I have had PhotoShop 7.0 forever now, this is my first time I actually tried doing something with it!

Opinions, comments, hints.... anything would be most excellent. Cheers!:)

Its cool, nothing special, but as you said its your first work in photoshop.:)

Not bad for a first effort I think. :)

This is also my firts one, i spent a lot of time on trying to make the best posible... i don't know, its not complete, but i feel pretty good to be my firts one.

it is of barcelona and ronaldinho because a friend wants it, but i'm working on one of milan of course (H)

make the barca badga and the ronaldinho at the right a little more clear and then it will look ok

both look exatly like the most common 'my first photoshop'-pieces. keep it up and you'll learn to use effects more wisely.

quite good but not amazing:confused:

looks good for first try.. & my advice... plz...dont use too much of emboss for any of your work after this.....:D it looks stupid!

that Ronaldo pic is class

can i see it before edited?

youll get better with time and practise, and so will I:)

Yeah i will practice, hopefully for the 8th try you would like it. ;)

Yeah, I do need quite a bit of work. I am glad I can finally snoop around PS 7.0 though finally. I see a lot of the pros in here have some very elaborate details and effects, very class, do you guys add plug-ins, patches, extra filters or what. Or does it basically come down to good use of the tools in the default PS 7.0. Just wondering because I have seen some amazing artwork in the deviant art webpages before!

can i see it before edited?

okay, here it is, but this is obviously after I cut him out of the pic, he originally had someone slide tackling him.

the original.

Originally posted by akvelocity365
Yeah, I do need quite a bit of work. I am glad I can finally snoop around PS 7.0 though finally. I see a lot of the pros in here have some very elaborate details and effects, very class, do you guys add plug-ins, patches, extra filters or what. Or does it basically come down to good use of the tools in the default PS 7.0.

This is something you will notice as you become better with Photoshop but I'll tell ya now, (ready made)effects, filters etc are (99% of the time) a very big no-no, it really cheapens an image and ruins it.

The cut of ronaldo is ****e:confused:

Hey Cumon Seb, he did say it was his first attempt:rolleyes: :)

What ru talkin bout...........ur normally the harsh one:p

You have me confused with Jason, i never bag people on there first efforts with gfx

if i remember like 2 weeks ago u got flamed for being harsh on some new kid on PS....im not sure who , but u did, no big deal

lol ! peace!:)

Originally posted by Andrew
You have me confused with Jason, i never bag people on there first efforts with gfx
so what?
:)

Originally posted by Seb
The cut of ronaldo is ****e:confused:

I don't mind criticism but just saying that doesn't tell me why it is ****e! i'm trying to learn here, what could I have done differently? I can tell you I did that manually, so go from there. from what I can see, it looks a bit messed up on the right armpit of the shirt, also on the right leg it looks like it was a bit cut off.

Originally posted by PhiLLer
(ready made)effects, filters etc are (99% of the time) a very big no-no, it really cheapens an image and ruins it.

Wow, so all the default effects and filters are no good in PS? are you saying that I have to make my own or do I have to mess with the effects properties and make them my own? really confused on a method of attack then!?:confused:

i just wanna say for the record that i think the first one is shocking...

and don't get me started on the second one

sorry for being blunt but it needs to be said