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This image was originally going to be a birthday present for AllyCat, but it ended up taking too long for that and ended up as her Christmas present.
This is easily the single most complex image I've ever done in 2D. It ended up using so much memory that I had to switch from Paint Shop Pro 7 to Photoshop CS3 while working on it. As it turns out, PSP7 is not very memory efficient. It got to the point where I couldn't even save my latest changes, so some of the image had to be redone after removing enough layers to be able to save it as a Photoshop file. The finished Photoshop file is 41.83MB and contains somewhere in the neighbourhood of 16 layers, so that should give you an idea of how big and complex this image is. The steam is actually an elliptical cut-out of some 2D Perlin Noise generated with a program I wrote myself. The cut-out was then run through several PSP7 effects.
Don't expect to see anything this good from me for quite some time. Besides, I've still got some older images I haven't uploaded yet.
This is easily the single most complex image I've ever done in 2D. It ended up using so much memory that I had to switch from Paint Shop Pro 7 to Photoshop CS3 while working on it. As it turns out, PSP7 is not very memory efficient. It got to the point where I couldn't even save my latest changes, so some of the image had to be redone after removing enough layers to be able to save it as a Photoshop file. The finished Photoshop file is 41.83MB and contains somewhere in the neighbourhood of 16 layers, so that should give you an idea of how big and complex this image is. The steam is actually an elliptical cut-out of some 2D Perlin Noise generated with a program I wrote myself. The cut-out was then run through several PSP7 effects.
Don't expect to see anything this good from me for quite some time. Besides, I've still got some older images I haven't uploaded yet.
Category All / All
Species Housecat
Size 1280 x 720px
File Size 486.6 kB
This was on a computer with 2GB of RAM and 6GB of swapfile. I don't know what the difference between how PSP7 and Photoshop handle layers in memory is, but it makes a huge difference in the amount of memory used. Nearly 800MB for PSP compared to a bit under 600MB for Photoshop. The final Photoshop file uses 652MB of memory. The full-res, uncompressed, single-layer version of this image takes up 108MB of memory. Saved as a PNG file, it only takes up 2.18MB of disk space.
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