. on some.. designing tips based on my OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND IDEAS. :( So please please please don't come bitching to me that "OMG YOU'RE SO WRONG I MUST THROW YOU IN PITS OF NEVERENDING HUMILIATION".. Riiight, learn to read before you spaz.
Onward ho! I feel like I'm giving makeup tips :D
Rule Numero UNO- Gentlepeople, Arm yourself with a notepad and pen! No! Not for writing down my useful note, but for stabbing me in the eye and stuffing my mouth with when I'm done babbling :O But anyway...
Blendingggg
I know it turns you on so much to blend and start using brushes, gradients, whateverwhoever and try to make a perfect image of wunnerful fading people and woahable colors, but people!! Blending can turn one thing into the most beautiful or more disgusting piece of art EVER. Think carefully of what you're doing. Scroll on.
A/N: I'm not good at actually explaining so uh, use your fantastic imagination and screw it up :)
1+ Never never put a thousand pictures into one blend. So maybe you love Orlando Bloom that much(omg me too! not), but that doesn't give you the reason to stuff all 1673243million of his photos into your blend!! It's like, creating a MONSTER! Honestly, 1 or 3 images are good enough, or it'll become, as comments go "Too crowded, too messy, too wtf". No kidding :) Different poses are good too
2+ Colors?! Ahhh... I don't know how to put this, lol. Personally, I find it that it's kind of ugly when people over do their blending. Too much overlay is no good, it's very striking and hard to see, in other words, it BURNS THE EYES. Then again, if your blend is in greyscale or 1 solid color, it wouldn't be appealing either. Try varieties. Maybe gradient colors or more. But please, have the colors at least MATCH! I don't think brown and purple is a good combination, right? Or any other alienated color combination aliens can think of. If you fade your blended image into your background too much, it becomes too diluted that it looks dull too. So have your color try to stand out from the background if you wish to feature that particular image. Which I assume is the purpose of having them there.
3+ Blending o.O Have you seen people use overlaying images before? This is easy, stack to images above each other and set the blending mode to something simple, buuuuuuuut, if you align your images wrongly, your whole 'masterpiece' would come out weird too. I mean, I don't think its nice seeing one finger suddenly fading out of another face's nose, is it? Alignment is a very important factor when designing an image. It has an unconscious effect that would inevitably attract people when done right.
4+ Patterns. You love grids, scanlines, but your main purpose is to have the IMAGE stand out, not the PATTERN! I've seen people with thick scanlines that I can't even see the damned picture =/ KNow what's a good technique? Have a vague pattern. It's visible, but doesn't steal the image's spotlight. This technique can easily be carried out by changing your scanline's blending mode to overlay or softlight and play with the opacity as well.
End of Part 1 o.O I'll put up more when I think of it. Actually, I'm not a fan of blends xD But I've seen alot and well, most of them scare me because it's like entering a parallel universe where everything burns my eyes and scare me shitless with its OMGDISCO colors...
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