Official Thread for Information on Card Making for Newbies

[Thayli]

Originally Posted by VSA

why not just use the polygonal (sp) lasso tool? They do the same thing.

Nope they dont. The pen tool gives you much more control and much neater lines. It is most assuredly more work, but you get a better end product. Try it and see.

[VSA]

Originally Posted by Thayli

Nope they dont. The pen tool gives you much more control and much neater lines. It is most assuredly more work, but you get a better end product. Try it and see.

I have, thats why I made the suggestion XD.

Ehh, to each there own as the saying goes.

[Thayli]

Originally Posted by VSA

I have, thats why I made the suggestion XD.

Ehh, to each there own as the saying goes.

Fair enough, as long as you get results I can't argue. I think we can both agree though that alot of the rendering done around here is pretty sub-par though and could really use some help.

[Thayli]

Originally Posted by VSA

agreed.

I don't exactly have too worry about anything, since I don't use the stock backgrounds, but the full image backgrounds (they look MUCH cooler)

The most interesting jobs for me are when you take a low quality picture and vector it. (Vectoring is basically using the pen tool to trace over a picture and recoloring it so as to raise the quality). I've wondered for a while if thats what bandai does to get the image quality that they have.

[VSA]

Originally Posted by Thayli

Fair enough, as long as you get results I can't argue. I think we can both agree though that alot of the rendering done around here is pretty sub-par though and could really use some help.

agreed.

I don't exactly have too worry about anything, since I don't use the stock backgrounds, but the full image backgrounds (they look MUCH cooler)

[dbznarutofreak]

Does anyone use Paint.NET to make these cards? I have Paint.NET and I don't know how to make the image go behind the text box and such

[itachiforpresident6]

you cant i dont know how they use photoshop im a paint user

[Shinobi_Guyver]

Is there an option for "Layers"?

That's how I do it in GIMP and I'm sure Photoshop uses the same thing.

Make a new layer for each part of the image, then you can drag the layers around and get them to stack how you want them to.

DBZNarutoFreak, I'm sure you seen some of the stuff I created on PlayTCG (sigs and other pictures). It was all done by playing with layers.

[tarman727]

just layer the character on top of the card, seperate the bottom and the top, and make the bottom transparent.

[squirrels]

does anyone have the .psd's for the new or old ninja templates?