15,000-layer Photoshop file of Damen station
In my weekend Web browsing I came across a gorgeous photo of a train approaching the Damen stop of the Blue Line.
Check it out here.
The image was created by Bert Monroy. Here are details of how he did from his Web site:
Adobe Illustrator was used for generating the majority of the basic shapes as well as all the buildings in the Chicago skyline. The rest was created in Photoshop.
- The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches.
- The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes.
- It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
- The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
- Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
- Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.
- Over 250,000 paths make up the multitude of shapes throughout the scene.
Awesome!
That's pretty impressive!
Posted by: deepkid | April 11, 2006 at 02:06 AM
Before seeing this, including the closeups, I thought I was an expert Illustrator/Photoshop user...Although really, most of the individual elements of the graphic are relatively easy to reproduce. It's the overall vision, attention to detail and sheer determination this guy had to have in order to carry it off.
Posted by: renderer | April 11, 2006 at 11:08 AM