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What Exactly Is Pink? by °dalarty  3 weeks 3 days  ago

What Exactly Is Pink? by °dalarty 3 weeks 3 days ago

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Not too much for me to say about this wallpaper that hasn't already been said: Dalarty has provided a descriptive walk through all the way from the concept idea, to its execution and ultimately its fruition. And you can really see how that careful planning paid off. But it just goes to show, good ideas take time---and a whole lot of patience!

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$Poey 4 minutes ago
*gets out crowbar

`Bernouli 8 minutes ago
*attaches to brad*

°Brad-M13 56 minutes ago
Replied again. lol.

°akiranyo 58 minutes ago
Again pls :P

°Brad-M13 1 hour 6 minutes ago
Kk.

°akiranyo 1 hour 7 minutes ago
Check UP

°Brad-M13 1 hour 10 minutes ago
Yah, i am. X3

°akiranyo 1 hour 11 minutes ago
Hey Brad are you still on? damn you, since you made that invisible online status... :P

$Poey 1 hour 12 minutes ago
Shakin' bake

°akiranyo 1 hour 18 minutes ago
Makin' bacon...

[ACCEPTED] Last Exile (Fly Your Own Sky)

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~lil-dice
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~Sue
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It looks fantastic. ^__^
maybe you should change the font, it does not really fit to it.

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~lil-dice
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I had plaid around with a few artsy looking retro fonts, didn't really care for them, I might try some more again though. Thanks.


Sue
it looks fantastic. ^__^
maybe you should change the font, it does not really fit to it.

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θBeckor
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2 years 5 months ago
Hmm i would advice keeping his shoes in the image, and the extraction edges need some work like the hair and some other parts. the clouds are a bit to realistic if ya ask me . and yeah maybe some other font for the tekst

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θblu3angl
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2 years 5 months ago
Clouds are too realistic/3D
i wouldn't fade out the image like that
scan is also a bit grainy.
but you get the basic composition and idea, so that's good.
i would work on the extraction like Beckor mentioned. on top of the ..thing they're sitting on and stuff.
text color has got to change though.
ruins the soft feel, i think for this wall. you can try some textures
especially because of those clouds.
good luck.!

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Thanks guys:

I'm going to work on the text a bit, clean up the extraction and either fix the grain/noise on the scan or make the noise uniform.

As for the sky, I played around a bit with some painterly type filters, however I might end up just leaving it realistic, because a painted sky really doesn't look too much different than a photograph of a sky usually.

I'll be back :)

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Updated, cleaned up scan extraction and noise, removed detail on clouds, changed color toning on clouds.

New text, also changed name to Fly Your Own Sky.

What do you think now? Shall I submit?

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~lil-dice
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Alright, I've done a third version, this time I added a couple Battle Ships and a Vanship to the sky to put this over the edge.

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~lil-dice
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Ok, the more i look at this the more I don't like this ships, should I rework them?

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Alright, i've fixed the ships up a bit, they are all consistantly blurry, it didnt make sense to have the large one to be more blurry than the vanship, so the blur is consistant. I also added a finishing touch of the orange sunset reflecting off the bottom of them XD

Please tell me what you think.

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°august199
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It looks really good, the sky is just great, the text is exquisite, but honestly? those ships really do ruin it a lot, I mean really a lot. It's just beautiful except for those. I'd say either take away the blur completely and make them look clear, or take them out all together. Oh, also, just a little bit of extracting issues on the top of the ship their sitting on and on Clouse's hair... and I think the JPG quality might be set a bit to low too, it should be 70%-80%. Anyway, it's a nice wallpaper and I do like it a lot, and hope I could help some ^_^


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~lil-dice
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Alright, exploring August's suggestions.

I don't think the blurred ships were that bad, i mean if you're looking at something far in the background it's going to be a bit blurry, you're not going to get a perfect outline. Anyway, I've tried a version with more detailed ships.

Whatcha think?


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°august199
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Wow, much better ^_^ it looks awesome!

Oh, and what you said about the things you look at far away being blurry? that's not really true. Not unless you're trying to focus your vision on something close to you, which Clouse & Lavi aren't doing. Like, if you look at a mountain range, it's not blurry at all... it just looked weird the other way, ya know, cuz if that where true about the ships, the clouds would be blurry too, and well, that wouldn't be good at all ^_^;

Anyway, yeah, it looks really great! I'd say if you fix that little extraction issue, it's all ready to go :)

...hmm... maybe also little light reflected on the sips too? same as the clouds? Idonknow, not necessary, but might look neat to try...

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~lil-dice
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Thanks for your help August, i'll fix the mild extraction issues up top.

Were you thinking blue or white highlights on top of the ships? I can give it a try.

You're right on the out of focus thing of course :D Lookin good now!

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~lil-dice
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O kay. Tried the highlight thing on the ship didn't really work out well. What i did do was increase the contrast on the scan part of the wallpaper to match the contrast of the sky. I've also cleaned up Claus' hair the best I could, so this is pretty much what I plan on submitting. Pull the trigger?

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