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Rah-They In reply to Emmixxalot [2011-05-01 08:30:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks bro.

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Rah-They In reply to raybearr [2010-08-03 01:43:36 +0000 UTC]

I agree.. I wanted it to sorta protude out of that wall, but I wasn't sure how I was going to do that!
Thank you for the comment!

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Rah-They In reply to My-Shadows-Limit [2010-08-03 01:49:00 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, my skills with the pen tool are not to die for , so I just used the brush tool to draw out the colours, and use both the selection tool + eraser to try and get a smoother look.
Thanks for the comment!

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My-Shadows-Limit In reply to Rah-They [2010-08-07 03:49:29 +0000 UTC]

Haha, totally understandable. Keep up the work, then; I see you doing really great things. :]

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Rah-They In reply to KahnesMyHero [2010-08-01 08:52:47 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou!
And now that you mention it, I can imagine 'Kids' playing whilst the water flows and the birds fly past..

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Rah-They In reply to TrentWray [2010-07-31 08:39:57 +0000 UTC]

Critiquing on technique, really. Cos I think that waterfall still looks a bit out of place..
Yeah, I can't really feather my way out of a paper bag! But tutorials and comments are my best friends!
SRSLY. They're the only friends I have.

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TrentWray In reply to Rah-They [2010-07-31 08:54:17 +0000 UTC]

Well, I think the waterfall looks out of place partially because of the shadowing underneath it. That is very dark shadow on both sides, and a bit unnatural .... also, the waterfall is extremely "one sheet" ... you know, like no splash and splatter here and there on both sides. What I might have tried, would be to use the cloning tool and clone a bit around the edges to make it more spread out .... but do so on another layer that you can sort of blend into the wall some with overlay, or soft light, perhaps ... to show the waterfall tapering off out of both sides, rather than just looking like a fruit roll up unraveled

Also, the water is extremely dark and has no blur in it. I would have blurred itself in a layer over it, and then overlayed that layer to give it a bit of "shine", and perhaps allowed some regular blur here and there to stand out to show movement. And where the water crashes on the rocks below, there is no splash, etc. It's things like that which are hard to accomplish, but doable with time and patience.

And I would change the levels on the eye .... increasing the white tone and lowering the mid-gray tone perhaps. Oh, and I'd add some shadow under the "Birds". But not drop shadow .... drop shadow is weak and unrealistic. Real shadows don't behave like drop shadows .... most of the time they become skewed abnormally. So I almost always just duplicate a layer, fill it in all black, gausian blur it, and then transform it to a more realistic shape before reducing the transparency and possibly adding a layer mask to naturally and easily feather out the shadow with a black-to-white gradient directly on the layer mask.

But overall, I think it's a cool image There is a lot going on. It's a scene

And you have more friends that tuts and comments .... you have voices in your head don't you?

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Rah-They In reply to TrentWray [2010-08-01 07:47:07 +0000 UTC]

I don't think I've ever gotten a comment that long!
Your advice was very helpful. But I found it hard to recreate splashes in the waterfall since it didn't really splash much in the original photo anyhow..
But I think the image looks a bit more (if not fully) realistic than it did before.
So THANKYOU VERY MUCH!
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And YES, I HAVE LOTS OF VOICES IN MY HEAD!
Some of them tell me to burn t things. MUHUHAHAHAHAHA

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TrentWray In reply to Rah-They [2010-08-01 07:59:53 +0000 UTC]

So long as one of the voices isn't Barry Mannilow, burn whatever you want to burn ...

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