I Made Myself a Background in Photoshop

[bizcuits21]

Looks too...................... Generic, Looks as if all you did was paste in that render and sharpen it, try adding more

 

[gluestick]

i dont like it at all..

why did you put a render in to fill out half of the wallpaper ? i mean, there is nothing else in the left part of the image.. lame,.

 

[Jesse]

i dont like it at all..

why did you put a render in to fill out half of the wallpaper ? i mean, there is nothing else in the left part of the image.. lame,.

I lol'd. *looks at your sig*

 

[gluestick]

forget it, i try doing feedback, suddenly i get attacked. (well who knows, Jesse, as always).

kkthxcya -.-

 

[Nefarious]

kkthxcya -.-

Actually it's "kthnxbai" ;D

Alright well... I like the carbon fiber look but what I'd do is instead of solid dark gray, do a gradient from gray to dark gray.. It would look more real...
As for the viper; instead of a shadow, duplicate it, ctrl-T and "flip vertically", and put it in place of the shadow. Then highlight the reflection render, create a new layer (while you still have the selection) make a white to clear gradient on top of it. Select that, click ctrl-shift-I to inverse your selection and delete what you have selected on the reflection layer. Get rid of the gradient layer you made and reduce the reflection layer to 50-75. :]

 

[Nefarious]

Well... I like the reflection... I personally like it better then the shadow.. how about you?

 

[Infernal Dave]

I lol'd. *looks at your sig*

I lol'd too!

Anyways, I like it alot. Though I don't think it should take all of the right side of the desktop. What I mean is to probably make some space at the top, bottom and a little to the right, so the viper symbol would be rectangle/square-like.

Other than that, 7/10.

 

[Nefarious]

Well, I am kind of 50/50 on it. On the one hand, I like the shadow because it is simpler, but on the other hand, the reflection makes it look more high tech / clean... So I don't know. Like I said earlier, if I could get the ground surface where the reflection / shadow is perfect, it'd be great.

Although, I am not too fond of the gradiant. Most of the time I do use gradiants, but when there are a ton of icons like I have, I think the flat color with the pattern looks better.


Thanks, and I am not quite sure what you mean by making the viper symbol rectangle/ square like. Though, if you could explain in more detail, I'd be glad to try it out and post.

I agree with the gradient not looking it's best.. And I think that you really couldn't make it better without completely changing some things...

What I think infernal was talking about was shrinking the symbol and sticking it in a corner... I thought about that too but what could you put to fill up the huge negative space that would create... Maybe the word "Viper" I don't know. Maybe you could play around with the idea.. But it's fine how it is..

 

[Charlieb1212]

I personally think it looks really cool, Not hard to make, but Cool Idea.

 

[Xjaa]

I personally like the styling.