Art ...Nothing but myself

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[color=orange]Whew! Finally done with this. I have spent the last 2 (ish) hours on this one. I pretty much just took a lot of photos from the beach, pipes, construction sites, and people then blended them all together. Defintely one of my favorite pieces. This is the first time I have EVER done anything like this so I am pretty proud of it. [/color]
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[color=orange]I have been trying to figure out how to do stuff like this ever since I got PSP8. I hate to admit it, but I don't really know how to fully use it. I realized after making this that I barely use it at all. In fact, I didn't even know you could make things trasparent in it until a couple of days ago. Someone was telling me how they made some graphic and they mentioned the opacity level of the layer. I was shocked that you can do that! Needless to say,I have been practicing. ;) [/color]
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[color=orange]There are a few things I would like to clear up before you look at the picture.[/color]
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[*][color=orange]The block of text is supposed to be blurry in some spots.[/color]
[*][color=orange]The diagonal lines are wider than all the other ones. I found that keeping them the same size caused them to get lost in all of the straight, horizontal lines of the background and grid. So I made them larger. [/color]
[*][color=orange]The block of text is from Ralph Ellison's [i]Invisible Man[/i]. It says:[/color]
[/list][indent][i][color=orange]All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.[/color][/i]
[/indent][color=orange]So I hope you like it. C & C welcome and appreciated. Enjoy![/color]
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