[released] [BG] Oriental garden

[Faidan]

whats wrong with the sky in the 1st one?
why did u change it?

[Alectric]

*UPDATE*


re-did grass as well
hope you like it better

@ faiden, because it was unoriginal, and though it looked good, i think Ramond was right, it looks out of place because of it being a photo i got off the net, but originality is the key to winning people over. if no one else likes it, i will change it back

i havent released the update, this is just a preview

[Lauli]

It was more the actual texture of the grass, not the shape that bothered me.

[Alectric]

oohh, then how do you suggest i fix it?
i try different filter options in photoshop (to save time)
but nothing is good
i dont want to do grass strands... it'll take too long
should i just try sharpen it up a bit?

[Lauli]

Try a good mixture of the photoshop-grass and actual grass texture.




But be careful not to go over the edges. Good luck with that ;)

[Ramond]

Okay, that's already better.

About the clouds: The bottom one and the one top right look okay. It's the top left one disturbing me. I don't exactly know what's so strange about it, but it just sticks out. Maybe the light around it?

I don't know what you guys mean with grass though, I can't see any grass

...other than that, pretty BG, Alec.

[Marshall]

ahh... much better with the new sky

[Alectric]

ok then
i have put all your advice into practice, hopefully to get a result you guys will like!
@Ramond, i know what you mean about the cloud, im also not sure why its sticks out, so i have tried my best to smudge it around a bit, maybe it was its outer-glow, thanks for pointing it out

ok, here is the screeny, if you like it, i will update my first post with the latest version, and make that my official entry in the background contest

Spoiler (Click to View)

[Lauli]

Ya well that looks a heck lot of better.
Now try to get rid of those black pixels at the border and maybe give the tree some leaves.
And from the colour: The grass hills should be exactly the other way round. So that the bright one is in the front.

[Ramond]

Good job with the cloud

The tree looks like a... fake plastic tree... (<-- warning, reference)