Possum Roadkill
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That is a stunning effect for a great photograph. I hope to see you post more here, I know I could learn a lot from your photography skills. I am a terrible photographer. :oops:
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Oma, I guess everyone has their own point of view on an image, and sometimes when we create something, we don't see it in the same way as someone seeing it for the first time. I didn't think Heaven's Bouquet could be any prettier, but you have made it so. I didn't realize how beautiful it was when I saw the thumbnail in the Abstract Images section, but when I saw it here in your gallery, I was speechless. Well, that is until I made my wife get up and come over and take a look (she agreed, it's beautiful). We both think it looks like mother of pearl. So beautiful. Thanks for sharing it. Have you ever tried to create an abalone effect/look? I love the look of mother of pearl and abalone.
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Brilliant concept and a beautiful image. I really like your sig, it's one of my favorites,
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I think I neglected to mention this the last time I posted here, but your gallery is awesome. Love the great amount of creativity you have (it takes me forever to think of stuff to make, and even longer to actually have time to sit down and actually draw it XD). It's also great to see how your stuff has gotten better as time progresses
Hope to see more cool stuff from you in the future
Thanks ! I hope I can keep learning and getting better. You do have quite a few (and very good) in your gallery so I wouldn't say that it takes forever
. Forever is the time between you opening the dog food bag and you setting the bowl down on the floor. At least to a dog anyway. Speaking of dogs, this is an image I did from my latest video on my You Tube Channel. It's about Mackie, my Flatcoat Retriever. http://www.youtube.com/user/PossumRoadkill
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@ Breathe I would bring the object on top or in front of the clouds. Then maybe to a reflection/shadows against the clouds. Very very pretty though.
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Ya know, I'm running out of words here ! I need a Thesaurus. So much awesome new stuff. The vases, the coin, the glass with orange juice ( I love orange juice) all so very very good and creative.
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I really like your new sig and avy. Very....uh, I don't know....professional? It looks like something that a professional graphics artist would do for a company as their logo or product. I'm very impressed with this, it's so clean and clear and precise. Very nice job flip.
Have you done any music lately? I'm looking forward to hearing more.
The swirl is very nice as well. Smooth with nice color selection. The black background really sets it off. I think it's a keeper.
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You have some really good work in your gallery, I've really enjoyed looking through it. My favorite is the water character. How did you do that? It is beautiful !
Forgive me for asking, but which one is that? I've got lots of water(-like) things
Oh sorry, yes you do. :oops: I meant this one, it appears to be all water.
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Thanks Possum Roadkill
because I went back to make my signature and this thing that if you look closely it sort of looks like students with books , or is it just my eyes playing tricks on me I made those with the Kaleidoscope Generator and Gradient mapping to get the color then for the signature the same thing except I did the outline object and used additive I think . I don't think many people use those effects much ? I don't know
I see students at desks reading open books ! This is AWESOME ! Great job ! It's so detailed and has such depth.
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Ash, a very inspiring tut. This is what I made. I used the orange one in the sea scape I did in the Pictorium. Thanks again for another great tut.
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When you say seascape, do you mean the ocean above? I think the only reason it looks flat is because it's peaceful and calm..it's not like anyone's throwing a rock in there or it's storm brewing or anything. It's just a calm sunset, so it males sense for the ocean to be sorta flat.
The only minor objection I have is that there is a line separating the ocean above from the ocean below. Sorta makes it look like two separate images. I would recommend filling in that space between the waves above and the ocean below with that light blue color.
Besides that, I really love all that undersea life going on there. Fantastic job
Ah ! Thats what I was trying to achieve ! Good !
I was thinking about the Nautilus ( the cephalopod ) when I did Ash's seashell tut and it got me to thinking about the Nautilus ( the ship ) from Jules Verne's books and thought I would do an image of a coral reef with a Nautilus ( the cephalopod ) as seen from inside a partially submerged ship window. Maybe I should have added the window?
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Thanks and welcome to the forum. I really like the first pieces you posted and look forward to seeing more from you. Really some great stuff. By the way, the line in your sig, it reminds me of that line from the song Butterflies by Toad the Wet Sprocket. Have you ever heard it?
The line comes from the song 'Comfortably Numb' from the album the 'The Wall' by Pink Floyd (seen it performed live back in '82) i've never heard Toad the Wet Sprocket but i love the name ...
Of course ! I remember it now ! I love Pink Floyd. You should check out Toad the Wet Sprocket, I don't know if they are still together but they are so good. Walk on the Ocean,
Fly From Heaven, Windmills are three you should listen to. You can find them on You Tube.
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A user on the PDN fan forum asking what I mean about NOT to use uniform transparency when trying to make glassy objects.
Btw, I opened my own mind and had some new ideas while coming up with this test piece... :idea:
:idea:Of course glass would not appear to be the same transparency throughout the entire object, but how would one achieve varying degrees of transparency on the same object? Layers and blend modes? I keep looking at your glass pieces and I just can't figure out how you are doing them. I have done a recent piece that I think really does look like glass, but I can only do it with an orb object using layers and blend modes. How are you getting the varied transparency on all of these different shapes? And how are you getting the refracted (?) colors where the glass bends at an angle?
Oh, and when can we expect the next gemstone tut? I have really enjoyed the first two.
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You have some really good work in your gallery, I've really enjoyed looking through it. My favorite is the water character. How did you do that? It is beautiful !
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I really like your sigs a lot ! The red and blue terminator's sig is great and so is the blue on blue one with your name and the thin diagonal lines. Man that one is great. And of course your glowing spiral thingie is sooooo freaking cool !
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@ Goonfella & Ash, thanks, but what is wrong with the seascape? To me it looks flat, and.....and.....uh, I don't know. Yes there is a lot going on in the image, I tend to over-do things, but something is missing.
Can Would, you help me figure it out? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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@Oma , thank you
@Possum Roadkill , thanks . I made it using the hexagons and glass blocks
one of those things they tell you that you can stumble upon while playing with the effects I love your orb it's beautiful as always I enjoy looking at your work .Oooh ! Ok ! I can see it now. Great idea ! I'll give it a try as well. That is one of the things that I love to do, experiment ! Thanks for your compliment, I did think it was one of my better orbs and it too came out of experimentation. And I enjoy your work also ! You have a good imagination, turn it up and, turn it loose !
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Maybe I'll have better luck with comments on this in here:
I've had some comments on the dark corner, but it's pretty much supposed to be dark.
I understand, but could you make it dark in another way? Like maybe have the raptor jumping out of dark jungle foliage. Check out Goonfella's recent image in the Realistic Images thread and notice the foliage he put around the castle. Remember, your sig is telling a story about your raptor. People should be able to look at it and make up stories in their head about what is going on. Inspire them.
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@ Sharp Great spacescape !
@ Mastermaxx WOW ! Awesome !
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@ Goonfella, great image. I like the way you made it look like you are looking through a hedge or forest at the castle. Where is this castle? What section of the tuts is Helen's fan tut?
This is something I have been working on the past few days. Thanks to Ash for the sunset clouds and the sea shell tuts !
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@ worldnewser This is AMAZING !
@ 007 Nab This is Amazing too ! Man, I really missed some great pieces !
@ Skitzo "and it looks neat, right? :wink: " Yes it is neat. Very much so.
@ Himself22 your image is beautiful. It reminds me of a stained glass window.
@ Breathe I would really like to see a larger version of this piece. This is very nice !
@ Oma, once again you have produced a stunning piece. It looks so delicate and intricate.
@ Sharp I can't wait to see this in your gallery. The thumb looks really good. I really like your new sig, man, that is really fine.
@ Sokagirl, WOW ! That is really great. How did you do that? I love it !
This is something I did while on vacation...... I know, , another orb?
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I like it. I would only have your name once unless you apply some fades or blurs to it. I agree that you could really add some depth to it by using a cool text effect. There are some really great ones in the tutorial section.
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Sorry to be away for so long! I've missed being here as much as I like.
To be honest, I don't come into the pictorium anymore much. But when I saw your featured pic in the galleria I had to take a visit to your galery.Good work.
Thank you very much, I'm glad you stopped by. Please stop by anytime and give me some suggestions. I'm trying to learn as much as I can from the top artists on the forum like you and the others who have been so helpful to me. I'm still kind of shocked that I had something that people liked enough for it to be placed in the Galleria. I'm still kind of numb, but that seems to be my normal state these days
Yep mate, ditto the congrats on your Galleria piece ... like I've said, apart from the spiders it's an awesome piece :wink:Thanks mate ! It means a lot coming from you. I enjoy your work so much. I can't believe how prolific you and Yellowman are. You guys really produce some great work at such a fast rate I have to check your gallery every time I come to the forum to make sure I don't miss anything.
Wonderful Stuff , a real pleasure looking through your work...Thanks and welcome to the forum. I really like the first pieces you posted and look forward to seeing more from you. Really some great stuff. By the way, the line in your sig, it reminds me of that line from the song Butterflies by Toad the Wet Sprocket. Have you ever heard it?
nice!, you should have started a gallerybefore you made all these pictures, so you did'nt have to
upload all all of these, must of took FOREVER
to upload 'em.
Yes, it did. That's not all of them either.
I've made a bunch of really bad ones too. :shock: You don't have to tell me this, but how did you make this:
...so good!
Hi flip ! I'd be glad to. I send some instructions to Yellowman a while back, I'll try to find them and send them to you. Thanks for stopping by. BTW, I really love your new sig and avy ! So Good !
I've put a few new pieces in my gallery that I did on vacation. Please take a look and let me know what you all think. Thanks for stopping by !
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Hi Oma ! I missed a few things while on vacation it appears. First off, the elephant is beautiful and majestic. I know some people don't like pink
but I love the choice you made for the background. It really sets the elephant off the page. The detail is amazing, it shows that you cared very much for this piece. Sorry to hear you were under the weather when you finished it. Believe me, it didn't show at all. No one would have ever known. Fragile soul is a wonderful and beautiful abstract piece. It has such depth to it and the blending of the shades of pink leave me speechless.
This latest piece, ( sorry I didn't see a title) is also very beautiful. It reminds me of illustrations in a fairy tale book I remember from long ago. Wonderful work!
. Forever is the time between you opening the dog food bag and you setting the bowl down on the floor. At least to a dog anyway. 
because I went back to make my signature and this thing that if you look closely it sort of looks like students with books , or is it just my eyes playing tricks on me 
Image Umbrella: Realistic Images
in The Pictorium
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@ Escapist Angel Wonderful image. I would only make two points. 1. I don't see the bottom of the glass so I can't tell if it's an open ended glass tube or a drinking glass. I think I am starting to understand a comment Ash made in his gallery about varied transparancies ( not quite his words) but I think you should read through the last couple of pages on his gallery and look at the images he has posted and I think you will see what I mean. Great job though on the glass. I'm just not good enough to do glass just yet. 2. The green liquid ooze that is pouring out of the glass should also have a varied transparency between the liquid that is outside of the glass and that which is inside of the glass. I think that would make it much more realistic. Otherwise, very nice image.