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Well, I think this one's almost done. I figured I should show it here first, since I have some worries...

1. Extraction
To make the trees I extracted different parts of different trees to make my own, and using the cloning tool in some parts. I don't like how it can be where I did the cuts so cleaningly... is it good or bad? The same goes for the characters below, they're extracted from a screenshot, is it good enough or is it too obvious and lame?
There's a part where the main tree fades and it looks wrong. Can someone give me a hint on how to fix it?
The main character was vectored from this scan (I drew the hands myself, do they look well?)
Also there's something funny one the big tree's leaves.

2. Composition
Is it too crowded? Must the logo die? Are the rays of light annoying? Something else is wrong?

3. Colors
Is it too green saturated?

Ah, and if you think it's too blurry it's because I saved for web, since the high quality version is too big for AP. =P

I think this is a really nice wallpaper but i think the trees look alittle to real you should try vectoring or cutout hope this helps good luck ☺

1. extraction

you did a fairly good job of it, but it's a bit obvious that your tree is made up from parts of differnet pictures. part of the trouble is the texture. the parts of it don't match. some of the smaller twigs and branches you added in are smooth, the bark on the part of the trunk behind the girl has a smoother, more rounded grain than the part of the trunk in front of her. it makes the cut and paste process of your wallpaper obvious. also, the lighting is a bit muddled. if you'll look at the lighting you did on the girl, you make it seem like the light is coming directly behind her, because there's a line of a lighter part of her hair along the back of her head. but then, you also put a lighter part on the front of her face, along her nose and jaw. so where is the light supposed to be coming from? if it's from directly behind her, her face should more or less be in shadow. some parts may have less shadow, but none as bright as the part you put there. the problem extends to other parts, like her shoulder, and the shadows of the leaves on the girl. that's a problem you have to fix. so make the texture of the tree more uniform and the lighting needs to be resolved.

on the bright side, you extracted her well, and good job with her hands, they look fine. on the downside, the tree and leaves are a bit too realistic to blend well with her more obviously drawn look. what you can try to do is make a copy of the layer with the trees, use gaussian blur and overlay it. that will soften the "realistic" look, and maybe help with the texture.

2. composition

it's fine, i think, but word of warning, i like my wallpapers crowded. the minimalist look is generally not for me, so you might want a second opinion.

3. colors

nope, i think the shade of green is fine. it could be a bit darker, closer to forest green, but it's ok the way it is.

hope this helps. good luck.

Ok, here it is now...

Actually, they're all parts of the same tree. The part on the left and on the right wasn't even split, since it looked so much like a seat... that's why. I already used a blurred layer above the trunk set on light, I think the trunk looks well now. I blended the central branch better though. (the branch was on the other side of the tree so I move it there =P)
I still hate the leaves though... >_> I had a blurred overlay and multiply layers above them already so I remade it and extracted again...
Blurred the trees on the background...
Also, I completely changed the light on her... what fo you think now?

Also, like maxetal suggested... can I have a second opinion if it's too crowded or not?

I think it's fine now. just one last thing. you have a sig, but it's a bit too hard to see. just make it more visible, so the mods don't complain about it.

Ok, thanks maxetal ^^
I fixed some more details... does it look better or worse?

Also, I'd like to know how to remove the the weird glow behind the leaves to the left. I tried blurred, a median layer above and behind with all lighten, darken, multiply, etc... also, when I use the blur tool it's like using a yellow brush... I'm confused about this tool, I don't know how to fix it.
Here here these parts, in the ouline of some leaves... see? How can I smooth them? T_T

About the blur tool, if you're in photoshop, it's probably more effective if you set it to blur all layers, not just the particular layer selected, which is the default setting. when you select the tool, look at the toolbar that pops up just under your regular task bar. look for the option there "sample all layers", and click the check box. that way it will work for all layers, as if your image was already flattened. instead of the blur tool, though, you might want to use the smudge tool. the blur tool basically smoothens out the pixels, but the smudge tool smears the color of the pixels across each other. try a combination of both, see how it works out. oh, and there's a "sample all layers" option for smudge, too.

Oh, I see now... I had uncheck the "use all layers" option for some reason O.o
Now it worked and I smoothened and smudged some leaves.
Thank you so much for everything, maxetal ^^
Hopefully this would be the last version... but probably it won't.



Just a couple of questions...
Should I vector the little characters or blend them better or it's ok? Also, is the butterfly ok? I made it balance the flowers to the right but I wonder if it was really necessary. Just felt that part needed... purple O.o

Well, i think the little characters are ok, but if you want to improve them, go for vector and not for blending. i like the butterfly personally. and hey, no prob about the help. that's what session zero is for.

I vectored the characters. I had problems choosing the colors since it was a screenshot and the characters were so small... it was hard, most of the colors has a green tint all over them. I blurred all the charaters and lowered the saturation...
How does it look now?

Not a bad effort at all =]

To be honest, I sort of liked the older version with the blurred in effect. They ARE meant to be in the distance and the focus of the wallpaper is obviously the girl so maybe even though you vectored the BG characters, blur them a bit so that they don’t stick out so much against the grassland.

Next thing. I looked through the older posts and it seems that a problem that has run throughout is the leaves. The links to the older versions don’t work anymore so I can only guess what the wallpaper used to look like but right now, I still feel a bit uncomfortable with the look you’ve decided to go with. I suppose this isn’t your fault since it’s really hard to make an anime character look good with a comparably more realistic BG. When I look at the leaves, it feels like it was sourced from a real photo. I’m not really sure since I did a quick scan of the previous posts and I didn’t notice you talking about WHERE you extracted it from. But either way, I think it’s a fair effort and you’ve managed to do a good job in making them complement each other.

Just to comment on the previous things other people mentioned. The composition is perfectly fine. You really only need to worry about over-crowding if you’re crowding with characters. It is true that your BG probably could do with a bit less detail and the wallpaper has more focus on her overall but then again, she’s sitting in a tree, of course the tree needs to be imposing =P Your butterfly, again, is alright. It was a really nice touch actually, gives a bit of relief from all the green on that side.

I might have missed a couple of points on the way, but my general opinion is that it’s a good wall. Keep at it! =D

I think its really a good wallpaper, about the small charcther I saw its ok and you vectored it very well and the butterfly near the tittle is good. But I saw some white line around the branch maybe you can fix it a little. Other than that its really good :D

Good luck :D

@~dkylau...Yeah, I'll try to extract the characters from the screenshot again, because I'm not completely happy with the look of the vectored version...
As for the tree, I extracted it from this picture -> http://www.sxc.hu/photo/625100
I extracted the trunk to change the colors and then the leaves. As you can see, there's another tree with different colored leaves and I extracted them out too. I had to full view like, after every line with the pen tool to make sure I wasn't killing a leaf from the actual tree =P
Then cloned-blurred to make more leaves since after I finished extracting it looked so empty.
I'd like to upload the older versions again but they don't exist anymore... but trust me, the leaves look worse in them... I'll try to work on them a bit more.

@rubenz... could you point these white lines, please?

I haven't made many big changes so I'll post a better version tomorrow. Or the day after, I should be doing some homework right now >_<
Thanks for the comments =)

Oh I can show you but is it ok if I line it in your image? If it can I will do it :D

Please do, it'll be clearer like that =)