Fate's Photoshoppies

[Fate]

As of February 9th, 2010, this thread has been updated.

Hi, all! =D Other graphic artists have had their shops, and so this is mine. Let's see, I'll start off with an introduction about just a few minor (and unimportant) things. I started taking up banner-making about three months ago, I believe. I use Photoshop 7, by the way. =3 Anyway, I started out knowing nothing and progressively expanded my knowledge of working with Photoshop.

Examples of my work:

Avatars (also in third post):

After a few months, I think my confidence in my own creations have grown a bit more. So, I'd be happy to take requests for AVATARS now. I don't think I'll accept requests for banners, though, because my confidence isn't that high. =3 But if anyone would like for me to make them an avatar, then I'll have no objections. One thing I do ask, though, is that you don't repeatedly ask me, "Is my avatar done yet?" or something along the lines. I don't dedicate my entire day to Photoshop; I do it in my spare time, so bear in mind that I could be busy. Once in a while, I won't mind if you remind me, but please don't harass me constantly for progress. =3

As for the price of avatars, I'll not charge anything. I'll appreciate donations, though, if you want to pay me. Anything would suffice, but you don't need to pay me if you don't want to. The improvement I get from making them will be enough.

Currently, I am OPEN for requests, so feel free to ask if you want an avatar.

[Firefly]

They're all fantastic!But my fav has to be the first one.Its so preetty!!!I♥IT!!!

[Fate]

Oh, heh-heh. I haven't been updating at all, but I've made a few things over these past months. Aside from the avatars, I'll put the banners and wallpapers that I made in spoiler boxes, due to their immense sizes as one big image. (That was the only way I could show everything at once.)

Anyway, even though some of these are from some time ago, I'd still love any comments on them. A few of these are gifts, by the way. And also, I think a bit more confidence in my abilities now, so I'll accept requests for avatars, since I really enjoy making them. I'll edit that into my first post. Anyway, if you haven't seen my other stuffs, here they are:

Avatars:

Wallpapers:

There they are. Hope you like them. ^_____________________^

[Dodie16]

I'm glad you got the confidence to finally start taking requests. I think you've done a really great job on all the banner that you have completed so far. My personal favorites are: The Leon one in your opening post, the one you made for Gilgameshed up, and your Hope banner. They're all wonderful, but those three are my personal favorite so far.

I love the avatar that you did for Firefly. It's really sweet looking and nice.

Haha! I see the gift that you made for me! <333 I still love it. I'm still amazed at your Fang wallpaper though. It just looks so fantastic to me, and I love the butterflies that you went with. I've told you this before, but I think that gives Fang a more feminine quality about her. Even though she's a strong and independant female (from what I've read about her anyway), she still has a soft side, and I think you captured her feminity very well.

I hope some more people check out what you do, because it's really amazing.

[The Dark Crystal]

Wow for very little practice it seems you know what you are doing to me! If i would have to choose one out of all of them i would definitely go with your new avatar, it is really good(They are all really good though)! You should most def do some of Vivi and Sephiroth when you get the chance. Keep up the good work Fate!!
I'll be en for ya!!

[Furore]

Sure you wouldn't be interested in making me a prettyful sig?
I was wanting one from someone else, but it never happened and your avatars (and sig especially if you made it) look quite impressive.
I can pay you with a bunch of gil, because I never seem to spend any these days and it's about as useful to me as all those other useless status whore markers.

[Fate]

Thankies, everyone~ ^___________^

Wellllllll, depends on what the prettyful sig is. =3 I usually have to take a long time to get ideas for how to make banners better. (Avatars are small, so they're easier. xD) But what kind of banner did you have in mind? I could always *try* to, if creativity flows while working.

[Furore]

Smaller banner, something with Reno, doesn't matter which picture, just pick one you can work easily with. And if you could work Silver in somewhere that'd be awesome. I do love a good bit of transparency also.

Oh and I saw your PSP wallpapers via your profile. Awesome stuff.

EDIT: If not Reno, Diablos from FFVIII. I can see that being one madass sig. =D

[Fate]

Heh, I love doing transparency. =D I never doing just a rectangle much. So I think I'll be able to handle this well enough. *REQUEST ACCEPTED*

All righty, I'll try and see what I can come up with.

[Arch]

Wow Fate awesome job!:0 I think im gonna download some of your wallpapers to my Psp, i like the fang one the most, i like Fang, But i also like the sephhy one XD awesome job Fate keep up the good work. And your Banners are awesome the Gilgamesh one is sick! Keep up the good work bro!

[Ethan Blitzball King]

ok i would really apreciate it if you would customize me a brad new avatar it would really make my day

[Fate]

I'd need details on what you want for your avatar first.

[Arch]

Hey Bro,Fate you think if your not too swamped in requests that i can put in a request? ^_^ lol

[Fate]

I can manage another request. But I need you to tell me the specifics of it first. =P For anyone requesting, please just state what you want; no need to ask for availability first. So, that's:

1 - Silver
2 - Ethan
3 - Arch

Right? I need details first, though, guys. *goes to work on Silver's*

[Arch]

fate, i want it to be a all Fate original all your ideas XD i trust your awesomeness in photoshop. all i ask is that your able to see the l'Cie Brand on his arm, everything else is your call

[Treize]

I think that your avatars and banners are pretty good, but you still need to work on the text. Unfortunately, the text you put in is almost always illegible, or someone will really have to strain their eyes to make it out. Also, this is just my opinion, but sometimes it seems like you have too much going on in your sigs/avatars. If too much is going on, it can look a little gaudy.

Anyway, I hope that you keep it up. Your banners/avatars are some of the best on the forum.

[ViviMasterMage]

I think that your avatars and banners are pretty good, but you still need to work on the text. Unfortunately, the text you put in is almost always illegible, or someone will really have to strain their eyes to make it out. Also, this is just my opinion, but sometimes it seems like you have too much going on in your sigs/avatars. If too much is going on, it can look a little gaudy.

Anyway, I hope that you keep it up. Your banners/avatars are some of the best on the forum.

Yeah, I have to agree Fate.

You may like shiny banners but if they're too shiny, it can distract you from reading text or the rest of the image. I really love the banners you make though, but I myself love to keep it simple and in a rectangle, but then again, I'm not as adventurous as you, am I? Just find a better font, or use a different colour that draws your eye to it and doesn't give you a headache in the process. xD

[Fate]

Hehe, I noticed that, too. xD For me, text is probably the hardest thing to master because you'd want something that's effective. I guess since I try so hard not to make my works seem "boring," I fancy it up a lot; never been one for plain-colored places. <.< Though, I do agree I have busy creations. Still, I think I'll have to focus mainly on text (and maybe lighting, also).

Anyway, thanks so much for the feedback, guys! ^_________________________^

[Ethan Blitzball King]

hey ok if you want details could it be a ff13 character *you choose* saying Ethan on it Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease

[Fate]

Silver, finished with yours, complete with all the shinyness that you told me you loved.



Anything that you would like to me change or add, or if you want me to resize it a little, please feel free to say. Anyway, hope you like it~ (And hope the colors are working well on your monitor? Mine got a bit messed up recently. Oh, and the name...I made it see-through on purpose. =)) First time working with a render like that~ Heehee.

.EDIT:. I'll get working on yours, Ethan, in the meantime while I wait for Nathan.

[Heartless Angel]

Your Hrist background gave me an idea for a request. If possible, I'd like something similar with Brahms, in signature form rather than PSP wallapaper (I know you specifically state that you take requests for avatars, but I really like the wallpapaers you've done). Though if you have time to do both, I could use a kickass PSP theme... but the sig is my main request.

• I'd provide a good pic for you to work with, but there really aren't very many good ones I can find. Most of it's just the concept art or the one that looks hand drawn, neither of which would work too well with abstract backgrounds. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places. The one I posted below is one of the few decent ones I've found. If you know of any better pics to use, feel free to use them, I'm definitely not crazy about this one =/

• Size should be something like 150x400, but feel free to change that a bit, or extend it to have Brahms go off the background, that's always a nice effect for a sig. but the background itself I'd like somewhere around 125-175x400-450, whatever looks nice.
• Background, I'd like it to be mainly dark green and black, absract. A small ammount of dark red, to resemble the blood aura thing Brahms always has going on. Like a small red area at the bottom with small parts of it extending to higher parts of the background maybe. Again, feel free to improvise, these are just some thoughts I'm having, if you come up with something you'd think would look better, go for it.
• Text, I'd like to once again borrow your Hrist background's idea, and use his Soul Crush phrase, "My strength is the sword of the oppressed", no particular font in mind, just use something that looks badass, any effects you think would fit are fine by me.

Thanks in advance.

[Heartless Angel]

Your Hrist background gave me an idea for a request. If possible, I'd like something similar with Brahms, in signature form rather than PSP wallapaper (I know you specifically state that you take requests for avatars, but I really like the wallpapaers you've done). Though if you have time to do both, I could use a kickass PSP theme... but the sig is my main request.

• I'd provide a good pic for you to work with, but there really aren't very many good ones I can find. Most of it's just the concept art or the one that looks hand drawn, neither of which would work too well with abstract backgrounds. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places. The one I posted below is one of the few decent ones I've found. If you know of any better pics to use, feel free to use them, I'm definitely not crazy about this one =/

• Size should be something like 150x400, but feel free to change that a bit, or extend it to have Brahms go off the background, that's always a nice effect for a sig. but the background itself I'd like somewhere around 125-175x400-450, whatever looks nice.
• Background, I'd like it to be mainly dark green and black, absract. A small ammount of dark red, to resemble the blood aura thing Brahms always has going on. Like a small red area at the bottom with small parts of it extending to higher parts of the background maybe. Again, feel free to improvise, these are just some thoughts I'm having, if you come up with something you'd think would look better, go for it.
• Text, I'd like to once again borrow your Hrist background's idea, and use his Soul Crush phrase, "My strength is the sword of the oppressed", no particular font in mind, just use something that looks badass, any effects you think would fit are fine by me.

Thanks in advance.

I'll resubmit this one if that's alright

[Furore]

Oh hell ****ing yes.
As soon as I can refigure out the vB transactions, expect some emoneyz.
Cheers.

EDIT: Done, 20,000 gil was fair, yeah?

[Fate]

Aye, thanks for the donation, Silver. ^_________^

For Ethan:

Rectangular one:


And transparent one:


Anything you'd like me to fix, I'll try. And also, if it won't let you use the direct URL, save it to your computer and upload manually with the other option. =)

.:EDIT:. If anyone knows how to stroke non-lined shaped really smoothly, I'll appreciate the knowledge shared with me. I had to use a black outer glow (which contradicts the thing xD) for the transparent to border it, since stroke gave it a very jagged outline.

[Ethan Blitzball King]

ok sorry to bother you again but a friend of mine told me i should match my avatar with my banner so i was wondering if you could put all the ff13 charaters on an electric field for me????

[Fate]

Hmm, I get lazy with banners unless it's once a while, so I won't be able to make any guarantees. But since you're asking me to fit all six characters onto it, that certainly would take up most of the space and leave less room for me to actually design. =P It helps with my laziness, I'd say.

So...I'll see what I can do.

**ACCEPTED**

[xTidus]

Amazing! Like the 1st one the best though.

[Fate]

Thanks, buddy~ ^___^

For Arch (small change of plans on image upon compromise):


And the transparent one because I felt like it:


Once again, anything that needs changing, be sure to tell me. Anyway, hope you liked it. ^ ^

[chrono]

Your skills impress me young fate. You must teach me how to use photoshop. I am pretty handy with computers so i should learn easy if you are willing.

I also have some sig requests!!!!

[Firefly]

Fatesy! I have already asked u and u said yes..but i feel i needed to post it here! I woulds like an avy of Squall and Rinoa with the saying "I promise" somewhere on it...it doesnt matter if u write my name or not.Oh..n my fav color is purple ...So..BYE!