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Published: 2009-04-18 17:07:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 4348; Favourites: 111; Downloads: 18
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ballon/own stock etniezz-stock night-fate-stock Its-Only-Stock Mountain Valley Meadow/sxc.hu the sky/sxc.hu clouds/sxc.hu Surrey House/sxc.hu IMPORTANT © COPYRIGHT NOTICE
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First of all, I think this is a very eye catching piece, utilising the contrast between red and green to maximum impact, and yet remaining soothing to the eyes. e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/s… " width="15" height="15" alt="
Some food for thought, however:
Masking - The masking is unfortunately rather obvious, making this manip lose the realism it is trying to achieve. Take a look at the red flowers that have been masked onto the field. Some of the flowers are have become translucent! To indicate depth, things at the further end become blurry, not translucent/transparent.
Some suggestions to solve this:
1. Select/lasso the flowers individually and then paste them onto the field, so they don't become translucent. This is hard work, but it is really worth it because the whole manip will appear much more sophisticated.
2. After selecting the flowers, you can create the illusion of depth by applying a little bit of Gaussian blur to the flowers you have selected, according the the degree of depth you wish to create.
3. Finally, you can use a speckled brush (you can download or make your own), use the eyedropper tool to select the colours of both the field and flower layers, vary the opacity and sizes of the brush, and dab it around to create more details and to subtly blend the flower layer and field layer.
Hope this helps. e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/s… " width="15" height="15" alt="
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First I'd like to say, that this is really nicely blended, which is so rare to find in photo-manipulation these days. If it wasn't so surreal looking, i'd almost believe it could be real.
Something that jumps out at me a bit however is that the girl chasing the balloon, her shadow is cast to the left, but on the tree in the background, there is clearly a hard shadow being cast down and to the right, but it is an easy fix.
I love the colours you've used in this and the obvious but soft contrast between the reds and the greens, it's very nostalgic feeling. Very well done e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/h… " width="15" height="13" alt="
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Thanks for the critique Stephan!
I was actually corrected the tree and it shadow...and also the balloon
I'm working a photomanip. like this (landscape/scenery) cause mostly artist are fond photomanipulating fantasy, darkarts, etc...
Thanks again!
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I agree with `budgie on the positives. Gorgeous work! The mountains in the background are particularly beautiful.
The only thing that jumps out at me is the clear repetition of the flowers in the foreground. The two bunches just bellow the girl and the balloon; they're clearly a copy of each other and it's most apparent, unlike the others that don't look like copies, even though they are. Probably because that one flower is the largest (and a defining horizontal shape) and so close to its other self. Hope I'm making sense!
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yeah...i did duplicate the flowers
i'll do it better next time. thanks! 
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Balloon!!!! Catch it, hurry!!!! 
(Sorry, balloons are my weakness 
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hehehe i can't catch it, it's too high
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Really like, and i'm no expert, but the house looks a wee bit small... too small for her anyway! i wish the sky was bluer, but overall it's really good.
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thanks for the compliment
and thanks for appreciating my art
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Work is almost photorealistic...
But because is so idillic is unreal. I feel that only girl and balloon are real, exist and the rest is only illusion, is only shadow of reality.
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For some reason, this reminds me a bit of the art style on a TV show called "Pushing Daisies". I think this picture is quite good and slightly surreal, probably due to the colour/saturation.
Keep up the good work.
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thank you for that wonderful compliment
have a great day ahead
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It's beautiful
But that ballon might kill one of the very rare mountain sea turtles
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ohhh...
that won't happen
hehehe...
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this idyllic landscape is just amazing.
great concept+shot!
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