Chromatic Hematopoiesis

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Alright folks, here is a new little thing I did in Photoshop last night.

A friend of mine came up to me and asked me to create a wallpaper for his new computer (that apparently has a TV for a monitor at 1280x1024). I graciously agreed and asked him what he would like on it. The only thing he could give me is “I like the chrome look so anything chromish”. He said color, positions, and all that other good stuff doesn’t matter and he didn’t have any specific theme in mind… just “chromish”. Well, I don’t think I did TOO bad with the specifications given :-\

Here are a few things to know before seeing this image.

  1. Hematopoiesis is the formation of blood cells in a living organism.
  2. I haven’t worked in Photoshop for months, so I am VERY rusty.
  3. He liked the wallpaper :slight_smile:
  4. Although the overall image is rounded, the pointy edges are supposed to represent needles or pins of some sort… ya know… like pricking yourself. The rest of the “symbolism” is up to you to figure out, I just thought that this one might of been too obscure.

Alrighty here it is…

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it remids me more of glass look than chrome look :-\

but either it is way cool =)

could have a bit more of contrast tho…

[edit]typo´s

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Yeah it does, but I hate the chrome look, so I invented the glassy chrome look ;)…lol.

And the original had more contrasting elements, but for some reason my dumbarse removed them… like… deleted them removed them. No clue why.

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Oooh… i liked this glassy-chromed look… the name is soo cool… =) :love:

i got to learn to make a look like that! :wink:

i make some adjustments… tell me if you like it:

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The look is all layer styles, I used no Filters at all in this image

I do like the adjustments you made :slight_smile:

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you´re right…filters sucks!

er… no they don´t… but you have to be careful when using filters, or your job will have a comon look if not become over saturated.

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wo man! Nice chromy effecto! I like it!

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Guig0: Yes, filters can turn bad VERY easily.

Syko: Thanks :slight_smile:

And also, your footers font isn’t embedded, I get like a 8px Times New Roman, very small and ugly.

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Lost: Who’s footer? Syko’s? He’s got BitDust Two goin on so I dunno what your talking about.

Lost again: I like the pic, very new-age looking. That font is perfect too. The only thing I dont like is the speech bubble :-\

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morse: I don’t have BitDust Two installed, and since he didn’t embed it, I can’t see it.

morse again: YOU DON’T LIKE THE SPEECH BUBBLE! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!? LOL, just kidding man. Yeah, I originally had it say something in there, but I didn’t like it, so I replaced it with what you see there. I couldn’t think of anything else to put there and it looked empty without the speech bubble. Any ideas?

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nah leave it like that! i really like that!

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lost: wooops! sry 'bout that! …fixxxinggg…

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hmh… the letter “D” appeared filled so I just went for a placeholder in photoshop!

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huh?

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I was talking to lost about the unembbed txt in my footer! :slight_smile:

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yeah i was gonna say somehting but you changed it…