Very impressive, very very impressive. I can see how long that must have taken you admire your willingness to actually do this. Most people around here don't.
Excellent work, man.
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Very impressive, very very impressive. I can see how long that must have taken you admire your willingness to actually do this. Most people around here don't.
Excellent work, man.
para senor madd ->The Beauty of Distraction -- DA
there is the link. all favs and what not are welcome. thanks for the positive feedback!!! please keep it coming.
and yes, most people dont take the time to produce such stuff. . .but now maybe that they see how it turns out. . .some may be more willing to take the extra effort.
and for xtremerunnerars:
--PROJECT OVERVIEW--
1. it started with a stock photo of the flower, then i took about 30 to 45 minutes to cut it out (it took so long becuase it HAD to be perfect, and i think it turned out REALly well)
2. I duplicated the flower i think it turned out to be 21 times. and resized and moved and rotated and just played around with it to get what i like
3. i started to lay the kinda "basis" for what i wanted it to look like, which in the end turned out NOTHING like what i had in mind. but it was a good building block and i felt i should include it.
4. i started playing around with some things, and unfortunatly, most of the bloches/splatter/whatever you want to call them, were from DLed brushes. i am still trying to figure out a good way to make them myself other than a pic of something or some splatted paint. which was all black, because i dont think color would have served the same purpose.
5. the blotch/splat comes on four different layers. one directly behind the large main flower, two within the rest of the duplicates, and then the last behind everything. and i just played around with and added and deleted and modified and erased bits from there.
6. once the main shape and flower section was done, i started in on the bg.
7. I really wanted it to look something like the old parchment paper and what not and that it had been through some rough times. so after MANY trials and errors of my own. i found a GREAT stock photo, that i think i would have been lost without!
8. once i had the stock image in place like i wanted, i masked it to match perfectly the border and shape i wanted. so from there i can stretch skew and do whatever and the shape would remain the same.
9. i found yet another stock photo of the cobblestones (after MANY MANY attemps to come up with something i like of my own making, i used various PS filters and techniques, and even opened up 3DS Max to try and make something that would look great, but was never satisfied) so i found this great photo of a street, in i forgot where the pic was taken.
10. and of course, had to resize and skew it to make it fit and to look more flat, rather than the angle it was at. it was also way to big, and was maybe 10 stones wide. which it is now more like the total picture, and how i wanted.
11. i played around with the stones, lightening the top with a white-transparent gradient and the lighten blending mode. as well as duplicating the stones and setting to i believe overlay (since i am not looking at it now) and lowered the opacity to help bring out the stones a little more and provide a little more detail.
12. i saved the entire .psd (which was around 30 megs) as a whole new project, and opened it again
13. now. . .i merged the main pic into one (flowers, splotches, etc.). which it turned out that i even had 3 different versions of the main photo. two blues, and the parchment.
14. then i turned the top one in the direction i wanted, and the bottom the direction i wanted it to be in.
15. after that. . .i made two different folders, one which had the origianl 3 main pic layers, and the other that had duplicates.
16. i added drop shadows to all layers, which all were the same, just made the first, and copied onto the rest.
17. i decided i didnt like the shadow in the top, so i duplicated that folder again, and moved it behind the "pic" directly underneath as to make be able to make the upper sections less when on top of the picture underneath it.
18. after playing around with the settings for a while, i had what i liked, i strong shadow underneath the bottom layer, with a subtle shadow over it from the main picture, while still maintaing a still stronger shadow underneath everything, giving it a more realistic feeling.
19. I played around with some text options and titles here. i am horrible with titles, but this one finally hit me, and i loved it.
20. just a few minor adjusments and tweaks, playing around with things more still. . adding an initial so as to claim it, but nothing that can be seen that easily.
I'm impressed! Its amazing, time well spent!
