Product Title: Beach Backgrounds 2 Copyright: Penelope B. Chisholm (Rowan54) Date: June 2012 ***** Legal Name: Penelope Chisholm Known As: Rowan Ainslie Chisholm, or Rowan54 ***** Photos taken March 2011 on various public Washington State beaches Camera: Canon PowerShot SX130IS All photos are in jpg format. Size of photos: 3000x4000 or 4000x3000 (12 megapixels). Dots per Inch: All pictures are 180 dpi. Whole packet is a around 46 MB. 20 photos total These big beautiful photos show a variety of moods, weather, conditions, and camera angles. They are of late-winter/early-spring Washington State beaches, which have frequent storms walking towards them over the mighty Pacific Ocean. The beaches are bordered by eroded cliffs where trees are permanently bent from the constant winds. These beaches saw Native Americans in the past, explorers from Europe and Russia in the 1700s, European settlers in the 1800s, and those traveling to the Alaskan gold rush in the early 1900s. Currently, the locals drive on the beach in old pickup trucks and dig clams. These photos would be the perfect backdrops for your pictures of pirates, mermaids, shipwrecks, beach combers, dragons, or whatever you can think of. You could even use these photos as pictures on the walls of your 3D peeps' dwellings. I left space in each photograph for characters, vehicles or buildings when I took the pictures; however, each picture will stand alone. Editing: I removed people, signs and garbage. One photo had a sky inserted that was more interesting than the plain white sky that came out of the camera. (I challenge you to identify which ones were edited, though. If I could come back to a picture and see where my edits had been, it didn't pass the cut to be in the packet.) You MAY use these photo backgrounds for your personal and commercial artwork, as backdrops or scrapbooking. You MAY make and sell prints of your artworks. You MAY NOT use the backgrounds in whole or as cropped/cut out elements to create competitive backgrounds, or shared for sale or for free either individually or in a group. You MAY NOT sell the images in a printed form as they are - they are meant to be used as "backgrounds/backdrops" for personal or commercial projects. ***** They need a program that will open jpg files. Individual files range from 1435 KB to 4240 KB so you'll want enough processing space to handle documents of that size. They were created on a PC. ***** Installation: Install to the directory where you keep backgrounds that are used for Photoshop, or which ever program that you are using. ***** Useage tips: Rendering 3D characters to add to a background? Here's a quick list of some very basic hints. (1) Make sure the characters are at the same angle as the background. (2) Check that light on the character is close to the same intensity, the same color and the same angle as what is in the photo. (3) They need shadows so that they don't float. Make a new layer below the character, use a very soft round brush, black, 33% opacity OR LESS and brush around the feet and where the character will be touching things. If you can make the shadows realistic, kudos...but for cartoon characters and places it won't show much, a roundy shadow works just fine. Digital photos are almost never completely sharp at the 100% size, which is why I provided such large pictures. This way you can reduce them to 50% or 75% where the sharpness is much higher and still have a large picture. ***** Files included: \BEACH\ \Beach Backgrounds 2\ Beach2_01_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_02_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_03_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_04_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_05_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_06_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_07_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_08_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_09_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_10_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_11_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_12_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_13_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_14_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_15_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_16_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_17_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_18_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_19_Rowan54.jpg Beach2_20_Rowan54.jpg \Documentation\ Beach2Readme.txt