Calintz's Graphic Designs

[Calintz]

New times ... new work!!
Believe it or not, while I have been away from CP, I have not been away from my computer. Or, for that matter, Adobe Photoshop. I have undergone extensive tutorials and shaped a new more professional style for creating signatures. Enough talk though, let's get to the work!!

Avatars:
A Pixel's Worst Nightmare

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I'm a Little Shy

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RAWR!!

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MID(Military Intelligence Division) Maes Hughes

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Signatures:
A Pixel's Worst Nightmare

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I'm a Little Shy

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RAWR!!

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MID(Military Intelligence Division) Maes Hughes

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Judgment Day

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Submit or Perish

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[G_G]

These are good! Calintz kee[ it up

[Landith]

The userbar and avatar are epic. did you make those all photoshop with stock stuff?
Except for the Magna Carta render of course... (at least I think it's Magna Carta)

[Calintz]

I obtained the zombie picture for the nemesis .jpg from a google images search, which left the artist unknown to me. If anybody finds the name of the artist, I would appreciate a PM, so that I may relay proper credit.

The girl laying in the grass came from animerender.com. I am a gold member there, and I have access to all of the gold renders .

All of the grass, and skies, and yes, even the energy ball were made solely by using Photoshop's extensive filters and various features. I obtained the clouds for the background from deviantart.com. The Calintz .jpg came from creativeuncut.com

**You will notice all of these in the credits.

[Landith]

Yeah, I kinda...skipped that part lol I just looked at your images.
It's pretty impressive though.

[Calintz]

Thank you...

[Calintz]

*Bump*

New Zelda Picture under the random section...
**My favorite part of that picture is the text...

[King Munkey]

Link can talk? lol your stuff is pretty good. I really like the one that is ur avatar though.

[Calintz]

He can now!!
Haha, thank you Kingmunkey =)

**I'm here for you!!

[Landith]

The Link one look great! Keep them coming

[Calintz]

Haha, thanks, and I will...

[Tazero]

You seriously oughta make link dying and letting a fairy go

Dialouge....

Link: Your free heal me
silence
Fairy: No!
Link:Why?
Fairy: shoes, I had shoes i had to eat them to stay alive!
Link: So no heal?
Fairy: Take a bite outta your boot and then we'll talk!

[Calintz]

.. .. ..
LMAO, no haha.

EDIT
Midnight Panties has been uploaded...XD

[shdwlink1993]

Love the artwork, Calintz! Keep it up!!!

You seriously oughta make link dying and letting a fairy go

Dialouge....

Link: Your free heal me
silence
Fairy: No!
Link:Why?
Fairy: shoes, I had shoes i had to eat them to stay alive!
Link: So no heal?
Fairy: Take a bite outta your boot and then we'll talk!

... You DO know there already is a comic EXACTLY like that already, right? Right down to the 'bite out of your boot' punchline?

[Calintz]

...uh-oh.. .. ..
Shadwlink is on to you MetaKnight!! XD

[Tazero]

Seriously?

[Reno-s--Joker]

These are touch ups, right?
Good work - working with filters is always a great place to start out with art - there's nothing but good stuff ahead of you if you work hard enough for it. Keep it up!

[Calintz]

Hey, thank you Reno...

The characters are not mine, but ALL of the scenery in EVERY picture was created from scratch with PS...
Except for the Nemesis that is. He came complete with a background XD

[Calintz]

Got a new sig up ...

[G_G]

I love it calintz. It truly is amazing.

[Diokatsu]

Seriously?

Improve your timing.

[Starrodkirby86]

It's hard to read the Calintz on the text. It looks a little random having Saber there, but it's an interesting signature that's very unique. I wish I can write more, but I have nothing else to say. :<

[Calintz]

Another new signature ... It's called, Submit

[King Munkey]

Calintz thats some pretty sweet stuff.

[Calintz]

Yet another signature ...
I'm getting pretty good at PS ...

The only outside source once again was the render of Winry from Full Metal Alchemist. The rest was generated from scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3.

P.S.
The new sig is titled "Pointless."

[Starrodkirby86]

Winry...Winry! D:

Haha, such a revealing signature there. It's very simplistic, but its downfall might be that it's actually pretty empty. It's not exactly that the spaciousness is a bad a thing, it's just...'pointless', hm?  You should experiment more with text blending effects. :3

Bubbles kinda making me think that Winry's taking a bath or something. o_o A bubble bath, I mean.

[Calintz]

Haha dirty starrod kirby, Lol.
Thanks for the tips. And the reason it is so empty was because I was focusing on the water droplets. They were the important piece to the signature. After I completed them, I didn't care about anything else ... thus, pointless, Lol.

[Landith]

Lol looking good!
Like the last Sig

Keep up the good work man. lol

[Calintz]

There will be more soon, and they are gonna get sticky, Lol.
I'm gonna start trying different things and veer away from my set style ...

[computerwizoo7]

Did you really draw and paint those?
My guess is no, that means you can't just declare them as your own work, other than that i guess they are pretty good.

[Calintz]

Not the renders(the characters)
I have proper credit for my work listed Compute. I'm not claiming anything as mine that I didn't do.

[computerwizoo7]

oh, cool.

[Calintz]

yup yup, and they are in need of an update also ...
Check back in like 10mins and I will have some updated versions of my current sigs ...

EDIT
Check the new sig >> "One Shot"
Check the updated sig >> "Submit"

[Starrodkirby86]

One-Shot: Work on those blending text effects more. Don't just reduce yourself to the pitiful features they just have. I think you would need a border around. It looks ugly just cut-off. I see your style already, and its easy-on-eyes effect.

Submit: Calintz is hard to read on the bottom left corner. Pretty cool render.

No additional comment, so great job.

[Calintz]

Thank you Starrod. I will look into those things.

[King Munkey]

Love the new sigs Cal.

Makes me want to make some of my own

[Calintz]

Go for it!!

[King Munkey]

I probably will later. Right now I am watching Swordfish and talking to some people.

I think my favorite is Submit

[G_G]

Lovin the Pointless Sig.

[Calintz]

The final version of 'Submit' has been uploaded ...

Edit
There is an update of 'One Shot' as well ... This however is NOT the final version until further notice ...

[G_G]

Those are all excellent. Still love the pointless the most

acutally I love the Submit one the most its freaking awesome!!!!!

Way to go Calintz love them all.

[Calintz]

Thank you very much Game_Guy ...
Any suggestions on how I can improve anything anyone??

edit
New signature up. 'Day at the Beach'
As it is the rough copy, I need some tips now . There are a couple noticeable errors right from the start though, like the cut-off. I will work on these issues asap, but in the meantime, let me know what you think XD.

edit2
In case you didn't know ... the same style was incorporated into 'Day at the Beach' as was originally introduced by 'Pointless.'
The new signature is actually taking the old's place.

edit3
I have posted the 1st update to 'Day at the Beach'

[King Munkey]

Day at the Beach is hot.

Yea great stuff though. I need to try some signatures of my own. I think I may just go do that now.

[Landith]

I agree with Munkey!

"Day at the Beach" is looking really... well 

I can't wait to see the finished product.
Good work Cal :3
Your starting to get better!

[Calintz]

Haha thanks guys ... I live for the support.
Now I have a question ... Which of these two is better??

** Nevermind XD - It's already been decided ... Thanks WcW

[fugibo]

Second. Might be better if you gave it some flame-like stuff, similar to in the first one. But other than that, very much better.

[Calintz]

Alright, thank you WcW ... I have an idea .

[Starrodkirby86]

Oh? You're finally deciding to merge the text in with the picture?

Good for you. Now that you have done something like that, you should try creating very different effects to match the atmosphere you are aiming it for. This can include blending the text within the picture, such as what you are doing.

[Calintz]

i've been trying hard to do that, but i cant fully blend text yet ... I haven't figured out how to ... I am working on it though

[Starrodkirby86]

I finally decided to see your One-Shot signature. It's way better than before; your skill is increasing tremendously. The text however is way too hard to read. Please change it in future versions~.

[Calintz]

Thank you Starrod ...
I will see what I can do about the text ...

Do you have any suggestions??

[Starrodkirby86]

Don't just leave it as a gradient with similar colors. Add some outside border with it more. Don't hesitate to duplicate the layer and play with some layer blending effects.

Those are some basic suggestions on my end.

[Calintz]

What exactly do you mean by border on text!!??

[King Munkey]

The outline of it.

[Calintz]

Well, I normally add a stroke, but in this case, I just used a glow.

[Starrodkirby86]

Use the Stroke Blending Effect for a border-like look. Some cool effect you can do with the Stroke is have it Embossed with the Emboss effect there (Just set it to Stroke Emboss). :3

Don't limit yourself to just Blending Options with your text. I don't have any uploaded image that shows me going beyond with the text except for this one (Which was uploaded around mid 2008):

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By this, be creative with your duplicates. Notice on the background here, I rotated them like heck while adding some opacity changes.

[Calintz]

Hmm ...
I will give it a shot.

In the meantime, I was working on a remaster of the one shot.
By now, it should be up

[King Munkey]

The text is still kinda hard to see. I think a stroke may make it look a little easier to read.

[Calintz]

But the stroke removes the gradient...

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EUREKA!! I have found a viable solution

[Starrodkirby86]

Make it 1-2 points big. Make it transparent by a bit or change the layer effects. You don't need to go all cookie cutter now, just choose whatever variety of choices would work.

Or...

You can take my advice for that text and duplicate it, then work around with that. Just do what you can with tools you have. Go for it.

[Calintz]

I've tried those things, and I didn't care for the outcome. My solution is a gradient stroke applied underneath to help visibility, while disappearing at the top where the text is clear ...

The new product is up for viewing

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'One Shot' Final Copy is up...

[Starrodkirby86]

Where were those fractals from two versions ago? I liked them being personally...can you have a blend of both?

I find having that circle with Saber kind of inconsistent, but it doesn't really matter what happens though.

Can you tinker with that bottom border a bit?

I understand that if you're sick of that image or not.  I mean, you edited that thing over 9000 times, so...yeah.

[Calintz]

The fractal has been re-inserted. It does give a nice feel to it .
What do you want to see done with the lower border!?

[King Munkey]

Calintz it looks great. And I agree with SRK in that the fractals looked great.

[Calintz]

New signature is up ... Look for "Sub-Zero"!!

[King Munkey]

I like it. I think maybe use another bg it looks almost exactly like One Shots. But it does look cool though. Maybe try giving it an icy feel.

[Calintz]

Yeah, I noticed that also, so I'll whip one up, and replace it later today. Thank you

[King Munkey]

lol no problem. Sub-Zero and Scorpion are my two favorites characters from Mortal Kombat.

I do love the Mortal Kombat symbol though.

[Calintz]

I know ...
It was tricky to do ...

I had to apply a cooling filter several times, and use a gradient t block out some bad light on the bottom. In the end though, that symbol really looks kinda phenomenal.

[Calintz]

New signature ... Very simple design. 'MegaMan.'

[Landith]

Simple, yet effective. I like it. Especially that little C looking thing in the bottom left hand corner. Is that part of your name of just a little design? Hard to tell because it's so small...

[King Munkey]

Pretty nice. Agreeing with Landith that it is simple, yet effective.

[Starrodkirby86]

You just got a great 'artist's signature' there, my friend. 

Really, that signature looks great. If I were to criticize however, I would say that the text doesn't have any nice bordering or interaction with the signature background. Sure, a color is the same with the background so it merges with that, but it doesn't look too appealing. I don't really know how you can fix that...except maybe to tinker around and try out lots of text related stuff. Duplicate, rasterize, etc.

[Calintz]

@Kingmunkey && Landith:
The 'C' design is part of my personal signature. I rendered it from Calintz's pants

Thanks Starrod. LMAO, If you haven't noticed yet, the only roadblock between my signatures and you, normally resides with the text. I'm sorry to say, that I just plain out lack the skill and knowledge of text effects to improve them. Because of this, I am forced to stick to the application's standard FX for text.

A tragedy befalls me to go outside of those default text effects as well. It would be a mistake for "me." I feel as though I still don't know enough about the full features of the program to accurately experiment with success. I believe I would just destroy the work by experimenting on it.

Nonetheless, I believe that I will sit down when I have some extra time, and experiment on text, and see what new effects come of it. You can't succeed without trying.

[Starrodkirby86]

Then, if you don't feel confident of possibly ruining a fine signature, make something new.

If you need a bunch of text layers, but feel disorganized or confused by the high quantity of layers, add a folder.

Keep experimenting, just make crap. The file's your canvas to paint on, so try out whatever techniques suit you fancy.

And yeah. They are still very good though. ^_^

[Calintz]

Updated ...
New times, new work. XD.