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Simple Angelic Wallpaper

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Minitokyo » Culture & Entertainment Fora » The Sandbox  Simple Angelic Wallpaper

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Well, I tried this out a while ago, people say the scan is cute, I think so too. The background is supposed to be a dream, say in a forest where the girl is walking around. I know that the bg might be a little too simple, but a lot of effort was put into it. The enlarged version of the angel might look a little grainy on some monitors, I think, but I suppose its correctable. Here's the image below. I hope I get comments on how to improve it. Thanks in advance for any comments ><

http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/4728/angeldreamerdesign0wl.th.jpg

the scan looks blurry....and i don't like people blowing the image up and stuck it to the bg....cuz i think it's meaningless >_<
so bg is supposed to be a dream....i see what u're trying to do....
careful with perspective..cuz she doesn't really look like walking in a forest.
You can use a stock photo to aid you in creating a scenic background. So you will have an idea of how should the perspective be. try this site: http://www.sxc.hu/
the color choices are good.
the outglow of her seems a bit too sharp....try to soften it up a bit
nonetheless, it looks pretty good....keep it up!~

I'll write anything I notice in point form... so hopefully I can give you some ideas while you're reading what I think about this piece :)

* I'd prefer to see this in a larger version... but anyway- the scan is a bit too small for the background overall. Not sure if the original scan was that small, but that's why you filled up the right hand side with the bigger enlarged scan to fill space. I would probably get rid of that bigger scan (because well as ayaki said it's meaningless... another reason I would say is that there is no point to repeat a message again... and it does lower the quality of your composition. I think you'd be better off without it...)

* Scan quality is a bit on the downside. Not sure if you had extraction problems... so you blurred bits of it... or perhaps you tried to get rid of the graininess? Either way, it's too blurry. You probably should have extracted the scan, duplicated the layer and then blurred the duplicate by a small gaussian blur or a median. Then you set that layer onto soft light or something.

* I wouldn't repeat text more than once on a wallpaper. Again like the scan, we get the idea. We don't need to know it again... the text at the top left is crowding that space a bit. Maybe if you got rid of that, moved the bottom right text up and centred it a bit (centre vertical that is) then you will solve the problem of emptiness when removing the larger scan :)

* The colours are nice, soft, and very fitting for a desktop :) They are good on the eyes, and it makes for a pleasant wallpaper :D

My only concerns are scan quality and also the composition :)

PS: I also suggest you remove the outer glow completely. While this is a dream, the white foggy pastel colours are enough to do the trick... I would avoid using any outer glows, because they are usually used to hide extraction mistakes, and they do detach your scan from the background so it loses unity :)

I hope that helps a bit :nya: <3

I'm sure she finds it very helpful =) Sometimes we have to put ourselves in others shoes, don't we? *remembers how it was like before this*

thanks to u guys >.< thanks bery much =3 i'll try my best to make it better =)

I like this wallpaper.

It's a little overly busy, and a little low quality scan but otherwise it's great. :) Just spending some time with the healing brush and repairing the quality level will make it a favorite of plenty I bet.

The character is very pretty.

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