Originally posted by Col. Valerian
LEL at the idea that you guys could make sigs as artistically sound as mine or some of the other artists that used to visit the sig forums because PS is 'easy to learn'. You can't become a great one if you don't have the talents. I say this in the least jerk way possible.
Putting bars and a fadeout on a picture is really hard 👆
Originally posted by JKBart
Learning to use Photoshop itself is pretty easy. The tools are perfectly simple and straight-forward, the whole interface is incredibly user-friendly, and honestly you can't make the life of the designer easier. Photoshop is pretty much perfect and one needs a serious mental hindrance to be beyond mastering how to use the tools there.Using it to create good effect is another thing. It's laughably easy to do the shadering in Photoshop, but it requires artistic skills and good 3D perception to be able to know how should the shaders "form" around the thing you are placing. Let's say - you put a render of 3D model of a character from a game into some quality background and then try to shader it. You need knowledge and perception to know how would the highlights and shadows look IRL.
Similarly, any retard can download a font, use it in Photoshop and use the "Layer Properties" to combine it into some kind of effect. Having a good eye, selecting a neat font, knowing what artistic effect do you want to accomplish is another thing.
A lot of that depends on what you're doing, too. I do myself have issues with realistically applying shadows on humanoids in Photoshop, although I'd generally use Blender for something of that nature anyway.
Either way my point was that you don't need to be a genius to create cool sigs in Photoshop. For professional level work obviously more time and effort is necessary, although I doubt most of it has to do with born talent as much as interest and investment. That
Originally posted by Col. Valerian
I didn't know you were a sig artist, Bart. There's more to you than trolling.
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Bart is incredibly underappreciated tbh.
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean--I've never really thought to make a sig--but couldn't you get a fade effect with some basic applications of layer masking?