I had a lot of fun making this. I love photomanipulation and I've never really used it to a great extent in my works on Anime Wallpapers. This was a first.
I really felt I wanted to make a Tifa/Cloud wallpaper, and have wanted to for a long time, but all my attempts made them seem too...cuddly? Mostly the wallpapers I made didnt fit their relationship. They never were a cushy kind of couple so sparkles and happy things wouldnt work. I decided finally that an old scattered table would be perfect to frame them. I put them both in bronze frames. Each frame was actually more silver when I found the stock image but I bronzed them using color burn and an odd brown color on my brush, giving them a slightly old and neglected feel. The table itself is just a woodgrain with some grunge and sky brushes multiplied onto it to give it a dark worn feeling. I threw in some leaves which look old and crackled to make it look like they'd been lying there for days. I didnt know what else to throw on the table but I decided to use a set of keys and some spare change because thats always what i leave on my table... I wanted the bill to look like its stuck to the table fast by age and the coins should be browned by wear and time. Both Cloud and Tifa photos were treated to look like they'd been sitting in the sun for too long. I gave them a sepia look and increased the brightness and higlight intensity. I threw the butterfly in last. It was actually a bright blue butterfly but I couldnt find a moth that fit the postition I wanted so badly so I just made it look like a normal brown moth come to visit the old abandoned table.

The scans are from MiniTokyo. ( http://gallery.minitokyo.net/view/123296/ ) and ( http://gallery.minitokyo.net/view/49462/ ). The stocks are from http://sxc.hu .