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Offline Blacksheepboy

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Avatars?
« on: October 18, 2009, 02:34:25 pm »
These songs inspired me to make these. They could be used/edited as avatars, or technically anything. I was actually house cleaning yesterday, and wanted some new background music (I'm lacking new tunes), so I used some of ScHall's electronica music and made multiple versions for cover art to use on my little Zune.

The original:


Then different versions of above...
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Offline LtKillroy

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Re: Avatars?
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2009, 03:37:27 pm »
Two. Mos def.
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Re: Avatars?
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2009, 03:42:41 pm »
resize the last one, looks sweet!
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Re: Avatars?
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2009, 04:48:47 pm »
I like pretty much all of them, except #1 (not a fan of filters..).
How did you make the original one?
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« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2009, 05:29:56 pm »
I was going for a specific look. I wanted something that had an electric-esque feeling. So I screwed around with Gimp's gradient flares and decided to layer two on top of each other, then tossed a "sodel edge" on it to get the original. I used the edge's default settings, but messed around with the flares to even 'em out.

From there, I went a little crazy with a variety of different effects and filters. There's a few more versions. These were just my favorite.
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Offline MattH

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Re: Avatars?
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2009, 06:50:54 pm »
Last one (_the one that you are using right now)
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Offline jrgp

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Re: Avatars?
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2009, 08:08:27 pm »
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« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2009, 09:12:56 pm »
It reminds me "Vortex" from iPod games.
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Re: Avatars?
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2009, 01:12:27 pm »
I would stick with the last one, how did you do it?
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Offline Blacksheepboy

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Re: Avatars?
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2009, 06:11:33 pm »
Quote from: Blacksheepboy on October 18, 2009, 05:29:56 pm
--how I made the original version--

With the last one...

I know I did something to make the original version black and white, but in a very round-a-bout way. I then proceeded to "color to alpha" all the black (to remove the black background for the transparent effect).

Afterward, since the image was so dim from removing all of the black in the image -- under the Filters tab in Gimp, then in Combine -- I used the "depth merge" effect (essentially layering duplicates of the image onto itself) to make it bolder and darker.

Capeesh?
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« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2009, 10:31:33 am »
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Offline Blacksheepboy

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Re: Avatars?
« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2009, 05:38:35 pm »
I know, it's hard to describe some of the steps properly :(
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« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2009, 11:18:54 am »
I liked the smaller version more than your current :-\
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« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2009, 05:37:12 pm »
Select all of those avz! :DDD
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