Life

[tombothetominator]

Photo manip from a hunting trip, where i suddenly started postulating on our dependence on grain for life (animals eat the grain, we eat the animals, ect)

I went a little overboard with the grass brush...
Coms and Crits welcome.

[LucasZ21]

All the fancy stuff kinda takes something away from the point your trying to get across (the grain>animals>people thing).

but I like the concept.

[tombothetominator]

Appreciate the comments.
I wasn't really trying to get the grain-animals-people thing to show up in the image. That was just what inspired the thought.

[Excruciating]

Just remove the grass-brush and it would look a lot better

[DonTony]

agree

[tombothetominator]

Appreciate the crits guys. So no grass - should anything replace it, or is the double border as-is good enough?

Thanks again!

[DonTony]

uhh i wouldn't make the border bleu...
i would also delete the green glow around the text.
and i think the bg is a bit overblurred.

sorry
no cool ideas

[Excruciating]

I really like the effect on the two straws, looks excellent. The border should just be black. A border is supposed to be simplistic and not something you should pay attention to as a viewer really. Don't change the text either if you ask me.
And don't replace the grass brush with anything.
THe only real problem I see is the low detail in the background. I could imagine that this image would rather quickly get boring to look at.

[tombothetominator]

cool guys. Appreciate the crits and will make some changes today. As far as the blurred background: not much i can do about that as that was how i took the picture.

[tombothetominator]

Allright, updated photo at top of thread with changes. What are the thoughts about grass paths? Should they go as well? I hesitate to remove them because then there really isn't a lot in the image to look at....

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