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Originally Posted by donjamoni
Here is a remake on The El Paso Bay Sharks:
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My, what a vast improvement. The design is much better, the color scheme is more appropriate, and I see that your backgrounds are now in place.
Regarding designs; After you pick up more experience, you should be able to do most of the design work in about 30 minutes. It will just get easier & easier.
Regarding color scheme; as mentioned before - never use pure black or pure white for the uniform itself. With either, you lose too much definition. If you go through the same development process that I did, you may come to the realization that the best looking general color for uniforms is white (or off-white). After doing all different colors of uniforms, I gradually came full circle and realized that the main jersey color should most often be white or off-white.
Regarding Backgrounds; Notice how dark your background is. I have found that if I make the background slightly lighter then the player, the picture looks better. Your eye focuses on the player, and the background, well, fades into the background. This background would definitely gain by being made lighter. The sky is particularly too dark. In Paint.net, with the magic wand tool (and the correct %-bar setting), you can eliminate most of the sky with 1 click. You can then create a new
layer in your background window called sky. Move it below your main background. Set your primary & secondary colors to sky blue & cloud white. With your sky layer as the active layer, open Effects/Render and create an appropriate sky background. When you get one that you like, save it by itself (to use with future backgrounds). Then just save the (flattened) background + sky image and you've got a new & improved background. I think you'll be pleased with the results.
By the way, did you copy & paste the 2 new layer templates that I posted a few weeks ago? I'm especially pleased with the shoulderless one.