Depth in a tag??

[Flow]

<div align="center">Depth is a main thing in tags. People will tell you that alot.
How do I create depth?</div>
Gaussain Blur your background.
Sharpen your focal point.
Use the dodge and burn tool for light and shadows.
Black & White Gradient on Luminosity and erase some parts
Applying your image, and then putting it on multiply to about 20% opacity or around there, until it looks good.
Use the hue/saturation adjustment and set the saturation on -15, then set the layer to soft light.
Apply image, use burn tools, sharpen, and blur the background. (only with HQ stock)
You can also take your original stock [scaled down to what it is in the sig] and put it on top of everything and set it to multiply and erase some parts.
You have a render that is mainly blue,
You add it to a red background (with a red light source),
Take out a red soft brush and brush where the red light source would hit your render,
Set this layer to Soft Light,
It adds depth and makes it 'feel' like the render was always apart of the stock.
Apply image, Filter>Other>High Pass on 10, set it on soft light. Great way to make depth
Black & White Gradient map on Multiply, Lower Opacity to about 20-30.

Hopefully this answers your question if you had any
Post if you have any more questions too :)

[.GJ]

Thanks for this mate.. Didn't know about the B&W gradient on lumnosity one :o Thanks :D

[Argenteus]

I would also recommend applying your image, and then putting it on multiply to about 20% opacity or around there, until it looks good :P

[Flow]

didnt no that one ;)
adding it 2 the list

[.Cliff]

i use the hue/saturation adjustment and set the saturation on -15 and set the layer to soft light, i think it works pretty well :)

[hynfaeries0]

apply image, ur burn tools, sharpen, and blur the background.

and btw this works only if your stock is high quality. XD

[mw.Kris]

Not too be noob or anything but i have been looking for my burn tool and i can't seem to find it. Can someone tell me where it is ? :thumbsup:

[hynfaeries0]

Not too be noob or anything but i have been looking for my burn tool and i can't seem to find it. Can someone tell me where it is ? :thumbsup:[/b]

it's the one with the hand. near the middle on the right.

it's one of three options.XD

[.nautilus]

You can also take your original stock [scaled down to what it is in the sig] and put it on top of everything and set it to multiply and erase some parts. How I did it with my current.

[hynfaeries0]

You can also take your original stock [scaled down to what it is in the sig] and put it on top of everything and set it to multiply and erase some parts. How I did it with my current.[/b]

interesting, I should try and do that. XD

[Hootnnuts]

i usually do all of those but i never tried that multiply 20%.

thanks for the tips it will help many!

[dacavman]

Also u should try this (for example)

You have a render that is mainly blue
You add it to a red background (with a red light source)
Take out a red soft brush and brush where the red light source would hit your render.
Set this layer to Soft Light.
It adds depth and makes it 'feel' like the render was always apart of the stock

[.Cliff]

nice tips, gonna have to try them :)

[Aloe]

Added all in first post and stickied it.. May be very usefull for beginning GFXers :)..

[vldz*]

Apply image, high pass on 10, set it on soft light. Great way to make depth :)

Thnks for this ronit.

[.Nitrate.]

Excellent stuff!

[Blue Bird]

11. B+W Gradient map on multiply, Lower Opacity to about 20-30.

[chrissk84]

Nice pointers, tags just have to have depth.

[KRYLON]

Thank you for posting this. This is going to help me out a ton!

[Buffet]

Some of the things I do for depth:
- Select good stocks
- Good stock placement
- Blur
- Sharpen
- Use a soft black brush to darken the sides

Simple as that. Nothing fancy ;)

[Fallen]

I use soft black round brush on 15% opacity, blur tool, sharpen...

[Sephi]

wow nice idea :) havent seen some of them before :D

[5011]

Thanks so much, you are really kind. All of your tips are so useful for me

[Tribe No 1 Fan]

Add random stock images to your sig. Blur them, and do whatever the hell you'd like. They add great texture, coloring, lighting, and depth. ^_^

sxc.hu

[jamiemac]

alot of things i didnt know there nice

[iLime]

woah the high pass one is soo nice :)

[IdleMind]

Wow -

Thanks much. I knew how to add depth in some ways, but most of these were unkown to me. o_O

Thanks much! :D

(+1) :D

[Highroller]

I'll try these out. I always feel my tags have no depth.

[shah555]

this will help

[Exo]

im incorporating alot of them into my sigs right now

[Seto]

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/2684/depthpx7.png

Part of my tut.

[fusion89]

thanks for all the tips, very helpfull

[Knowledge]

Thansk man I never new this this is alot of help.

[Sinister.]

Interesting things peoples thanks for sharing :D

[-ICE_CrEaM-]

Thanks for sharing!

Will help me a lot XD

[DOMINO]

Depth is a main thing in tags.People will tell you that alot
How do I create depth?
1-Gaussain Blur your backround
2-Sharpen your focal
3-use the burn tool for distance things
4-B&W Gradient on Lumonsity and erase some parts
5-applying your image, and then putting it on multiply to about 20% opacity or around there, until it looks good
6-i use the hue/saturation adjustment and set the saturation on -15 and set the layer to soft light
7.apply image, ur burn tools, sharpen, and blur the background. (only with HQ stock)
8.You can also take your original stock [scaled down to what it is in the sig] and put it on top of everything and set it to multiply and erase some parts.
9.You have a render that is mainly blue
You add it to a red background (with a red light source)
Take out a red soft brush and brush where the red light source would hit your render.
Set this layer to Soft Light.
It adds depth and makes it 'feel' like the render was always apart of the stock
10.Apply image, high pass on 10, set it on soft light. Great way to make depth
11. B+W Gradient map on multiply, Lower Opacity to about 20-30.

Hopefully this answers your question if you had any
Post if you have any more questions too :)[/b]

thanks man, I will try using these tips when i make my next sig, good lookin out.

[mr bob]

Thanks this will help me alot <3

[Holy]

Lol! I was just about to post a topic asking this when my eye caught it in the stickied area. Thanks for tell this because I really need to work on depth. :D

[Firedrake]

I prefer gauissan blur, and sharpen.

[caps]

wow, this is what iv been looking for the whole time iv been gfxing...
(all of a month xD)
but thats beside the point,



:thanks:
-to everyone who put this thread together :)

[*FlowOne]

thx man :tease:

[edrenalingfx]

i thnk the hue saturation adjustment pry works the best but i could be wrong im still new to this

[AngelikDiablo13]

This is really Helpful thanks!!

[Prevail]

The initial post is very helpful, Flow. Thanks for putting it up =)

[Craig_6]

thanks i found this really helpful :D

[.doubleK]

Thanks mate! This really helped me out.

[Lynch]

Pretty good list, could definately help out people who are unsure of how to add more depth to a tag

Couple of them were new to me too lol, majority of them I'm familiar with, don't use them all but familiar :)

[.pulse]

thanks a lot, this helps a ton :)

[Kaze-Steve]

Would it be any hassle if I put this up on my forums?

[king_1]

bro dat was a great help, a lot of ppl told me i didn't have much depth in ma sigs, i hope all dez wud help, thnx a lot

[roro808]

THank you, i needed to work on this! Didn't know what they meant but now i do, thanks again!

[Marda]

Yes very useful, appreciate you taking the time to make the list.

[misaki27]

I usually just use blur and sharpen on different layers but didn't know there was so many ways to do it. It really helped me out!

[eddielogan]

thanks for this i can say i only did hald of what was ther, but after reading this im gona try all of it and see what comes out the other end :D

[Celetrix]

Thanks, really helpful :thumbsup:

[.Imagine.]

Thanks for the share, it's very important in most tags. I've been trying, but I didn't know all this was necessary, lol.

[Bliss]

Nice bit of info thanks :D

[Paradox]

Hmm ^.^ Im pretty bored with nothing 2 do might as well give it a shot with my Kyle XY stock ^.^

[Invalid]

Hmmmm
Thanks for this mate!

[.BWI]

great tips :D

[Jur]

What about:

Big things on the foreground, small things on the background? :P

[midomafia]

thx for tips

[FIREARMS]

Very usefull information :)

[Amplif1er]

Ahh. Thanks mate. This will come in handy. =D

[rockistagurl]

thanks for this

[Deus]

Awesome thread, thanks alot.

[Sean]

This is a nice share, thanks mate.

[BreeJaguar]

This is very helpful. On my other forum, a lot of people have depth-problems, which I don't really understand.

Depth has always kind of been... there.

[Dutch]

Lol thanks for share :laugh2: On my clan forum they always ask: How can i add depth :mellow4:

[Relish]

this is a good tut for me lol xD I need to learn more

[Static]

nice it was good in hand ;)

[soulstice]

Great tips. I already knew most of them but it's nice to be reminded over and over til it sinks in. Hehe.

[Frankie]

Great tips, I sometimes have trouble with depth.

[']

thanks for the tips

[Fayte]

Thx for information :)

[Static]

gr8 tips you known. helped me ;)

[Danta]

thanks guys... i struggle to find depth

[.Peak]

thanks for this good topic i learned a lot.

[']

thanks for the tips. i usually do the high pass technique.

[Annihilator]

Wow, a newb like me could really use tips like these!

[gardenbyocean]

Going in to try all techniques ~ always tried to do a blurred drop shadow around render to make it "pop".

A very purposeful topic - thank you

[C-MAN777]

wow i actually use most of these in all my tags but i also try to make lighting the key to depth( by learning how light falls)

[Backfire]

I don't get all these blurring methods, all you've got to have is good composition and good shading and contrast.

[Hush]

Edited and cleaned it up a bit.

[maroonstigjlr]

That's extremely helpful. I gotta say, the week or so I've been on this site, I've improved LOTS. Thanks a lot guys. Just gotta get about 15 more posts and I'll be able to read more stuff like this! :D

[brazzo]

wow ..
thanks, been having trouble with the depth on sigs and small art, wil definatey give this one a go

[Morphix]

Thanks for the share, really helpful! :D

[Gallagher]

deff. helped me out, only used a few of those methods, never even knew bout some of em

[jerzy]

thanks for all this, really helps

[Blackhunter]

Thanks alot :biggrin2: gonna use it

[Maku]

I always used the high pass one, but the gradient ones are good also.

[Snowman]

this is pretty interesting i might try some of these with some of mine

[Warlord]

Wow thanks, this helped a lot =D

[Gtee]

Cheers

[.stylez]

I use the gradient one the most =]
ty! :)

[Sephi]

I use to use the high pass + the b/w gradient on low opacity and then i was do abit of burn and dodge, would come out how i wanted like that :)

[Deftbeat]

thanks for the tips, i had problems with depth on my tags.

[+mw.Kiddie]

Oh interesting. Didn't hear about 6 or 10, but they sound pretty neat. I'll try 'em out next time. Thanks.

...Not that I bother with depth anymore o_O

[ghostray]

many new methods！thanks for sharing

[Hotchkiss]

This helped me tons, cheers!

[chrisSy__]

Wow alot of goood tips there guys. learned a good few new things.
Thanks alot for sharing them

[.Stevie ;;]

Thanks I Always Lacked In Depth :P

[Sam]

Some of my tags have good depth, ssome of them dont, i love the ones that have good depth, i love seeing depth in peoples tags, being them to life abit more! :P

[gloryforixseal]

All feels a little monotone for me,would like to see some more colour to it and also interested to see the original stock,lighting and depth is good,nice job on the whole,well done