artist creates image using 15000 layers

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http://www.bertmonroy.com/fineart/text/ ... _damen.htm

This is my latest and most ambitious digital painting of a Chicago scene unveiled at Photoshop World in Miami on March 22, 2006.
It is a panorama of the Damen Station on the Blue Line of the Chicago Transit Authority.
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.

[sirhc55]

Brilliant

[blacknstormy]

OMG - that takes a hell of a lot of skill and patience !!!!!
Thanks for posting the link
Rel

[BullcreekBob]

Just imagine being able to allocate 11 months to a single project.

I don't seem to work on anything longer than a few days in scope.

Take care
Bob in Bull Creek

[Glen]

That looks so good it almost is as if he used a Sigma 12-24

[nodabs]

it really is quite incredible and huge when you look at the detail even in the crops..wow

[MHD]

Uterly unimpressive...
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Until you look at the detail shots and then it is very impressive...
If a little insane...

[avkomp]

amazing. the fact that it took so long to create also.


more patience than me I am afraid

Steve

[Geoff]

Unbelievably fantastic - spooky in fact!

[marcotrov]

Incredible commitment, or is he already committed Talk about needing a life
cheers
marco

[elffinarts]

I wish I had that kind of time to spend on any single project. :p

can you imagine the computing power required to make this happen?

You'd need terrabytes of space to start off with and I'd hate to think how many cups of coffee the artist drank waiting for task bars to slide from left to right. OUCH!

I hope for his sanity he was using one of the newer Macs with 8Gig of ram. lol

[BullcreekBob]

I hope for his sanity he was using one of the newer Macs with 8Gig of ram. lol

I hope for his sanity he wasn't using a Mac

(Sorry but I couldn't help myself)

Bob in Bull Creek

[sirhc55]

Bert Monroy has been doing this kind of work for ages and has even written books on the subject of photorealism using Illustrator and Photoshop.

[PiroStitch]

Wonder how many times he swore when p/shop or Illustrator decided to crash

[elffinarts]

I hope for his sanity he was using one of the newer Macs with 8Gig of ram. lol

I hope for his sanity he wasn't using a Mac

(Sorry but I couldn't help myself)

Bob in Bull Creek

 LOL, I cant recall how to use Macs at all. But they take 8gig of RAM and that going to be needed with this kind of work. my pc wouldnt do it.

[Grev]

Wonder how many times he swore when p/shop or Illustrator decided to crash

He is crazy, yet we need these sort of crazy people in the world.