Hey everyone, this is my forums thred for my art graphics. I usually just use my computer...

Anyway, the way I do these is usuing Adobe PhotoShop: Elements 2.0. It's a great program for doing this; it isn't too hard, or very un-professional. What I do is search for pirctures that are very plain (not many graphics on them) and do some cool graphics on them.

I hope you like them !

Before:

http://xs60.xs.to/pics/05515/shugo.jpg

After:

http://xs60.xs.to/pics/05515/shugoblueswirl.jpg

Took about 20-30 mins. to do this. I was almost just messing around. The black text in the right hand corner is my first name, "Seth."

And no, I didn't just do like one or two things. It took about 10-15 different styles to do this. There was work into it! :heh:

Hope you like this one. I'll look for other pictures..

Looks weird... :think: Can't tell if it's in a good way or a bad way. :heh:

well, w/ the original, the main focus was on the character, but after adding the swirl thing, there's an epicenter, and thats where most of the attention wanders towards...

Yup, so maybe it would've been better to do the swirl leading into the character, rather than the smack center.

I think you should turn on something like Soft Light or Vivid Light or even turn down the Fill. It makes the swirls less obvious and the Character would stand out more. But its good other then that :P