Thar Posted August 7, 2011 Report Share Posted August 7, 2011 [img]http://i.imgur.com/C0TtJ.png[/img] I'm not the best at making banners, but I'm proud of this one. Tell me what you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icy Posted August 7, 2011 Report Share Posted August 7, 2011 You actually have a very nice concept. Do you have the PSD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thar Posted August 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2011 [quote name='Icyblue' timestamp='1312743956' post='5422545'] You actually have a very nice concept. Do you have the PSD? [/quote] No. I guess I should have kept that. But I do remember the process. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icy Posted August 7, 2011 Report Share Posted August 7, 2011 I wanna see your parts and see how I could change it based on the concept and existing tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thar Posted August 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2011 Alright... [spoiler=Process] I started out with a 500 x 150 black document. Then I opened up this [url="http://fineartamerica.com/images-medium/colorful-chameleon-nancy-mueller.jpg"]image[/url] and used the Quick Selection Tool to crop out the subject. After that, I dragged the cropped subject to the 500 x 150 document and rendered some clouds in the background with colors that I extracted from it. I copied the layer of the subject and added a Motion Blur to the subject layer below the copy, then I set the copy to a Luminosity blending option. Again, I copied the original subject, this time smudging certain areas to make it look like it's "appearing out of the smoke." After applying another blending option, Color, I blurred some of the edges so they didn't seem so hard on the smudge marks. After all that, I just took some brushes and randomly spotted the canvas. I did this in several different layers each with their own blending option. The name I guess was just a touch of identity to my work. [/spoiler] Dang. I guess I'll get in the habit of saving my projects as a PSD before a PNG. Sorry, dude. EDIT!: The DNA strand was an extraction of this [url="http://www.coolswallpapers.com/photo/37121/abstract-desktop-wallpapers-19.jpg"]image [/url]blended in with the image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tefached Posted August 7, 2011 Report Share Posted August 7, 2011 I just got cs5 and I'm still tweaking with it, but this has a great concept behind it...though the text hurts me..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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