My first attempt at photoshop

My brother got photoshop cs3 full version so i decide to have a go lol these are my outcomes i used some tuts off sythe but i didn't understand what allot of terms mean so hear they are












Any tips, comments or advise would be appreciated thanks

 

How'd you do the flame around the car??

 

yes how do you to it

 

the flames look very good are you sure u made it?

 

First one: Too much blank space. The render isn't blended into the background at all, and the text is the wrong color/font/placement. And that 1 px border is really ugly.

Second one: Over use of a nice brush. Tone it down a bit, but add a few colors, and fix your damn text.

Third: No offense, But using a car render for a sig is so ridiculously generic. The flames look too much like they were done my someone with real experience with photoshop, and I'm not quite sure someone of your skill level could accomplish that. Also, change your text.

 

thx for your advise so far, but their is a few things i want to clear firstly i only spent a couple of days on these and i spent allot of my time reading about photoshop secondly the flames around the Ferrari were originally not supposed to be flames i started out doing some sort of tut and i smudged it and put it on colour dodge it all went wrong but looked alright at the end



this is where i started the smudging




more...



still more...



ect..



done



and hear it is

 

that's very nice

 

Thanks for the tut on the flames, I'm going to use it when I get back home.

 

Awesome. Good job, man.

 

nice job for first time user

 

When you build up the smudging, you also need to build down the car to suit it, so as there is little contrast.

 

see i don't know if it is luck or what it was but maybe it was the colour of the car the red made the background look good. i tried with a different one and also with other things then cars but im not finished yet.

 

Got a neat little technique there, but you need to develop your other skills.

Learn blending options (you can learn it by playing around with it).
It can be accessed by double clicking the layers image(? im not sure, havent used photoshop in maybe a month now)

I was going to comment on your cropping abilities, or lack of, but that 4th image (the mustang) was cropped alright.

You text - use a mix of filters and blending options.
I dont recommend using a brush instead of text.... download fonts from
http://dafont.com/ and go to http://webdesign.org/ for some hints and tips

Hope i helped - i love to see people taking up photoshop.