5/25/2005: Venice rendered in MS Paint

[hot_pastrami]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

I don't think so, they were probably in the picture he was basing this off of.

Maybe the lens flares were done by hand, but I betcha the blurring on the water reflections and sky are both Photoshop. He admits to some Photoshop "blurring," and frankly if he did that sky by hand in MS Paint, he'd have spent more than the claimed 500 hours on this thing.

The water reflections could be hand-blurred, but if he was planning to do some blurring in Photoshop anyway, why bother? Of course, as beautiful as this image is, it certainly wasn't driven by efficiency.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by hot_pastrami

Maybe the lens flares were done by hand, but I betcha the blurring on the water reflections and sky are both Photoshop.

Ah, just the blurring. Yeah. He drew in the sky and the reflections using paint, and then blurred them with PS.

[xant]

I think there's more interesting here than just the difficulty of creating this work in MSPaint, although the difficulty was clearly very high. The guy says he did it this way because he didn't know any graphic software.

I think it would have taken less than 500 hours to learn how to use graphic software. But hey, that's just me. :-)

BTW, reminds me of this one: http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=1176

[xoxoxoBruce]

Probably like most painting the object is not to acquire the painting but the relaxation, diversion, satisfaction. You don't have to know lots of software to get those.
I wonder if during the course of this or the previous painting, he accidentally deleted or forgot to save the current session? Or if he had a crash?