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When I log in, I'm greeted with a notice "Your Profile is 0% Complete." So I click 'complete my profile,' and get a dialog with a couple blank spaces (I don't have Instagram or Snapchat) and list my favorite teams, which I do.

BUT . . . When I click 'Next' I'm booted out of the Profile editor, and it still says my profile is 0% complete. 

Where should I go, what should I click?

On 7/20/2018 at 7:22 AM, MJWalker45 said:

If your topic isn't seen, it would be a paradox. If you aren't getting responses, look at who contributed and PM them directly. We aren't always going to be available due to other requirements away from this site. 

Of course, please don't take me too seriously.

Darth Brooks posted did post some very interesting, in-depth topics on the first couple pages ... but now it's been FOUR years since I first posted in here. I'm not ENTITLED to any one-on-one lessons, I know that. But there are some very talented people here ... hell, I'd be happy with a quick drive-by and a sentence or two from them.

It's not just this site, I posted some of these same images on another site's "Photoshop help" thread ... in 6 months all I got was ONE post, with just ONE word: "Rasterize." I looked up its meaning, it had something to do with bitmap images. But I'm still not sure what it meant. 

Nuggets logo and uniform history (from two years ago obviously).  Dunno what advice I'm looking for here ... the hardest part was wiping away other players in the shots - Alex English good example. Almost that entire background was imported to cover over other players. OHHH!!! Had to draw in Antonio McDyess's (#24) right arm and left hand ... that's HORRIBLE! Looks like I used the Crayola crayon 8-pack box 

Ok, THIS I could use real help on. It's so hard to reduce the size of images and still keep some quality ... this thing raised a very specific problem: The fingerboards of the guitars - the taper slightly narrower as you do up from the body of the guitar to the headstock.  Problem is, with such small images, the taper narrows pixel by pixel, and each one is VERY noticeable. It's jarring. If you look close you'll see what I mean. Don't know what I can do to smooth out this kind of problem.  I tried editing a large image, then reducing it's size ... but reducing has problems all it's own of course.

Just a collection of old uniforms to prove to the youngsters that 40 years ago, not every team was either Navy Blue or Black!

Not sure what kind of advice I'm looking for here ... the two images are the same, except in the lower one I enlarged Elway and super-imposed his helmet on the upper row. Don't much care for the look of that here, but expanding heads and arms outside the image boundaries worked well on the Nuggets thing above.

There's lots of professionals on this site, so I'm hoping for some lessons (or at least tips) on Photoshop-ing.

This is just a photo of the Saint Monica statue in Santa Monica California - (where Wilshire Blvd ends at Ocean Blvd.)

I "style-ized" the photo into a Windows desktop image (tinted the left quarter for desktop icons)

Of course everything from the original photo is scrubbed and cleaned - then "style-ized" - the grass, the sand, the fence, the water, the clouds. Not sure what kind of advice I'm looking for on this one. I hyper-contrasted the original photo too (obviously). 

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Good example here of something I could use help with:  Truly INCREDIBLE photo (original above), but I wanted Tom Osborne CENTERED in the shot. So I expanded the left margin, then created additional "content" to fill that expansion:

1) Mostly drew in the Buffalo-handler on the left side, then blurred (and blurred and blurred)

2) #26 Cornhusker - the arm and shoulder on the left is a flipped image of the other arm 

3) #8x behind #26 is a flipped image of #89 between Osborne and #26 in the original - changed the jersey number, facemask, face, mouthguard, collar.

Looks pretty good, but it could be better - especially the Buffalo handler.

GIVE ME SOME CLUES, PLEASE.

My favorite athlete Lafayette 'Fat' Lever.

Even in his 50s and 60s, this was just wrong.

5 hours ago, Bruhammydude said:

I think pinstriped uniforms are ugly. They make the jersey details harder to read, they make everything cluttered, and it get's rid of an opportunity for sleeve stripes or the headspoon stripes. Be honest with me, which one looks cleaner?

The pinstriped one looks busy and complicated, not to mention the pinstripes don't even connect right, while the standard white one pops well, and looks fresh. I think that pinstriped uniforms are ugly and bad, and that all teams using them would look better in plain white (except for the Yankees, they have too much history to get rid of them.)

Another reason the Yankees pinstripes work is their SOLID DARK NAVY LOGO.  Never a problem reading that one .... meanwhile the Rockies' ridiculous outlined letters are one of the worst uniform design flaws I can think of. They couldn't even fill in the letters with a deep gray or silver, sad.

But PURPLE. Are there any pro or college teams that actually wear true purple? Equal red and blue mix? I don't think so ... every "purple" is 2-to-1 or 3-to-1 mix blue over red. The Ravens, Vikings, Lakers, Suns, Raptors, LA Kings, Kansas State, Washington, Northwestern, Texas Christian, even East Carolina - NONE are even very close to true 50-50 blue-red PURPLE. Even BROWN has the Padres, Browns and Wyoming Cowboys.

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They've worn them a few times ......

But ...   Again   .... the Warriors are NOT a City or a Town. They are a . State!

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Everybody and their brother seems to love these kinds of alternates ... but not me.

For the Warriors ... first off, they're a STATE team, GOLDEN State. Not a City.   It would be like calling the Rangers "The Dallas Rangers."

Plus, they're moving from Oakland to San Francisco next year, which to me (admittedly from a distance) raised all kinds of "bad neighborhood" stereotypes.

The Nuggets alternate ... ecchh.  Crayola blue.

Especially bad when they have (imo) two of the all-time awesome alternates:

It might be the 4th oldest ballpark, but it underwent MAJOR, and very SUCCESSFUL renovations in the mid-90s.

It's a nice park.

This really is a Canadian website ...

I mention the word "competition," and a seven+ page thread grinds to a 5-month halt! 

On 7/22/2017 at 2:54 PM, rareartworks said:

youtube tut? i wanna make my own basketball uniforms .Please?

GREAT IDEA ....

I'm thinking as a competition ... users design all-original logo and uniforms for a team, and everybody votes (various categories).....??

Help me with this one guys ....... is the following IRONY or PARADOX ?

You sign up on a Forum dedicated to creative design and  colorful logos and uniforms ... you notice a good number of the members are highly skilled and knowledgable in these areas, seem like many are professional draftsmen or graphic designers.  B U T .... when you post in a Photoshop thread hoping for a few tips, all you get are crickets. For almost TWO YEARS!

IRONY, PARADOX, or a pencil-neck running a thinly-veiled BITCHFEST ?

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On 5/14/2018 at 10:54 PM, 4Mizzou said:

I haven't commented here in a while so:
 

1. I think hockey should go back to white home uniforms and color roadies.

White at home, I agree ... for among other reasons - a team's home court games can take on a monotonous look when visiting teams always wear white, and the homies are always in the same colors every night.

On the other hand, you gotta kinda hand it to teams that sell out for their colors and banish the white at home. For example, you won't find a thread of white anywhere when the Trojans and Wolverines play home games:

22 hours ago, mcj882000 said:

I think the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have a salvageable look.

To me this set has an amazing colour balance; the way the brighter red pops with the pewter and orange just looks so good. Change the still-terrible number font and shrink the logo on the helmet a bit, and I think their uniforms become among the best in the NFL.

I wouldn't have thought it possible, but yes I agree.

Change the numerals, reduce pirate-flag helmet logo by 1/3, and clean up some of the trim - maybe lose the orange and add a bit of black - and voila!

The pewter-scarlett color balance is quite good.

Coaches not players ... but it's a two-fer.

Sorry Sabre, I see now that you were first .....  

On 2/1/2017 at 0:12 AM, b1gd0g77 said:

Anyone recognize this font? I'm sure it's a custom Nike font but is there something similar out there that may be close? Any help would be appreciated and I'll gladly share when I'm finished. Thanks!

Looked easy, but no .......

Of course your jersey is TWO fonts, the A and C are both different, and the 'MACK' is a narrow variant.

These have 'inlines' but of course that can be fixed .....

Couple other maybes ......

Athletica Clean

Factoria Bold

Good luck!

Hmmmm ... what exactly constitutes a "mega"-thread?

Peter the Great was a Nashville Predator?!

The half-season in Quebec, that makes sense... but Nashville?

Gave it a mid-grey background - all the white behind it makes it hard to differentiate between colors and textures.

Other changes ,,,,,,,,, E-N-L-A-R-G-E-M-E-N-T

W-I-D-E-N-E-D the perspective on the street - both sides; lowered the height of the street-sky 'event horizon' one pixel; cleaned up the reflections of am/pm sign and lights on building.  

Working on image creation ... goal is to become a recognized expert in the humble art of electronic cut and paste.......

But I have a ways to go, I thought I could get some advice here. This image is from scratch - recreating one of the most breathtaking sight I've ever seen.  It was 4:55 a.m., and the sun hung like a giant cherry against a super smooth blanket of dove grey sky (f'ing phone battery was dead).  I've searched and searched, and indeed the discrete natures of the sun and its one color -- against the sky and its one color. Can't find anything like it.

PROBLEMS I SEE:  Greenery on edges too green for as dark as it is; pavement bad; perspective might be screwy; reflection of am/pm sign too light.. Somebody said it wasn't centered, but I think that's ok.

I'm using Photoshop Elements and - gulp - Paint. It's easy to maneuver with it I think.

1sun.bmp