What a good tile! I love it... a 5 from me. Just two very little details, for the next time, you could try to blend a little better (using zoom and higher brigthness to the screen to see the little differences), it is not bad blended at all, but at the left the blending line looks very clear (at least for me, I use 800x600 resolution on a 17" monitor), and the other thing is less important, but you have used a 8 bits palette mode... why? One of the problems of using palette mode is that when you change from RGB to palette with a diffusion dithering, it creates a pattern of noise-looking very different colors pixels (check with zoom your down border at the grass), very difficult to blend by your neighbours. Well, maybe I'm just a blending obsesed and nobody else than me will care about it :-)
Great job, continue this way... I will check for all your new tiles... and would give you a coin for this one as soon as I get one xD
This tile is from Newbies 26: I Call Two Geeses, and Other Classic Tunes.
Tile Info
Comment: Man, this is hardwork.
By: Ju-Lian
Checked out at: July 10, 2003
Checked in at: July 10, 2003
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Yeah!
Re: Yeah!
O_O wow, i wasnt expecting a lengthy comment like this. This is very encouraging. Thanks! I used a 8bit mode because....I don't know anything bout PNG. I'll read your comments very carefully and give it another go! :D
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There is a bug in photoshop that opens the PNGs from here at 16 bits/channel. You need to change them to 8bits/channel under (Image>Mode).
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He's right the tile does deserve a 5, but since I'm one harsh [insert bad name here], the lack of blending is worth a -2 so I'm voting 3 :)
In tiles, I believe, one of the most important things is to blend with the adjacent tiles well.
In tiles, I believe, one of the most important things is to blend with the adjacent tiles well.
Concordance!
Lian,
This is really a great piece of artwork. You have an admirable sense of composition and proportions, and it's just plain drawn well -- complicated but simple, detailed but integrated. Good work, especially on the background!
I agree with some of the other critiques: I feel the blending is poor on the left and right sides, which is actually to be expected with your first tile. Notice how the purple-ish color on the left actually trends downward, while you took it higher, leaving a line of darker blue-purple to disrupt the natural flow of the background. Also, the green of the tree-type-thing just below the purple looks to me like it would have moved downward as well, following the shading along its lower edge; however, you took it straight. I think it could have worked, but maybe with a little bit of a smoother color transition from that chartreuse instead of the abrupt blue-shift you chose.
Along the top, it looks like you might've left a bit of a line of light blue (perhaps a leftover from the white background?).Did you read the tiles.ice.org tutorial here? It cleared up some major issues for me with blending and tiling technique within photoshop, and the principles would apply to any major image editing suite.
This is *very* good work, and with just a little improvement in your border-matching, you'll be one of those "golden" artists who pulls in straight 5.0s on every tile :) Welcome to tiles.ice.org :)
This is really a great piece of artwork. You have an admirable sense of composition and proportions, and it's just plain drawn well -- complicated but simple, detailed but integrated. Good work, especially on the background!
I agree with some of the other critiques: I feel the blending is poor on the left and right sides, which is actually to be expected with your first tile. Notice how the purple-ish color on the left actually trends downward, while you took it higher, leaving a line of darker blue-purple to disrupt the natural flow of the background. Also, the green of the tree-type-thing just below the purple looks to me like it would have moved downward as well, following the shading along its lower edge; however, you took it straight. I think it could have worked, but maybe with a little bit of a smoother color transition from that chartreuse instead of the abrupt blue-shift you chose.
Along the top, it looks like you might've left a bit of a line of light blue (perhaps a leftover from the white background?).Did you read the tiles.ice.org tutorial here? It cleared up some major issues for me with blending and tiling technique within photoshop, and the principles would apply to any major image editing suite.
This is *very* good work, and with just a little improvement in your border-matching, you'll be one of those "golden" artists who pulls in straight 5.0s on every tile :) Welcome to tiles.ice.org :)
WAH
Thank you all. I've saved and will reread all these advices carefully. I wish I could've done better with the blending but I'm a total retard when it comes to painting with Photoshop. ;__; Can I use Painter Classic to paint tiles? (which does not support layers btw) Oh man. I'll tinker around.
Thanks again. Wah, thanks for the coin! 0_____________0;;
Thanks again. Wah, thanks for the coin! 0_____________0;;