Quake Wars Wallpaper

The last few days, I frequently commented on the wallpapers created by crossfire users for a Quake Wars Beta key.

After commenting a few wallpapers, one told me, if you know so much, show us your creative skills. At that time I didn't have much time at my hand, but now it's weekend, and I was bored, so I was like why not?. Didn't spent much time on this one though, but imo it turned out rather nice.

I created a 1280x720, a 1024x576, and a 800x450 one. When you apply this wallpaper to your desktop, make sure it's set to center, otherwise you get this ugly stretched effect, or you see it multiple times which looks rather noob.

Original stock

C&C plz, thanks in advance...

1280x720
1024x576
800x450

ps. I know the competition is over, but I actually don't care, I fucking hate QuakeWars and don't need a key ;)

pps. I know, as how elenaar wrote in the comment below, that the red Quake Wars text doesn't fit in, but since the whole wallpaper should show that it's Quake Wars, I had no other choise than to make it a bit more red so that it wouldn't ruin the whole image, but that it would still attract attention...
Comments
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the red "quake wars" text doesnt fit in
i know, but I think the quake wars needs to get attention, I saw no other possibility than to do this...

thanks for criticism though ;)
Parent
dimmu borgir and arch enemy suck btw!
Parent
ps. I know the competition is over, but I actually don't care, I fucking hate QuakeWars and don't need a key ;)

nice
:) its true, no?
Parent
it is. i fkin hate the qw shit :p
Parent
hehe ^^

u like my wallpaper though?
Parent
yea looks quite nice idd :)
Parent
:) thx, gonna make another 1 though, a humorous one xD
Parent
nice retarded resolutions

also by bledning in 'crossfire' into a wall you don't show much creativity
whaha, you show yours then ;)
btw, I didn't only "blend" crossfire in the wall
here's the original stock:
http://www.gamebe.com/images/biblio/divers/000000031250.jpg

ps. if you want the psd so you can see what I've done, just pm me, 'coz you can learn a lot from it ;)

The "blending" of the crossfire logo isn't just blending either, took me like 5 minutes or smth to get it like this (details my friend, details...)
Parent
1) ctrl + u for random saturation? 20 sec. (thx to Ruipperi)
2) adding two big black bars for the love of art? 1 min.
3) adding some random filters with random settings? 5min.
4) playing around with opacity and a logo? 1 min. (thx to Ruipperi)

Saving it as an png (?!) and calling it a piece of art on xfire?

Timeless.
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agree

but actually.
1) ctrl + u for random saturation? 20seconds.
2) adding two big black bars for the love of art? 10seconds.
3) adding some random filters with random settings? 1min.
4) playing around with opacity and a logo? 2 min.

..takes 4minutes max.

Oh yeah, truly a piece of the greatest art in xfire!
Parent
it's funny how you seem to know what I have done (NOT!)
seriously, show some work you made, or just hush (ps, want the psd? lots of layers merged though, but I guess you with ur uberskillz can find that out!)
Parent
shows how less you know about photoshop if you need so much work to make that kind of result.
Parent
hehe, you do it plz and send me the psd, the stock is in my journal, let's see how you do it... (SEND ME THE PSD WHEN YOU ARE DONE!!!)

ps. check my profile, and say again how "little" I know of photoshop. Btw, if that doesn't convince you, go to www.dutchdesignz.com and look 4 .spree
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you cant be serious rly? can you?
Parent
well, come on, dont be a sissy now, try to recreate it and send me the psd, show me ur skillz since u can uberflame me :)
Parent
its not flame its critisizing and after that i just did correct this swedes comment and ye, i can easily to make you shut your mouth and make that faster and easily. im just working on other project with photoshop atm and dunno if i even would do anything if i werent working on something else at the moment.
Parent
dude, in the time you typed this, you could have made it (at least, thats what you said)
you can just admit that youre jealous and cant recreate this...
Parent
and about your profile. there is nothing IMPRESSIVE there. some of them was even worse than i expected from you.

and i will never be jealous about your skills with photoshop.
Parent
haha, like... (love it how you try to flame me and never come up with any good arguments xD)
Parent
if you think this is flame you would be crying if i start to flame. i just, im too busy for this now really. i dont want to make you look bad because im here to give comments not to flame, so, I'lll just stop replying now. no matter what you reply next.
Parent
ok, tell me when you're not busy, let's do a battle than (a signature / large project battle)...
Parent
i loled @ you not handling criticism and acting like a bitch
Parent
We really are interested about the time.
It's just ugly.
Parent
haha, you know what's ugly, your face!
Parent
nice, this is the way you should take criticism !
good loser and so on
Parent
no, your way of criticising is good... seriously, just by saying something is ugly makes me really impressed man, i mean, that says all, it rly helps me a lot!!!
Parent
well, ruipperi did that so I don't have to, and what was your reply to him? "OH PLS NGR MAKE YOUR OWN LOL U MOFO LOL!!111!"
Parent
qpr on 24/06/07, 13:36:34

We really are interested about the time.
It's just ugly.
Parent
dont blame him if you just cant do anything
Parent
show your work plz...
Parent
for what? you are the one who's asking for feedback here
Parent
whaha, u see, another case of I pwn all, i'm just afraid to show it coz im fake, tbh...

rly, stfu, go matsurbate and then throw urself from a building or smth
Parent
how old are you?
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whaha, u see, another case of I pwn all, i'm just afraid to show it coz im fake, tbh...

rly, stfu, go matsurbate and then throw urself from a building or smth
Parent
really, you don't have to be able to do music even you criticise it
Parent
?

eeh

what?
Parent
.... nice to have a conversation with you.
If you make a song, I can criticise it even though I haven't made any songs.
So when someone is saying that your texts at the pic were ugly, they don't have to make pics themselves, as you were replying "plzzzz show your work plszzz"
Parent
none of the texts fits to the wall and if someone said you to show your creative skills then and stop whine, and you do this? :D
whaha big mouth, always those jealous ppl critisising other mans shizz without giving nice arguments xD show your own stuff, or hush, u fucking piece of shit, get a life (ps, if you don't like it, you don't have to insult ppl. actually, when you immediately insult somebody, you just SHOW that you're jealous. behave a bit mature please or gtfo...)
Parent
it was crtisizing and you made my day by saying "do it yourself better then if you say mine sucks"

and actually i would like to make you read the whole stuff again and make new decision about who is mature.
Parent
your whole comment was immature to be honost...
Parent
ye. stop being childish and cut the crap and accept that you're not ment to be a photoshopper or any creative artist.
Parent
WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA read my other reply to you fuckface...
Parent
and you were talking to me about speaking english
Parent
nothing special imo
n1ce creative skillz you got there like amagad amaaaaaazing......
check my profile ;)

edit: and check the original stock too ;)
Parent
I like your 4 'bigger' projects, the signatures are too standard (but then again, I don't like signatures anyway..). But this wallpaper well, if this is supposed to be creative or special, it's not sorry :l

edit: god nice reply skills @ me
xD I know this isn't creative, check my journal again plz, but imo it doesn't have to be creative, it has to be catchy, and this is catchy. Btw, there is some sort of creativity involved though, but I think you need a trained eye to see that. For example, the blurring. I intentially put focus on the standing shooting guy, because he has a nice focal, compo, and action position... I did this by blurring around him (the further the more blur) and sharpening him a bit. Also, I wanted to fit in the crossfire logo and the quake wars logo, I did this by letting it look like if they already were there. The blending of that banner involves more than people here think. I mean, anyone could lower the opacity, but you may try creating the same effect as I did, I wish you good luck.

The thing is, people always tend to think creativity = throwing as much shit in as you can. In my opinion, creativity is being able to create something which will look good to people, not throwing as many shit in as you can and say now it looks nice. Clean can be nice to. More is less, less is more...
Parent
I did actually notice those things so I guess I'm just gonna ignore the ''you need a trained eye'' part. All I'm saying is that this wallpaper is too standard, therefore, for me personally, it's not that creative. But if from your point of view creativity is something different, then that's fine aswell. Just don't try to talk to me as if I don't know shit about designing or w/e hmmkay. ;) And now I'm going to stop responding cause the etqw download is done. \o/
Parent
:> not saying you're not creative, and I've never said you don't have a trained eye, it was just a suggestion of a possibility... Btw, have fun playing QW :>
Parent
how does it feel
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