Nice work! Your good in using the photoshop. I hope I can be good in photoshop like you!

thanks

I like the very first one, it has some style!

thanks

Beautiful Beautiful Work! I am partial to night scenes so that's kind of my favorite!

really? wow thanks alot man!

I'm only a fan of the first design. The other ones not so much. Good job!

Don't mean to be johnny raincloud here, but most of it's just alright. The first was the best, in my opinion. The CD cover is probably the worst, I think.

Some things about your style I like. You do have some areas that you need improving on, though.

-Trey

ok thanks.

First one is the best...it seems you are quite good with photoshop, now its time to get better acquainted with the tools you have. Remember, practice makes perfect...

cheeers!

Heh, so far this thread is like critique in a VERY early on design class
No one seems to want to say anything that could be taken negatively, but at the same time it's hindering improvement! Though they are good beginnings, I think there are a lot of improvements that can be made on these. Please feel free to disagree but these are the changes I would make..

The first one is nice, the background works well. Though I would change the text a bit, make it pop a bit more maybe with a color change and removing the stroke and gradient. It's dark and doesn't really stand out the way it is, it's barely noticeable. Like many other posters, I think this one is the strongest.

On the cd cover the first thing I notice is the text on the wall looks like it was photoshopped on with out much care at all. Try playing around with the blending options, or even better use a displacement map to make it look more like it is really on the wall. Displacement maps are awesome fun
Here is some more info on how to use them: http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutoria...ap/dispmap.htm
The second thing that jumps out at me there is the image of the guy. The lighting/shadows on him makes him look like he does not belong in that room. There is not enough contrast, there is no true black on him, yet there is a true black in the background image. Also the shadows don't match from image to image (the windows are the only light source apparent in the background image). Also there is a noticeable lining where he was clipped out of a lighter background. Try making a mask around his layer, zoom in at least 300% and use a brush to clean it up the edges, the smudge tool is also great here when your working with hair and need to keep from having that helmet-hair look.
Also, a minor thing, but the with parental advisory icon (on every cd I've seen at least) there is a space between the icon and the left and bottom edge of the cover.

On the DA, try getting rid of the harsh, jagged stroke. Add more contrast to the image it self to make it pop, the colors are very bland. With the content it seems as though it should be more powerful, with dark blacks and rich colors. Personally I think it would look great if the image where changed to primarily blacks and reds with the first letters of "distinct advantage" in a matching red. The peachy first letters don't make much of a statement.

For the fourth project, it seems like there should be more contrast in the guy in the foreground, he almost blends away in the rest of the image. Everything is a bit unclear. It's very hard to tell what is going on in the background. I can tell there is an image of a person but the angle of it, the way he is looking down and wearing the white hat and white top, makes it a confusing image.
The whole image looks unclear though, blurry. I'm sure it would look much stronger if it were sharper, at least the foreground image. If that were crisp I think the blurrier cityscape would be acceptable.

Here's how I based my comment on the beautiful work, I have merchants in my online mall, these people have stores and having their websites professionally done. Most of them could use a very serious makeover, they are just terrible and they have been in my mall for years, I am looking at the graphics, text and just overall design. Plus I also surf the web and this is professional web designing??? But I have seen some outstanding web designing also. When I see these graphics, I see creativity in each piece and beautifully done compared to what I do see. Perhaps there could be improvements, but that will come with practice and working with the software, learning the tools, just what you can do.

Keep up the great work Webmaster K!

the DA logo is quiet good and I like the first one also ... that's a great photoshop skills keep it up ... practice practice and practice

The color of the last one is so deep! I think you've done great job!

I liked the concepts and i would say that just keep practicing and the quality will e improved slowly and slowly.

The first one is pretty good, but no offense but I do not like the third picture one bit. Overall you seem to have a beginners talent at photoshop. You show potential, but don't just think that because you can make these pictures you can do anything.

On the second one it clearly looks like the guy was cut out of one picture and pasted over the scenery.

The third one all you did was take a picture and copy the outline of some text and cut out the picture.

The one that says 2-hammers only shows one hammer, and all you did below was fade one picture into another.

For the last it would be better if it wasn't an animated GIF.

I don't mean to be offensive but I am just trying to critic your work.

My turn to try and be constructive.

My personal take on these images as a whole is that you're right around early intermediate. Better than beginner, but it looks like your 'eye' needs some more experience under it's belt (that's right, I said your eyeball has a belt).

First image.
What's good: The background compliments the subject pretty well without taking away from what you want the viewer to focus on. The images of your chosen subject are fairly clean and composed in a way that feels pretty balanced and "right".
What's not so good: Well, you chose the wrong subject to focus on. By this I mean that this is suppose to be a web banner (right?), but all I see is a guy in the middle, then, OH WAIT, there's a webaddress in the corner. That's not right. Make the web address pop out, take control, and look badass. That is the most important part of the banner. The cool guy in the middle should be there to compliment the address, not to be the subject himself. Also from a technical standpoint, your dimensions don't seem to fit with the most common web banner dimensions (I may be wrong, but it doesn't look like it does).

Second image.
What's good: The photograph looks very appropriate for what the image is suppose to be for (a CD cover).
What's not so good: I think Tamyra hit this one almost exactly, the text is bad, the guy is not lighted correctly. But more than that, the photo of the guy is just not what you want to see on this sort of CD. He looks like he's sitting in a chair at a photo shoot. Boring. Try playing around with images of people/this guy that are not so staged. I bet what would look cooler for this setting is if you adjust your levels on the background to darken most of the image, then set the guy up as just a silhouette standing in the room somewhere. I don't know, but something a bit more interesting than a guy sitting in a chair looking at me.

Third image.
What's good: Balanced and clean (other than the jaggies along the larger lettering). Pretty clear theme, it's easy to see that this is a logo of some kind for something anime related (If that's wrong, then this would probably fall under 'not so good').
What's not so good: Two things I would focus on this one. First is you used the same font for both big and small lettering. I would stay away from this, try using different fonts when there are 2 basic sizes in lettering (i.e. big stuff and small stuff). Try using a very clean font for the small stuff to contrast with the grunge text used in the big stuff. I have a feeling some bold helvetica would look great with the dirty big letters you're using, save for one change which brings me to the second thing. Your kerning needs some attention. That is, the spacing between letters is uniform and this doesn't work for every letter gap. See the gaps on either side of the second "I" in distinct and compare that to the gab between the "C" and "T". This may seem like nit picking, but trust me when you get into higher level stuff it will become a very big deal so you might as well get used to paying attention to it.

Fourth image.
What's good: The logo in the upper half looks good. Pretty nice design and balance to it. The images in the lower half fit well together and the monochrome seems to work for it.
What's not so good: Well I don't really know what this image is intended to be used for (small wallpaper? or maybe a print-ad?) so that cuts out most of the critiquing right there. I'll just toss a couple things out there. The blue is a tiny bit too dark to match up with black by itself. The logo is half missing because there is too much gradient mask on the bottom portion, I can't read the bottom but it doesn't look like it's suppose to be a reflection so I need to see more. That's probably about it for that one. Not too shabby.

Thanks, and I hope you don't take my (or anybody else's) feedback too personally or too literally. All this stuff is just my opinion, as there really aren't any right or wrong answers with this kind of stuff.

Keep up the good work.

The firts one is cool. agree with jacobpov