Final Fantasy XII Self made wallpaper =p

Here are some wallpapers I made of ff12 using photoshop. I've never used ps before so these arent that great, but i got sick of not finding something that suites my taste (or my desktop resolution). I'd love some feedback and even more some tips on how to add style to my art..I feel like a lot of them were very plain and i coulnt think of muh else to add. I messed with filters and they looked cool but actually using them for a wall seems cheesy.




















If anyone wants to use one and the res is too high, let me know and ill scale it down for you. I doubt anyone will want one though =P

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Kairyu

First time, ever? If so, hm not bad. Even my very first photoshop mess turned out much worse than what you posted. But that was before I knew about online tutorials.
That said, you asked for tips on how to dress up your wallpapers. You will get a lot of different answers in how to do this since we all have different tastes. Some might say add a light texture, vectorize it, or even suggest adding a in game cityscape picture to the background. It's up to you.

If you're going to ask me:
- Wallpapers are meant to enhance your desktop. Not so much diverting your attention from whatever it is you're working on. So avoid harsh or clashing color combinations. Bright Red/Purple on black gradients? Yeah, don't do that.
- Unless you know what you're doing avoid using blending options like the outer glow. It only makes the wallpaper look more distracting.
- Try applying some basic rules of photography. More specifically, the Rule of Thirds.
- Read more tutorials. It's the internet, so it is available.

Sorry I can't be more help, I don't make a lot cut and paste wallpapers. I much prefer drawing them from scratch.

Thanks for the reply!

It's funny because a lot of the things you mentioned I was taking into consideration, like the rule of thirds. I tried applying that to most of my walls, failed miserably with the basche/ashe/rossler one, but thought I did pretty good on the others.

I really wanted to do something with either a blown up character head or like you said, a city scape. I just couldn't find a big head, or for that matter how to do transparency (I'm sure if i found the head i would have figured it out though.

I never thought about wallpapers like the way you mentioned them, how they are to enhance but not take focus away from. I felt like the gradients were my lifesavers. when I look at the two judge walls the one with the orange gradient looks SO much better to me, same with the villians wall. I wish I knew another way to make backgrounds, that was what I felt was lacking the most. I basically just trimmed some pics, "feathered" them and threw em on there. I guess I should feather less (I didn't use layer options just the feathering)

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What I don't understand is how people get such awesome background and efects...look at these

FFXII - Fran wall by ~EdotenseiHime on deviantART

Fran - Wallpaper by ~atharaxis on deviantART

Final Fantasy XII Judge by ~Chaos-Nephilim on deviantART

are they painting those themselves or is there an option in photoshop to make things like broken glass or lightning?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Here is a wall I made today for my little brother. I didn't want to work with so many characters but he wanted his pets =P

I messed with the brushes a little more and tried to fill in the background with something other than gradients.



He didn't like the font or ground too much so i changed it for him. he likes it much better, I think I do too. It seems to match more





I tried to make snow on that second one

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?