Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Covers

[Paris]

I don't know how i lived my photoshop career without Smart Objects!! Thanks Kernie for pointing me in the right direct to this feature. I'll try and grunge it up a bit.

Update
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[Kernie]

Nice update!!

Although I hope you plan to space the text out a little better. Give some more room between the "-Norbert Sparrow" line and the first line of the synopsis. Then leave the same amount of room between the bottom line of the synopsis and the "Charmed..." quote line. Also, the Radical Features line could be a tad smaller pt. size and maybe moved up a bit closer to the "John Siegel" line. Take a step back, blur your eyes a bit if you need to, and look at where things seem to get too close and where things are too far apart. Other than some typography issues, I really like this latest update!! Adding grunge will also help to make it pop!

One thing about smart objects though... they can often considerably increase the memory size of your Photoshop file. For example, say you embed a hi-res 2 MB image within a Smart Object that is scaled down to 10%... the image might be visually smaller, but the full 100% image is nested within the Smart Object, and is adding a lot more memory to your PS document. Make sense? Just don't go too Smart Object-happy unless your hard drive has the storage capacity to handle it (and the RAM to process large PS files).

[Arkflip]

Nice update Paris! Keep following Andrew's advices and this will be the best cover for the movie.

My only concern atm is the TT... it looks too cartonish when compared with the rest of the work. I think you need to work it and i'm sure Kernie will help you with it far better than me

[JollyRoger]

there's a quicker way to make a smart object - in your layers palette, simply select the layers you want to change into a smart object, then right-click and choose 'Convert to Smart Object' - VIOLA!

....well -I find it to be quicker and easier than the drop-down menus... But perhaps I'm just lazy

[Kernie]

QUOTE (JollyRoger @ Aug 9 2011, 10:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

there's a quicker way to make a smart object - in your layers palette, simply select the layers you want to change into a smart object, then right-click and choose 'Convert to Smart Object' - VIOLA!

....well -I find it to be quicker and easier than the drop-down menus... But perhaps I'm just lazy

That is the way I always do it, smart a$$... But I was trying to use the simplest path for the purposes of the tut...

Grrr... undermine me, will ya?!?

Just kidding, JR... Thanks for pointing out the shortcut!

[JollyRoger]

LOL No probs, Andrew

Actually there's a lot of ways to do the same things in PS. I tend to use the right-click method on layers directly whenever I can, coz I find it easy and - well I'm used to it now. I use the same method to create say clipping masks.

The Drop-down menus have the same options obviously

[Paris]

Finished?
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[Arkflip]

Far better but still need some minor adjustments imo.
I think “Norbert Sparrow…” line should be moved a little down, it’s still too close to the quote. Same for “John Siegel…” line.

Maybe moving the features line near to the end of the features box and perhaps adjusting the synopsis text, changing from 4 to 3 lines.

Solid back and great work with the images and top background.

[Paris]

QUOTE (Arkflip @ Aug 10 2011, 01:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Maybe moving the features line near to the end of the features box

I'm not sure what you mean by that?

[felipe-11]

I'm with Ark, I think he means you should move down the special features cause they're too close to the quote. And you should work some more with the text spacings, they're very irregular right now.