JM + JM3 Wallpapers *UPDATED*
Yeah, had made this a while ago and was using it. When I rediscovered it I resized it and brought it here. :) *Choose Screen Resolution! 1024 | 800 ETA: So instead of opening a new thread I'll be adding future stuff to this one thread. :)

thats really good i love the colors

that is way cool, good job!

awesome wallpaper! can i use it?

Sure you can use it. Anyway, here's a new one. 1024 | 800

that is awesome !! lol

ooo pretty!! i love those

I sound like a broken record but I'm astounded by your artistic abilities.

Hey delise i was wondering what program do you use to making your graphics with? and how do you get them so clear like that, i can do mine pretty clear but yours just has a much better quailty to it!!

I use a mix of Photoshop 6 and Paint Shop Pro 7, althought mostly Photoshop. As for the smooth look there's a number of techniques. In PSP7 there is a great noise filter called 'perserving edge smooth' or something like that. It takes away grain distortion you don't want without taking away from the photo too much. I also make sure when you save you have a fairly low compression. In PSP I just use a compresion level of 1, but in PS I save all my jpeg's at around the 10 or 11 setting. Anyway, PS has some handy noise filters too. So just play around... ...BTW, try playing with layers. I mean I always make sure I have plenty of layers to play with for coloring and all that. So I can take say one layer and softlight it and then have a duplicate layer under it to mess with the coloring. Either to brighten it or play with the color levels a tad, or often to take out some of the saturation as I had to do with that last one. But I used the desaturation sponge tool for that, just going over John's body skin to take out some of the orangey/redness. Hope I wasn't talking over your head and I was helpful in some way, lol.

no no that's ok i wanted to know..LOL I usus PSP8 and i didnt know about the edge thing i should try that. I don't usally have problems with quailty but sometimes i do and i never could figure it out.

Yeah it's a great filter. I actually like it over many of the noise or bluring filters on Photoshop. Really it's best to work with quality photos to begin with, but of course we can't always do that.