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Image Of Original Inspiration
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I started with the artwork to procrastinate from doing any ACTUAL work at first. Saw a picture a while back that I liked, but couldn't get it to scale up AND look good at the size I would need it. Closest I could get was twice as big as the original image. Beyond that, it looked like crap for my purposes.
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I looked for an image of a flag to vectorize so I could do what I wanted with it. I wasn't certain how the bubbles were created in the original, but I figured it had to be repeatable, since I couldn't create one in Photoshop from scratch without it looking plastic and fake. Eventually, I found this one I felt I could work with.
All you graphics-minded folks out there, I applaud you. I'd bet knowing what I was doing could have saved me the (brace yourselves...the laughter might kill you) MONTH I spent working on this trying to tweak it to get it right. This'll prolly end up looking like an hour's worth of work for you.
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My Attempt At Duplication - Starting Image
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Vectorized And Bubble Filtered
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After getting everything vectorized, I had to figure out how to add the bubbles. Photoshop's filter plug-ins were the trick I was looking for, and I finally found one that would create the look I was trying for.
Adding light, reflection, blah blah blah finally got me to a picture I was finally happy with, shown here. I hated this step with an all consuming rage. ;-)
This may not be the ultimate-final version I ended up using, but it's the only one I have left that's saved, and it's close enough to what I ended up with for you to see
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