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wflan
wflan aka william flanigan is a 23.75 year old boy, has been a member since November 25, 2005, has scored 624 submissions, giving an average score of 2.67, helping 6 designs get printed.
URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wflan/
AIM: ibilly8771
recognizable methods in submissions
What is your oppinion about subs that have things whic you recognize to be from a specific program, or other such recognizable feature? For example, one of the photoshop special effect brushes is used as a main feature in the sub... does that automatically count it out for you, degrade it a bit, or have no effect on the design (in your oppinion)?

I personally feel somewhere in the middle... It's not easy to make custom brushes that look good, and if you don't have illustrator, paths are a bitch...

tesko
   tesko on Nov 27 '05 at 3:25pm
depends, but it's normaly a sign of lazyness.
d3d
   d3d on Nov 27 '05 at 3:30pm
paths with photoshop aren't that much harder than paths with illustrator. it's only once you close the path that it becomes difficult.
toadvine
toadvine on Nov 27 '05 at 3:32pm
Typically, I'm against it, but I suppose it would be possible to do if it were in a really ironic, threadless-esque way. Even then, it probably wouldn't make a good shirt...
plans
plans on Nov 27 '05 at 3:35pm
Agreed with all of the above.
vebberts
vebberts on Nov 27 '05 at 3:56pm
When I recognize a display font (action is, girls are weird, curlz, etc.) I instantly think BLAH and lose interest. Same thing goes with clip art and Illustrator brushes. If you've seen the elements before, then it's nothing special.
bluemagenta
bluemagenta on Nov 27 '05 at 4:17pm
not for threadless but in my digital art, designs or photomanips i use my own brushes i defined with photoshop. i think those programs should be just to help you not to do your design. or then everybody has the same thing at the end.



i think font usage is very important. if you are using a font you shouldn't use it like it comes. sometimes you have to fix between the letters or words. some fonts like curlz are not actually fonts. they are like symbols or shapes so even if you write anything else with it it turns into the same everybody writes. so in my opinion most of the time you should know some typography to deal with the fonts.
cirque427
cirque427 on Nov 27 '05 at 4:19pm
to me it makes it look messy and cheap
wflan
wflan on Nov 27 '05 at 11:08pm
wow, that's a pretty overwhelming consensus...

I didn't even think about the font issue. The thing I HATE is Comic Sans... it's almost insulting to see when you read it... like accusing you of being immature or something.
Elburrito
Elburrito on Nov 27 '05 at 11:53pm
I do paths with photoshop and it works fine with me.
montmont
   montmont on Nov 28 '05 at 2:02am
Recognising elements from books, such as the clip art book. Use of brushes from illustrator.



Do most people here use Illustrator or Photoshop? I use freehand, its great for path drawing. But, alas, its days are probably numbered.
laizeohbeets
laizeohbeets on Nov 28 '05 at 2:13am
If I see something composed entirely of a brush or something, I'm probably not going to grade it very high. It just doesn't look like the effort was really put there.



Of course, since I have a tendency to make vectors in a raster-based program, I can't talk.
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