This Photoshop image has more detail than an HD image. Alot of work went into this image just check out these stats. View the close ups here.
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.


noelevz 2:13 am on April 12, 2008 Permalink
This is so cool! It must have taken months to finish this!
Richie from sectioneighteen 12:03 am on April 13, 2008 Permalink
Thats pretty cool – a lot of time and effort went into that.
Richie
Herbert 9:59 am on April 17, 2008 Permalink
Wow, that’s an amazing piece. To see how long it took and all the detail the author included really impresses me. Excellent find.
belinha fernandes 2:14 am on April 26, 2008 Permalink
Amazing!
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