New room style-C&C please*UPDATED*

[NaStY_FrEaK]

 This is the first room of my new game,and I need some
opinions.Thank you;D


NOW ***UPDATED***
Feel free to edit it

[Denzil Quixode]

That's looking pretty good. The reason it looks worse is JPEG is not meant for cartoony pictures, but photographs, and uses techniques to compress the image that don't show up on photos but do on stuff like this. You should use GIF or PNG instead, if possible, which won't change how the image looks.

[Synthetique]

this one has a great feelin..

1: i didnt like the shadow on the sand at the top. remove it or shrink it.

2: the clouds need more work. they look like snails on a backwards chicken run. and they could be lighter than the sky.

3: if the water reflects the mountain, then it should reflect the sky too.

4: the tree where you can see the limbs looks a bit weird. i cant see if it's supposed to lean/bend from the screen or just to the right. i suggest you remove those limbs.

5: finish making the black outlines to a darker shade than the colour inside. i see that you've started on it.

[Ginny]

Cool image! The sea looks a bit odd, maybe if the light blue part on the edge was dark blue like most of it (or just darker at least). Aswell as have it reflect the sky of course.
hmm, the new clouds are good but I kinda liked the old 'snail' ones (apart from the color). I think the clouds can be made more interesting by giving them more varied shapes and maybe making them more long, that is wider than they are high .
The shape of the rock/stone on the sand looks a bit odd at the bottom. The shdow below the leaves on the right isn't right if it's supposed the be the shadow of the leaves, the other shadows are great.

I really like the color you chose for the mountains, against the traditional coloring .

Wait, this is a beach! You're not making the game you posted about here in the Critics Lounge anymore (the one with the wizard and going back in time) ? Oh well, either way good luck, this looks good so far!

[plasticman]

nice background ! i just want to comments on the colors :

even if you're not going for a "realistic" style, i still think that the colors you use in general could be chosen with more precautions.
they are way too saturated for my eyes, and a bit simplistic imo.

Feel free to edit it

thank you !
here's a *quick* idea of what i think would suit the image better.

[NaStY_FrEaK]

It`s very nice indeed,but with what program you made it?
I used only MSpaint becaouse that is the only program I have

[Ginny]

Let me guess, did you edit with the Hue/Saturation option in Photoshp/PSP (except for the sky)? Well it looks great either way, hehe. I like desaturated colours. The sand looks much better this way I think, and the water and plants too. The sky looks a bit too much like a gradient in my opinion. The hills need to be less desaturated (more like the original) imo cause you don't see blue hills every day, which makes the image more interesting .
However it all depends on the style that the author is aiming at.

[noed]

It`s very nice indeed,but with what program you made it?
I used only MSpaint becaouse that is the only program I have

That's just plain unfair!  Since I started using more powerful programs than mspaint I have lost my ability to draw, great job, Nasty!  If you were to get a more powerful program you could have a lot of fun with it...if money is an issue you can find the occasional demo version of other programs on their websites, just do a web search.  Both photoshop and paint shop pro have trial versions.

[Ginny]

Ther's also the Gimp whish is apparantly like Photoshop, but free!

http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html

[OneThinkingGal and ._.]

Nice! I think your light source is a little confusing tho. Your shadows dont correspond to any one source. The trees and objects could benefit from some shading too. Doesn't have to be fancy, just maybe darker stripes where the shadows are.

There's plenty of nice free image editors out there. Gimp is good but yikes its interface is confusing. I prefer photoshop.

Check out the thread for alternatives to paint: http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=5644

[NaStY_FrEaK]

Thankz Guys.Now here`s my second Bg.I don`t know what to do(is it good or not),because I made a mistake
and saved is like a JPG.

Thank you
EDIT:Should I start a new one?

[Dunezone]

Is it permantly saved as a jpg or do you have a .bmp file etc.... Because if you dont I would personally restart it do to the compression. Other wise it looks really cool. Needs more detail on the left bush/green mass in the back.

[Ginny]

I like it!

Hmm, if you saved as jpg then if you change the compression it doesn't change the pic? too bad.
in that case use this as a guideline and redraw.
I like the leaves in the foreground very much. What does bother me is that some of the elements of the pic have outlines darker than the color, and some have lighter outlines. For example the palm tree trunk and the orangeish bush and the fence in the house (also the stairs I think, though it's less noticable). Is this because you saved as jpg?

Anyway, this picture is in a more blurry style than the other, again, might be cause of the jpg compression.
The colouring is much gentler and more desaturated than your first beach image, but it fits very well with plasticman's edited image. I like this style of coloring. A strange thing, in the background there seem to be bits which look like a photograph. Did you use a photo and draw over it (which is fine of course, just fill those parts with black like you did with the house, or instead with more bushes/trees/sky.