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No, I haven't seen "Golden Compass."The compass will be part of my home page for my new website.
Done entirely in Photoshop CS3 (which is awesome).
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how long did you create this? from draft to finish?
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Not sure. I'll guess 4-5 hours. Lots of tweaking with layers.
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Great Job! I've seen your gallery, you impress me with your range of artistry from drawings, web designs, graphics, and I guess you do flash too? that's cool! Keep it up.
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Wow, what a nice message! Thank you!
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Very nice work. Makes wonder why i removed my photoshop ... pretty much flawless piece of work you've made there.
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What a nice comment. Thank you.
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No need to. In fact I should thank you 
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I'm working on a similar thing in CS2.
I'm just starting out on making things from a blank canvas in Photoshop -
may I ask for some advice? Like, how did you color it in so well?
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Hi there,
First I looked for some photo references so I could guesstimate a good palette of colors. The compass has many many layers, so first start with a base color then add layers to that. My best advice is don't over think it. Though this is a gold compass, a lot of the colors are anything but gold: browns, oranges, black, red, yellows, white. To make something look metallic and reflective, you have to add contrasting colors and don't let yourself blur them together. I also played around with changing the layer properties.
Link me to your new piece when you're done working on it, I'd love to see it!
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I'm not sure how to explain it, but..
When I make layers of color, should each layer be different colors not colored in completely?
Er.. How do I know which colors to put where? I'm sorry if I don't make sense, but I'm just not sure how to go about coloring.
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Well there's really no right way to do it, I just love layers. Each layer is different from the one below it. I make a new layer for each component and each change, so that later if I want to fix something, I can narrow it down to a layer.
The only advice I can really give you is to just play around and see what works for you.
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okay thanks! [sorry about the late reply.]
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