The Fifth Element

[Ashe]

I have a larger version of this that I'm using for my wallpaper now, but I wanted to see your opinions. There's alot that is irritating me about this, some things I tried to remedy, but overall I like it, from a not critical point of view.

Someone on this site told me I wasn't all that and a bag of chips... So I had to try.

Yes, that is me in the image.

I think I do the Human Torch better than Dana.

[Toshiro]

Personally, the effect over you looks horrid. The implimentation of the image to the background is nice thou, the menacing look is awesome.

[Ashe]

Yeah, the way I was trying to get the flames going really irks me, b/c no matter which way I tried to accomplish it, it left behind the white tips, and also held this cgi style look to it, or some cel shadedness. I mean, that's not a bad effect, but its not really what I was going for.

[Alura]

I think it looks awesome. Not realistic, but it's still awesome.

[Toshiro]

You could always try duplicating the layer of your self prior to doing the smudge, and then do the smudge, and then apply a blend to it to help it merge over and thus, hide the white tips.

[Ashe]

That's actually exactly what I did. I got white tips anyways. I started from scratch about five times and finally said fuck it.

[Toshiro]

If you saved the PSD, lemme take alook at it, see if I can't fizzle something up?

[Ashe]

I have it, but its probably just a practice issue that I could work up easy enough. It also flattens the image everynow and then from things, so that'd be hard. I just have to work on the technique most likely.

[Toshiro]

Yeah, try finadaling with some filters's and gradiant map's and shit. Also, something I learned off of Tom, is try using the "Apply Image" thing. It makes it look quite nicer.