This tile is from We are all being photomanipulated!
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multi-winged horse :)
By: feathre
Checked out at: September 06, 2001
Checked in at: September 06, 2001
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I'd really like to see the original photo for this
Can you post a url to it?
Hmmm...
I really like your other tiles, but this photo tile doesn't really look much like a photo... oh well, you'll do better next time.
Original
This is a photo, and my own too. No one ever said you should use the original colors in a photo either. This is part of a series of close-ups I took with a special lense and a digital camera under a blacklight.
This is the original photo of a small statue I own.
Nothing in this tile was not originally a photo. I apologize for the blending though, I thought it would work out better than it did.
This is the original photo of a small statue I own.
Nothing in this tile was not originally a photo. I apologize for the blending though, I thought it would work out better than it did.
Re: Original
Argh.. I can't access the photo. And I really want to see it :(
Re: Re: Original
How about this link?
I was debating how to get my photos online. Hopefully this works.
One thing I'd like to ask is, why such low votes? Is it because of the subject? I know this is a photo quilt, but is there an agreement on "photos of animals and/or landscapes" only that I hadn't realized? When I did this tile I was hoping to introduce some different colors and maybe a different style into the quilt. I can't help but think that this is a photo -manipulative- quilt, not merely a cut and paste quilt.
What's so wrong with my tile?
I was debating how to get my photos online. Hopefully this works.
One thing I'd like to ask is, why such low votes? Is it because of the subject? I know this is a photo quilt, but is there an agreement on "photos of animals and/or landscapes" only that I hadn't realized? When I did this tile I was hoping to introduce some different colors and maybe a different style into the quilt. I can't help but think that this is a photo -manipulative- quilt, not merely a cut and paste quilt.
What's so wrong with my tile?
Re: Re: Re: Original
Okay, I was a little vague in my previous comment. The colors are somewhat... well, not very pleasing to look at. The yellowish wings. It's also very confusing, and you can't tell that it was a photo very easily. It was stated somewhere that one of the key factors would be to find a photo that blends well into the adjacent edges without having to do too much smudging or editing. I think realism is a key goal here, although I do see your point about the cut and paste part. Cut and paste is very bad, in many cases, but entirely unavoidable for this particular quilt, so don't be afraid to just cut and paste your photo and not make too many modifications. Don't smudge or blur things too much. That is important for all tiles, smudge and blur can be great tools, but we don't want it to be very apparent that you used them. Although you can use stock photos, I like to use my own, and encourage others to use them as well, so you did good in that area.
Another note with smudge... though it was said to keep it to a minimum, I have been synthesizing and drawing in my own textures so that the texture is not too great a change. So say if you have a tile that blends into dirt and you yourself have a brown tile which is close enough to fit next to it, you might want to add a texture to the brown tile to help it match the dirt a bit. If it becomes too cartoony or unrealistic, though, don't do it.
Hope that helps... if anyone has any objects to or has anything else to add to what I've said, feel free.. If I'm wrong about anything here, I'd like to be corrected.
Another note with smudge... though it was said to keep it to a minimum, I have been synthesizing and drawing in my own textures so that the texture is not too great a change. So say if you have a tile that blends into dirt and you yourself have a brown tile which is close enough to fit next to it, you might want to add a texture to the brown tile to help it match the dirt a bit. If it becomes too cartoony or unrealistic, though, don't do it.
Hope that helps... if anyone has any objects to or has anything else to add to what I've said, feel free.. If I'm wrong about anything here, I'd like to be corrected.
it just doesn't look like anything...
Even if this wasn't a photo quilt, I probably wouldn't give this tile a very high score - the colours clash with everything that was visible on the quilt when you did it, it doesn't work with the information you had in the right hand edge, it's got that weird blurry brightly coloured bit at the bottom and its just... ugly.
It reminds me a lot of my ladybug tile on the girls quilt :)
And hey, this is from someone who has ended up with you as number 2 in their favourite tilers list - this just isn't up to your usual standard.
It reminds me a lot of my ladybug tile on the girls quilt :)
And hey, this is from someone who has ended up with you as number 2 in their favourite tilers list - this just isn't up to your usual standard.