First Photoshop Foray
By
Burning_Brawler_NA,
Posted on: 2011-07-04 20:13 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
Nice work Burning Brawler. 
I like the girl doing the "get some" spank emote (lol) and
the masked guy cracking his knuckles. The central figure looks cool too.
I think it might look better as a vertical though, unless you need it this way for a desktop wallpaper,
(i.e. trim the empty space on the sides from the background) as all that space makes it feel kinda empty.
Also you could enlarge the guy in the back/top position just a little so he fills the gap better.
that's nicely done Burning_Brawler. Only thing i would say is about the placement of particular characters, in that the central hooded figure merges a little with the two characters to his left and right imo, due to them all wearing black. Two contrasting coloured characters might work better if you have them available. I do like how the other characters fan around that central guy tho, good composition
Yeah, the original idea was to do a forum sig banner, but as I started putting it together and especially once I found out how to throw that shadow up there, it became much more vertical than I originally planned. I agree about trimming the unnecessary side space while I'm showing it as just a picture. Also, glad you like the emote choices! Heh. I wanted to try to have something a little different and at the same time appropriate for each character.
As for the guy in the very back, I tried playing with the size of the characters to created a feeling of depth to the line-up. Ideally, I wanted him to seem to be looming from afar.
I noticed they were blending a little too much when I was fixing their edges, yeah. At one stage, I had used Sharpen on the hooded figure (my forum namesake) and it gave his gloves a little shine to them that helped distinguish where he stopped and the others began but it looks like I lost that somewhere along the line. I'll definitely be aware of that issue in the future.
Thanks for the comments guys, much appreciated. ^_^
Arc ID: 475246, "Bringing a Lord to Power"
"I'm only a simple man trying to cling to my tomorrow. Every day. By any means necessary."
-Caldwell B. Cladwell
I got a 30 day trial of photoshop yesterday and thought I would play around with some features to make something I had always wanted to splice together before, a character collage! These are just my "main" characters, the ones I play most often. If I get the urge and a little more skill, I wouldn't mind tackling a Rogues Gallery picture.
Basically I just took some "action screenshots" and then spliced the pictures together. I messed with different settings for each character in Photoshop, then slid them all together. Created a background and got my text from an online graphic generator.
Anyway, here's what my newbish self came up with!
Arc ID: 475246, "Bringing a Lord to Power"
"I'm only a simple man trying to cling to my tomorrow. Every day. By any means necessary."
-Caldwell B. Cladwell