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07/21/2007 09:03:05 AM

Quilling
by surfdabbler

Comment by timfythetoo:
Hmmm - this has a familiarity to it that I cant quite seem to put my finger on. ;) If you dont mind I am going to go ahead and give this a proper critique but based off of the issues that I dealt with on mine. First off, the image just doesnt have a smooth feel to it. There seems to be a halo of noise around all of your paper pieces that is a bit distracting to my eye. With it being advanced editing it may have been worth the time to spot blur all around to clean it up. Takes some time but could have been good. I wish the paper was a bit more white or bright. As it is the paper has a drab feel to it. A bit brighter would have allowed it to pop off the blue background better (was it originally blue?). A tighter crop would have been good as well. Right now it seems a bit off balance. I think you have more side space on the right than the left so it feels a bit off kilter. A tighter crop would have also made your paper patterns a bit bigger in the frame. I like the white border but I think the black outside border is just a bit too thick and heavy handed for the delicateness that this type of image is. I do like the variety of your curls. A nice mix of tight and loose curls along with the V shapes are a good combo. A couple extra V's may have been good but overall a good blend. Good gradient on your background color, a bit of blur would have helped really smooth that out as well. On first run through I scored this a 6. When doing an idea that has been done before and scored well you really need to nail it. You really need to make it awesome or else you just end up getting judged against the original. My fear with mine was that I was going to be compared to Techo's images which were amazing. I lucked out big time.

Anyways - I hope this is scoring well for you. I am looking forward to seeing whose this is. Good luck!!