[Virtual Fighter's Banner Tutorial] - Tutorial, Color Blending & Balance

[Virtual Fighter]

[color=#F660AB]the image is too big to hot link, so ill post the DA link instead.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/8777855/

go there, follow the steps, and if you rip my end result i swear on m mothers name i will rasie hell upon you.

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Color Blending:

[Angel-Eyes]

Sorry! I couldn't put any more images in the first post and had to take over this post, all he said was "nice tut" anyway!

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Color Balance:

so ive been seing alot of crappy color in banner. i thought to myself. "wow, those banners fliping suck. what they need it some....



COLOR BALANCE"

this is a simple tut, cuz it be on color, y0.
the only thing its really gonna show you, is how to open up color balance. the rest is up to you. (oh, and some tips not to over flip the color)

okay, first, make a grey BG. then, noce you haev it just how you like it, push ctrl + b, (or image > adjusments > color balance if you be too much of a ##### to push ctrl + b, y0)
to open up color balance.

now, color balance is a much MUCH more effect colorizing tool. it can give you buautiful multi tonal color, that connot be dont with hue/saturation.


okay, now you are currently in the "midtones" window. play around with the levers and nobs here. make SURE not to jack them up to +100 and -100. the color ALWAYS comes better when you give it a little bit here, such as red 50%, and red 50% in shadows.

what are shadows? well, click here:

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7986/fistimage.gif

to find out.

omfg, its shadows!?! what do they do? well, jack one up to 100 to find out. omg, it make the dark areas dark with color. well, now that you know, play with the lavers and nobs here. remember, jackign them too far gives it a high contrast feel which is teh uber suck. its always good to combine midtones, shadows, and highlights.

wait.. what are high lights?! click here to find out.

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4736/secondimage.gif

omg, a new set of levers. jack one up to 100 to find out there resuts.

OMG, they make the bright areas bright with colors! wow! okay, but heres a cation with tips.

you never want to jack up these levers too much. highlights is a very powerful tool. if you use too many, you get a hardcore bright contrasted image. (WHICH SUCKS)
the most you ever want to go in these, it +75, or -75. but i suggest never going past -50 and +50.

okay, now you mix them together. (the midtones, highlights and shadows.)

they should make your banner/work much better, with dinamicly awsome color.

ANOTHER TIP:
i think that using green, or blue, or whatever color highlights looks nasty. i ONLY use yellow or red highlights.



closing-
and now you know how to make great, dinamic color. well, now go use them muda-fudka!

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1039/Untitled-54.gif



Edited By Warmor on 1098513782

[ledmonkey]

<span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'>I'm gonna go try it...thats a nice one you put together VF</span>

[playaeROnow]

im trying that for my next banner, ill show ya later

[LAB~MONSTER]

I love this tutorial man, thanks a lot vf for. I really admire what u r doing for the beginners for adobe, like myself.

[ryzcvk]

keep up the good work vf , looking forward to see your next tut. :)

[Virtual Fighter]

uhh... yeah.... im "working on it"

[Alex_KO]

yo VF you got anything a lilttle easier...i do step by step and i still get something really weird...doesnt even look anything like yours :D

by the way whats that dudes name in your signiture..i wanan make a banner using him



Edited By Alex_KO on July 26 2004 at 12:13

[Z-z]

i came out with the banner in my sig

[venom-spiderman]

i love the tutor dude

[underlaie]

virtual fighter u going all out on this
u doing a good job at it :buttrock:

[estset]

Anyone kno Tutorial website too learn more about Adobe Photoshop 7.0 so I could make banne or tag or avatur anyone?

[LAB~MONSTER]

ttutorial website:

www.good-tutorials.com

[68-1093009699]

Yea i like the tutor but i dont have photoshop ;)

[alamgir]

Nice tutorial now i'm gonna try something with that and maybe add some of my own touches.



Edited By alamgir on Aug. 23 2004 at 16:49

[estset]

Virtural I dont get what oyu saying at the link?I did it but it turn off like clound thingy?

[GameMaster55]

this is what my 10 yr old bro came up with and i promised to use it he is only a New at these kind of thing what do you think? great tutorial by the way he says "Thank you"and i thank you also
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v375/Realpimpster/Guy8.gif :xmas:

[Shingko]

i have a folder that say photodeluxe i don't know what it is but my uncle gave me it to download does that count as photoshop?

[estset]

Ok I know how do it now :)

[Virtual Fighter]

Warmor, can you do me a favor and delete every post except for kester's and my first post, i'm gonna orginize my tuts and such.

[Angel-Eyes]

lmao, my tutorial on the 2nd post is awesome

[RagingIori]

:angry: RagingIori :angry:

Hey man whats a site that u can make your own i need help

[Dark_hado123]

I used my free trial for Adobe in the summer and I can't download it again. Is there any other programs I could use?? PLEZ HElp

[Dark_hado123]

QQ how do you put pics under your name next to this message

[Virtual Fighter]

I used my free trial for Adobe in the summer and I can't download it again. Is there any other programs I could use?? PLEZ HElp
no, adobe is the best program.

get a job, save up your money, and buy it.

[Dark_hado123]

So ure tellin me that there isnt any other program out there. If so name some

[bloodpack]

QQ how do you put pics under your name next to this message
its called tags or banners
go to your CP (control panel) edit personal info
there you can access your signature
to place a banner under your signature you need to know iB coding which this forum uses
follow this code...

[code:1]http://insert_url_address_of_your_banner_here[/code:1]

as for making banners, you can try imageready, photoshop CS or other image editing programs then you need to upload it

finally, you can post in the members help section if you have any other questions

[RagingIori]

:angry: RagingIori :angry:

Who can make me a animated avatar of Iori dong his special called blood rage if someone could make it of find it for mr i wold be great full

[HAQ-]

hey mind posting a tut for backgrounds using brushing coz ur other one had a bit of filters i don't wanna use nefilters

[ace 1396]

hey whats a cloud filter i cant find it i just started on ps

[thedesktops]

Wow, you should make a book about this and then try to sell it. :biggrin:

[truballur11]

could one of yall tell me again how do u do it i cant find dat stuff could u start at step one???

[color=#000080:post_uid14]wow thats really good. i mean it. that was a really great tutorial. im gona go try now! [img:post_uid14]http://www.greatimagehost.com/uploads/36183.gif[/img:post_uid14][/color:post_uid14]

[nash0r]

mine came out wrong cus no grid! :(

[lightken]

how do u even bring up the window cause im lost here????

[evryoung8998]

u ppl are really flamming and spamming and a MOD should delete the spamming here about asking for banners and wut such

[Virtual Fighter]

u ppl are really flamming and spamming and a MOD should delete the spamming here about asking for banners and wut such
WTF are you talking about?

There is no flaming here, only praise.
no banner requests, only praise.

-_-

[ZhouYuX]

alright virtual..at first i admit the thing pissed me off cause i couldn't find half the things..but i finally caught on and made my own one using lighten and all of that. the only problem with this is the font color cause i couldn't find a good color to match since it has both blue and green in it..but i made it and i want your opinion on it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v368/evilryualpha/chunlisig.jpg
ok i went back and fixed it and took a style evil-hadoken i believe uses with the dodge tool.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v368/evilryualpha/chunlisig2.jpg



Edited By ZhouYuX on 1106097671

[SBYRD5]

I hope this helps..

http://www.kitoutpost.com/tags/lessons/burn.htm

good luck.

[ZhouYuX]

thx man..the one i showed was when i was really really new at that, like 2 days old new, but now, i've gone through alot, tried your blending techniques, and came up with this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v368/evilryualpha/ryusig3.jpg thx man i owe you for helpin me

[SBYRD5]

thx man..the one i showed was when i was really really new at that, like 2 days old new, but now, i've gone through alot, tried your blending techniques, and came up with this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v368/evilryualpha/ryusig3.jpg thx man i owe you for helpin me
I think if there were mods of this section...

Virtual fighter,-SKI-,_dmx_,and lordgrobyc,and Johnny7.

Deserve to be the mods of this section...

And semi-Starwarrior.

[chaoscrippla]

:plain: .......



*sigh*


:sleepy: (im invisible)


VF You should post a tutorial for people who want to get into vectoring.

[truballur11]

ahhh i hav n clue wat im doin ii went on google and typed in sigs and i copied and pasted one but it still aint work someone break it down really good and help me i got the avatar thing down jus cant get the sig!!!!!!

[SirViper]

thats because sigs doesnt take copy and paste to make sigs....

[Virtual Fighter]

^^ That's funny because that's what you did on alot of your DA peices, that's why you got banned.

[SirViper]

i wasnt banned stupid... i just made a new acct and put everything there and closed that one, ask jason velocity, hes the mod i asked to do it. dunt talk if you dunt know wuts been going on stupid.

[lilmarteniece]

hi hoe

[lilmarteniece]

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Edited By lilmarteniece on 1118089778

[Dragon_L0rd]

http://www.yakresearch.com/gifs/colortattoos/greenasiandragon.jpg can someone make me a banner with this on it and another one with this picture http://www.yakresearch.com/gifs/colortattoos/yellowflamedragon.jpg

[Warmor]

lilmarteniece:
What the hell is that? Don't do random poop like that again. If I see it or it gets reported, a forum warning I give. And yes, I'll sign it you blokes.

Dragon_L0rd:
Not the place to make request, please make a post like that here:
http://bbs.projectx.cyberfuturism.com/cgi-bin....;t=1063 (http://nferno666.sytes.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=18451)

[Boxfighter]

I dont have photoshop so can someone plz make me a banner with a red and black background and a good pic of ken from sf and with my name boxfighter on it. If someone can do it i would really appreciate it.