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# I made a mermaid.
What do you think? Any suggestions for better shopping are much appreciated.

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(Mr._Pickles, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:13, archived)
# personally
rather than blending between the two i'd have a sharp line between scales and flesh, not neccesarily on a straight line, but the fade isn't quite right. Also the tail could be more shapely, could you mask with her original legs?

Nice tho
(I helped save b3ta! lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:16, archived)
# and the face.
needs to be more Aerial and less Jodie Marsh.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:17, archived)
# Aerial Sharon?
Wierdo!

edit/
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:18, archived)
# oh yes
I love the way he dribbles out of one side of his face.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:19, archived)
# hah
yeah, could be a prettier model, but that's not about the shopping
(I helped save b3ta! lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:18, archived)
# Do you mean cut the scale layer along the edges of scales?
As fot the tail, the original pic didn't have legs on it. I made it out of a rectangular scale texture and the liquified it and blended in a fin at the bottom.

Cheers :-)
(Mr._Pickles, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:22, archived)
# aye
nice
(I helped save b3ta! lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:29, archived)
# assuming mermaids live at some depth
she's too tanned ;-)
(I helped save b3ta! revmoola was thinking about a software problem, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:18, archived)
# basking on rocks?
(I helped save b3ta! lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:19, archived)
# do they live at depth?
I though they sat on rocks playing with their tits all day
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:19, archived)
# This^
Although I got bored before I added in a rock for her to sit on.
(Mr._Pickles, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:23, archived)
# no that's manatits you're thinking of
they have rules and everything. rackets. a scoreboard...
(I helped save b3ta! revmoola was thinking about a software problem, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:24, archived)
# a nicer bird
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:22, archived)
# You could volunteer as the model if you want...
:-P
(Mr._Pickles, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:24, archived)
# my internets too slow for it to load properly
so i'm only commenting on the thumb. I'd blend the fish bit with a gradient mask right up to her belly button. but other than that...nice
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:25, archived)
# Cheers
Is the gradient mask where you click "new layer mask" an then draw on it ith varying shades of grey to show through the layer underneath? I've not quite got the hang of layer masks just yet...
(Mr._Pickles, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:29, archived)
# yep
just use the gradient tool (same place as the fill tool) on the layer mask
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:34, archived)
# that would be it :)
and the varying shades of grey is the gradient fill tool...in fact, towards the very top of the fish bit i'd have a layer of scales bump mapped (displaced) slightly under the womans skin so it looked like fleshy scales, then fading into the fish with the layer mask.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:35, archived)
# Ooh, bump mapped
I think that was what I was looking for. Where do I find it?
(Mr._Pickles, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:47, archived)
# in photoshop no idea, in gimp menubar: filters > map > bump map
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:53, archived)
# nice effort
I would personally have made the tail fin a little larger/wider and perhaps not done the blend between the flesh.
Still. It's good as it is ;)
(I helped save b3ta! sPUNKer do your pictures for nothing get abuse for free, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:37, archived)
# I would expect mermaids to be prettier, to be honest
but personally I like the way you've blended it ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:38, archived)
# Cheers :-)
And as for the attractiveness of the model, I refer you to my earlier comment: www.b3ta.com/board/8556089
(Mr._Pickles, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 11:50, archived)