Thank you very much Sam. I see exactly what you mean now. In fact, that "original" of this image resembled something much closer to what you've got than to what i've posted. This is actually almost a year old and i decided to post it for kicks. It's been compressed, recompressed, switched from drive to disk, over and over and over, until it got to look like that. The original doesnt look quite as grainless as yours, but it definately not as.. pixelated as what you see uploaded. Granted, this is by memory alone, i have no hard copy original anywhere that i know ofto compare to, so for all i remember, I could have made this all up in my mind. but i dont believe that is the case. Anyway, thank you very much for commenting and explain Sam. justin
Oh! I'm so sorry, It is a HIGH quality image, in terms of layout, design, colors, expressive animated figures, etc. I love the attitude in the model's faces and gestures, the middle fingers are a nice touch. The grainyness is awesome and effective technique to use, but i think you went to far in degrading the image quality as detailed... The red film strips could be less degraded and the background still 'noisy' with blue and such, but not as pixelated, a bit sharper at this resolution... It looks better at half size...
Here is my version, shrunk 45% and blurred EXCEPT for the frames of the negatives (I selected the rest) I used a smart blur in photoshop to try and clean up some of the grain and texture in the black and red areas.... I think it may be slightly more effective this way, and perhaps loses something at the larger size you uploaded to usefilm with the graininess.... however, it may be my personal preference and not generalizable to aesthetics. I dunno!
Hi sam. Thank you for commenting. Would you mind elaborating on "low quality"? Do you mean resolution or the actual quality of the statement i was trying to make? In your opinion, what could i do to better this image? if you don't mind spending the time. thanks justin
nicely done, cool effects, feels very 80's, I like the retro feel. a bit too low quality for my tatse in many ways, I like it smaller, as a thumbnail better almost...
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