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So strangely enough, this one's actually based on a scene I happened across the last time I was down at the beach. I was walking around, and peeked into one of the caves in the rocky cliffs jutting up from the sand, and there was totally a topless dude in angel wings and skinny jeans and boots, mugging for what looked like a product photography shoot -- maybe a jeans ad? Maybe just a model piece?
Anyway, I had my camera with me (always take it out on walks!) so I snapped a couple of quick shots from a safe distance <3 They pretty much turned into this. Even that circle in front of the figure was there -- it was one of those light reflector/diffuser disc thingies photographers use. The crashing waves and ears and tail are faked, but I'll call that poetic license ^_^
If I could ask folks a favor -- I just got a new monitor (woo!), and it's waaay brighter and more vibrant than my previous display(s). When I first hooked it up, I was wigging out because it seemed too bright and too colorful, but after a couple of hours on it painting this, I got totally used to it and now my other screens seem dull and dark and washed out. Does this image look washed out to you? Too saturated? Too bright? Feedback would be appreciated! Thanks so much <3
Anyway, I had my camera with me (always take it out on walks!) so I snapped a couple of quick shots from a safe distance <3 They pretty much turned into this. Even that circle in front of the figure was there -- it was one of those light reflector/diffuser disc thingies photographers use. The crashing waves and ears and tail are faked, but I'll call that poetic license ^_^
If I could ask folks a favor -- I just got a new monitor (woo!), and it's waaay brighter and more vibrant than my previous display(s). When I first hooked it up, I was wigging out because it seemed too bright and too colorful, but after a couple of hours on it painting this, I got totally used to it and now my other screens seem dull and dark and washed out. Does this image look washed out to you? Too saturated? Too bright? Feedback would be appreciated! Thanks so much <3
Category Artwork (Digital) / All
Species Housecat
Size 553 x 835px
File Size 244.4 kB
Yeah, I think I just need to do some calibration. I totally upped the contrast and saturation on this image to get it to match my laptop screen, basically, and people seem to be saying that this looks reasonable to them, so the new monitor probably is going a little nuts in terms of brightness and saturation. That should hopefully be easy enough to tone down, though.
Thanks for the feedback, dude <3 How's your summer goin'?
Thanks for the feedback, dude <3 How's your summer goin'?
Yeah, I've been color-testing images against my laptop screen, actually, because that tends to be how it looks on a lot of other screens. I guess it's not really a matter of what's "right" in absolute terms if you're prepping an image for the web -- you want it to look the same on your monitor as it will on most other folks', which by definition probably means "not on an especially great monitor."
It looked appropriately heavily saturated on my painting monitor, then I checked it on my laptop and it was way dark and waaay washed out...
It looked appropriately heavily saturated on my painting monitor, then I checked it on my laptop and it was way dark and waaay washed out...
Just Photoshop <3
I pretty much do everything in just Photoshop, anymore. It's reaaally rare that I'll bust out Illustrator for some complex path I want to export into the PS file I'm working on, and I've more or less stopped using Painter altogether. They're great programs and all, but the more I work with Photoshop (and the further along it gets with each version), the more I find out ways to do in Photoshop what I was doing in other stuff before.
I pretty much do everything in just Photoshop, anymore. It's reaaally rare that I'll bust out Illustrator for some complex path I want to export into the PS file I'm working on, and I've more or less stopped using Painter altogether. They're great programs and all, but the more I work with Photoshop (and the further along it gets with each version), the more I find out ways to do in Photoshop what I was doing in other stuff before.
I'd say a wee bit saturated is probably just about right for this image -- I think it was a bit oversaturated to begin with, and that was what I was shooting for, so if it's still just a bit overblown now (after like...doubling the saturation level), then I do need to tweak my monitor settings some ^_^
I could furnish photographic evidence if you didn't!
And that's super sweet, dude. How goes the art school debate? You leaning in any given direction yet? I totally know it's not for everyone, but you'd probably eat it up and I'm sure your instructors would love your fresh style and quirky vision (like finding animals in sidewalk stains).
And that's super sweet, dude. How goes the art school debate? You leaning in any given direction yet? I totally know it's not for everyone, but you'd probably eat it up and I'm sure your instructors would love your fresh style and quirky vision (like finding animals in sidewalk stains).
Being able to mess around with light and dynamic ranges is one of the fun parts of painting ^_^
I'll be marveling at what recent advances in post-processing have allowed photographers to do, then I'll see like a Caravaggio and realize that the idea of HDR has totally been around for centuries. It's cool that both painters and photographers get to play with it now ^_^
I'll be marveling at what recent advances in post-processing have allowed photographers to do, then I'll see like a Caravaggio and realize that the idea of HDR has totally been around for centuries. It's cool that both painters and photographers get to play with it now ^_^
+fav. Right leg fades out at the base of the tail and left leg fades out just below the pocket on my Viewsonic VX2835WM (generally a POS 3ms gaming/TV monitor, firmware issues, panel technology changed over the life of the model, obviously not full 8 bits per channel, 500 cd/m^2, 800:1)
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