McCarroll21's Showcase

[McCarroll21]

I'm no longer posting my stuff in here, I will instead be uploading my new stuff to an album on my portfolio. I'm not personalizing any more sigs so they can be used by multiple people. The only request I have is that they aren't used by multiple people at the same time on BN and you ask for my permission before using a sig I have made.

You can find my work now from my profile in the album entitled Sigs, Walls, and things (http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/album.php?albumid=14).

The work below won't be moved to my album because they're either older pieces of work or personalized for someone.

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Sigs: (All my sigs have been done for people on this site)http://www.braves-nation.com/graphics/sig_thesmartguy_smoltz.jpg

http://www.braves-nation.com/graphics/sig_chipperboy1_moments.jpg

http://www.braves-nation.com/graphics/sig_chippermaddux10_bashbrothers.jpg

http://www.braves-nation.com/graphics/sig_hardcorebravesfan_youth.jpg

http://www.braves-nation.com/graphics/sig_hotcorner_battery.jpg

http://www.braves-nation.com/graphics/sig_jsh_heartoftheorder.jpgWallpapers:
1024x768
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/2130/benroethlisberger6to.th.jpg (http://img458.imageshack.us/my.php?image=benroethlisberger6to.jpg) http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/6509/darrenmcfadden0uk.th.jpg (http://img203.imageshack.us/my.php?image=darrenmcfadden0uk.jpg)

1920x1200
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4067/ronniebrewer1920x12006np.th.jpg (http://img391.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ronniebrewer1920x12006np.jpg) http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8580/kellyjohnson1920x1200sm5.th.jpg (http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kellyjohnson1920x1200sm5.jpg)

[Blain34]

they are all pretty good to me

[McCarroll21]

My wallpapers I've made.

1024x768
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/2130/benroethlisberger6to.th.jpg (http://img458.imageshack.us/my.php?image=benroethlisberger6to.jpg) http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/6509/darrenmcfadden0uk.th.jpg (http://img203.imageshack.us/my.php?image=darrenmcfadden0uk.jpg)

1920x1200
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4067/ronniebrewer1920x12006np.th.jpg (http://img391.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ronniebrewer1920x12006np.jpg) http://img276.imageshack.us/img276/1755/chuckjames021920x12004ac.th.jpg (http://img276.imageshack.us/my.php?image=chuckjames021920x12004ac.jpg)

I'm working on making the McFadden wallpaper into a 1920x1200 for my computer.

[Blain34]

the ben roth is def my fav. GOOO Steelers.

[McCarroll21]

The Roethlisberger one is the first one I ever made. They're in order now of when I did them.

I want to get back into making wallpapers and stuff so I may me posting some new stuff before long. First up though is getting the McFadden wall made into a 1920x1200 and changing it up a little.

[FLEA]

you got some great stuff

[jschafer5]

Damn...I forgot all about the Willy sig that you made. It kicks ass.

[Casey]

Some very nice work.

[McCarroll21]

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6976/heismanjb3.png

Another one of my treasured items.

[nlsmike]

Give yourself credit man. Nice job on this tuff really is. Maybe I will get a thread of my rubbish and you can critique mine. Yours are far superior to mine.

[McCarroll21]

Updated to include the latest.

[Macquiao]

Do you cut your own renders or no?

[McCarroll21]

Do you cut your own renders or no?
I do my own cuts.

[Macquiao]

Ah, which way do you do it? I used magnetic lasso, then just brushed it up with good ol' fashioned eraser. I used to do it the way where you have to highlight, but that took too long for me.

Seeing all of these photoshop sigs always makes me want to get back into it. I'm too lazy though. :(

[McCarroll21]

I use the free pen tool to lasso the player, then add various points to move it closer to the player and some other small things to smooth it out.

[CB1]

My absolute favorite has to be the one you made for me.

Then the KJ one.

[JayDonnelly10]

Ive always liked ur work since I joined....hence the reason I still only use the sig you created for me....nice work

[Macquiao]

My favorite ones are from top to bottom most at top:

file:///C:/Users/Macky/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpghttp://www.braves-nation.com/graphics/sig_jsh_heartoftheorder.jpg

http://www.braves-nation.com/graphics/sig_hardcorebravesfan_youth.jpg

http://www.braves-nation.com/graphics/sig_thesmartguy_smoltz.jpg

Then, of course, your Francouer one.

Good job, keep it up.

[McCarroll21]

My avatar is a newly created thing. Today is the 10th anniversary of my school's school shooting and I wanted to do something for that.

The warrior head is our school's mascot. It's the same warrior head painted throughout the school. The five stars are in reference to the five that were killed that day.

[jschafer5]

Looks real good, and its really nice of you to do that.

[MuddyPaws]

great work all around

[McCarroll21]

I'm not using this thread to keep up with my stuff anymore. My stuff can now be found in one of my albums on my portfolio.

Sigs, Walls, and things (http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/album.php?albumid=14)

[McCarroll21]

Rocking a new one now. I was going to use this in the contest but I decided to use it now and make a new one that I won't be staring at for five days for the contest. It needs some work in some areas but I thought I'd find the spots I wanted to address easier if I was looking at it all the time.

http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=14&pictureid=385

[vnodnarb]

That's pretty badass.

[McCarroll21]

That's pretty badass.
Thank ya! The main part I'm really not liking about it is the back of his hair. Picky, I know but that's just me.

[McCarroll21]

Made some changes to it. I'm still wanting to do more with it but I think I'm happy with the design. I want to work his no hitter into it somehow, I'm just not sure how I want to do it yet.

Version 1:
http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=14&pictureid=385

Version 2:
http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=14&pictureid=386

Basically darkened it up some and played with his hair to make it look a little more defined.

[HTF]

Very nice Mc. Can I borrow 500 of that 2500 that you win? LOL. I hate this whole week I got to wait, because I got a new style but can't have them until after the poll cuz it'll give away which one is mine.

[Macquiao]

Really nice one, MC. What I really like about your sigs is the fonts and texts in it. It's hard to blend those kind of things in sigs, and only certain people can do it really well. Keep up the nice work. :D

[McCarroll21]

Okay... Last one and I think I'm done with it now.

Starting point:
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8535/hansonbo5.jpg

Version 1:
http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=14&pictureid=385

Version 2:
http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=14&pictureid=386

Version 3: The Keeper
http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=14&pictureid=387

I was going to throw some kind of text in there in the top middle to fill that empty space, but I found another picture of him that would work for that and I think that comes off better.

[jschafer5]

Damn, I like v3 a lot. Thank god you didn't enter this one.:D

[McCarroll21]

Really nice one, MC. What I really like about your sigs is the fonts and texts in it. It's hard to blend those kind of things in sigs, and only certain people can do it really well. Keep up the nice work. :D
Thanks. The text is what I always kick myself over. It's killed a lot of my sigs and really pulled some of them together. The text on this one changed quite a bit before I settled on just using Hanson and then changed some more after that to get it to look the way it does.

Just to reference, I guess this is really version 1 lol... You can see how much it changed. It basically sums up what I was saying about the changes to the text, too.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8535/hansonbo5.jpg

[JCStone7]

That is quite bad-ass! Very nice Mac

[Macquiao]

Thanks. The text is what I always kick myself over. It's killed a lot of my sigs and really pulled some of them together. The text on this one changed quite a bit before I settled on just using Hanson and then changed some more after that to get it to look the way it does.

Just to reference, I guess this is really version 1 lol... You can see how much it changed. It basically sums up what I was saying about the changes to the text, too.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8535/hansonbo5.jpg
I don't know, man. Version 1 ain't too bad. It's not something I'd kick myself over, but if kicking yourself over text will make it better, then might as well do it! :angel:

Your current sig's text is much better though.

[McCarroll21]

I want to make something but have no ideas. Talk to me.

[HTF]

Haven't seen any Arkansas stuff from you. Try your hand at the ever popular Jair. That about as much suggestion as I can give.

[jschafer5]

I want to make something but have no ideas. Talk to me.

Got any good pictures of those sweet freshman (Sophomore now I guess?) basketball players?

[McCarroll21]

Haven't seen any Arkansas stuff from you. Try your hand at the ever popular Jair. That about as much suggestion as I can give.
I don't have a favorite Arkansas player anymore. They're all gone lol

[McCarroll21]

Got any good pictures of those sweet freshman (Sophomore now I guess?) basketball players?
Hmm... Not too sure really.

[BF91]

You could always do a UNC Tar Heels basketball sig. Ya know, the one's that are gonna win the National Championship?

[vnodnarb]

I think it's a good time for football sigs personally, college or NFL doesn't really matter.

[McCarroll21]

Problem with football is if I do a college one I'll have to wait because the Hogs are getting new uniforms and I wouldn't want to make one and then it not be current. lol

I think I've got something in mind. It may be more than I wanted to do though. We'll see. :) Blah! Nope. Gonna have to wait for football season for that.

[JCStone7]

I'd like to see you make Jair Jurrjens one like HTF said

[McCarroll21]

It's overdone.

I think I'm just going to finish these buttons up and stuff. Yeah, sounds good.

[JCStone7]

That's the beauty of GFX tho, everyone has their own style!

[MSU Bulldog]

I want to make something but have no ideas. Talk to me.

You could always surprise me with a MSU sig. :D

[McCarroll21]

K, well.. I said I'd have to wait for football season to start to get a new one out... here it is.

http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=14&pictureid=489

I kind of copied what I did with the Finch sig into this one in some areas, specifically with the border and the text.

I'm pretty sure that Joe is going to become my favorite Hog, if he hasn't already. I went with the hog in the background because it's the first time we've ever had a hog at midfield for a football game. We've had small hog logos placed on each 30 yard line, but we've never had the big one at midfield until now.

[JCStone7]

Looks good to me Mac! :thumbsup:

[HTF]

very nice

[McCarroll21]

http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=14&pictureid=525

Just a little something I threw together. I was bored and googling some information about Hunter so I thought I'd throw a sig together.

[Toneboy]

Nice stuff. How many layers have you got in that? I take it you've used Photoshop (or similar) to get produce that?

[McCarroll21]

Yeah, everything I do is Photoshop. As far as layers, I use a lot of them. A lot of layers I use are only 5-10% opacity, just using different blending techniques.

[Toneboy]

How many layers were in the last one for instance?

[McCarroll21]

I'm working on a website for a friend of my mother. I made one for her a while back but it was just a quick thing to get something up. She's been wanting a logo done and some changes done to the site, so I've been working on that for the last couple days. I finally came up with something for the logo last night and coded most of the website today. Now I'm waiting for the information to put on the pages so it's not done yet, but I wanted to pass along the preview.

Logo:
http://www.braves-nation.com/sc/images/sc_logo.png

Website preview (http://www.braves-nation.com/sc/) - The site is mostly blank. The only text on it is in the footer, but I'm hoping I'll get some of the pages added later tonight.

The only part I'm not sure about right now is the background. I started using the color of yellow in the logo, but I think I'm going to use the lighter yellow color in the background gradient, too. I may go even closer to white than that though. I'm not sure yet, but that'll be something I go back to in the end. Replacing images will be the easy part.

[HTF]

Looks professional good job. I really like the sub text/url

[braveschopbraves]

solid and I like the color scheme

[thegame10]

http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=14&pictureid=525

Just a little something I threw together. I was bored and googling some information about Hunter so I thought I'd throw a sig together.

Too bad you don't have the dunk against JHS at the NEA on there somewhere...that would be awesome.

[McCarroll21]

New wallpaper:
http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=14&pictureid=548

It's 1920x1200 because I don't design walls for you people, I design them for myself. :D

[HTF]

Too damn bad because I'm using it. Looks awesome.

[jschafer5]

Looks awesome.

x2!

[McCarroll21]

Thanks guys. I think it may be my favorite wall I've ever done, but I've already noticed some little things I need to go in and touch up or it'll annoy the piss out of me sitting on my desktop.

[timmy]

New wallpaper:
http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=14&pictureid=548

It's 1920x1200 because I don't design walls for you people, I design them for myself. :D

Looks nice, Mac!

I'd totally be rockin' this if it were the right size. 7 Ks in 3 IP against top prospects... damn, I'm so psyched about that right now. And he's a B-N member! :)

[ahmed5456]

Can anybody make me a Cut-Outs of this Pic? Thanks your work is greatly appreciated!
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff136/stefmichelle2/chipper.jpg

[GrandMasterB]

That's a pretty sweet wallpaper. I like how you blended the pic into the background on the right. :thumbsup:

[McCarroll21]

http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=14&pictureid=549

Here's a 1024x768 version, if anyone wants it.

[HTF]

Awesome, using it now. I tried to use it before but it didn't look right scrunched up.

[McCarroll21]

Hopefully you like it. I didn't really like having to move all the text up into the red portion but his foot would have covered a lot of it if I didn't move it up there.

[timmy]

And I have a new background...thanks Mac!

[Breezy]

As do I...nice one Mac. Thanks.