Deceptive Simplicity.
May. 4th, 2013 01:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elennielYou know, when I make wallpapers that look simple like this one?
... More than half the time, they're not really *that* simple. If you were to open up my original Photoshop file, you'd see many, many layers. This one had almost 80 layers in total:
All because I feel the need to fix the original photo colours. ^^ I can't stand it when the tones are off and when the pictures don't seem to have quite the same lighting (exceptions made when the photos are vastly different from each other - not in the same theme). I had a number of quibbles with the pics I used here:
- Maru's helmet had part of the word "ORANGE" on top of it and it was too tricky to get paint over it (and I was too lazy). Compensated by pushing his pic until the text was out of the mask frame.
- Yasu's pic was darker than all the others.
- All of them had a greenish tint, which I hated.
- Part of Yoko's white-gloved fist was visible near his face and was distracting. Fortunately, Yoko was wearing black and the lighting was quite high-key so that made it easy to fix. 8D
- The colours of their uniforms looked dull and washed out so I had to fix that too.
... More than half the time, they're not really *that* simple. If you were to open up my original Photoshop file, you'd see many, many layers. This one had almost 80 layers in total:
All because I feel the need to fix the original photo colours. ^^ I can't stand it when the tones are off and when the pictures don't seem to have quite the same lighting (exceptions made when the photos are vastly different from each other - not in the same theme). I had a number of quibbles with the pics I used here:
- Maru's helmet had part of the word "ORANGE" on top of it and it was too tricky to get paint over it (and I was too lazy). Compensated by pushing his pic until the text was out of the mask frame.
- Yasu's pic was darker than all the others.
- All of them had a greenish tint, which I hated.
- Part of Yoko's white-gloved fist was visible near his face and was distracting. Fortunately, Yoko was wearing black and the lighting was quite high-key so that made it easy to fix. 8D
- The colours of their uniforms looked dull and washed out so I had to fix that too.
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