Dying rose

#1 05-07-2009, 05:33 PM

This one was more just for practice

(Texture, lighting, etc)

C&C appreciated

#2 05-07-2009, 05:42 PM

I like it except for the border that says dying rose. Just the image would be OK.

#3 05-07-2009, 07:12 PM

Yeah, the border isn't that great. Also the texture on the centre rose is too hard, try to make a bit softer for blending.

#4 05-07-2009, 09:32 PM

Agree with the above posters.

Also Roses that are dieing turn brown instead of grey.

Blupig · #5 05-07-2009, 11:16 PM

What you could have done is duplicated the rose image and added a dark orangey-brown photo filter, unless you want to keep the gray, then adding a grayscale would have done the trick. Once that's done, take a large softbrush, change the opacity to about 30% and carefully remove the parts you don't want. It gives a smoother transition and also leave it to the single rose. Not to mention it will remove those strange splotches.

#6 06-07-2009, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by Blupig

What you could have done is duplicated the rose image and added a dark orangey-brown photo filter, unless you want to keep the gray, then adding a grayscale would have done the trick. Once that's done, take a large softbrush, change the opacity to about 30% and carefully remove the parts you don't want. It gives a smoother transition and also leave it to the single rose. Not to mention it will remove those strange splotches.

That's exactly what I don't want. I don't really want it to smoothly fade out... I want to try make a... erm... 'spreading'(?) effect.