Banner Battle: BananaBuffy v. Willow My Love

[Willow My Love]

So I challenged Sav to a battle. (Leather glove in the face and everything.)

Here are your first round requirements:
-Use a ship you don't ship
-Only the colors blue and orange
-Use at least one texture
-Use the words "This is Love"

Good luck! 🙂

 

[BananaBuffy]

Oh, shoot. I'm super scared. Like, you're so talented. What am I even doing? LOL. But here we go. (Oh, and also...I suppose this is either going to be a Bangel or Cangel banner then, LOL.)

First round requirements.
- Make the banner centered around a funny moment in either Buffy or Angel.
- Use one gradiant.
- Use two textures.
- Use two different fonts to write the quote.

 

[Willow My Love]

I'm totally working on this. I finally found the scene I wanna use. I just gotta use the textures now.

 

[Willow My Love]

Okay, here's my final product:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/tragicdeath/BB%20stuff/bannerbattlecopy.png

 

[SlayerFest]

Okay, here's my final product:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/tragicdeath/BB%20stuff/bannerbattlecopy.png

I love this. How do you create that glowy effect..is it a gaussian blur?

 

[Willow My Love]

[MENTION=11753]Fredikins[/MENTION] No, it's actually two separate layers. The first one I blur on 46% everything I want to "glow" as you put it. The second, I blur, again on the 46%, everything. The whole layer. Then I adjust the opacity of the second layer until I'm satisfied with it. If there are areas I don't want blurred, on the second layer like Buffy's hair, I erase with it set to 78%.

That whole thing is assuming you were talking about their faces, right?

 

[SlayerFest]

[MENTION=11753]Fredikins[/MENTION] No, it's actually two separate layers. The first one I blur on 46% everything I want to "glow" as you put it. The second, I blur, again on the 46%, everything. The whole layer. Then I adjust the opacity of the second layer until I'm satisfied with it. If there are areas I don't want blurred, on the second layer like Buffy's hair, I erase with it set to 78%.

That whole thing is assuming you were talking about their faces, right?

Yes! Thank you 🙂 and yeah you use the effect in most of your banners. Like the "love you to pieces" one and some of the March Madness ones.

 

[Willow My Love]

I'd seen it around the boards and played around in Photoshop until I got it how I liked it. 🙂 I like to experiment though. A lot of the things I do I've found on accident just playing around.