The secrets on how to make artwork of the Sam/Jack ship family thread

[Jumble]

Yeah, see? You can speak French

I might understand it, speaking it is a whole other issue

Of course I can say 'Je t'aime' and 'Voulez-vous couchez avec moi se soir?' but that's probably too much information............

[Aveo_amacus]

I might understand it, speaking it is a whole other issue

Of course I can say 'Je t'aime' and 'Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?' but that's probably too much information............

but we know that's not true, as you just translated Senedra's sig

[Estrela]

Okay, per Josiane's request - the tut for http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3084/...e7402bb2_o.jpg
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Fabulous tut and the sharpening suggestion you mentioned earlier is brilliant too. I'd never heard of lomo before but the technique is soooo interesting. I've been playing around with it on my vacation pictures and impressing my family with it. I'm going to just let them think I'm a whiz at this a bit longer before I confess I'm still very much a student.

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I'm going into my local computer store tomorrow to buy PS which I'm really happy about. To celebrate, I was going to make another Sam/Jack sig but it ended up just being Jack.

http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/s...tential/jo.jpg

First of all WELCOME!
Secondly, NEVER apologize for just Jack. Just keep them coming. *sigh* Where was I again? Oh yes. I love this one.

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I've started my challenge sig and that is MUCH more fluffy...

http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/o...tillbroken.jpg

I played around a bit more than usual with the colour balance and hue/saturation tools. I didn't realise what handy things those were!!! And I wonder if there is a limit to the number of brushes I can have in gimp... I'm fast burning up my disk space with pretty gimp brushes!! lol

You can't really be a beginner at this can you? Very nice!

ok this is my first stab, not really sure about it, it started out as a sig and that *really* didn't work

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn236/Aveoamacus/th_Challenge231.jpg

Well the wallpaper sure works. This is lovely.

Fainne that heart behind the text is just a brush

Yep. I think it's from this set which someone else (thank you!) posted earlier:
http://xcassiex24.deviantart.com/art...ushes-87196676

Beautiful WP Aveo!!

I decided that seeing as I set out to make a Jack/Sam sig I might as well get off my lazy butt and do it.

http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/s...lengejs1-1.jpg

So pretty! I love the background.

And here's my first, ever-so-slightly angsty attempt:

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...caromioben.jpg

I'd say that's more than just slightly angsty. *sob*

Argh. My second idea (the one that came to me in glorious technicolour and I can just see in my head) is just not translating into gimp I've just spent about an hour fiddling and it's not working

I fear I may have to start all over again

(((Josiane))) Oh don't stop now. I'm sure it'll come to you later. I can't tell you how many times that's happened to me.

Here's a great site for translating stuff.

Thank you!!!!!

awesome challenge this gonna be cool i'm gonna do spanish and italian ... if someone needs a portuguese liryc just tell me, although it is very boring things on RL aren't going good so i'll try to be here always as possible...

(((Rachel-Kree))) Hang in there. We're all thinking good thoughts for you. And I'd love some Portuguese lyrics. Although I can understand a fair amount of the language I really can't speak it. Is that cheating or can I still do something for the challenge in Portuguese?

Ok, two efforts for the Challenge.........

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/g...stpartofme.jpg

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/g...ingColonel.jpg

Oh Jumble you make me smile. I wish I could be as inventive as you are the way you can get Martin into all of your artwork.

Great stuff jumble Really, Martin in the widding pic lol.

I finished my challenge sig, I'm just afraid I liked it more without the pic

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...igs/awed13.jpg

I think the background goes very nicely with this picture. Great job!

Time to go try my hand at this week's challenge. Jumble I need your ingenuity right now. I'm always second guessing what goes together in my artwork.

[Jumble]

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Oh Jumble you make me smile. I wish I could be as inventive as you are the way you can get Martin into all of your artwork.

Thanks, but it's pretty easy when you have nothing else on your mind, and on your wall, and on your laptop.............

I think the background goes very nicely with this picture. Great job!

Time to go try my hand at this week's challenge. Jumble I need your ingenuity right now. I'm always second guessing what goes together in my artwork.

Believe me, it sometimes takes me hours to get the right pics on the right background Other times it all just falls into place *sends ingenious vibes to Estrela*

[Solo]

Estrela, I'm so pleased! I LOVE lomo photography, and I was so excited when I found that tut a year or so ago. It means I don't need to use the crappy plastic lomo lens I bought for my DSLR two years ago, and can take proper pics with my lovely lenses and lomo-fy them later if I want to - it's great fun, and I'm glad you're enjoying it!

(((Rachel_Kree))) - I hope things get better soon, hon

[humanityspotential]

Jumble I love your two artworks for the challenge. The second one is hilarious

SeNedra really, really beautiful work!!

I decided to try and challenge myself and make a WP, using the same text as my sig.


I managed to work out how to fix the text, finally.

[Jumble]

Thanks HP Lovely wp, beautiful background

[humanityspotential]

Thanks HP Lovely wp, beautiful background

Thankyou.

The background consists of about 13 different layers and took me ages so I'm glad someone likes it

[Jumble]

Well worth the effort I'd say

[Solo]

HP, it's gorgeous! There's just something I noticed - when you look at the larger version, the final letter on the smaller text is "i", but on the larger version the "i" is missing.. not sure if it's important The background is fantastic and I love those fonts together

[humanityspotential]

HP, it's gorgeous! There's just something I noticed - when you look at the larger version, the final letter on the smaller text is "i", but on the larger version the "i" is missing.. not sure if it's important The background is fantastic and I love those fonts together

I don't know why it did that. I tried to fix it and it wouldn't work so I just left it. I don't know whether it's the font or just the extremely ancient version of PS I'm using. It's one of the reasons I put the clearer font on top, because you could see the 'i'

[Solo]

D'oh Well, chances are nobody else will notice - I'm just a word geek.. *whistles innocently and scuffs sand over her previous comment*

Tum-ti-tum...

My mum's making me rosella jam for my sister-in-law to bring back from Oz when she's home in a few weeks. Hip hip hurraaaaay

[petite_stars]

Love the challenge artwork... for some reason, the writing in another language looks all the more romantic...

Humanityspotential... your stuff is wonderful, very beautiful creations

So I've just found out how to make gifs...!!! I used some icons I made a few weeks ago. This was my first attempt. Only two layers... but I'm going to be more adventurous next time

[leiasky]

Dropping off my challenge sig for the week. For those of you who understand French, please let me know if the translation is right?

[Bekki]

Ok - so I might have forgotten the 'wedding picture' part of the challenge this week, but I haven't made something in aaaaages, so I'm proud of it anyway



The text at the bottom means: "we were together, I have forgotten the rest"