I’m going to try to revitalize some of the old things I used to do. Judging from my track record, I’ll probably get distracted and forget about it before long. But for now, I’ve shaken the dust off of my old Blogger site “Visual Breakdown” and given it a WordPress makeover. It’s now located here: Visual Breakdown
As of now there’s no new content, however I plan to put a post together that shows how I made this using Photoshop:
So at least that’s something to look forward to. Although in looking at the file I realize that a lot went in to making it… hmmm…
Here’s a screen capture of the Photoshop layers pallet:
Perhaps I should start with something a bit less… daunting. It took over five hours to build, and I was working at 33.25″ x 84.5″ @ 200 d.p.i. for the original file. It’s a 903MB PSD file.
Tell you what. For this one rather than try to break down the entire thing I’ll post stills from various stages and let it go at that. Sound good? Great! I knew you would agree.
lol I was looking at this and my first thought was “Good grief! Use some Layer Sets and organize that mess!” Then I looked closer and realized you had, they were just expanded.
I’ve got a few files I’ve created that the layers palette looks a lot like this. These are the ones that feature a ton of complex icons for each menu selection, mostly.
Yeah, it’s pretty well organized. There’s just a lot of layers. I don’t like to merge layers unless I have to simply because it allows for the greatest amount of flexibility if I ever have to change something. It does lead to large files though.