Wow, I enjoyed watching your video! Don't know how you can do it with so many similar layers without renaming them. You must have a very good memory for numbers 😊
gold award to this commentHi Olga Only the title is a play on the Dali Lama but any reaction is a win for a creative piece. Sometimes I enjoy not searching for meaning particularly in a surreal piece. It makes for a more expansive interpretation.
Many times I've set out with an idea in mind and the process and source search takes it in its own direction. Life is full of tension, not always stressful tension. I often see how my work is a reflection of where I am in life emotionally, professionally and symbolically. Like a subconscious driven dream. We had a massive Dali print in the School assembly Hall fourty years ago and when the pupils were being addressed by the Principle in the hall my mind was exploring the image on the wall of Dali's 'Swans Reflecting Elephants' 1937. in awe of such a beguiling mind and technical skill to create such a masterpiece. I admire Dali on my road to being an Artist.
The Dali Lama like so many human beings put on pedestals as representatives of some higher moral spiritual state have typical human dark sides too. You can find dirt on most of them.
I'm not in the habit of recording my process because I just enjoy doing it. The simplest way I can direct towards my complexity details is layers, layers, layers. One image source in my work might have been processed with four or five layers, dealing with different aspects of that image. I might not like the colour of an arm but the rest is OK so I duplicate the layer and change the colour of the arm and then usually the quickest technique for me is the erase tool on the softest setting to erase the area around the layer that I prefer the layer underneath to show. It is hard to explain in words and many of my techniques aren't the taught process of masking. I find it easier and quicker to duplicate layers and feather between them using the erase tool and transparency settings.
This is the only video that exits of a screen record of creating a Photoshop piece I've done it took 12 hours to load into youtube. https://youtu.be/fOj7B0uuQ-8
Olga, may I come to your home and show you? you seem to have one of a kind computer...
Come on, make a chop. With several layers (2 are enough) then go to "File", "Save", chose the place you want to keep it in your computer, then "Save" again. Then in Photoshop a "pop up" image appears showing this: https://imgur.com/a/39b3PsW. Press OK and you've done it, your file is saved in PSD format.
You can just keep it until the contest ends, in case you have something to change, it makes it easier. Nothing to do with detailed chop or not, any chop can be saved and reused this way, even the worse ones 😋
Olga this is what a PSD file looks like when it is saved: https://imgur.com/a/p9xxTIZ. When you save a chop with all its layers, if you don't change it for a .jpg file (or whatever else) it is automatically saved this way.
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Let us go to the shore;
there the waves will kiss our feet.
With mysterious sadness
the stars will shine down on us.
(Aleksey Pleshcheyev)
This music can be heard in the beautiful film L'ours (The bear) by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
I'll add that the resolution is as important as the number of pixels. I usually start with a 3200 x 2400 image, with size I adapt according to my chop, with a resolution of 300 ppi.
I like 300 ppi as it allows to obtain very good cuts.
Olga, this is not Dalai Lama, this is Salvador Dali 😁
You'll have to try this, but... I fear the worst 😉 Keep the original safe, just in case!
You can hear this anthem in the 1957 Sissi movie "Fateful years of an empress" (here with English subtitles)
No other reproach! I suspected a halo around the hands but was not sure... Skyangel has a better eyesight. If you click on your entry it remains small. Yes your image is small, only 227 k. If you tried to enlarge it, it might become very pixelated, according to the choices you made when you created it. Look at what PS is telling me on its size:
https://imgur.com/a/NZC70Ip
Now take for example the postman snail, which weighs 1,94Mo, which is roughly 8 times more. If you click on the snail entry (Snail mail), you can see many details as it is a large picture.
https://imgur.com/a/Q92hwKY
Other than that, I agree with all the compliments Skyangel wrote. Your chop is gorgeous.
Your image tells the story of a pet rescue. It is very pleasant to look at and you have followed the rules of a well done transparent globe. The kitten is incredibly cute. The only reproach I can make is that the image is very small, we cannot enlarge it nor see many details in the execution.
Sending an SOS to the world? 😉 Very good chop!
bronze award to this commentThx for your reply! 😉
I preferred to submit the original photo, which - IMHO - speaks more to his venerable age 😌
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Of course, angel ;-), I create myself a restoration of my "photo-of-1931photo" - for my wife and her family -, but a mutual friend, Zizounaï (S. 😎) created an great restoration for a contest on the deceased 'PhotoshopNation' and gave me today her friendly permission to post HER 'nicely done' job (a big THANK YOU to her 😘):
https://imgur.com/a/jwpyQZK
Summertime, in Otto Preminger's 1959 film...
and of course, Janis Joplin's version!!!
This flower duet has been a soundtrack for many a movie:
Carlito's way
True romance (music starts around 6' but the dialogues are brilliant)
The Imaginary opera
Many film soundtracks got their inspiration from the New word symphony.
Two examples for the second movment:
Castaway (Alan Silvestri)
even The return of the King (LOTR - Howard Shore)
and... even symphonic metal bands (here Therion)
