Savage's Awesome Photoshop Skills!

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  1. Tyler

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    First of all: as some of you may or may not know, I don't have them.
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    Now that that's clear, let's get cookin', shall we? Last night I had the sudden urge to remove the dead WordPress blog from my "personal" website and replace it with a holder-page, which would then eventually have the usual "about, contact, portfolio", etc. pages on it.

    I got as far as making a lousy image in Photoshop to put there. The best part about it is that it took me a good two hours to get the complete product that I was willing to settle with. Yes, two hours for this little thing. Before this, it looked completely different a good 10 or more times. Right before I would save it I would think to myself, "No, not this.", and go back and start playing with it again.
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    For the sake of having my own showcase thread, I present you with one of my only Photoshop-rendered images: FE.TW (soon I'll have some information on the site as well). :ohi:

    Feedback and advice is much appreciated. This is something I would like to get better at.
     
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    You know what, that's actually pretty good. Very good.

    I was gonna complain about the text, but then I realized I'd probably do something like that too, and have other people complain to me, so screw that. I like it.

    PS: Perhaps use a tid bit of white in there to touch it up
     
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    I actually like it how it is. I don't think white is needed, maybe a very light gray. ^____^ I like though.
     
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    Savage, I noticed the link in your signature and checked it out earlier - I was wondering who made it because it's pretty damn good in my opinion.

    One thing though... It's probably because I have a tiny 19" monitor, but the image is cut off. I have to zoom out of the page (CTRL + scroll down) in order to see all of it. :shifty:
    I can post a screenshot if you'd like.
     
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    Looks great, in my opinion.

    Though, the image isn't well aligned- you can't read the whole text.

    Maybe you could center it, or even put it where it's not as far right?
     
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    Thank you for the kind feedback, everyone - I'm quite surprised. :):confused:

    @Nick and Tom: I had a feeling this would happen to people with smaller monitors/resolutions. If you look at the code, I have the image fixed using pixels so it would be in the bottom right corner. Does anyone know how I can have it show in the bottom right corner of anyone's screen (like, it adjusts according to the size of their screen)? Maybe I would use % instead of px?
     
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    The attachment is a screenshot of how I see it and how I wanted it to show for everyone else.
     
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    Not sure how this could be possible, though, did you check Google?
     
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    If you're using CSS it should be
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    .body{
    background:#color url(link) left bottom no-repeat
    }
     
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    On my screen it shows up far to the right, cut off on the right side, but it isn't all the way at the bottom of the page.
     
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    Nick, Jun 9, 2009
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    2 people like this.
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    Thanks, I think it's good now. Does it show in about the spot as the screenshot for you now?
     
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    Nope, still in the same place.
     
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    Take out the fixed....
     
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    Yep, it's looking good. :thumbup:

    P.S.: Did you find my post helpful? :unhunh:
     
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    <html>
    <head>
    <title>FE.TW</title>
    </head>
    <style type="text/css">
    body
    {
    background-color:black;
    background-image: url('/images/felogo.png');
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: bottom-left
    }
    </style>
    </html>
     
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    It has to remain fixed in order for it to work in Safari and Opera.
    It's set to fixed right now and it is where it should be now.

    If it didn't change for you, try doing a hard refresh.
     
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    Not for me.
     
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    It is weird that it works only for Nick. Like he said, try a hard refresh.
     
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    @_@ I find that kind of...crazy... It works fine for me... but I had webpages that I didn't use Fixed and still works.
     
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