Waterfall manip desktop

[colin826]

Found a great stock and did my thing. Made at 1600*1200

Desktop - http://img369.imageshack.us/my.php?image=w...ktop10242bj.jpg

Original - http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=370904

[Restles]

Ow man thats some sick shit

Its now my desktop wallpaper

Grtz Restles

[silenced]

Hm, don't let me trump you "doing your thing," but you really didn't do much. Let's see, you gaussian blurred it, either changed the settings or the opacity. Then Added a color balance on like render clouds, then another....then just did some nice pen work(which is the best part about it). The text is just on overlay with a default drop shadow attached. O ya, the pen tool is also on overlay. O ya, and the green cb has some texture, which doesn't fit the picture at all. Sorry man, I'm really not feeling this, it's a completely unoriginal manip, which just standard effects. Get out of the box, do something over the border, EXPERIMENT with all that photoshop has to offer.

[colin826]

Thanks Restles

And silenced. If you want to know, I have 3 duplicated blurred layers on various settings/opacities. Directly over the stock is a gradient that I set to color. On top of that is some black white brushing on soft light to accentuate shadows. The pen work you're right about. I did change the drop shadow on the text slightly. I don't know what you mean by 'green cb has some texture'.

But on to my point here. This is the 3rd or 4th photomanip I've done. And I'm doing more different things each time. I've only posted one of the others here so I don't know how you could possibly know the work I'm doing well enough to say I'm not experimenting. I'm not saying it was complicated to do either, but I'm doing some things I haven't tried before.

Lastly, that's a very nice manip in your sig. I see you have done a lot of experimenting. And it worked out well. But I'm sure you were at my point one time too.

[silenced]

Ya, sorry, didn't mean to completely trample the manipulation, I was just commenting that there isn't a ton there. When I said "green cb has some texture" i meant that the green color balance has some texture. Keep at it, and get away from the blur/overlay/soft light, not only is it whored out, it's not very attractive. Try random effects from the "distort" menu, as well as many many layers. Brushing never hurts either.