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blue-eyed-heddy — Creating Winter
Published: 2008-01-12 21:30:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 2800; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 0
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I think this is my biggest project I've done. Had the idea in mind for a few days, but wasn't entirely sure about it and today I just started it and before I knew it, it was finished.Used alot of new stuff, so it is possible there are flaws lol! But please do point it out to me and also tell me how to improve. Just pointing out what's wrong won't help me either.
The idea is simple; the winter spirit / person is creating winter, hence the name
Please full view!!!
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Thanks to:
- Background by
- Glass Ball by
- Crow Brushes by
- Snow Brushes by
- Hair Brushes by
- Cloud / Fog Brushes by
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Hope you all like it!
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Comments: 20
Lovely job! Wonderful concept, and well laid out. Good work!
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You're welcome!
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thanks, glad you like it!
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Paint with the brushes on a new layer and make it more transparent...the white feels too bright for a real fog...
the probl is I know Photoshop not Gimp but I'll think and tell you
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you mean more up front? cos the back layer of fog I already made more transparent to make it look more far away.. but you're right about the front few fogclouds, they're a bit too white.. I'll change it in a second 
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I wish the bottom of her skirt was less transpant
then it would be perfect
or close to perfect
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yeah I had it like that at first, but then it doesn't have the spirit look, but more of an actual human being, y'know?
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that's true, I was just thinking a little tiny bit to ground her
I always have to find something when the picture has "advanced critique" underneath it
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yeah and I appreciate it
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Before you start any transformation you need to make a copy of your project. And work with the copy.
You need to get rid of the shadows along her body. it's a small line but it's very important, so you have to select those margins maybe through going into quick mask mode or any other solution you know for selection. Then feather it 3-4 pixels. Now go into brightness and contrast and set the best settings until you get something as light as her dress. If that doesn't work you should select the girl and contract it a bit then inverse the selection and press delete.
Her hair is much darker than it should be, select it and brighten it up and lower the contrast.
Her top body and head is not as transparent as the rest of her body, try to cut her in 2 pieces and set the right opacity levels.
Darken the stones with the burn tool.
Use some fog at her legs or all around her. The fog should be very transparent and light.
Hope it helps
Good luck!
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I deleted some of the shadows along the body, but couldn't too much cos it was a shadow on the boy itself already like I said and all, but the ones I could erase I did
I tried to split the person in two and have the body more transparent but that really did not turn out well, so decided to leave it like this, but I did try!!
Also added the fog, but had to do it with cloud-brushes cos gimp was being a tard.. If you have an idea of how they could turn out better, please let me know
Anyways.. hope you like the picture better now!
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excellent work 
i really like how this turned out
and the blue tone over it gives it that cold feel that you hopefully wanted
you just keep getting better eh, you should be proud
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yeah every thing has its own 'feeling' to it and yet it works well together, so I am really happy with that 
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lol any time
i'm glad you're happy with it too
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