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Amhras
10-28-2008, 07:03 PM
As a little personal project of mine, I've been putting a music CD compilation together for my sister. It's an Industrial/Goth/EbM/Darkwave 4 CD set, and this is the base cover. I'll wind up going so far as to putting a bar code and the record company onto it to give it that "Could've bought it in a store" effect I go for when doing any and all packaging projects I get into.

As LW's DOF was giving me issues(I don't know why, all my settings appeared to be right), I rendered out 2 passes, one was the color saved as a PNG file, the other an RLA format. I output a depth matte from After Effects using the RLA, the using the depth matte as a layer mask, used the Lens Blur filter in Photoshop to create the DOF effect.

Wade
10-28-2008, 09:23 PM
strong image - "nice" work well ok not nice but um well. ouch. :devil: :thumbsup:

Fizzer
10-29-2008, 06:09 AM
Very stong image. Very Hellraiser.

cagey5
10-29-2008, 08:11 AM
Cool... very cool.

Otterman
10-29-2008, 10:50 AM
looks a little flat to me-id bump up the curves and add a little noise.....heres a little tweak...hope you dont mind

Amhras
10-29-2008, 11:12 AM
Don't mind at all. I'm not much for the noise, but I do like the darkening edges and putting them side by side, the contrast looks better... hmmm...

CC Rider
10-29-2008, 11:14 AM
Very cool image!
My only comment would be on the chains that crisscross in the background...
Looks like one layer in focus on one out of focus stacked on top of each other. Kindof ruins the depth effect for me. I would just make them soft and be done with them...
The rest looks mucho cool!
Very creative.

:D

Amhras
10-30-2008, 04:32 PM
A little tweaking and added the text. If I have time to finesse this a little more, I will, but I only have till tomorrow to have this printed, 4 CD labels designed and printed, and the CDs burned.