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Selene-Blackthorn — River Elf or Nymph - vs.3
Published: 2011-01-13 23:48:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 7703; Favourites: 104; Downloads: 728
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CRITIQUE IS V-E-R-Y MUCH DESIRED!!!I would like to improve myself a lot, so I appreciate good ol' critique even more then faves and positive feedback...
Just to make a few things clear~
I DO submit one work to many groups, SOMETIMES. when it's worth it. I also fave and comment on other people's work when I go to submit to groups, I don't want to hear complaints about attention whoring. I give attention more often then I get it, so when I finally create something that I think is worth seeing, I want some feedback as well.
I made a few different versions. They differ only by the filters and cropping, but I wasn't sure which one was best. YOU tell me which one is
Here they are~
~MoonBirth Challenged me to a manip duel - she wimped out on the way though so
but this is my result manipulating her beautiful photo~! [which I happened to be the photographer of 
]
INFO:
© Selene-Blackthorn/Crystal-Snowflakes 2011~NOW
Tools Used: Photoshop CS3, a mouse
Stock used~
THANK YOU GUYS FOR:
~MoonBirth ~ The lovely MODEL ~ [link]
~Synyster-Stock ~ The amazing background ~ [link]
~LongStock ~ The arms ~ [link]
*3DClubhouse ~ The ears ~ [link]
~lady-symphonia-stock ~ this photo as a filter ~ [link]
Featured here: [link] Gallery Folder : 2011 [20 y.o]
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I love elves as all the mystery things, so this is fantastic to me! The long long hair of the elf is wonderful, it flows from her shoulders transforming to a waterfall - this idea is brilliant! You gave her a mystery shine or aura - which elves surely have 
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Thank you, that's a great suggestion actually 
I'm not sure my photoshop skills are good enough to pull it off well, but I will try if I get back to this
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Wow, great that you will try it, let me know!!
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Hey there
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I would really appreciate it if you didn't reply here, but posted a comment on the news article instead or contacted the person that chose your work to be featured.
Thank you and keep up the good work!
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OMG! I love this I am speechless and awestrucked by the beauty!
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thank you very much~!
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This is just beautiful, I love the way shes' becoming the water.
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Very cool integration... Looking forward to others like this.
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thanks... I usually draw, but I'm thinking of starting to manipulate on usual basis too
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You have some lovely special effects going on here, and it is a unique idea. I will tell you what I see, since you requested critical feedback
1) More of her torso should be showing. It seems it is completely transparent. Also, she is a manifestation of water, am I correct? In that case, she would never be 100% in the material plane and would have very soft, partially translucent borders, not hard edges.
2) Her eyes are too stark in contrast with what she is and the rest of her body.
3) Your background needs some attention. There is a color discrepancy between your nymph and the background. Using filters sometimes backfires if it is not done as a whole and only in part. You could try playing with the hue/saturation settings, the color balance, and the vibrancy controls. See if you can get the background colors to more closely follow the color family your nymph is in. Does this even make any sense? Color adjustments are so hard to describe.
Version 4 and 5 are better color wise, if that helps at all.
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thank you very much for the constructively-critical comment!
1) I guess the transparency was a fail. I mainly meant her to be a part of the rock, like she is coming out of it, as a manifestation of the whole spring and not just its waters. but I guess I failed on making her look like she IS the rock, so she just looks transparent..
about the borders I didn't think yet - thank you for bringing it to my attention! I definitely should soften them!
2) yeah, that I definitely have to fix..
3) I understood what you mean about the discrepancy of colors - I tried to aim for a type of filter like they used in the later LOTR movies, where for some reason the whole image was tinted blueish-gray. I really loved the effect they had there so I tried to imitate it. the thing is, there IS an overall filter on this, but her own color is just too strong and monotonous and that makes her still stand out... I didn't know how not to make it clash with the BG, because I wanted to keep a hint of green in this picture and not just plainly tint it blue. I'm gonna have to try to revise this....
thank you very much for taking your time and writing this!!!
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Are you using CS5? If you are not, you may not have all the features I would use to create the changes. I can try and describe softening the edges: You would need to apply a layer mask to the nymph. On the mask layer set your brush to 23% and carefully go around her edges. It will make her transparent in those places, but only by a small amount meaning you will need to go over the spots more then once to achieve the desired effect. Again, not knowing if you have the same program I am not sure if you will understand what I am on about
For the body, you would need to leave the model's body intact is all, and perhaps apply the above technique a little, to show her being between worlds so to speak, and not completely transparent but not totally solid. You might also use the bubbling water as an overlay or texture effect on her torso!
The effect you are speaking of is "soft glow". Hehe, movies use that to cover up bad cinematography in SOME cases, certainly not the epic LOTR. You would need to mess with the overall color saturation and then apply the "diffuse glow" filter in Photoshop, or if its Gimp its called "soft glow". You can adjust the amount of glow.
Here is another way you might have lots of fun with:
(I am not going into the exact pathway since your program might be different, I will assume you know where to find these settings)
1) Make a duplicate of your piece as another layer.
2) Strip all the color out of it using the Black and White setting.
3) Bump up the "Green" in the B&W, this will make the light parts much brighter.
4) Apply a "gaussian blur" until the entire piece is all soft and fuzzy, but still recognizable.
5) Play with the opacity slider on this layer...watch what happens!
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thank you very much!
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thats such an amazing job quite the fallowing you have lol
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lol a lot of people seem to love your work. Rightfully so
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oh..
yeah, I don't get it myself. though I'm kind of really proud of it [otherwise I would not have been showing it off, right?], but I'm not sure its THAT good... I just feel it's s lot better then my previous attempts
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your very talented take heart
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That is gorgeous! I love the way she blends with the water!
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I like the concept, I don't know that I like that her torso is transparent as her arms are visible, if she were rising from the water I would think more of her upper body would be visible, if just barely. My two cents for what its worth.
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that's interesting to hear
she is actually supposed to rise from the stones [as it's a shallow stream], and her body is still partially a stone... I guess I failed on making that one show. I didn't want her to have a transparent body... I gotta find a way to fix this. thanks a bunch for pointing it out~! <3
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Interesting...I had though she was forming from the water, not the rocks, I look forward to seeing your "updated" version.
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hahaha if I'll manage to make it look like it should.... 
a billion thanks for the watch btw!
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You're welcome for the watch. Give it time, I'm sure you can come up with something.
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It does feel very organic to the scene. Well done.
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yes, natural to the background. Part of the landscape.
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ah, okay
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no, it looks very nice. duly faved and you're welcome.
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Nice work...she looks like she is part of the water...well done!
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thank you
I actually meant her to be part of the rocks, like she's coming out of them and her hair is the water... but I guess being part of the water is good too ^^
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thank you very much
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