reality & perception

[pearlized]

I found a picture from the last AOTW contest and decided to play around with it even if I can't enter it.

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...ed/realper.jpg

I just changed the colors and added the sun. but I'm having trouble getting it to look realistic without using another image. =\ any suggestions.

CnC would be nice. thanks.

[ROTD]

Just cutting in half like that isn't going to work very well at all. Try some sort of transition between the two, gradient, slight color change, etc. Block colors like that next to each other doesn't work well. Sun needs a lot more contrast, since it's hard to tell what or where it even is. At the moment it wont look realistic because of the colors you have chosen. Something a bit less drastic would help you out a bit. Also, your original image is of fairly low quality, you should try to get a better image so you can work with it more and get closer to your desired effect.

A few tips if you don't quite know how you should go about fixing it:
Make the contrast consistent (don't change it so drastically and leave the original there, change all the contrast or use a dither of some sort to transition it cleanly between the original and the altered versions.

Take out the sun or get another image, light source and the angle of your sun do not match, and won't look realistic because of that.

Don't change sky color that drastically, you've placed blue, with almost it's direct opposite on the color spectrum. You don't want to do that. Trust me.
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That's probably it, post or send me a message if you need anything else. I might be able to help you out if I'm still on.

[Papa]

Just cutting in half like that isn't going to work very well at all. Try some sort of transition between the two, gradient, slight color change, etc. Block colors like that next to each other doesn't work well. Sun needs a lot more contrast, since it's hard to tell what or where it even is. At the moment it wont look realistic because of the colors you have chosen. Something a bit less drastic would help you out a bit. Also, your original image is of fairly low quality, you should try to get a better image so you can work with it more and get closer to your desired effect.

A few tips if you don't quite know how you should go about fixing it:
Make the contrast consistent (don't change it so drastically and leave the original there, change all the contrast or use a dither of some sort to transition it cleanly between the original and the altered versions.

Take out the sun or get another image, light source and the angle of your sun do not match, and won't look realistic because of that.

Don't change sky color that drastically, you've placed blue, with almost it's direct opposite on the color spectrum. You don't want to do that. Trust me.
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That's probably it, post or send me a message if you need anything else. I might be able to help you out if I'm still on.

That and also if you decide to stick with the block type style, adn you don't go with the smooth gradients, you cut a bit of the rock off so you might want to fix that, because it looks kind of weird. Because all the sudden some of the reock is yellow.

[Henry]

yeah like rotd said, try a gradient/fade

what font is that cursive?

[pearlized]

The font is called Violation.

I used a gradient and instead of the right half being orange, I made it purple. I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do with the rocks & light source.

Thanks for everyone's advice!