[Show-Off][Rate] Errage finally decided to attempt an Avatar!

[Errage]

Hello Graphic experts and beginners and anything between.

I've been slowly working on things in Photoshop, playing around, making Sigs, but nothing smaller. I tried an avatar once and scrapped it, I don't like working with the small space, but I decided my old avatar just didn't fit my sig at all, so I decided to give it a shot.

I grabbed a simple pic, Grayscale'd it, blurred everything but the eyeball, sharpened the eyeball, and added+blurred a small 'border', then colored the iris green.

Tell me what you think / rate please



EDIT: If you think you can make an Avatar to better fit my signature, please feel free to post it ^^

[Puff]

First off not bad with the selective saturation. But the blur dosent work well. Possibly a zoom radias around the eye might be more effective. I advise you use a white 1pxl border instead of the current one you have it will give it a more classy finish.

Last thing it looks abit odd shaped (stretched upwards) Possibly reduce the height a tad.

- Puff

[Errage]

Still learning, Blur was the only thing I knew how to do, so explain a bit on 'zoom radias'?

And I HATE the little line borders, I can't stand them, so not a chance there >.<

[jzf]

Your definitely going over a learning curb right now. What I could recommend is following tutorials to learn more and more techniques to blending backgrounds and making your avatar flow more. I can't say I dislike or like the avatar, all I can say is it needs work and I'm sure you can improve on it. Try and do some animation and color switching to give it more appeal.

[Puff]

Do NOT do animation, by far the most tacky'est thing on the planet. Send me the Ava's psd format and ill apply the chanegs i was talking about, I'll send you the psd back so you can see what i did.

- Puff

[Remahlól]

It looks very good Errage, but only the edges should have been a bit better.

Try the following :

Select the whole picture -> Copy it all -> Open a new document with the size of the picture +20px width and height -> insert your current picture -> select it with a selection tool -> Refine (or redefine Oo) edges or just Feather and there play a bit around -> you should get a nice smooth effect!