Greg-J
May 14th, 2007, 02:45 AM
This is something I did a couple years back as a wallpaper to a Half-Life 2 mod I started up (which is how Des and I met actually). Since then we obviously moved from modding together to working together, and the mod never saw it out of alpha - but the splashscreen was still something to look at.
I sampled from this photo. I'm not sure what city it is but I think it's in Canada:
http://www.myspacepros.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=290&stc=1&d=1179135665
The original is quite a bit larger than that, but you get the picture. I spent a considerable amount of time with the pen tool and outlined the city from top to bottom to make a single large shape. In retrospect I wish I would have done each building separately so I could have created a more unique city. After the cut out, it was fun with layer fills and distortion filters until I got the desired look. The highlights are all drawn in later on and a lot of touch up was done after the fact but the end result was a much darker and gloomier place:
http://www.myspacepros.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=291&stc=1&d=1179135665
The finished product is enormous so I've trimmed it down to a 1920x1200 desktop size jpg that's a little over a meg. Use it as your wallpaper, but I'd rather this didn't get turned into a myspace layout or anything like that.
View Full Size Wallpaper (http://www.myspacepros.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=292&stc=1&d=1179135665)
I sampled from this photo. I'm not sure what city it is but I think it's in Canada:
http://www.myspacepros.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=290&stc=1&d=1179135665
The original is quite a bit larger than that, but you get the picture. I spent a considerable amount of time with the pen tool and outlined the city from top to bottom to make a single large shape. In retrospect I wish I would have done each building separately so I could have created a more unique city. After the cut out, it was fun with layer fills and distortion filters until I got the desired look. The highlights are all drawn in later on and a lot of touch up was done after the fact but the end result was a much darker and gloomier place:
http://www.myspacepros.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=291&stc=1&d=1179135665
The finished product is enormous so I've trimmed it down to a 1920x1200 desktop size jpg that's a little over a meg. Use it as your wallpaper, but I'd rather this didn't get turned into a myspace layout or anything like that.
View Full Size Wallpaper (http://www.myspacepros.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=292&stc=1&d=1179135665)