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tiger_san says. XD Spent like two hours this afternoon working on a photo-manip wallpaper (admittedly, it's taking a lot longer because it's my first photo-manip ever), and I'm not done yet. Just realized that I'm probably going to use a different image for the background, so that's an hour's work wasted. But I'm satisfied with the coloring I did on the model, changing the silver headpiece to gold/copper and the dress from gray to green.
I'm not even going to think about the other afternoon I spent extracting and smudging the model photo, my eyes hurt just thinking about it. This wallpaper is definitely the most time-consuming Photoshop work I've done. I'm thinking like 6-8 hrs already, and I'm only halfway finished. Not counting time spent on deviantART and stock.xchng browsing for stock photos, because I got distracted a lot. Which might not be a good thing, because today I found a beautiful set of photos that might work better than the aspen trees I have already.
Note to self: Experiment with adding pillar? It'd be another couple hours of work smudging and extracting, and not sure if I can blend it in convincingly. Need to find decent grunge brushes, too. Small grunge brushes. Try not to overwork the brushing, like Tian's example that inspired me in the first place. And figure out how to hide the feet.
Oh yeah, random fact: Mr. Biehl, a math teacher at Charter (though not mine), writes for the television show Num3ers and thus is kind of obsessive over it, I heard.
Wow, this was a really ranty post. And here's more ranting: I've got a page and a half of population statistics to memorize for an ISS (social studies) test on Monday. Bleh. At least there's no school tomorrow... Stopping now, because my eyes are sore.
tiger_san says. XD Spent like two hours this afternoon working on a photo-manip wallpaper (admittedly, it's taking a lot longer because it's my first photo-manip ever), and I'm not done yet. Just realized that I'm probably going to use a different image for the background, so that's an hour's work wasted. But I'm satisfied with the coloring I did on the model, changing the silver headpiece to gold/copper and the dress from gray to green.I'm not even going to think about the other afternoon I spent extracting and smudging the model photo, my eyes hurt just thinking about it. This wallpaper is definitely the most time-consuming Photoshop work I've done. I'm thinking like 6-8 hrs already, and I'm only halfway finished. Not counting time spent on deviantART and stock.xchng browsing for stock photos, because I got distracted a lot. Which might not be a good thing, because today I found a beautiful set of photos that might work better than the aspen trees I have already.
Note to self: Experiment with adding pillar? It'd be another couple hours of work smudging and extracting, and not sure if I can blend it in convincingly. Need to find decent grunge brushes, too. Small grunge brushes. Try not to overwork the brushing, like Tian's example that inspired me in the first place. And figure out how to hide the feet.
Oh yeah, random fact: Mr. Biehl, a math teacher at Charter (though not mine), writes for the television show Num3ers and thus is kind of obsessive over it, I heard.
Wow, this was a really ranty post. And here's more ranting: I've got a page and a half of population statistics to memorize for an ISS (social studies) test on Monday. Bleh. At least there's no school tomorrow... Stopping now, because my eyes are sore.
