This is beautiful. I just read a tutorial on matte painting in The Advanced Photoshop Magazine the other day, and I'd love to be able to paint something like this. Both the background and the foreground is absolutely fabulous, and I cannot see much wrong with the perspective...

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Very beautiful. The colors are really great, and the city looks completely painted, I would have never known you used an image! And I love the close ups, very detailed, beautiful work!

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This is an excellent painting - very well composed - good colour choices and depth

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It's beautiful; wonderful colour scheme! And like aberry89 says, I would neither never have guessed that it was a manipulated photo.

Wow, this is beautiful. The colours are really nice, and I wouldn't have noticed the slight perspective problem if you hadn't mentionned it. I am just taken away by this piece. Plus, that embroidery is... wow!

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Lovely, as always

As for distorted perspective... pssh! The slight incongruities just make the painting more intriguing and spellbinding.

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hello I'm currently starting to do digital paintings. I love your work. The details in this painting are awesome!
May I ask you how your Computer manges 20.503x14.547 pixels?! Mine gets incredible slow with just 3.543x7.872 pixels :/
Thank you very much for sharing your art!

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Thanks. =]

Well, only the city in the background is a photo, the rest is painted from scratch. =]

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Dankeschoen!

Das kann verschiedene ursachen haben, dass dein computer probleme ab einer gewissen groesse hat. Es kann sein, dass nicht genug RAM vorhanden ist, oder dass dein hard drive nicht gross genug ist (meiner hat 500GB speicherplatz, und ich halte ihn voellig leer), und dass er nicht in zwei partitions unterteilt ist - also in C:/ und D:/ - wobei C:/ fuer die programme benutzt wird, und D:/ meist fuer persoenliche files. Photoshop laeuft am besten wenn die Scratch Disks so eingestellt sind, dass das program praktisch auf den speicherplatz im D:/ drive zugreift... oder auf einen voellig unabhaengigen, zweiten hard drive.

Ich habe ein tutorial in meiner gallerie, "Painting in Photoshop - The Basics", welches die Scratch Disks erklaert. Kannst dir ja mal runterladen und durchgucken. =]

Ansonsten muss ich sagen, dass die groesse die dein computer schafft ganz normal, und richtig gut ist. Nicht viele arbeiten mit groesseren massen. ich habe mich einfach nur dran gewoehnt, und mag es bei so bildern wie diesem die ganzen details wunderbar ranzoomen zu koennen, ohne dass sie verpixeln.

Ich hoffe, das hilft dir irgendwie. =]

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Aww, thank you. That's very kind. =]

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