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Fly... by °Phill  3 weeks 7 hours  ago

Fly... by °Phill 3 weeks 7 hours ago

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This wallpaper captures the urban essence that proliferated the art of Ghost in the Shell in every incarnation of the series. Phill does an amazing job of capturing a moment of surrealism.

While there are a few, stray building angles and shadows, you find that your eye forgives the minor details and instead focuses on the overall scene that is larger than life, with lights trailing off into infinity.

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~uufhd 1 hour 31 minutes ago
K. bai bai, and greeting to Germany ^_^

~Masamune1 1 hour 33 minutes ago
Oh, ya busy busy hehe. Well, bye now. Greetings to the UK mate

~uufhd 1 hour 37 minutes ago
So do i but...im busy... xD listening to music and stuff Lol

~Masamune1 1 hour 38 minutes ago
Haha, yeah its 1 am here, but some people do sleep at night you know ^^

~uufhd 1 hour 39 minutes ago
Oh...hello, and...goodnight then n_n" ...its oonly 12:05am here Lol

~Masamune1 1 hour 41 minutes ago
Oh, Hi Sam^^ Well sorry, its late so night Sam haha

~uufhd 1 hour 55 minutes ago
*huggles* hiya kip-kun ^_^

~angelgirl 1 hour 57 minutes ago
HELLO AP PPL:)

~uufhd 2 hours 4 minutes ago
Hello rohan =)

~Masamune1 2 hours 10 minutes ago
Hello

ShadowMistress's Comments

Wallpaper ready for submission?

1 year 7 months ago

"Thanks for all the opinions! ^^

Ok, I changed the character to Seiren from the Yami To Boshi To Hon No Tabibito series. The extraction doesn't belong to me though; I found it in http://aethereality.net/ extracted by http://cloud-realms.com

I would extract it myself if I could find the image of it, but I could only find an extracted image.

Here's the wallpaper: http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d66/webmistressmichiru/wallpapers/frozenintime4.jpg

I think this image matches the background better; however, I'm not sure if this is good enough for submission since I didn't extract the image. Is the image too soft for the background still? Well, tell what you guys think of the wallpaper.

P.S. Can someone tell me what is the difference between a vector and an extraction?"

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Carnelian wall

1 year 7 months ago

"The background looks good, but the scan is a bit grainy. Smooth it out a bit and I think it'd look better. "
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good? bad? okay?

1 year 7 months ago

"The background is really nice, but the scan should definitely be bigger to focus the wallpaper more on her than the background. I think the text is very nice, maybe move it to the side though. The sparkles could be done without, unless you center the scan and make the sparkles appear more like a majestic thing that she appears from, because right now it looks a bit out of place. "
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Wallpaper ready for submission?

1 year 7 months ago

"Here's the new version: http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d66/webmistressmichiru/wallpapers/frozenintime3.jpg

I smudged the edges a bit and erased some of the red edges to fix the extraction, not sure what else I could do.

And here's the original scan. I did mess with the image a little with the brightness and contrast and a gaussian blur/layer effect, a combination of two techniques I got from two graphics site to make the images sharper/softer looking. I modified it a little now, so tell me if that's better. The original wouldn't look good in my opinion.

Yeah, the wings were a bit weird to me because I cut off the beginning part of it. I tried to put a bit more of a bright light effect on it to lessen the weirdness, is it better now? Btw, it's not a girl, it's a guy named Edward. XD

I wasn't sure what you meant by the swirls being too hard and I'm not sure how to fix that either. ^^; Any help would be appreciated. ^_^

Edited:
Er...I'm not sure how you work w/ vector art...

I probably do need to work on extraction a bit more. I'll make some more changes later, so you can ignore the above changes if you want and wait for the next change. Thanks for the advice.

Edited again:
Ok, after studying a bunch of well extracted images, I think I discovered that I had misunderstood the whole point in extraction until now. ^^; So let me get this straight, in extraction, you're suppose to have this very thin line that basically outlines the entire image rather than just deleting out all the parts of the background and be left with the said person you want w/o a clear definition between the image and the background, am I right in assuming this? I'm not supposed to be smudging to make it look better, right?"

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Roy Mustang FullMetal Alchemist

1 year 7 months ago

"Well, I'm not sure but I think it might be because the edges of the image is a little jagged, maybe if you could smooth it out a bit. ^^"
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Wallpaper ready for submission?

1 year 7 months ago

" http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d66/webmistressmichiru/wallpapers/frozenintime.jpg
This wallpaper was made as a gift to my brother. It's my first wallpaper submission, so I was wondering if this would be ready. Comments, suggestions welcome. ^^"

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What Will You Do If You Have A Death Note Book?

1 year 8 months ago

"If I had the Death Note book, I would probably keep somewhere safe and kill off all the bad guys and people that I really hate, just like Light I guess, but not as adept of course. XD I wouldn't try to make a utopia and reign as God as he would like to though. Guess that sort of contradicts killing off all the bad guys, heh."
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Gankutsuou

1 year 8 months ago

"It's really interesting and suspensful/dramatic, but I never did have a chance to finish watching the anime. I would like to one day read the actual novel it's based off of though."
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Does anime affect your mood?

1 year 8 months ago

"Anime definitely has an impact on my mood. As mentioned before, humorous anime makes me laugh, depressing anime makes me sad. Same with endings, if it's a happy one that I wanted, then it makes me even more joyous, but if it's tragic or completely uncalled for, it'll either make me sad or sort of in a ranting mood. However, no matter which mood of anime, it will cheer me up at the end of a long day or week. Usualy, it makes me smile and feel all giddy. ^^ But at the same time, I feel more contemplative after watching anime , which creates a sort of a wistful longing. "
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Shoujo-ai/Shonen-ai?

1 year 8 months ago

"I don't mind shoujo-ai, but shounen-ai is more preferable. ^^ I'm sort of a big fan on yaoi fanfiction. XD But yeah, what matters the most is the plot and the art; that's what catches me in the first place.

On the side note, shounen-ai should really be known as BL (Boy's Love or Boys' Love) as that is the more commonly used term in Japan, but I prefer the former term. heh heh. I don't know about shoujo-ai though."

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Have you ever been scolded for watching too much anime?

1 year 8 months ago

"Always by my parents, but I usually just ignore them. But they try to prevent me from going to Anime Club, which is like the only place I get my anime from besides the computer. XD"
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Recent Obsessions

1 year 8 months ago

"Most recent obssession would be Rozen Maiden. I just finished the 1st season and started the 2nd one last week. However, my all time favorite is still Yuugiou. :D"
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DEATH NOTE

1 year 8 months ago

"I just saw the 1st episode of it last week. It's so intriguing! ^_^"
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