Suggestions? - Revised. Poll is now for the new one

[Marlee]

Poll is now for the new one
Anything you can Suggests Please post here:


Here is the new one.

[Marlee]

Well Ferox or Sand what does it need?

[Ferox]

Your poll said be honest.

- It's pixelated. It's also huge. You could reduce it's size by half and have a neater looking picture that fits better on a SBF page.
- The text is hard to read. The font is ok but white is far ot hard on such a busy background.
-Thin black borders, around the text and the omage as a whole.

Try that for a start.

[Marlee]

For 1 I can't un pixel it on my program

2 I want to know about to manip not the size.

[sandtiger]

Here is some criticue, I'm not good with it through...

I notice the cat has some Very rough cutting, I can see all the pixels on the bottom are very un-smooth, this is for personal preference, but you could smooth that out.

The Font's nice like Ferox said, but the white is hard to see, maybe a darker color perhaps? Maybe a dark purple? That isen't always the case but...

Maybe use a field or more natural background? I know this is kinda personal opinion but it makes it look more natural as a whole to me at least.

[Ferox]

Well then;

1. Don't give attitude if you genuinely want some advice.
2. Wait more than 2 minutes for someone to see and reply before bumping your own thread.
3. You can reduce the pixelated look by reducing size. Here is what your manip looks like if you follow my advice,i.e. reduce the size to reduce the pixels and add a black border.


4. White text on pale backgrounds is bad on the eyes.
5. Use a simpler font for your copyrite. It makes it harder to morph and always plainer to read.
6. Your cutting could do with some improving. If you're in Paint then that's hard to do.
7. If you are using paint, pick your backgrounds to match the background the animal was on originally. What i mean is if your cat was on a fairly green background try putting it on a forest background, the erors in cutting will be less noticeable then.

Should I keep going, or are you going to get offended?

[sandtiger]

That just about sums up what I was going to say.

[Marlee]

OK I am trying

[Marlee]

Here is the new one





Resources

http://katzgonewild.com/bengal-cat-ss4.jpg

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/Trees_g75-Forest_p6605.html

[sandtiger]

I really like this one! I'll put a few more pointers later...

[Ferox]

It's a lot better. Here's what I'd do.

1. Copyright one font size bigger. We know it's you, but a new player wont.
2. The cutting is better but you can see a few streaks of white that look 'wrong' along the cat's back (in front of the tree) and in front of its legs. Rather than cut the thing out again you can draw over those white spots on high magnification and select an appropriate colour.
3. The cat is also a lot brighter than the forest. I don't think you can fix that in Paint though.
4. not sure about yellow as a font colour, but it is better than white.

There's more I'd do if it was my manip, but my graphics program lets me do more. Careful selection of your stock images will help you go a lon way.

BTW, you have to post links to your stock images or give them credit in the picture. Copyright law, you know.

[milon]

You need to put the animal into the background...instead of putting the animal ON the background

[Kholran]

Please also remember that you MUST post the links to your sources for the photos. Using copyrighted pics without permission is not allowed anywhere on Orbis Games sites.

[Marlee]

Oh I am sorry Kholran, I didn't know