A New Idea...

Yesterday, a friend recommended that I upload all of my Photoshop work to some website for display. I'd had websites before but I had gotten too lazy to work on upkeep. I figure this website will be a simple display, not too many words but more visual appreciation. Lets start with some very preliminary images that I made many years ago. I first started doing graphics related stuff when I was around 14 or 15 because I had been playing Neopets and I wanted a good web page for my pet or something stupid like that. Started off with some cheap paintshop pro trials and when that ran out I used some really bad program with like 10 different settings to create random shit. Finally, I got Photoshop and then things began to get better. Learning Photoshop is not hard at all, just look up some tutorials online and you'll learn the basics. Currently, I am mostly using tutorials to make my work but there's the next stage of imagining your own art and using what you know in Photoshop to make a unique image of your own (coming up with your own ideas using Photoshop effects, etc.) Anyways, enough jabber, lets get to the images. Not all of them are very great in fact of them are extremely poor, but it's interesting to see how work's progressed. (Note: not all of these images are in order because I found some of them in old folders but you can generally tell which ones I did later.)
The image on the right shows a website design I did for a friend a long time ago when he said that he wanted a layout. I had been doing a lot of web layouts for a long time by the time I made this. My earliest ones, which I don't have any more were generally of the character Soujiro Seta from Rurouni Kenshin. This was my first ambiguous layout. Although this is one of the earliest I have, I really liked how the tetacles turned out in this one. It's very modern looking and very simple to make.
The image at the right is of a girl that I saw on an add. I think she is one of the images on the onliny MMORPG Shaiya. There is a dark girl and a light girl and this girl is the light one. I really liked this image because of the girl just looks very beautiful and I kind of had an idea about adding the snow behind her to creat a oft effect. I think I made this for xanga but I can't remember.

The orange and yellow image on the left is of a xanga layout. You might have heard about the Xanga livejournal program. It was basically like an online blog. The woman in the picture is LuLu, a character from Final Fantasy X. I thought she was really cool looking. The lighted textbox is there for the place to post your text obviously.
Everyone's heard of the three people on the right, right?They're characters from Final Fantasy X and X-2, probably one of the more popular Final Fantasy games. I didn't really do anything to this image other than put the people together. Originally, the image was of them seperately. This might seem like a useless endeavor however I think it's important to become better at this skill of taking people out of backgrounds because it's important when making graphics. Granted, this process could have been done easily with some layer mask however at the time I was still a noob so I didn't know about this.
The image at the right is a banner. I made for some random website. I honestly don't remember what. All I know is that it was about bananas. I think I like this image because its kind of grundgy but also kind of cool looking, not sure.
Next I have a VERY simple button, just a demonstration of something typical you would make for a website.
On the left is an image I was going to make for my website I think. This is the original huge image that I had, I was going to cut some stuff out of it and make a more modern design for it. I think at this point, I had become more interested in making graphics for my website instead of coding it because it was just so tedious. I didn't end using this image for that reason. Maybe I was just content to look at it :P.Let me just end this post with this image because I am actually in lab and I need to go do real work. This image is of something I was gonna put as the opening to my website. The popular thing to do with most websites at least back in the day was to put an opening page with some nice graphic. This was my intetion for this image but once again, I didn't use it. I really like this button, it's probably my favoriteo one from older. I really like the idea behind the image. Also, if you click on this image (like you can do for any of the other ones in this post), you should be able to see it glowing like it's about to explode. I loved that.
Thanks for listening to me chatter about these, I haven't finished uploading all of the ones that I wanted to but I really should go do some work. I hope you enjoyed looking at them as much as I enjoyed making them.
Edit: You actually can't see it glowing. This makes me a sad panda.