- How long have you been making graphics?Well, I guess it's been about 4 years, off and on, since I started around the same time I joined NW.
- What photoshop program do you use (Photoshop, Gimp, etc.)?GIMP! It's free, and it works just fine for what I do with it.

I discovered at the end of last semester, though, that a few of the computers at uni have Photoshop (6, maybe? I was told that it was a very nice version of it), so I may try it out someday, if I get a chance.
- What kind of graphics do you like to make?I mainly make avatars, though I also make signatures and sometimes wallpapers and banners. As far as what I make graphics off, it's usually whatever show or film or book I'm into at the moment.

I have trouble with text overall (both with pictures or a background and by itself), though, so I don't make graphics of book quotes too often.

Oddly enough, too, I've never really made Narnian graphics...
- What inspires you to make graphics?Sometimes, it's either just a scene in a movie or show that's just really lovely from a cinematographic point-of-view or one that's very important for the characters. Sometimes a lyric or a phrase will inspire, or sometimes it will be a graphic someone else has made (though, usually they're so lovely, they just depress me

). Most often, though, talking about something with someone else will get me excited about it and thus want to make graphics for it.

*joins the club of people who struggle with text* I often leave my graphics textless simply because I can't think of anything to put on them, or can't get it to look right. Sometimes, I figure it out, and sometimes I just leave them with funny text.

It bugs me, though, because I love to make text textures and can rarely figure out where to use them. Thus I've got about 120-odd ones stocked up with nowhere to go.

Wunder wrote:Text is probably an area I still struggle with, though I know I have improved greatly from the old days.

Really?

Based on your work that I've seen, I never would've thought that you struggled with text. This gives me hope for myself, then.

Dot wrote:I still struggle with text and coloring quite a bit. Mostly with making text fit where I want it but still having it be readable.
Oh, yes. And making the font and the size and text all fit each other.

campgirl wrote: I've always had trouble with text, so with a lot of my stuff I just try to work with coloring and textures, and cropping (which I love).
Even so, you've definitely improved with the text.

The texts on the
Sleeping Beauty avy and the
Lion King wallie fit well.
winterlife wrote: And I have a question: How many of you use textures with your graphics, and to what extent do you usually use them?
I use them, but not all the time.

When I use them, I'll usually just use a few to add sparkle or shine or else to just play with the colours or contrast some. Lately, though, I've mainly just been opening a new layer, throwing some splotches of paint on it, running it through gaussian blur and using that.

I'll have to see if I can dig up some of my old ones for contrast with some of my newer ones.
