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Morbidity by `sjade1 1 week 5 days ago

Morbidity by `sjade1 1 week 5 days ago

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Black and white at it's best with a dash of red to keep things interesting.

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~amerie1994 1 hour 13 minutes ago
Hi, haha

~Heloria 1 hour 24 minutes ago
Ummmmmmmm hello??

~YMI 2 hours 21 minutes ago
Kuro- chan exist

°Bernouli 3 hours 23 minutes ago
No, don't post there! X_X there's are like 5 other threads on the same topic, where you question is answered. *slaps her forehead* prolly too late now...

~Heloria 3 hours 43 minutes ago
H-He-Hellooo^^

~Gvnkwyr 3 hours 48 minutes ago
Thanks Bernouli, I'll post there

°Bernouli 4 hours 10 minutes ago
You guys' question is answered in the bugs and suggestions section of the forum. >>

~Lego 4 hours 10 minutes ago
Have the same problem sometimes

~DarkPower 4 hours 13 minutes ago
Dunno this is starting to getting into my nerves too

~Gvnkwyr 4 hours 29 minutes ago
Why sometimes when I click on a paper's preview on the top of the screen the page jumps to a diferent one?

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Meet Me In Heaven (my 2nd wall)

2 years 9 months ago

"Sorry. i accidentaly deleted my first post >.<

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LINK: http://img450.imageshack.us/img450/8721/wall2final0bl.jpg (hosted at ImageShack) or http://gallery.minitokyo.net/view/185744/ (MiniTokyo)

Yes, you are looking at my newest wall, that is at the same time my 2nd wallpaper in life :]

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Details about the wall:
Title: Meet Me In Heaven
Time to complete: 9 days (do not make me count hours >.< definitely too much)
Number of layers: 53
Original psd file: over 38mb
Tutorials read to complete it: dozens about each: water, planet, clouds

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Before I move on to the description of the walling process let me thank few members :D
First of all, I want to thank my great friend and great mod Keltosh for his support and objective criticism that allowed me and my skills to evolve and who pushed me to correct every mistake (even when I have been quite happy with the result ^^). It is thanks to him that I have learned not to push some things too much and value time, effort and patience :]

Next, I would like to thank two of my great friends here, whose continuous support, encouragement and help allowed me to finish this wall and not to leave it half-unfinished. They were with me through many times of my frustration and sadness. So basically without them this wall would not have come into being in this form (yes you know who is to blame:P). Anyway, thanks to Dufoe88 and Rikimaru-jp. They offered not only they words of encouragement but also took time to send me some useful brushes and so on :] So thank you from the bottom of my heart.

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Ok, now back to the wall.

First my intention: I wanted to make a background with a dancing girl in the heaven. I got a clear picture of what it should look like, but finding the proper scan that would fit my idea was not that easy. I have spent over 2 whole days digging through galleries at MiniTokyo, AnimePaper and some others. Searching. At the time, also Rikimaru-jp and Dufoe88 engaged in the search process and were sending scans they thought might suit my concept for the wall. None of the scans did. Until, I found (of course as a last one) this beautiful scan from Erementar Gerad at AnimePaper.

So, I had my scan. I extracted it. Now will be the laughing part :P Since I am a C-o-M-p-L-e-T-e n00b at walling, I did the extraction the longest possible way. I used the pen tool. Devoted over 2hrs to the sole extraction, and then Riki told me I could have used magic pen to extract it since that bg at the original scan was all white >.< He killed me there. Then I cleaned the extracted scan to improve its quality. And then I had to extract it 2 more times, because at one time my computer crashes (and I did not manage to save the file) and again cause there was a glitch in the extraction.

Ok. I had an extracted scan and my concept. I had to learn how to create water in photoshop (since I never did it before, quite understandable since it is only my 2nd attempt at walling). I have read every tutorial there is about creating water. Tried them all� but the effect was not satisfactory. So I combined few tutorials to create it, among them: Shinta�s water tutorial and Rippled Water Walkthrough tutorial that I have found at DeviantArt. The others I can�t remember.

Then I moved on to create clouds. I made like 10 versions in over all of them until I became satisfied with them. For the clouds I used various brushes downloaded from DevianArt and send to me by Dufoe88. I have also drawn from a scratch the cloud at the very front ^^

Then I moved on to create planet. I did it according to Greg Martin's famous tutorial. The result you can see :]

Ok then I added wings, stars, birds, magic, mist and finally all the reflections in the water (not necessarily in this order). It might sound easy for you but it was a hell and real torment for me. Now I present you with the final effect.

Please comment, fav if you like it. I will gladly hear words of constructive criticism as well :] Since I do not know what to write I will just end it like that ^^

Oh, if you want to see some steps in this wall making process, see this: http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7834/stepscopy7ho.jpg"
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Meet Me In Heaven (my 2nd wall)

2 years 9 months ago

"Cause I am a newbie. And I do not want to break any rules here >.> Thus I am not sure if this wall meets all requirements at AP"
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My First Wallpaper - Chen Shu Fen's wall

2 years 9 months ago

"Re-drawing... hm... i did not thought of that... this is gonna take time >.> not that i am complaining"
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My First Wallpaper - Chen Shu Fen's wall

2 years 9 months ago

"So any actual tips on how to improve the extraction? cause as i wrote i did it with the 800% zoom and using the pen tool. still the scan is kind of tricky cause it in a way gets transparent (esp. look at the hair) and dissolves into the bg"
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My First Wallpaper - Chen Shu Fen's wall

2 years 9 months ago

"Yes, you are looking at my first wallpaper in life smiley Please comment. I will gladly hear constructive criticism and tips on what and how to improve. Also please bear with the possible major mistakes, but I am still learning how to work in Photoshop and how to create walls.

Before I start talking about the wall itself, let me thank Keltosh for his enormous help on this wall (I have been bugging and pestering him with stupid noob questions on "how/what do i do/what does it mean" and frequently asking for step-by-step explanations). So thanks again Keltosh :]

I also thank Rikimaru-jp and Dufoe and Papy for their help and words of encouragment. smiley Guys you are wonderful ^^

Now back to the wall. While starting I had some concept in mind of what I want to create... well it did not turn out, as I lack skills. So this wall, lacks in originality, is simple, with stars and wings and so on... basic really. But I put my best in it.

The scan choice was really easy, I did not want to make a wall with an ecchi scan, there are already too many of them. I wanted to use artwork by an artist whose work I really value and respect. Thus I choose Chen Shu Fen's scan that I found here at Anime Paper. That scan was a hell to extract, esp. hair. I want you to know that it is also my first scan ever to extract. At first I did it using Shinta's tutorial with the polygonal lasso as a tool for the job. It did not look well, thus Keltosh taught me (once again thanks) how to use pen tool for extractio ^^ (As you see I am really a complete noob at it) and I later improved its quality following Shinta's tut. But still the extraction is not ideal. I realize that. But also I am not sure if I am capable to fix that. This is just the nature of the scan I used for this wall.

Then I created starry background following Greg Martin's tutorial. Then I searched through Deviant and found really good brushes - Galaxies by Sunira with which I created the nebula. What followed was my playing with stars and swirl brushes and later creating wings (also done accoring to Shinta's tutorial). Added sig and the title. And voila. My first wall ever is done smiley.

I first created that nebula background. As you all can see, the colors are very bright and intensive (is that a proper word?:/). Thus the sole scan looked pretty plain on the bg. I thought about the way to balance the color contrast between the scan and the bg, thus I thought about making the wings. They did they work. But it was not enough to balance it all. The whole wall just lacked smth. Thus I played with the swirl brushes and imho without them the whole bg looks unfinished, cause they make this king of "frame" for the whole wall.

Possible faults:
- I guess that some of you might not like the font, well I choose this one because I wanted the title to appear there in the bg but I did not want it to stand out too much.
- it has also been brought to my attention that I lack randomness with the big stars - true. I am gonna change this.

Time: around 32 hours (includes: tips, reading/searching for tutorials/brushes/fonts, and getting familiar with the photoshop)
Layers: 24
Program: Photoshop CS2

So comments and criticism welcomed :]

WALL: link"
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Finals coming up

4 years 3 months ago

"The exams are coming... for me it is just 1,5 month and then... final papers, essays, exams, and one i fear the most of all are oral exams <!--emo&:(--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->(( delivering an oral presentation in front of the examination board... god have mercy"
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Watcha readin'?

4 years 3 months ago

"Well i just finished <u>The DaVinci Code</u> by Dan Brown and <u>Les Rivieres Pourpres</u> by Jean-Christophe Grange
now i must read for the courses:
<u>Beloved</u> by Toni Morrison
<u>A Raising in the Sun</u> by Lorraine Hansberry
<u>Playing in the Dark</u> by T.Morrison"
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Music Genre?

4 years 3 months ago

"I like all kinds of music and therefore I listen to almost everything, from rock, classical, pop, jazz, rap. I used to enjoy everything (conerning music of course) that came from Japan, though now I am much more selective and cannot stand some girsbands or boysbands which have really nothing to say or express and do everything their ar's tell them to.
There are also some Korean and Chineese performers that I listen to... as well as many other genres, techno, alternative, as long as i like smth i will listen to it."
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Korean Music! mwhahahaa

4 years 3 months ago

"Well i listen to both jpop and kpop though the former is definitely more popular and widly available then the former
i like BoA, S.E.S, and many others
oh and recently i found A-Mei Chang who is a chinese-pop performer, she is interesting"
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Fav. artists!

4 years 3 months ago

"The artists i really love for their artwork are:
Clamp
Satoshi Urushihara
Keiji Gotoh
Aoi Nanase
Ai Yazawa
Yukiru Sugisaki
Soryo Fuyumi"
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Which anime irritates you most?

4 years 3 months ago

"There is only one anime title that i despise from the bottom of my heart and this is Evangelion. the series was awfully boring and it was advertised as the best anime of the year.. or whatever... the only movie i like from the whole series, but be aware the movie not any episode, was the end of eva where they killed them ^^ mwahhaha"
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