Crazy Photoshop Rendering
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.




4 Comments, Comment or Ping
noelevz
This is so cool! It must have taken months to finish this!
Apr 12th, 2008
Richie from sectioneighteen
Thats pretty cool - a lot of time and effort went into that.
Richie
Apr 13th, 2008
Herbert
Wow, that’s an amazing piece. To see how long it took and all the detail the author included really impresses me. Excellent find.
Apr 17th, 2008
belinha fernandes
Amazing!
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