New to photoshop, help needed!

moneyhustler · #11 (**permalink**) 07-02-2008, 05:16 AM

Thanks for the compliments first of all

I think you are really right about that left, red part of the building - the perspective doesn't really work here. I'll have to change that..
As far as the "unrealistic" colors are concerned, I kinda like that. It has this comic-like look and I fear it could appear a bit boring and monotone, if I only used tanish and sandish colors here. My idea is to change the color of those parts that are radiant red right now according to the different denoms used. Let's see, how this looks.
So I'll spend another couple of hours and show you the results

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Originally Posted by Wizard

Hey, cool design you got going there. Some subjective feedback if ya want it:

1. If you want the cantina to better represent the star wars one, i'd go with a closer color scheme with tans and lighter brown.

2. You might want to try flattening out the ground line and using that to "halve" the chip and place then even out the text below it for ease of read. You'll need to change the perspective a little to do this. If you like it the way it is, then i would only change the very back left portion (the accentuated red arch is a little out of perspective.

3. How large did you make the center graphic? The lines look a little choppy.

Other than that, it has some serious potential! Nice job)

~M

TBonesPoker · #12 (**permalink**) 07-02-2008, 05:45 AM

This may help Free Actions for Adobe Photoshop - Cartoon Effects. Also, the English version of Pixia will do some amazing things. Learning curve is a little steep since all the help is translated from Japanese, but might be worth the time.

You may also want to try some of the built-in Photoshop filters. For example, the cutout filter gives a "cartoonish" look.

200 Motels · #13 (**permalink**) 07-02-2008, 06:05 PM

I love the Cantina idea, however the design does look a little choppy. Kinda like an Atari game. I would stick to using one to two colors for the graphic. One for the buildings and one for the the shadowing.

Boomaholic · #14 (**permalink**) 07-05-2008, 06:08 PM

It looks nice. I think you can get a good cel-shaded cartoony effect using Posterize. I use elements myself so I don't have that effect available to me. but i do have a cool effect called Poster Edges, which gave me the following effect after smudging the edges also.

Personally I think it would be awsome to use the denom sign for Imperial Credits instead of the dollar sign but thats just me. GL!

checkm8r · #15 (**permalink**) 07-05-2008, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Boomaholic

Nicely done!

moneyhustler · #16 (**permalink**) 07-06-2008, 10:17 AM

Boom,

thanks for that approach, it looks really nice! I tried something on this effect, too.. But for now I like the "mosaic" effect best - it makes the whole thing a bit more abstract and this is to what I've come so far [again, what do you all think?

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Besides, I love the Imperial Credit idea, I already thougt about this, but do you know where I find this symbol?! It looks a bit like a seven, right?

wafflestomper · #17 (**permalink**) 07-06-2008, 11:41 AM

I like the idea, but I don't think that you can tell what it is AT ALL. Also, I think that it is going to be really, really small. Probably smaller than you would like. Try printing it out to see what it will really look like.

I would start with a large image of one of the buildings, and then run the mosaic effect, and then shrink that image. It looks like you started with a small image and ran the effect, therefore leaving you with a few polygons that don't really resemble anything.

Boomaholic · #18 (**permalink**) 07-06-2008, 12:50 PM

Your Quite Welecome. i would also have to agree with wafflestomper, You cant really tell what the image is at all. as far as the imperial credits i would try looking for a star wars font to download i was looking but i couldnt find any. maybe you'll have more luck

wafflestomper · #19 (**permalink**) 07-06-2008, 01:21 PM

Here is an option for a Star Wars font (not the best, but pretty good)

Star Jedi Font | dafont.com

another possibility:

Star Wars Galaxies - Fonts

Boomaholic · #20 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by wafflestomper

Here is an option for a Star Wars font (not the best, but pretty good)

Star Jedi Font | dafont.com

another possibility:

Star Wars Galaxies - Fonts

sadly none of those fonts had the Star Wars currency symbol. So I did what i shoulda done in the first place lol. Busted out my Star Wars monopoly found the currency symbol there and photoshop it...