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Thanks for the advice! I can see what you mean with jackson needs to be clearer, couldn't really see that before in photoshop.

 

can someone make this a 120X120 Avatar for me please, thanks

 

ossum, thanks Lukin!

 

^ That looks badass Inuk, very nice choice of pic! :thumbs:

 

hey GB, what's happening with the duel final?

 

I've been ready since the end of Round 3!!!

Apparently Sid went for a holiday and decided to NOT fill anyone in on it!

So it's on hiatus until he returns!

 

going to use my current wonderful one for a while but when I need a new one can someone make this 120X120 as well?

thanks.

 

testing one two.

looks great Lukin, thanks again!

now to go back to sweet Hayden.

 

request fill

 

^ Fuck me, that text is pure class! :shock:

 

yeah i was messing with it the other day for something that never got finished, and i just saw vilecomforts request asking for plain but classy text, went into PS to look for something and that was already selected, i'd forgotten about it but i love it

 

One thing I noticed though was the white stroke on the "ORT" get's a little lost in the hair.

Not sure if that was the desired effect or not.

Still though, the small font on the name, then that caps semi-gothic font on the username. That's epic stuff!

 

a lot of the white stroke actually came from topaz, i've noticed it does that with a lot of text, there was only a tiny white stroke set to overlay and about 50% opacity, wasn't really visible before the topaz. quite like the way it softens as it passes over the hair though

 

Yeah it has some weird effects on text, that's why I rasterize and sharpen my text before throwing it through the filter.

It usually keeps it from getting jagged or distorted.

 

i quite like the effect it has on text in general to be honest, i think a lot of the time it ties the image and the text together if they're looking a bit disjointed

 

True, it definitely smooths it out a little, but it doesn't work well on small text!

Like when I put "phun.org" in small letters I'm always watching to see how distorted the filter will make it.

It's a great tool though, I know a lot of gfx guys look down on Topaz, but it's handy for what we do.

 

yeah like everything it has it's place. i've come to look at sigs as a little stylised graphic though, not just a photo at the end of your post. i think a lot of regular photos don't really 'fit' as sigs, whereas using something like topaz to sharpen it up and smooth the tones out a bit gives it a slightly surreal sort of feel, not too realistic.

hard to explain really

 

My experience of using Topaz on text is that it brought out a load of severe jaggies around the edges.