Ideas
jferguson757 (93 points) | Sat, 2008-04-05 16:04I was playing around just trying to come up with something ad-like. It's not actually for Polaroid or anything, just trying to learn about effective ad design. There are 3 different colors for the Polaroid logo. I'm not sure which I like better.
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Don't change RGB background; it works perfect here.
Try hitting the "Polaroid" with a hard light and then wrapping a black drop/glow shadow around its edges.
It you want to go further, try *shattering* one of the letters; fragment the hell out of that sucker. Might help emphasize impact and strength of product.
Like your work.
Cheers.
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3dogmama
"Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised." - James Thurber
hmmm...interesting idea with the shattering.
as for: "Try hitting the "Polaroid" with a hard light and then wrapping a black drop/glow shadow around its edges."
i'm afraid i'm not sure what you mean. make the text more 3-dimensional?
No. The only time I appreciate 3-D text is in a Superman or Star wars flick.
Are you working in Photoshop layers with this one?
I'll assume yes. Go to effects, hit with a hard light (maybe even try pin light instead); and then in fx add in a drop shadow at 75% black; 90˚ angle--then a distance of 25 / spread of 40 / and 90 size it.
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3dogmama
"Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised." - James Thurber
You could have at least informed everyone you stole this from a tutorial... http://psdtuts.com/tutorials-effects/super-retro-game-cartridge-design/
Totally uncool. Can we delete this post?
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what's wrong with utilizing a technique as learned from someone else? if you look on my flickr page i always give props to pieces inspired by tutorials. i was taking a technique i learned and trying to see how i could put it to other use. in this case i took some of the tutorial, tweaked it a bit, and thought..."i wonder if this would look good as a polaroid ad? let me go ask people who would know." so here it is. i wasn't aware that once you learn a technique you're banned from using it. in my opinion, i'm doing nothing different here than what charles schwab does in their commercials that use the scanner darkly technique. this isn't for commercial use, it's not for a contest...it's not for anything but my own edification into what looks good as an ad and what doesn't. i apologize for ruffling feathers here, but my goal wasn't to wow you with some cool picture all the while professing that it's a technique that i made up.
for shame!
" i wasn't aware that once you learn a technique you're banned from using it."
You didn't use the technique, you used the damn exercise! You didn't even modify it! ( and no, adding the word Polaroid" isn't modifying...)
Using a technique would be something like: "Oh, I learnt cross hatching today, let me draw something using this technique"
You straight up followed a tutorial, then added the word "Polaroid" to it.
"in my opinion, i'm doing nothing different here than what charles schwab does in their commercials that use the scanner darkly technique."
Umm..rotoscoping has been around for a while. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
Charles Schwab doesn't take a screenshot of Keanu Reeves from the movie and sticks Adidas or Nike or some other brand name in it.
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so what's the point here anyway? my original question was whether or not it made sense as an advert. considering it's not for polaroid (and not intended for commercial use) and is just something that i have a question about, i really don't see what the problem is. i'm not a designer. i'm asking professionals about what makes good design for an advertisement. so that's what i asked about. it's not going into a portfolio. i have a daytime job and this is something i have an interest in. so i ask questions about it. i never said, "hey guys! look at this awesome background that is totally mine, that i pioneered!" that wasn't the point. seems to me that you guys took more away from this than i ever intended. it's not that deep.
but to me, the only person that matters is fabio, the artist/designer that came up with the tutorial in the first place. as long as he's not offended or feels slighted, then it's okay. i've given him props every time i do something that uses one of his tutorials (or any tutorial). he left a comment on the outcome of this very background (a version without the text) saying, "really cool." obviously he's not offended that i tried a tutorial. i also have posted right after, the versions that were shown here. complete with a description similar to the one here that doesn't mention him or the tutorial and he made no comment or sent me any mail saying that it wasn't cool. i respect fabio very much. he's a great guy and he runs a wonderful website: http://abduzeedo.com/ i strongly suggest you check it out. it's full of not only great tutorials, but interesting tid-bits about design, etc. the psdtuts.com site is very good as well. strongly suggest that if you want to learn something you give it a go. they have great tuts not only for photoshop, but for website design too.
there's no doubt that the background was done using the tutorial. there's also no doubt that i spent a lot of extra time trying to refine the background and make it look a little more refined in subtle ways. if you're interested in just how much extra work i put into it, i'll send you the .psd file and you can compare the tutorial to mine. but none of that was the point for me when i posted it. i was simply asking about the overall design as a hypothetical advertisement...is it effective? i know i'm not as good as you guys when it comes to design and i never insinuated that i was or ever will be. so chill...don't worry...me posting this picture that used something i saw in a tutorial wasn't my attempt to flex any faux art muscle in hopes of gaining your approval. if i wanted that i'd stick to flickr.
so...anyway...i'm glad you guys think the background is so kickass. if you really want to learn something from a master designer, go to www.abduzeedo.com. www.psdtuts.com is a good one too, but fabio puts out the best stuff hands down. :)
I don't think there is anything wrong with using tutorials to learn or even create artwork period.
The only thing I was trying to say, is that you came here to a "critique site" (which typically is original work) and made no mention that the entire concept was a tutorial and that all you really did was add the word Polaroid. It simply came across like you were trying to pass of the whole piece as something you came up with, that's all.
If you had come here and said "I recently tried out a new tutorial on make the above background, and wanted to play around with making it more ad-like by adding the word Polaroid on top, what do you think?" I would not have even mentioned anything other than that I feel it wasn't working at all in a design sense.
Don't think I was slamming you for using tutorials, I do it often as well to learn new ideas, it just seemed out of place here on a critique forum to not have even mentioned it considering 99.9% of your piece is the tutorial.
i apologize for giving the wrong impression and will be more careful next time. so...what about the placement of the word? good? bad? how about the thing overall? too much going on? what would you change to make it more effective or ad-like?