scarlet ur not well are u

unsharpen mask looks pretty serious here, and i personaly dont find the tone fitting.

what are your feelings?

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mouse was one of my favorites. and this has taken a favs spot as well. very nice colors and the morbid look of the alley sends chills up my spine.

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wow. It looks like it would show up in a travel channel special featuring the world's 20 scariest places

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im agreeing with rome on this one.
it loks to cartoony

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i completely redid it to eliminate some flaws, namely the oversharpening, and the harsh tonal contrast. see what you think.

If you still don't like it, well dang, I do. LOL.

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take another look, I redid it, fixing some major flaws.

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Thank you very much! that is what i was going for. I've been wanting to get away from conventional black and white monochrome lately, so as you see in my last couple of monochrome deviations I've been converting it to monochrome then manually creating a mask in curves to give the shadows colour tone but leave the highlights alone.

For this one I found the original redbrick unsatisfying, and I thought about this alleyway as a dark moody colour like the aura it carries around with it, but not blue... more like the colour of the slime and moss on the walls... a deep green. Warm colours not fitting the mood, and blue/purple definitely too cheery, rotting moss green suited this alleyway most oft crowded with subhumanized junkies and reeking of piss and vomit.

I redid it completely, fixing some huge errors in the first one. See what you think of the change.

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I dont know where you went on msn, but I couldn't find a way to colour the highlights to take focus off the harsh tonal contrast, so I completely re did it from scratch, re tone mapped it and everything.
I'm really satisfied with this one, im sure you still wont like the green, but if you were to ask me now if I am pleased with it I would say this is just what I had in mind originally.

I think the way I've redone it allows for much more depth and less assaulting of the eyes. Thank you for working it out with me, no matter how irritated I was to begin with, . It's your input that helped me arrive at something better.

<3

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well this one is much better then before

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