FIRST POST!

You have a seriously great start here!

I like the cuts on your icons a lot, and +this is really cool. Did you turn the eyes purple? If you did, awesome, awesome job. I worship you.

Definitely keep at it, and experiment a little with some of the tutorials on the site (seriously, they're amazing) as you go! My name is Liz, and if you have any questions at all, feel free to ask me. Otherwise, you're well on your way!

Thanks Love TDA so far. The tutorials are great, thanks for your advice! Eyes were purple-d by yours truly ^^

wooow your graphics are very nice
hmm, the only problem is the bad quality ^ ^
I don't know if the problem in the used photo, or in the method of saving graphics !
keep up the amazing works

nice nice
I liked your designs
go ahead sweety

Hi, you have a nice gallery. Just be careful with choosing images, try to use high quality pictures. You just need to work on colouring, some of your graphics seem washed out. Also, be careful to not make the face/skin see through like in+this. It makes the graphic look messy.

One more thing. Your page is spread out way too much because of your icons. What you should do is, for every 5 icons, press enter so you make a new row. So then the page will be less stretched out.

Keep up the great work.

- Nala *hugs*

^^ Thanks everyone! Trying to clean some of this up so it'll look a little less messy...

Good gallery,
Some things though.
My favorite thing that you have made is the I still love you sig/icons/blend. They are all really lovely.
And If you don't mind my asking, is the love font a vtks of some sort? or angelic war?
Oh, and one thing about your blends, the very first one has a stock image on top of her face.
That is a no-no. It doesn't look good.

Oh, and one more thing. I suggest putting your newest stuff first, rather than your older stuff

Hi Ange!
Your gallery is looking good!
I really like your blends, particularly your Guardian Angel and your first one.
I think they are probably your strongest points so far.
A point you may need to work on is your text placement.
Don't worry though, I'm still improving in that aspect too! It sure is a pain.
But overall, I think you're building a really great gallery and keep at it!

Thanks for critiquing =^^= The font used for the word "love" on the "I still love you" images is called Vtks Revolt.

Wow, I love your Gaspard blend! Really pretty. And the Gaspard banner is really great as well !
Just work a bit on your text and blending and this gallery will be even more great

I love your blends and chapter images!!
Keep going!!


~~~Ashley

Hi, I'm here with your requested gallery critique.

Okay, first of all, I LOVE your style, it's got great flair and is fun and has a big impact.

Here are the things I think you could improve on, though...

Image quality. Try not to use images that are fuzzy or grainy, and sharpen everything just as far as you can without it going pixelly.

Contrast. Some of the faces are not contrasted enough, they are coming across as overexposed (too light) and flat. Also some of your graphics overall are kind of faded and washed-out, so don't be afraid to up the contrast somewhat.

Coloring. In addition to the contrast thing, some of the faces are kind of too yellow. Also like in your I Still Love You blend, the faces look like a different coloring than the background. So kind of try and get a unified coloring overall. You can do this will color fill layers on different settings, and/or with gradient maps, for example.

Blending. Practice makes perfect on this. Sometimes you are cutting too close, like your I Still Love You blend, it looks like you just lopped off the edges of her hair to blend her in. On your Guardian Angel blend, it looks like parts of the background are 'bleeding over' into Gaspard's outline. On the Empty blend, the blending looks pretty sloppy overall, like there are parts of the flowers showing through the woman, and there are some pretty big chunks of her original background still showing around her. So this would be a sort of big thing to work on.

Text. You mentioned you feel text placement is a weakness, and I wouldn't necessarily say it's so bad. I think in some graphics, you could probably bring it in closer toward the center of the piece, rather than keeping it near the edges.

The thing is that most of your text is very big and dominant, which is okay actually, it's part of your style, I think, but maybe think about what you want the focus of your graphic to be, either a character or the text, and if it's a character, then downplay the text a bit, make it more subtle and blend in more.

I think of all the pieces in your gallery, I like the icons the best. You have some very good cuts, and the coloring is generally natural yet strong. Also no text to mess you up.

I hope this helps you out, I think you're doing great so far! Good luck!

Oooh Thanks so much for your time!

I've just discovered the magic of sharpening images... I had no idea I could do that, and it's very helpful, so thank you! My coloring still needs work as does my text placement issue, but I'm definitely going to experiment with both.

Uber-thanks again!

Heya Ange!
you have quite a good start! I especially like you first set, mainly because the image quality is better than in the second set. But the cuts are quite good, maybe you could try and play a bit more with the colors?
So far for the cinos.
otherwise your work is really good! That first banner is
Just be carefull when you blend, because sometimes it looks a bit wierd when images are on a very low opacity and you can only more or less see them..
Anyway keep it up hun !!:)
(I hope you are able to understand something out of that.. )

Happy Xmas and have fun on your holidays!!

These are all really good! I specifically like your icons. They are quite simple, in the best of ways. Simplicity is the best, in my humble opinion.

:::Annaliese:::

Hi, I'm here with a gallery QuickCrit for you!

Overall: Nice variety of images, pretty soft colors and style. Good cuts and focal points.

My three tips for you:

- Image quality

- Blending

- Text

1. Image quality. Overall looks good, but there are a couple of images that look like they are magazine scans, where you can see the texture of the paper. Try not to use those, they don't look so clean.

2. Blending. You have a nice, soft blending style, but sometimes I think it gets a bit too loose. Watch out for people getting transparent and having things showing through them, like on your first sig and your third banner. Also take more time and care on hard cuts, on the Reawaken banner I can see little bits of white background still around the women's hair.

3. Text. The usual, lol. I think your best text is on your Reawaken banner and your Without You blend. Try not to use plain black for text, but rather color-pick from the image. Keep the text fairly compact (not spread all over the place) and close to the focus. Make more use of extra features on text, like gradients, outlines, and shadows. Right now a lot of your text feels really flat.

Overall I think you're doing really well! Good luck!

Hi,

I love some of your blending, it is very original and i haven't seen that method/result before.....CONGRATS FOR INVENTING A NEW STYLE

Just keep mind of image quality and don't put too much texture on anything that it detracts from the image (handy hint i was given that i now pass on )


<3 rubix

Beautiful. I love your icons! I always hate mine.. =/ But I love yours. And well.. I just love your work all together..

Thanks everyone!

wow your images are carzy good"

well done!

Hey Ange, I'm Sofia! This one is my absolutely favourite in your gallery! Keep up the great work but also, check out the tutorials here on TDA because they are really helpful!

Hey there!
I'm sabrina, and I'm new to TDA.
Anyways, I just wanted to say that
you have such a nice gallery, and such
a great style!

I love the second to last banner, its so beautiful
But be careful on some of the image quality on
your last banner (the girl) and the third to last banner (the girl)

Other than that, you have a great gallery!
Keep working hard!

Hey there =)

Your blending makes me wish that I could do it, haha. I love it.

I especially love the "Without you" blend. I stared at it forever, haha. It's GORGEOUS.

Everything is marvelous!