very beautiful, nice job
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Yes, you are looking at my newest wall, that is at the same time my 2nd wallpaper in life :]
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Details about the wall:
Title: Meet Me In Heaven
Time to complete: 9 days (do not make me count hours >.< definitely too much)
Number of layers: 53
Original psd file: over 38mb
Tutorials read to complete it: dozens about each: water, planet, clouds
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Before I move on to the description of the walling process let me thank few members :D
First of all, I want to thank my great friend and great mod Keltosh for his support and objective criticism that allowed me and my
skills to evolve and who pushed me to correct every mistake (even when I have been quite happy with the result ^^). It
is thanks to him that I have learned not to push some things too much and value time, effort and patience :]
Next, I would like to thank two of my great friends here, whose continuous support, encouragement and help allowed me to finish this wall and not to leave it half-unfinished. They were with me through many times of my frustration and sadness. So basically without them this wall would not have come into being in this form (yes you know who is to blame:P). Anyway, thanks to Dufoe88 and Rikimaru-jp. They offered not only they words of encouragement but also took time to send me some useful brushes and so on :] So thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Ok, now back to the wall.
First my intention: I wanted to make a background with a dancing girl in the heaven. I got a clear picture of what it should look like, but finding the proper scan that would fit my idea was not that easy. I have spent over 2 whole days digging through galleries at MiniTokyo, AnimePaper and some others. Searching. At the time, also Rikimaru-jp and Dufoe88 engaged in the search process and were sending scans they thought might suit my concept for the wall. None of the scans did. Until, I found (of course as a last one) this beautiful scan from Erementar Gerad at AnimePaper.
So, I had my scan. I extracted it. Now will be the laughing part :P Since I am a C-o-M-p-L-e-T-e n00b at walling, I did the extraction the longest possible way. I used the pen tool. Devoted over 2hrs to the sole extraction, and then Riki told me I could have used magic pen to extract it since that bg at the original scan was all white >.< He killed me there. Then I cleaned the extracted scan to improve its quality. And then I had to extract it 2 more times, because at one time my computer crashes (and I did not manage to save the file) and again cause there was a glitch in the extraction.
Ok. I had an extracted scan and my concept. I had to learn how to create water in photoshop (since I never did it
before, quite understandable since it is only my 2nd attempt at walling). I have read every tutorial there is about
creating water. Tried them all� but the effect was not satisfactory. So I combined few tutorials to create
it, among them: Shinta's
water tutorial and Rippled Water
Walkthrough tutorial that I have found at DeviantArt. The others I can't remember.
But I am really proud of this water (actually I am the proudest of water in this wallpaper)
Then I moved on to create clouds. I made like 10 versions in over all of them until I became satisfied with them. For the clouds I used various brushes downloaded from DevianArt and send to me by Dufoe88. I have also drawn from a scratch the cloud at the very front ^^
Then I moved on to create planet. I did it according to Greg Martin's famous tutorial. The result you can see :]
Ok then I added wings, stars, birds, magic, mist and finally all the reflections in the water (not necessarily in this order). It might sound easy for you but it was a hell and real torment for me. Now I present you with the final effect.
Please comment, fav if you like it. I will gladly hear words of constructive criticism as well :] Since I do not know what to write I will just end it like that ^^
Oh, if you want to see some steps in this wall making process, see this: Steps walkthrough
Oh, and please full-view to see all the details (esp. water)
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Comments
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pooolj Aug 30, 2006
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ipiotchi Sep 02, 2006
such a pretty pic but i wonder who this girl is?
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Kyo26 Feb 13, 2007
jasmine! dun say ur bad at making wallies! ur good ^^ this is GOOD! i like how u made the pic blend with the bg^^ and the water effect....XD very very nice =)
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Chiharu2012 Mar 07, 2007
This wally is sooooo damn beautiful than I think I'll cry T0T....
... master work, surely!
Well done! ^^
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Seiba Mar 11, 2007
wee...steping on the water...I always luv that concept Lol...., also the moon looks nice, good wallie!^o^
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iDeem Apr 12, 2008
cute
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princessmeyrin023 Aug 10, 2008
Ohhh, Ren is so cute! The background you did just fit her pose, I know how hard to make a background like that, the effects are also amazing. You did a nice job :) Keep it up!
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kon-91 Oct 24, 2008
so cute!
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zizax Oct 25, 2008
Nice Colors
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stormowl7 Jul 16, 2009
awesome!
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haruka2007 Mute Member Dec 05, 2009
it's so good=)
thanks for the sharing...
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HaneiNatsuka Apr 03, 2010
Simply beautiful. A wonderful wallpaper
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Fayne Restricted Member Feb 15, 2011
I love it!Is very sweet and cute! My big congratulations! It's amazing this picture!
I really like it, very, very much!
Thanks for sharing!
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