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Interesting wallpaper, however there are several things you can do to clean up your cutouts.
1.) PEN TOOL- Use the Pen Tool to cutout images more precisely than using the Eraser Tool or any of the Lasso Tools. The Pen Tool makes your cutouts look much more clean and neat without ending up with those "jagged edges" or that "white halo" wraping around your cutouts. There are several tutorials on the 'net on how to use the Pen Tool.
2.) Aspect Ratio- Whenever you re-size or "stretch" an image to fit your artwork, be sure you have applied the aspect ratio prior to re-sizing. Aspect Ratio refers to maintaining the image's original shape and dimensions without it looking "elongated", "smushed", or "wide". A perfect example of improper Aspect Ratio is the Fabian Washington(#27) cutout in your wallpaper. Notice how he looks elongated height-wise? That's because when you stretched it, you made the image bigger, but failed to keep the image's original height dimensions in proportion to it's width-wise dimensions. The Aspect Ratio setting would have kept all the dimensions in alignment while you enlarged it.
3. Blending- This wallpaper could use some sort of blending of the various images as to avoid it from looking like you just placed miscellaneous images on top os a background. Ideally, you want your feature image(s) to be complimentary to your backgorund. Blending is a way of progressively fading an image into another or a background to give the composition more depth. Also, a well crafted drop shadow adds depth as well. However, shadows only work well when ther is no "glow" around the image.
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05-19-2006, 11:24 AM
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