Your Style

[Jazzin']

Lol I usually take about 5-7 hours (if not all day) to make a tag ;___; I'm so slooowwwww

then again, kyle-sama told me that I have a lot of attention to detail in my tags so maybe that's why? I think of it more as "I take forever trying things out and scrapping them because I don't like them, only to finish with an end product that doesn't make me want to vomit everywhere"

That must be somewhat equal to 'attention to detail', right
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[WarriorAngel01]

[HotFire]

Kyle? I don't know him. (Slider imo)

I don't really have a style yet, I don't think. I am still kind of a noob with PS
I just throw things together and ask for help when I "think" I am done.
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[TehJazza]

My style before was closer to 'do random stuff I learnt from tutorials and see what happens'.

Now, I just abuse displace like crazy to see what happens, stick it behind my stock, add some half-arsed adjustment layers on top and I'm done.

Yeah, I'm kind of lazy like that.
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[Toku]

[Slider]

I try to change up and approach different styles all the time, but when I make tags I always go back to this simplified version of what I plan it out to be. Rarely I'll make something intricate. When I do, it feels goooood.

I do like smudging, but half the time it's all I do in a tag and it feels like a cop-out to actually designing a tag. Apparently I'm good at it though. I love using cyan in my tags, but it feels a bit obsessive sometimes. I'm inspired by a lot of people, and I try to work on things that they do, and for that reason, most of my tags are me experimenting.

[Prochainezo]

i place a render on the third quarter from the left

two or three c4ds

gradient background

my style
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[Jazzin']

[Toku]

[Flamfas]

I'm hella rusty (been YEARS), but all of my tags are experiments (except the occasional colorbar, lol).

This makes me want to get back into graphics. ):
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[Seraph]

I used to experiment a lot and when I found something that worked I would repeat the process a couple of times. Then go back to experimenting... You get the gist of it. I don't do many sigs nowadays so I tend to do the same steps.

-choose stock
-position it so that the focus is well-placed
-smudge/displace/re-smudge/duplicate/etc until a nice background is done
-paste stock on stop with layer masks and change blending modes
-shittons of adjustment layers
-new layer/apply image
-shittons more adjustment layers
-put a couple C4D with layers masks and blending modes through the process
-repeat until satisfied

The process can take anywhere from 1 to 5 hours depending on how quick I achieve a satisfying result. I tend to scrap a lot of sigs because I just can't seem to make something good out of it.

Here's two exemple of the sigs and layers used in them;







I can upload the PSD's if anyone wants to peek inside them.
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[WarriorAngel01]

does anyone here make a background first and then choose a stock/render later, once your background is done?

I wish I could, every time I try that I always hate what I make/can't find a good stock to go with it
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newest stuff

[Jazzin']

I can only remember doing that once, with my Lloyd tag that everybody really liked



(to tell you the truth, it was just a rehashing of one of my older tags that I made for BL, I just radically changed the colors and did a lot of fixing to it)



^that is all basically in the PSD for the Lloyd tag. I took Chun Li out and inverted most of the layers, and I added more C4D and other things in there. It was pretty difficult to make it not look like crap and to follow that red theme for that SOTW week, and honestly it would have probably have been easier to make by scratch, but whatever.

But essentially, I worked the tag first and then just found a render that looked like it would fit alright with what I had.
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[DevlJoe]

My style is roughly:

- Find a usable stock/render from whatever thing I have been recently obsessing over
- RULE OF THIRDS UP IN THIS *****
- Fart about in gimp for about 45 minutes, abusing whatever technique I learned most recently
- Paste in some c4ds and play with sliders/drop downs for a bit
- Slap on ORANGE AND BLUE CONTRAST (works 100% of the time)
- Fart about for 15 more minutes, trying to make it look better
- Decide I don't have anything else to do to it
- Not look at it for about an hour
- Come back and declare it mediocre, but post it anyway because lol

Specifics are hard
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[Seraph]