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[Smarmosaur]

obviously inspired by my love of the city.
all three photos are in new york city. credit to Scott Murphy and Patrick Batchelder
I originally wanted it to be a smallish header for a layout, but sort of turned out as a big one. I spruced up the text (it took me three hours to get simulate pressure to work) by adding the city skyline to the c in city, and adding the glowy lines. originally, only the blue one was there and I thought it wasn't enough. then I added the red one and now it feels like too much.
anyways. opinions/suggestions?

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[Smarmosaur]

updated original post with image.

i think in some ways it seems like two separate things, the pictures and the background. i think that's due to the blue in the two side pics. the blue in those doesn't really work with the background as well. the picture in the middle though seems to have colors in it that work a lot better with the background. obviously finding pics that mimic those colors isn't easy, but if they did i think it would all flow better as one piece.

I colored the pictures a little bit. tried to make them blend more. now I think it's too much.

I would've made the background colors a little darker, but I like how the background flows into the polaroids. It looks really good.

I lowered the opacity of the little glowy color blobs. :]
also lowered the opacity of the red glowy line (I couldn't live without it there, but it was too much).

I really like the photos. Also, the bright light swirl lines thing.

Where did you manage to get those good photos? Those are some nice shots.

Oh wait, did you colorize them? o.O

there are links to the artists in my main post.
i just went back and colorized the ones on the sides (the middle is still it's original) to make them flow a little more.