HOME | DD
SaviourMachine — The Book of Life
Published: 2008-06-02 22:58:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 6002; Favourites: 60; Downloads: 0
Redirect to original
Description
I thought I'd try something completely different... Well this is what came out of that thought! I like it now, lets see if I still like it tomorrow...Edit:
Changed the background color and a little bit of the lay-out...
Hope you like it!
God bless
www.cjsdesign.nl
Related content
Comments: 25
Gorgeous!! I love how incorporated animals and flowers...it's a neat effect...
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Wow Just Amazing! Awesome Work Really, Keep It Up For God!!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Can we be save? In this journey called LIFE, are we preparing to meet our creator and see to it if we are written in the Book of Life.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
This is such an awesome and powerful image! Very dynamic and full of energy
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Can you upload a higher resolution version or even a wallpaper size one?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I will try, but I ain't really pleased with it yet.. So I am thinking to add some more finishing touches....
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Wow, nice! Very sharp image quality and vibrant colors. An overall texture that's thinner around the books and fairly translucent could give it a better sense of unity, but quite nice.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Hey thanks for your comment, what do you mean with your critics? Maybe I can try it!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Alright so you're using photoshop, right?
You make a new layer on top of everything and you put a texture on top of it. I like to unsaturate it just to keep from adding a dingy look where I don't want one. If your picture wasn't so busy I'd recommend *Inthename-Stock but that might make it too busy, so instead I'd go for a relatively flat texture like stone or stucco. You can find a whole mess of textures on deviantart by going:
browse - catagory - resources - textures - all textures
Set the texture layer on multiply and lower the transparency to about 10% or less so that it's almost not there, but present enough to add a sense of unity. Duplicate the later. You then can use the lasso tool to highlight the center area in a rough oval, feather the selected area (under "select" on the tool bar), and delete. This will create a graduation from higher transparency towards the edges to very faint transparency in the middle, provided both layers are on multiply. It might give a papery look to your picture, depending on what texture you use, but it should also make it all look like a whole.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
glad you think that way!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1