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"The Realm"-Photo Manipulation...What do you think?


Cybermax59

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Okay, so I was bored and I was messing around with a few photos, and this is what I came up with. I had an almost similar wallpaper before (a cool looking guy holding the planet in his hands)-so yeah, I sort of copied the theme-but not a carbon copy!!

Check it out and tell me how it was-any suggestions or criticisms (constructive criticism ONLY) is welcome!!
 

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sweasel

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I'd put a little spherical distortion on the landscape (filter >> distort >> spherize). Other'n that, it looks good.

Believe me, the guy who did the wallpaper wasn't the first to come up with the globe/hands visual :)
 

Cybermax59

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Thanks for checkin' it out mate! And, yeah-would've looked a lot better with the Spherize distortion-just checked it out!
And well yeah-you're pretty much right about the hands/globe visual-but I couldn't help feeling that I was copying someone else's idea!
 

sweasel

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Sometimes I do a check of the Web for designs similar to mine. But I only do it after I create the graphic. If I came up with it on my own, I'm not bothered if I'm not the first (my avatar, for example, has been done to death).

It's not often I come up with something absolutely, positively original. And it's usually crap.
 

Cybermax59

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I guess you're right...and as far as for the "its usually crap", then believe me mate-failure is the pillar of success!!
 

Cybermax59

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Thanks mate =)!!
 

hishandiwork

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Try to bring more color to the hands... and possibly use more sharp looking hands. The hands currently are bland and very blurry.

Those are my first thoughts/suggestions after looking at the image for 10 seconds.
 

Cybermax59

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I know what you mean, but I don't have a camera mate =(..and the one I used was a low resolution handset camera-so the image was already blurred, and if I tried to sharpen it-the quality would turn out to be horrible-and I thought b/w looked cooler than the colorful version! And thanks for checking my work out =)!!
 

Cybermax59

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Thanks!!
 

Cybermax59

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Thanks mate! Except for the hands quality-everything is ok I guess!
 

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