Here’s a new wallpaper that has, quite frankly, taken way too long. I nearly lost the will to live a few times along the way, but you know what? It was worth it.
This was originally a high-res scan of some sort. But the more I tried to Photoshop the text off the original image, the more it was becoming aware that the quality was pretty ordinary. So I did what I always do:
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One of the reasons it took so long is I changed my method a bit for this one. I used Illustrator for the lineart, then Photoshop for the colouring. Very time-consuming, but the result speaks for itself. The other thing about this image made me glad I got 2gb of RAM with my Core 2 Duo. It’s a 170Mb PSD file, and Photoshop started to get a little sluggish near the end of the trace. I remembered that Photoshop defaults to limiting itself to half the physical memory before it dives into swap files, so I went and bumped that option up a notch. Needless to say, Photoshop was happy with that:
“Om nom nom nom”
Gorgous work - and you have it in just the right size for my HD monitor (although it doesn’t come out quite as well on my laptops built-in panel.. wish I could scale each seperately)
The poster was originally in the Japanese Newtype BTW.
Scale each seperately? If you’re running dual monitors, go grab a program called Ultramon - it’ll let you use separate wallpaper settings for each monitor.
I thought it might have been from Newtype, but I can’t read Japanese.