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hello, poor newbie to be rescued.... im making a skin for a media player called *beep* (censored: advertisement)

anyway, i want some comments and suggestions on how can i turn this Noob piece into pro masterpiece

im still developing it, so its not late to tell me if something doesnt fit

thank you!
 
Hi kingo,

You're hardly a newbie to Photoshop. I think your skin looks great! My only real visual confusion was in the shadow of the middle section of the player image. I've done a quick modification of your image to show you what I mean. The shadow wasn't right to my eye (but I'm hardly an expert).
 
thanks welles, lilj, well... i am a newbie cause:

a.) im redoing a dumped skin (with the agreement of the orig. author) shown below

b.) i used styles, im not skilled enough to spiffy it up by hand :(
therefor i need TONS of tutorials to seek my own style, and not use other's
 
I like yours a lot more than the original. You have a very good sense of balance. As for using styles: many tutorial authors use them, they are part of Photoshop and not second-level.
Hry: whatever gets you through the night is all-right! Even if you use third-party plugins, or a vector or 3D app: what counts is the result. And your result is very fine! :righton:
 
erik, since youre a mod, is there any way to display attachments as links insted of showing the image? it will be better for the 56k'ers (im on cable) and because i live outside of the US and my ISP is crappy
 
kingo said:
b.) i used styles, im not skilled enough to spiffy it up by hand
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I happen to love styles and have spent a great deal of time learning about them. While there may be styles tutorials which are very valuable, the best technique is to start a collection of free styles and analyze how they are crafted. Modifying them and observe the changes and, rapidly you will evolve to creating original ones. A great source of free styles is found at the Adobe Studio Exchange where Photoshop artists have uploaded some of their creations for download and use, generally without restriction and royalty free.

http://share.studio.adobe.com/Default.asp

If you can obtain a copy of "Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click WOW!" by Jack Davis and Linnea Dayton (you can buy used ones at Amazon.com) not only will you find a great collection of royalty free styles but a small book which will do a great deal to shorten the time it takes to learn styles as well as Brushes, Tool Presets, Patterns, Gradients, Actions, and Rollovers.

P.S. Your version of the skin really does look great! :righton:
 
its been a long time since i updated this piece, ummm... i want someone to help me with some things that i cant do myself... im thinking about posting the PSDs (with irrelevant layers flattened) here so you guys can tinker with it a bit, sounds cool?
 
Most likely you will have to place the file on some server to which you have access and provide us a download link. I doubt if you could get a Photoshop file below 150K which is the size limit of the forum for any attachment or image per post. I'm sure people will help though... :)
 
When you open the new message page (or reply page which is the same) you see at the right-hand side below the subject message boc URL . This adds the square-bracketed URL needed. Then fill in your heitchteeteepee and the rest and finally click on close tags (red, just below it.
That way only the url will be shown, not the pic itself.
Sorry for responding a bit late, but I must have lost somehow the indication something had been added to this thread.
;)
 
to welles: i have a host which accepts remote linking and downloading (host isn't mine, its my friend's... called ipowerweb if you heard about it).. i will post the PSD soon, thanks dude for being you :D ;)

to erik: yeah, i know i can post the URL to a hosted pic on a remote location, but i asked about local attachments, how can anyone configure to see a link insted of a pic?
 
well, if I understand you correctly, no browser is ever going to display either a psd or tif, a zip or a rar.
So a simple link to the adress on your serverspace will do. Either to the page on which the item is placed, or to the psd or zip itself.

If this isn't what you want to know, then write a pm to Mark (theKeeper) as I don't exactly follow how you formulated your question.
 
i asked about local attachments, how can anyone configure to see a link insted of a pic?
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You can't. That's something i control in the ACP. But it's not a real specific type of function. It's either ALL off, or ALL on... unfortunately.
 
thanks mark, i was an administrator myself once on another site using an older version of phpbb, so i cant remember if there was such an option for someone with a regular member rank to choose seeing attachments posted on this forum as links or the pics (for example, the skin pic on my first post, lets say someone is unfortunately on a 56k machine *knock on wood* ;\ and they want to see my skin using a link instead of seeing the pic directly as it slows down the load time)
 
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