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Inspired by 70s scifi book covers. - BlueHobbit - 12-03-2017
City Of Fire.. or Termites In Space.. either work really.
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RE: Inspired by 70s scifi book covers. - Espermaschine - 12-03-2017
Cool !
Is it painted or done with selections/filters ?
RE: Inspired by 70s scifi book covers. - BlueHobbit - 12-04-2017
Bits of both.
The red/black sky is 1 layer. Used Smudge tool and a soft round brush to get the sweeping effects.
The city came about as I was playing with the small square brush. Just going up and down, switching from black to greys. Use one of the spotted brushes to add a bit of texture to it, deleting bits so it didn’t look to uniform.
The dome was created using the Path Tool, filled in with blue, opacity dropped, mask added so I could remove central part of dome and just try to show it on the edges of the city.
I had so much fun playing with it.
RE: Inspired by 70s scifi book covers. - Espermaschine - 12-04-2017
Maybe you could turn it into a cool Stephen King inspired book cover, like these:
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*rmcyEDsfgNDUF2xGCX9GjA.jpeg
(from this article about the typography of 'Stranger Things')
RE: Inspired by 70s scifi book covers. - BlueHobbit - 12-04-2017
Now theres an idea! Will have a play and post results.
RE: Inspired by 70s scifi book covers. - BlueHobbit - 12-05-2017
Tried to give the book cover a faded look. Happy with the crease but feel the white marks are too soft, should be sharper.
RE: Inspired by 70s scifi book covers. - Ofnuts - 12-05-2017
You are overdoing it. I'd vote for the original picture with a tile like "The Lost Cities Of Kanipoor".
RE: Inspired by 70s scifi book covers. - Espermaschine - 12-05-2017
I think you nailed the theme 100 % ! Its very dramatic !
Maybe make the words 'OF THE' smaller, to make it more epic ?
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Not sure what you mean with white marks....the black grunge on the text ?
RE: Inspired by 70s scifi book covers. - BlueHobbit - 12-06-2017
(12-05-2017, 09:37 PM)Love Espermaschine Wrote: I think you nailed the theme 100 % ! Its very dramatic !
Maybe make the words 'OF THE' smaller, to make it more epic ?
Not sure what you mean with white marks....the black grunge on the text ?
White smudges on edge of frame, supposed to look like worn/cracked paper.
Your text change looks spot on. Will amend tonight if i get chance. Thanks for feedback.
(12-05-2017, 09:31 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: You are overdoing it. I'd vote for the original picture with a tile like "The Lost Cities Of Kanipoor".
It’s the termite isn’t it? Lol. Originally I thought a silhouette of a giant termite would work.
Found a picture, quickly masked areas I didn’t want as a rough look and tried the Posturize tool to reduce colours... suddenly I had what looked like a radioactive termite.
It didn’t really fit..but i just loved it lol.
By the way really like The Lost Cities Of Kanipoor.