pjz, click my HERE link here or in original post for the thread that has a Before/After.

Bob, ha ha, I know the feeling.  Give it a day or two then, and feel free to be honest.  If you know which is more important to you, their skin tones or the background, that could provide some wiggle room to change it up.  I won't lie, it forced me to make my own biased judgment calls (I picked mostly skin tones).

When you post em, if you can, drop a link here for all to see.  And link to the Before image to if you have a moment.

Alright, check your emails everyone!  Any feedback is welcome, and tweaks can be made if necessary, but as for now it's the best I think I can do...

I'm in the final stages with all three images from Bob, Yoka, and Nancy.  They all have their own challenges and all are taking multiple layers of work... I've never had to dig deeply into histogram charts before!  They're fun-awful!

:-)

English and Yokasobi... we're both talking by site mail now... let's see... if anyone else is interested let me know!  I also post links to your finished images *(and before images), so as an extra carrot, it could mean some increased views for some people.

:-)  I FROOKIN LOVE COLORING!!!!

Quote - I'd be interested to see what this process could do to a 3D CGI picture. If you think there's anything in my gallery that would prove instructive and interesting to others, then let's try it! I can always re-render to provide a larger image in a lossless format, which I imagine would be an advantage. I normally render at a size suitable for web posting, or a bit larger if I plan to do fine postwork.

'Leather and Chromium' would be the best bet.  "In The Park (part 2)" could be an alternative option. 

A bit of confusion... I'm not looking for practice so much as to help with any 100% finished images that you're proud of and want brought through one final stage.  So, then you'd also want to make any real calls...

Quote - How high resolution are you wanting?

It's going to be your image, so something big enough that you'd be able to use it for a variety of applications, or possibly print it in the future.  I just mainly prefer not to do anyone's low kb, low mp images they just use for 600x800 postings.  It is a lot of work for an image that could not be posted on any hi-res sites or ever even made into a 4x6 walgreens print.

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Attached Link: The Throne of God on Renderosity

Wow, impressive.  I've been trying to play with some really advanced lighting effects over the last few months as well, so this was enriching for me.  My style and genre is different, but I like how alive all of his works are.  I'd love to take my expertise and do color mastering on one of his images, even one of the B & W's.  I can get a lot of even flat images to have as much depth and detail as many of his do.

I like his background in using advanced projecting technologies.  In the image I posted above, apophysis interfearence properties and transform duplication are used to make some of my own images semi-holographic once they are metal-printed.  I'm just posting an image of the framed version of "Throne of God" today in about an hour: Heart of Red Diamond Studios on Facebook.

Attached Link: "Dream Town" by algra on Renderosity

Yeah!  I just had to comment on tons of them!  And you had one of my fav's in there: "Dream Town" by algra.  I look at thousands of fractals a month and, to me, it's the most artistic fractal of 2010!