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13-FEB-2011 Psychoceramatist

Will I get a Thousand Virgins

Used the Farmers, Cave and Sun Dial. Thanks to Michael Fulks again, the female images are from his series "She's Not From Around Here."


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creativematrix16-Feb-2011 01:47
A little tad will do ya. This is better.
--skunk
creativematrix14-Feb-2011 19:01
Good idea, Paul. I increased the size of the image until if filled my monitor screen so all I could see was the image. It still was dark but now I didn't have the glare of the monitor screen begging for attention. It does make you feel like you're in a cave as Tim explained in the previous comment.
--skunk
creativematrix14-Feb-2011 15:37
Copied this and framed with a middle gray and that increased the depth and "lightened" the image.
So it's the PBase BG that is too light, not the image being too dark. >PJSvBFCM
creativematrix14-Feb-2011 04:44
Well there are things I want you to see and things that you may not...in the deeper layers of mystery and innuendo.
Y'up it's a dark subject in many ways! But it's the way I designed it. This way things emerge from the darkness of the background. I use multiply on the top layer for the blending effect and paint back in the highlight with a mask. Your eyes almost have to adjust to it like being in the darkness of a cave. Love it when you have to justify your own work.
Psychoceramatist
creativematrix13-Feb-2011 23:40
Is a bit dark, in tone and subject. Reminds me of the fellow given one wish by the genie. He asked that he be able to satisfy all women. So the genie turned him into a bar of soap.
Maybe not raising the gamma but selectively dodging certain parts, like eyes and hands, might help. What blend modes/styles did you use? >PJSvBFCM
creativematrix13-Feb-2011 20:56
This is quite fascinating but it is so dark, at least on my monitor, that I lightened it in Photoshop a bit (just for myself) to see more of what is going on. I especially like the way the sword or saber cuts across the eyes. And of course, the sundial is perfect. There is a beauty to your image even though I wonder if anyone would really want a thousand Virgins. Perhaps that many are needed because they are used once and then discarded. I also like the way you used the repeating shapes of crossed hands, crossed saber, and the fingers etc repeated in other elements of the composition.
--love it--skunk