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Bryal — The Comfort of Snowfall
Published: 2013-12-17 06:00:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 5664; Favourites: 169; Downloads: 171
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Nature reminds us that, even in the midst of life's disappointments, we will make it through whatever life throws at us.Be strong.
This PIRL was created for the Equestria Digital wallpaper pack, "Winter in Equestria", found here: equestriadigital.com/topic/646…
This was an interesting PIRL to make, I have to say. Making Pinkie Pie blend into the background was very difficult due to the snow. I took snow from other parts of the picture and overlaid them on Pinkie, adding a bit of Gaussian blur and some transparency. The overall effect of the finished product gives it a thought-provoking view on what happened to Pinkie Pie.
Pinkie Pie vector by Strelok-2
Picture from here: www.10wallpaper.com/wallpaper/…
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Comments: 29
Incredibly well-made! I mean the blur and the snow over Pinkie...
This one feels emotional but for different reasons than usual.
Maybe because I love the character of Pinkie Pie and its depth?
She has gone through a lot indeed... We must follow her example and continue to spread our positivity around and smile, smile, smile!
...By any chance, wasn't there a piece of text at the bottom right corner of the picture that you needed to cover up with a copypasted part? I know, I know... *knowing smile* lol!
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Haha, I see why you would think that, but no, the picture came like that. It very well may be that whoever I got the picture from did that themselves.
Glad you liked my PIRL, though.
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Indeed she is. I like to think of her this way.
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Haha, I picture you being surrounded by pugs on Christmas morning.
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You just keep pilin' up my faves, don't you?
#BeStrong? Is this trending on Twitter or something?
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Nah, I don't Twitter at all, so that coincidence is just that, a coincidence.
Still, I'm glad you like the picture.
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Although I'm on Twitter, that was merely a joke. 
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At first I thought you added the snow everywhere, but since you used snow from the photo, it's quite impressive. Good idea to put a pony in unfocused background. Easier to create immersion that way.
Flaws: Light border around her right hind leg makes it looks like a cutout there and there's some crude cloning in the lower right corner of the picture. Maybe it can be fixed with a combination of more random-yet-selective cloning and brief smears here and there.
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That lower right border of the picture was already there, so I can't help that. And yes, Pinkie's leg is a bit off. I worked on that, and never quite got it where I wanted. Frustrating, to say the least.
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I am sorry? Already there = can't be fixed?! ^^
Regarding the leg: Why not just erase the light border? (If you intend to have some lighting effect there, then better to remove the whitish border and give the outermost rim of the pink outline the tiniest amount of solarization or what it's called.)
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*can't fix it
Man, I need an edit button sometimes...
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In regards to the bottom right part of the picture, it was already like that, so I can fix it. I didn't take the picture.
I usually use multiple layers of shading and some lighting, and it was getting to be a bit of a mess. Using Gaussian blur on Pinkie made the problem of her back right leg almost impossible to fix properly, considering my lack of knowledge of "proper" photoshopping.
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Fixed both for you.
f.owledge.de/the_comfort_of_sn…
I could have made the cloning in the lower right corner even less obvious by adding rotation to some of the pieces, but I don't feel like a perfectionist today. 
Feel free to update your pic with it.
I want credit though.
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Nice job, you managed to blend her into the picture perfectly
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Thank you for that compliment. It was definitely a tough one to pull off.
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Not sure if misspelling, or clever play on words...
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Probably misspelling sorry Im a derp sometimes and don't look at what I type closely
XD
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That was an awesome misspelling then. ^^
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