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mrwzk

11-04-2006 16:48:46

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Bert Monroy released his latest Photoshop painting this week after 11 months of work with an estimated 2,000 hours. The attention to detail is amazing in this 10 foot wide poster. 15,000 layers!!!

• The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches.
• The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes. (Thats flattened, WITHOUT the layers!)
• It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
• The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
• Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.
• Over 250,000 paths make up the multitude of shapes throughout the scene.

UniPrize Media

11-04-2006 16:56:07

15,000 layers, WTF. Wow, he must have a super computer...

I dont see the big deal about his pic. The railroad looks like a rollercoaster ride. It just falls off.

So was this pure photoshop, with every little thing being created from photoshop?

williebeamin2000

11-04-2006 17:07:26

[quote465e9acaba="ulenie"]15,000 layers, WTF. Wow, he must have a super computer...

I dont see the big deal about his pic. The railroad looks like a rollercoaster ride. It just falls off.

So was this pure photoshop, with every little thing being created from photoshop?[/quote465e9acaba]the railroad doesnt fall off it has a shadow over it.

FreeOffersNow

11-04-2006 17:07:28

Bert Monroy is a relatively well known (I though?) Photoshop Guru. While this is the first I've seen of this particular image, I'd assume it is 100% Photoshop generated. Also, the track doesn't just "fall off" - there is a train on the "incoming" (right-most) track casting a shadow over the "outgoing" (left-most) track. Simply amazing.

[quote6c5aa8d6c8="Bert Monroy.com"]Creating What You See!
As a photo-realist painter, I have often been asked why I don’t just take a photograph.Good question, when you consider my paintings look like photographs. Well, for one thing, I’m not a photographer. To me, it is not the destination that is important—it is the journey.
The incredible challenge of recreating reality is my motivation. — Bert Monroy[/quote6c5aa8d6c8]

www.bertmonroy.com

ajrock2000

11-04-2006 17:11:55

Wow, amazing.

UniPrize Media

11-04-2006 17:12:09

Ya, i just noticed that. Can't really pick it up at a first glance, its a bit too dark. Excellent work!

mrwzk

11-04-2006 17:22:36

this is pure photoshop I was amazed when i first saw this picture at the amount of detail put into this picture. from the shadows cast by train to make to the little tick marks in the track.

urbanrecon

11-04-2006 17:29:29

Sweet pic.

Buster389

11-04-2006 17:36:06

thats a pretty sweet pic. personally i think the brick building is a lil to bright of an orange but thats a hell of a lot better than i can do so i give that guy mad props.

doylnea

11-04-2006 18:15:23

[quote953e8e9c7b="Buster389"]thats a pretty sweet pic. personally i think the brick building is a lil to bright of an orange but thats a hell of a lot better than i can do so i give that guy mad props.[/quote953e8e9c7b]That building is that color orange under morning sun.

Buster389

11-04-2006 18:30:54

ok whatever like i said a lot better than i can ever do

Aurelius

11-04-2006 19:13:37

the detail on the train is insane.. i dont' think i would've noticed it was photoshop stuff unless i lookoed pretty close. and yeah i think it was the building that gave it away. the colors just didnt' look too real

kevxross

11-04-2006 19:32:10

11 months? 11 MONTHS?! roll

2 minutes and 17 seconds and I'd say it's just as good if not better. FFS, 11 months.. what an amateur.

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All freehand too. No line or polygon tools used, just straight up pencil and paintbrush. We skilled artists like to challenge ourselves a little bit.

Aurelius

11-04-2006 19:40:20

[quote2cc9e03d67="kevxross"]11 months? 11 MONTHS?! roll

2 minutes and 17 seconds and I'd say it's just as good if not better. FFS, 11 months.. what an amateur.

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All freehand too. No line or polygon tools used, just straight up pencil and paintbrush. We skilled artists like to challenge ourselves a little bit.[/quote2cc9e03d67]

i agree that kevxross is the better photoshop artist [spoiler2cc9e03d67][size=72cc9e03d67]in proportion, of course[/size2cc9e03d67][/spoiler2cc9e03d67]

crazyates

11-04-2006 19:40:50

HAHA

searches for - krma button.

darn!

Aurelius

11-04-2006 19:53:19

well consdering the time he spent on it compared to yours.. his should be 52,631 times better than yours... don't feel bad that you have better things to do with your life!

PoPoJiJo

11-04-2006 19:56:39

so when you guys say pure photoshop does that mean he started with a blank canvas or with one picture?

BoYgAB90

11-04-2006 20:10:39

hey thats cool kevxross
inspired to make my own

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t.money

11-04-2006 20:16:45

[quoted44a33a48f="PoPoJiJo"]so when you guys say pure photoshop does that mean he started with a blank canvas or with one picture?[/quoted44a33a48f]

Blank canvas.

dmorris68

11-04-2006 20:18:33

[quote05b4faf6d6="PoPoJiJo"]so when you guys say pure photoshop does that mean he started with a blank canvas or with one picture?[/quote05b4faf6d6]
Blank canvas. No photos used. He created some of the buildings in Adobe Illustrator, then imported those into Photoshop and rendered everything else by hand. He did this with many (over fifty) separate images that were then composited onto the final image. If you go to his website he talks about how he made the train.

midnightgt

12-04-2006 00:31:34

Awesome - coming from someone who uses Chiago's "eL" train regularly (I goto Loyola), It looks exactly like the real thing. Even bright building colors in morning are realistic.

Whats his site?

Wolfeman

12-04-2006 00:33:08

What a waste of time...

MyungChunHa

12-04-2006 00:46:01

Impressive

That guys good...wouldn't have guessed it was a photoshop drawing...

midnightgt

12-04-2006 00:55:42

[quotef68417b4f8="Wolfeman"]What a waste of time...[/quotef68417b4f8]
Either your being sarcastic (more then likely) or you have no appreciation for art.

h3x

12-04-2006 00:56:11

Its definetely rasterbatory worthy )

Wolfeman

12-04-2006 00:57:17

[quotee6d821bce9="midnightgt"][quotee6d821bce9="Wolfeman"]What a waste of time...[/quotee6d821bce9]
Either your being sarcastic (more then likely) or you have no appreciation for art.[/quotee6d821bce9]
I was being half serious. Its amazing, don't get me wrong, but the end result is it looks like a pic taken off the L platform. Just seems like a lot of wasted time shrug

akalic

12-04-2006 01:06:06

[quotecfedec977c="kevxross"]11 months? 11 MONTHS?! roll

2 minutes and 17 seconds and I'd say it's just as good if not better. FFS, 11 months.. what an amateur.

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LMAO!

tjwor

12-04-2006 05:50:53

When I first saw it I was looking for where he photo shopped the picture (because of the thread title) then I realized all of it... amazing

Vector

12-04-2006 07:35:12

Nice job guys but I say the original looks better, lol.

I have seen some amazing work with these artists.... I couldn't distinguish the difference between reality and the painting.

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This was painted on the computer too!

http//www.drublair.com/workshops/tica.html

cwncool

12-04-2006 09:49:26

he used photo shop for most everything except the text on the signs, which he used illustrator....
lieditli
oops. i guess someone mentioned this already