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Angel D

09-19-2003, 06:10 AM

This is my second attemp to make art with photoshop. I stay away from computers as a rule, but a week ago my game design student friend got me to try photoshop.
There's a crap photo attached and more crap below that, but I just got a geocities web page and put the pic's there.

To see the pic, and all the steps involved, click here. (http://www.geocities.com/peteshutup_14150/index.html?1064044196973)

And by the way, anyone who only viewed this thread because it had the word :drool:nude:drool: in it, leave a reply and say so. It's alright. It's a big website. You've gotta have criteria to filter out what you do and don't want to see.

UPDATE: geocities sucks (what's to be expected, it's free...) so I can't directly display or link to the image. You've gotta go to the site above.

Angel D

09-19-2003, 06:43 AM

This is it at it's current phase. The quality is all crappy. It's been DRASTICALY reduced.

For the full size, check out the web page I created in under 20 minutes. (http://www.geocities.com/peteshutup_14150/index.html?1064044196973)

Angel D

09-19-2003, 11:27 PM

You know, it wouldn 't hurt to reply... I'd like some advice on how to improve.

Angel D

09-20-2003, 12:35 AM

Here's a close up of her face, however, it's 20 k worth of garbage. The full size of all the images is here. (http://www.geocities.com/peteshutup_14150/index.html?1064044196973)

loganx3d

09-20-2003, 01:59 AM

I don't understand exactly what you're going for, but it looks terrible. Try posting a higher-quality JPEG, the artifacts are hiding any possible features.

However, I'd have to recommend readin up on the "color wheel" and "color theory". Basically, this looks like you just slapped a few PS filters on a downloaded soft porn image.

Sorry. :shrug:

Angel D

09-20-2003, 07:34 AM

I guess I asked for that...:hmm:

I was going for a "dark" look at first, but I couldn't get the colors right... Then I tried to salvage it with the blues and greens I had left (based on the color wheel's triples rule, actualy). I think the color isn't half bad.
And it was actualy drawn using a "tasteful nude still" (domani.com's words for soft core porn) as a reference. I didn't actualy tinker with the original except to put the blue lines on it to map out the rough proportions. Then I took those lines and started from scratch. That's why I didn't call it photomanipulation. If it was, I wouldn't be having so much trouble with the texture... I can't figure out how to make it look less like plastic and more like flesh.
I'm looking into finding a way to have an image that shows a little more detail. I just downloaded it my self and I must agree, it looks like trash. If anyone wants a better copy, they can e-mail me at peteshutup_14150@yahoo.com and I'll send something a little more ledgible over.

UPDATE: I created a stupid little geocities website in about 20 minutes for free which has significantly larger files on it.
http://www.geocities.com/peteshutup_14150/index.html?1064044196973

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