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I put this picture together wanting to represent how many of us undervalue ourselves, have low self esteem and a lack of self worth, and often feel as if we are looking at the world through a sheet of plate glass or feel like we're living in a goldfish bowl.
I thought I'd share it because it uses so many features of photo manipulation. It was created usiing Corel Paint Shop Pro X, the graphics package I use most (For anyone thinking of getting Coral PSP Photo XI, it's a resource hungry, chunky, disappointing and nasty program).
It makes extensive use of layers and wouldn't be possible without them. It incorporates about 16 layers, slowly building the finished image.
It includes, converting an image to black and white, bevelling edges, use of drop shadows, Vector drawing and converting to raster and filling (drain pipe), using text and angling text, erase and smudge for the grafitti, a fill layer for the window and the reflection layer, both using reduced opacity, a pattern fill for the wall and so on. It took a couple of days to do, with a lot of changes and tweaking to get close to what I wanted, for example I completely redid the window surround as I was not happy with my first attempt.
C&C appreciated.
Venom
Very clever.
Every time I look into the window I see something different.
The only thing I would say is, it looks a bit cartoon for me but can appreciate the work that has gone on to achieve it.
I think its a great example of what can be achieved with a great deal of time, patience and understanding.
creators
Thanks Mike, I know what you mean about the cartoon look, every time I see a film and they say, 'we decided to do that with CG,' I wish I'd had a fraction of their training. Realism is unbelieveably hard.
hil26
wish I had the time and patience to create something like this, I like it very much, the "cartoon" like appearance actually does not bother me in this image
