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Posted on 31/08/04 01:39:45 AM |
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trinityofone
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Gene Splicing
I thought I'd play mad scientist, this is the result.  _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 31/08/04 07:59:18 AM |
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maiden
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GM has a lot to answer for haha. That's very well done, Trinity. |
Posted on 31/08/04 08:29:16 AM |
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trinityofone
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Thanks Maiden..this also earns the title of 'biggest image I've done to date', the psd is 218mb, it takes a while to save :/ _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 31/08/04 09:01:36 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Excellent! Great reflections, great shading, and I rally like the bevelled edge on your chopping board. The sliced pip on the board is a great touch (and you know how I love details). Hell, you've even got the grain to follow over the edge of the board - that must have been tricky. |
Posted on 31/08/04 10:44:53 AM |
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trinityofone
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It was indeed a tricky image, the majority of which was done in Elements. I finally gave up when it came to create the mulch on the blade, which worked best with lighting effects and an alpha channel. _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 31/08/04 1:45:43 PM |
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raymardo
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Looks excellent. I love the knife. Actually. everything looks amazingly real. Why such a huge file? Great job. _________________ Sometimes you have to stand in your neighbor's backyard to get a good view of your own. raymardo |
Posted on 01/09/04 1:09:59 PM |
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trinityofone
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It's a big file because it started out as a project for print, the full size image is around 4000x3500 pixels and has around 15-20 layers. You can imagine how big Steve's images end up to be! _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 01/09/04 1:18:53 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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Largest image (in terms of file size) I ever did was a double-page spread for the Sunday Times Magazine, weighed in at over 500Mb. But files of 100 to 200Mb are pretty routine, these days... you just need a fast computer and as much RAM as you can cram inside it. |
Posted on 01/09/04 1:58:35 PM |
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trinityofone
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Since the upgrade, PS is a lot smoother, although on this image, I still got a bit of brush lag but it was tolerable. I'll upgrade to 1gb RAM as soon as I can afford it. _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 01/09/04 2:39:59 PM |
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raymardo
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Did you see that the newest boards support up to 4gb RAM? Think that's overkill? I'd like to see... _________________ Sometimes you have to stand in your neighbor's backyard to get a good view of your own. raymardo |
Posted on 01/09/04 2:49:33 PM |
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trinityofone
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You can never have too much memory/disk space, especially when Photoshop is involved 
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Posted on 15/09/04 5:35:20 PM |
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russ davey
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My friend actually has 4Gb of RAM, rather ironically his PC keeps crashing!!  |
Posted on 15/09/04 5:55:11 PM |
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trinityofone
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Is he using Windows 3.1? _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 22/09/04 6:34:34 PM |
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ryan
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Great work Trinity! Lovw this image |
Posted on 22/09/04 7:23:56 PM |
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trinityofone
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Thanks Ryan, it was actually a very simple montage, made incredibly awkward by my choice of software
_________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 22/09/04 9:48:32 PM |
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russ davey
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He's not using 3.1, hes using XP pro, it was a £3000 super computer, and as it turns out.... its not so super....  |
Posted on 23/09/04 00:18:03 AM |
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trinityofone
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£3000!!?? What is it, a PC with a Mac logo? _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 23/09/04 9:11:08 PM |
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russ davey
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He's quite well off shall we say And its for audio work (recording studio) so needs quiet fans, and its the very latest of everything, so hence the price tag. |
Posted on 23/09/04 9:43:10 PM |
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trinityofone
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Ah, fair enough _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |