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Published: 2008-02-24 16:46:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 145440; Favourites: 1681; Downloads: 7
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This is my most complicated Photoshop piece to date, with over 7,700 layers and a total file size of 2.2GB.I've been receiving a lot of questions about how I manage 7000+ layers, so here's a bit of background: 7700 is the total number of layers if you add them all up from the many documents that comprise the final piece. The way I approached it is by creating the pieces individually and saving them into separate canvas groups, then importing each component as flattened graphics into the final canvas. By doing this I was able to keep the master file down to about 800 layers. If I had kept all the layers intact for each itty bitty component, I would have had to manage the 7700 layers in one canvas, which would probably have melted my computer.
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Any chance you could get me a non-JPG'd version at 1680x1050? :3
JPEG compression makes me cry.
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You bitch a lot for such a tough guy. 
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A: What gives you the impression that I'm a tough guy?
B: I have 20-20 vision.
C: JPEGs really do make me want to gouge my eyes out. For some reason all I can do when I see them is try to spot the lossy parts.
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Like I said, it's not gonna get any better looking. It may be JPG, but it's maximum quality settings. I dare you to spot a single artifact of compression. What do you expect a wallpaper to come in? 16bit RAW? Gimme a break. This is how it comes. Deal with it or gouge your eyes out.
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Okay, well first of all, 90% quality and maximum quality are two completely different things. And anywhere that two colours of sufficiently contrasting shades meet, you can clearly see a bit of loss.
And I've never even heard of a 16bit RAW... I was thinking maybe PNG-32...
Why are you being so hostile about this, anyway?
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Not being hostile, just joking with you. Why are you being so sensitive, Mr. "ShitPissFuckCuntCocksuckerMotherfuckerTits" 
PS - a 32bit PNG of this image would be well over 5MB, if not 10MB. And here's a definition of RAW, for future whining: [link]
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Well sorry. 
And just for the record, if somebody were to like my work enough to specifically request a higher quality version of it, I'd be bloody flattered. I wouldn't 'jokingly' be rude to them. :/
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no font. made from scratch
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geil!
haha
grapje,
Nee, maar ik vind van die computervormen echt zo supervet, heb hier ook een hele verzameling liggen en wil er nog steeds wat mee gaan fabriceren.
Woww en je hebt ook nog textures er van gemaakt!? Waaaa super
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Droevig spreek ik het geen Nederlands
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omg you are my hero. i want to have your babies. your digital babies.
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Digital babies. That's a great name for a song....
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great details man!!! awesome!!! job well done!!!
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wow this is a great piece of art!
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7,700 layers !?! that is isane! love the Font and colors saturation man. top job!
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dude i saw this wall ona nother site, and wow i was inspired, i however did find a good enough mother board stock, but i made a very unusual fitered manip instead 
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dude thats absolutely amazing... i so love it... 7700 layers? darn thats a lot of work congrats mate ur design rules
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Absolutely amazing design, colors and details.
And you're right; I searched for motherboard stock before but couldn't find much of relevance to me.
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My eyes got stuck to the screen for 5 mins. You actually made that motherboard yourself....in Photoshop?!!! Goodness. Insta-fave and wallpaper-ed.
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Wow, that is just amazing. There's so much time and skill involved.
You're a genius. ^_^
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Thank you friend. Much obliged for the DD suggestion.
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wow this is awesome!
fantasic work!
*favs*
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wow.... that's a really original idea. I build computers, and it looks a lot like an actual motherboard... only awesome.
It would be a great print.
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Oh wow. That is really cool. All the work going into all those little details...I'm not suprised it took 7700 and more layers to finish this.
Very. Cool.
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i got to art school for Graphic Design in south Florida, and i have to say, i respect the layers... this is now my desktop wallpaper. its perfect.
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This is purely amazing.
I'm in computer class now in school so the motherboard is really a familiar thing to me and I love the way the words light up every component in it's path.
Each light on the textured surfaces of each individual piece and every small line on the expanison card and all other things lit up so beautifully and it doesn't feel strange that I'm talking about a large mass of silicon.
This clearly shows how much work you put into it.
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Why on earth would you make it with 7700 layers. thats too many.....
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Wow, that's some serious dedication O_O And I thought my PSP Painting was taking a long time...
Well, as a graphic artist, I'd like to say thanks for making your hard work available for others to use. FINALLY there's someone else who thinks that circuitry in graphic design is cool!
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