Sakura's 101

[Babyman]

Ohwow...
Your sets keep amaze me... Although I have found a trick behind them, they are all somewhat in the same style, different pictures...

Now my question is, where do u get your recources? XD I might put up with something if I had the correct renders :p

[Balto]

just go to planet renders(type that in google) and you'll have thousands of renders also visit deviantart

[Sakura]

Ohwow...
Your sets keep amaze me... Although I have found a trick behind them, they are all somewhat in the same style, different pictures...

Now my question is, where do u get your recources? XD I might put up with something if I had the correct renders :p

If by style you meant how my avatar always face the left and my sig face the right, and the ava is from the same picture as the sig then yes. That's the way I prefer to do them, that composition is more logical to me. Kufufu~

Let see, half of the time I render the pictures myself. If you want renders, go to planetrenders like Balto suggested. Deviantart is also a good sources, lots of useful stuffs in there. For fonts you'll have to google them. Brushes, textures, styles you can either google or deviantart them. I actually create my own patterns and effects to use so you're on your own for those. Hmmmm, I don't use as much resources as I thought...Oh, I do get pictures from another website but it's Vietnamese so it won't be as useful to you.

Anyway, one tip I'd like to give is to just look carefully at graphics that you really like. You actually learn a lot just by doing so. Not only will you get better at differentiate good ones, you'll remember what will look good where and what doesn't. And that is really important. Kufufu~

Oh and have I mentioned that they'll give great inspiration? As in, when you see something you think is awesome, your mind automatically goes "Dang! I wish I can also create something like that." I am not saying to duplicate those graphics, but you generally learn their compositions, brushes position, text effects, color contrasts, etc. that you can use on your own graphics. After that, either you spend hours googling them or you do it like me, playing around in your Photoshop. Kufufu~ It'll get much easier when you know the program well enough. I hope that helped~

http://www.deviantart.com/
http://planetrenders.net/ - You have to register for this.


P.S: Maybe I should create simple photoshop guides for you guys. Kufufu~

[Balto]

I agree with Sakura, for example(ill ge vie the link) I played around with the halo sig i made, the one Sakura told me didn't look rendered right. I played around with more layers and more effects and my own style and now it looks like this wich i like way more
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/1993/h ... n2copy.jpg

It's also very easy to create your own brushes, just play around with things, for example use a render, filter and filter it to whichever you want and then use some cutting and marging and brushes you already have and you can create awesome new brushes, that or cut shapes and fill them, correct Sakura?

Fonts is easy actually
these two sites do the trick most of the time
Dafont and 1001fonts

[Babyman]

It'd be great to have some tutorials in here could create a new section for those...
Well, I'll try to create some things... Don't know whether it'll look good or not :p But I'll just try XD

[Sakura]

I find it much easier to just download brushes though. There's a fine line between useful brushes and good looking brushes. Kufufu~ But if you insist on making your own brushes, you can use pretty much anything: renders, effects, texts, shapes, etc. When you get something you like, go to Edit -> Define brush, Photoshop will save it for you and you can now use it as a real bush X3

As for tutorials, I almost forgot that you can get plenty in google. Feel free to ask for the effects I use if you like any though. However, to be able to identify them is another matter. Kufufu~

Feb. 28

[Blackbird]

Amazing like always ^^

[Sakura]

Amazing like always ^^

Thank you~ X3 Sorry I couldn't fit your name in it as well. Maybe next time I should chose a long forum name or something. Kufufu~

[Blackbird]

I don't mind it thought, thank you xD

Amazing like always ^^

Thank you~ X3 Sorry I couldn't fit your name in it as well. Maybe next time I should chose a long forum name or something. Kufufu~

[Babyman]

Since Sakura recently left us, I think this thread will be kind of dead... A shame though... It was fun seeing what she came up with every day again :p

[Metal Wing]

Indeed, I admired her work, and was wondering if she was ever going to perhaps help with AW Graphics. I know all of you guys would prefer her doing AW gfx, rather than me XD