Wallpapers in progress
For those wanting serious critiques only!!
Saturday, October 23, 2010 by teddybearcholla | Discussion: Wallpapers
Thought I would start this thread in the hopes that there will be good and serious critiques. I can be your first *victim* IR or whomever wishes to give me direction!!! 
This is in progress....it is a photo I took and then added the little ghosties...which may or may not work.
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Reply #22 Sunday, October 24, 2010 5:12 PM
If it's the one I think it is, I had issues with it as well.
Reply #23 Sunday, October 24, 2010 5:43 PM
This is the one. The image I posted is duplicated in the wall, flipped horizontally then merged and cropped. Used the clone tool to add more trees and change the grass to break up the symmetry.
Reply #24 Sunday, October 24, 2010 6:20 PM
It's not the one I thought it was.
Keep going. Screw the symmetry. Once you get some objects in there, they will distract from it. I like the final outcome in the tutorial. I'd like it even more if they lost that model. She's all wrong for the final product.
Reply #27 Sunday, October 24, 2010 6:45 PM
Sorry, I've never done this include image thing before. This is a Halloween wall I have been messing with for a while. Any input would be appreciated.
Time is getting short.
Reply #28 Sunday, October 24, 2010 7:10 PM
Frankie, I recommend losing the vulture and maybe 1 or 2 of the bats. It seems a bit crowded there. The vulture is a large bird...much larger than a crow, and they are on the same tree. The scale is off.
The bat in front of the moon is perfectly positioned, but you can see through him.
That's an excellent creepy house.
On the gravestones, I recommend a few bits of grass in front of them, so they look like they are in the grass rather than on it. Maybe a few bits of grass in front of the skull too, so it looks like it's been there a while.
Reply #29 Sunday, October 24, 2010 7:31 PM
I agree with Xiandi, (it's crowded) but I would lose a few of the ghosts, and the concrete crypt. The concrete crypt is something you find in areas that are prone to flooding (I believe--there are a lot of them in the deep south); it seems out of place with the rest of the grave markers being a different kind.
Reply #31 Sunday, October 24, 2010 8:00 PM
Lose the vulture.
Frankief, one of your wallpapers is the only...ONLY one my wife has ever had on her desktop when she isn't running the USC Gamecocks theme. And my wife is P-I-C-K-Y. If she was a mod here, we'd all be in freakin trouble. She doesn't even use MY wallpapers.
Reply #32 Sunday, October 24, 2010 8:15 PM
LOL, but Karen, I've grown so fond of those ghosts over the last three weeks! Kidding. Quick question though. If I make some of the suggested changes and want to repost the image can I replace the other one or do I need to do a completely new one? Sorry to be so dense.
Oh and thank you all for your suggestions. Having some difficulty getting grass to show for the skull behind the mist.
Reply #33 Sunday, October 24, 2010 8:22 PM
somewhere in sc there is a person of refinement and taste.
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Reply #38 Sunday, October 24, 2010 9:05 PM
Frankief, one of your wallpapers is the only...ONLY one my wife has ever had on her desktop when she isn't running the USC Gamecocks theme. And my wife is P-I-C-K-Y. If she was a mod here, we'd all be in freakin trouble. She doesn't even use MY wallpapers.
LOL, she must have very good taste! Obviously the vulture by all consensus is history!
Reply #39 Sunday, October 24, 2010 9:09 PM
Teddy...I think if you added some sort of structure...such as an old house or something along those lines in that empty background area it might add to the wall...I think thats whats missing...that background area looks a bit to empty. I here you WG, it seems a consensus about the *empty space*!! I'll see what I can do with it and the ghosties!!! Thank you all for your ideas on my wip!!!
Were you planning on constructing your own house? If not, the guy I got the stock image from on DA with permission to post off of DA has several different shots of this marvelous old house. I can give you a link.
Reply #40 Sunday, October 24, 2010 9:15 PM
Thank you Frankie, I'm not sure, but in case not, the link could be helpful!! 
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Reply #21 Sunday, October 24, 2010 5:09 PM
Barb.. The pic is just a little muddy/blurry, I think it needs a little more in bg too, maybe a harvest moon or a creepy house?