__THISRES__100357.jpg "Trick or Treat by °chanelqueen17 1 month 1 week ago")
::Wallpaper: Mesmeric::
Characters: Nina (top) and Erstin (bottom)
Series: Mai Otome (check it out, like, now..)
Scan Source: Elsewhere
Number of layers: Around 30 through 40. 5 Layer groups. 2 Layer comps. } .psd
Creation time: 4-5 Hours (Scan extraction: 30 minutes, Background: 3.5-4.5 hours, started afresh 10+ times)
Tools used: Mm.. mouse, keyboard (heavy on those shortcuts), Wacom Intuos3 A5 Graphics Tablet
Program(s): Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Win)
Ok, so I found this wonderful scan of Nina and Erstin finally getting some time together officaly. The scan caught my eye straight away, and I decided to turn it into a wallpaper. Extraction was pretty simple, used the pen tool for clean edges, gave it a 2px border around the outside, rebuilt the slight tears in the image using the smudge, clone stamp and patch tools. Took about half an hour, and I was happy with the result, so, on with the background.
But it was not so easy. It was originally suggested to me that I should creat a background with a king sized bed with unmade sheets, but my slightly sketchy style didn't match the clean lines of the scan, and I suck at drawing large folds in sheets freehand. After starting afresh more times than I care to count, including beta completed versions of the wallpaper complete with CG, I finally settled to use the pen tool for the bed, so I could get set width clean lines, and it went rather well. I would have prefered to use my tablet to draw the bed, but, ah, perhaps next time. CGed it using the tablet and added some bars top and bottom, found a good font, added that, tweaked the original scan a little using the sponge and dodge tools to bring out the more vibrant colours, and ta-da. Finished wallpaper.
Characters: Nina (top) and Erstin (bottom)
Series: Mai Otome (check it out, like, now..)
Scan Source: Elsewhere
Number of layers: Around 30 through 40. 5 Layer groups. 2 Layer comps. } .psd
Creation time: 4-5 Hours (Scan extraction: 30 minutes, Background: 3.5-4.5 hours, started afresh 10+ times)
Tools used: Mm.. mouse, keyboard (heavy on those shortcuts), Wacom Intuos3 A5 Graphics Tablet
Program(s): Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Win)
Ok, so I found this wonderful scan of Nina and Erstin finally getting some time together officaly. The scan caught my eye straight away, and I decided to turn it into a wallpaper. Extraction was pretty simple, used the pen tool for clean edges, gave it a 2px border around the outside, rebuilt the slight tears in the image using the smudge, clone stamp and patch tools. Took about half an hour, and I was happy with the result, so, on with the background.
But it was not so easy. It was originally suggested to me that I should creat a background with a king sized bed with unmade sheets, but my slightly sketchy style didn't match the clean lines of the scan, and I suck at drawing large folds in sheets freehand. After starting afresh more times than I care to count, including beta completed versions of the wallpaper complete with CG, I finally settled to use the pen tool for the bed, so I could get set width clean lines, and it went rather well. I would have prefered to use my tablet to draw the bed, but, ah, perhaps next time. CGed it using the tablet and added some bars top and bottom, found a good font, added that, tweaked the original scan a little using the sponge and dodge tools to bring out the more vibrant colours, and ta-da. Finished wallpaper.
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