I'm being honest, the Elf, Avenger and Ponder are alright, but the others are just terribad. Nothing that practice and time won't improve though. They're all decent attemps and the 'layering' of certain card art elements are creative, just the end product really needs some polishing. Like the wolves, for example look like they're copied and pasted and pixelated, plus you missed the green part of the Master's cape between the wolf's two front legs (and the cape also shows at the bottom of the card, it's cut really poorly), just add a touch of gaussian blur or some filtering to smoothen out the wolves a bit, make some precise alterations to the wolves to make them look different, for example. In general, use other cards to include additional art, like you did the the Avenger! and use all the tools available like the color balancing and contrast tools and levels to match the general tone of the art.
Another thing too, it's probably easier to use a higher-res image of the art (google em, most art is available somewhere) and use something like Magic Set Editor to make it full art and then make more modifications through Photoshop.
One more thing, just make the cards single, I wouldn't stick them into that huge image, it makes them annoying to look at. Render the cards one by one and put them here separately as you display them or a bunch of them in a spoiler tag.
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@Ohms: Thank you so much for the ideas! I'm glad you came up with so many good suggestionns on how to modify the art, and for pointing things I did very badly on the art. I will try to be more careful in the future. The ideas with the gaussian blur will help with rough cutting in the future! Sorry about the load of cards. Should I modify the spoiler image, adding a single card a day, or just make new posts? Anways, thanks again! I will try to improve my cards!
i would second what was said above except i like the archive trap. the issue i see with it is there are sections that look like you put a blur effect over and it looks off.
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Thanks for pointing that out! The reason I blur is because I want the card art and the extended art too look connected. I use the sharpen tool to make it look less blurry.
Please let me know what you think!
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Please note that the image is very large, because it needs space for more added cards.
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Another thing too, it's probably easier to use a higher-res image of the art (google em, most art is available somewhere) and use something like Magic Set Editor to make it full art and then make more modifications through Photoshop.
One more thing, just make the cards single, I wouldn't stick them into that huge image, it makes them annoying to look at. Render the cards one by one and put them here separately as you display them or a bunch of them in a spoiler tag.
Good luck man!
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