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^I'm part of your sig now, nice. lol.

I just noticed your sig says Australian, funny, I was talking about fairy bread last week and no body knew what it was at my work.

Seirra Lanzce
Radical Roegadyn (Picture)

http://i.imgur.com/tq4XTXD.jpg

Every Aussie child knows fairy bread and kangaroo ice blocks ^_^
http://home.pacific.net.au/~dxm-dsl/...4/image010.jpg

Kangaroo ice blocks?! I have learned something new...

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Originally Posted by Niqote

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I was curious if you'd share your screenie editing techniques; I've always loved the edit you've done to your sig and I've snooped your deviantart a little and love the edits you've done for friends there, so just curious if you wouldn't mind sharing that, or is it a best-kept-secret? ;)

I'm always looking to try new things! As an artist I feel that even 17+ years on I'm still trying to find my style ; ; lol so I wish to try as many things as I can and kinda stick 'em in a blender and see what I end up with. D:

Been drawing since I was 5...tried various other things as well...still can't find my "style" either :p I like too many things. Photo editing, drawing, digital painting, animation.. T.T

As long as you enjoy what you're doing though, why not? D:

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

Been drawing since I was 5...tried various other things as well...still can't find my "style" either :p I like too many things. Photo editing, drawing, digital painting, animation.. T.T

As long as you enjoy what you're doing though, why not? D:

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Hehe for sure!! The main thing I'm curious about is her luminosity effects, I fail miserably at those so even when something is shown as being under 'bright' light they still look a little dull and faded. That being said, hers have a somewhat ethereal/dreamy quality to them and that is what I'd like to capture haha :D It's beautiful!

I feel your pain about liking too many things lol, at the moment I have dress-making (totally not limited to dresses though!), knitting, crochet, cooking , sculpting and digipainting because it's so much cheaper than spending hundreds on decent acrylics and brushes etc etc ; ;

Well... for these I actually had to enlist int he help of a photographer friend. I am all self taught and there is so much I don't know about photoshop etc ^^;;; I used to be Illustrator ONRY lol
So he taught me about filters and colour management and the rest is just... made up as I go. I guess I could make a tutorial but I wouldn't know where to start o.o;;;

I will say this though... a good screenshot is crucial unless you want to spend 3 hours just dealing with clipping and redrawing a bunch of stuff

See: MNK loin flap thing
http://www.walagata.com/w/nique/FFXI...NK_Compare.jpg

Like Vilhem I have dabbled in many medias and... kind of flit from one to the other never mastering anything XD

I feel your pain!! Haha, my biggest question is 'how do you put the luminosity into the skin'? :O

Also, the mnk glamor shot is loooovely, it looks a hell of a lot more life-like after you tweaked the colors etc :D

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Originally Posted by Nix

I feel your pain!!

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Colour is very important, to make the character look like they are not sitting 'on top of' the image behind. I paint it with a very soft brush after that and use a soft eraser if it is too much ^^
I want to do more of them but I lack good SSs since servers are down XD! I will do myself as a SMN with Carby when able!

I had an embarrassing emergency with PS the other day because I didn't know what colour profiling was and I accidentally changed mine! So my images saved super dark ;_; it was a terrible few hours, but ViVa from Masamune too helped me fix it ^^