ahh_ace_k wrote you my friend have good photoshop skills thats rare to find these days...

Zekrom wrote

I like the whole intro thing that was something I haven't seen on a speedart, but I have to say that Mustache guy is telling the truth. Criticism can be bad if they only tell you the bad bits about it and not give you the advice on what to do if you where doing this same project. Something that Mustache guy forgot to mention. When I looked at the final image I could see so significant problems with this piece.

First would be the lighting, if they are just black clouds everywhere then where is the light source coming from if you have shadows. My advice would be to take out some of the clouds and add a sun to make a light source. Add a couple of flares but also try and make them realistic to the picture.

The second thing I have a slight problem with is the colour correction. If its yellow where is it coming from basically the first option add a sun so that you know where the colour is coming from. The contrast you used was a bit too much in my opinion if you want good lighting then dont add too much contrast to the image.

The 3D modelling is great I give you credit for that because I am no professional when it comes to 3D modelling. The weird light beam lines that are going into the middle of the logo and firing at the city can be done better instead of using just lines like you used, search on the internet to find some good beams that look realistic.

An example I saw was this, you could pen tool round the light beam things lol and us ethat instead of just normal lines.

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The smoke rising into the sky can be done better also, use window or F5 to change the settings around such as scattering and the smudge setting to get a good smoky feel to the background.

Lastly would be the border, avoid big thick borders and use small stroke borders for these types of manipulations, the borders seem to ruin the images feel. If I was you I would use some nice good text and use the title Isolation and put that in the bottom middle for example.

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Hope this helped. They are some other problems but they are just minor ones.

GroovyDesigns wrote

Zekrom wrote

I like the whole intro thing that was something I haven't seen on a speedart, but I have to say that Mustache guy is telling the truth. Criticism can be bad if they only tell you the bad bits about it and not give you the advice on what to do if you where doing this same project. Something that Mustache guy forgot to mention. When I looked at the final image I could see so significant problems with this piece.

First would be the lighting, if they are just black clouds everywhere then where is the light source coming from if you have shadows. My advice would be to take out some of the clouds and add a sun to make a light source. Add a couple of flares but also try and make them realistic to the picture.

The second thing I have a slight problem with is the colour correction. If its yellow where is it coming from basically the first option add a sun so that you know where the colour is coming from. The contrast you used was a bit too much in my opinion if you want good lighting then dont add too much contrast to the image.

The 3D modelling is great I give you credit for that because I am no professional when it comes to 3D modelling. The weird light beam lines that are going into the middle of the logo and firing at the city can be done better instead of using just lines like you used, search on the internet to find some good beams that look realistic.

An example I saw was this, you could pen tool round the light beam things lol and us ethat instead of just normal lines.

Click to View Content

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The smoke rising into the sky can be done better also, use window or F5 to change the settings around such as scattering and the smudge setting to get a good smoky feel to the background.

Lastly would be the border, avoid big thick borders and use small stroke borders for these types of manipulations, the borders seem to ruin the images feel. If I was you I would use some nice good text and use the title Isolation and put that in the bottom middle for example.

Click to View Content

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Hope this helped. They are some other problems but they are just minor ones.

Well I think no human being could add more advise than that, But its a very unique idea i can honestly say i've never seen this done before.

I think the people that are saying this is the best manipulation ever are wrong and i think you shouldn't listen to them nothings ever going to be the best ever. I'd suggest just reading through zekrom's comment and fixing the issues.

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Look at the way he lights certain pieces of the manipulation.

But Top Marks To you, you put your heart and soul into this and its amazing