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15,000+ Layer Photoshop project...

PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 10:44 pm
by MrConfigT
http://www.bertmonroy.com/fineart/text/ ... _damen.htm

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Damen
This is my latest and most ambitious digital painting of a Chicago scene unveiled at Photoshop World in Miami on March 22, 2006.
It is a panorama of the Damen Station on the Blue Line of the Chicago Transit Authority.
Adobe Illustrator was used for generating the majority of the basic shapes as well as all the buildings in the Chicago skyline.
The rest was created in Photoshop.
• The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches.
• The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes.
• It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
• The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
• Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.
• Over 250,000 paths make up the multitude of shapes throughout the scene.

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What do ya'll think?

PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:03 pm
by AndyDufresne
...I think that if he ever created a map here we wouldn't see the completed version for say...2 years


--Andy

PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:35 pm
by Hoff
wow those are some sick photoshop drawings.

PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:44 pm
by MrConfigT
I just don't really see a point in spending that much time on something like a train stop...

PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:31 am
by Zackismet
well i do, it's because chicago is the best damn city in the world, and that's not just bias.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:24 pm
by happysadfun
Yep, I've been to that station. The view isn't quite as perfect as it shows in the picture, but those pictures are just amazing.

PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2007 12:50 pm
by spinwizard
wow that is class!

PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2007 12:53 pm
by Psilocbin
I've seen way better photoshop work than that, sorry.

CS3 is awesome btw. I love it.

PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2007 12:56 pm
by unriggable
I wish they had a full-sized version of the picture to see

PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2007 5:27 pm
by Titanic
Wow, amazing quality. Really sharp images. Great job.

PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2007 5:39 pm
by static_ice
that is incredible. I would not have enough motivation to make one of those close ups that is half as good...

PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2007 9:49 pm
by jnd94
well, chicago is the best city ever, so its only fair to draw great picutres of our mass transit system

PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:03 pm
by s.xkitten
AndyDufresne wrote:...I think that if he ever created a map here we wouldn't see the completed version for say...2 years


--Andy


of course...that happens anyway now... :roll:

PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:17 pm
by Guidocks
woah, i didn't even know you could do something that clear on photoshop . . .

PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:18 pm
by Anarkistsdream
Psilocbin wrote:I've seen way better photoshop work than that, sorry.

CS3 is awesome btw. I love it.


There is always that one guy.... :roll: :roll: :roll:

PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 3:01 am
by Anarchy Ninja
Just the amount of time and effort is amazing, I like it.

PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 3:24 am
by diddle
the first drawing was the best

PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 10:50 am
by Psilocbin
Anarkistsdream wrote:
Psilocbin wrote:I've seen way better photoshop work than that, sorry.

CS3 is awesome btw. I love it.


There is always that one guy.... :roll: :roll: :roll:


I was joking....but there is some that are better. I think this is just too much time on someones hands.