Product Name: Sunrise Wet Zone 2 Vendor: Rowan54 ************************************************************ Required Products: None Required Software: Any program that will open .jpg files. Installation Instructions: Install where ever you install 2D backgrounds. -------------------------------------- Important Notes: The package contains 12 photos of "the wet zone" on a wide, wild, and beautiful beach. The area I call the "wet zone" is the area that stays wet while the waves go back and forth. There's probably a different official name. Anyhow, this beach is nearly flat and the wet zone is wide and long. That texturing, the little dark marks? Those are where clams are hiding under the sand. This beach faces the Pacific Ocean and there is the constant roar of the waves. Further along the coast are shipwrecks. Oh, it looks like a nice calm beach, but it gets wild here. The trees are bent, the houses battered. Access trails to the beach tend to have flags on them: green for moderately safe, yellow for extreme caution, or red for very dangerous. The locals drive on the beach by the hundreds (yes, the sand is hard enough for traffic), and then park their beatup pick-up trucks above the high tide marks and then wade on into the wet zone to dig clams. They do this in the very early morning in the springtime. (I saw this in late March.) Here we have the sunrise. This is the Pacific Ocean, and I'm facing west in the photos, so sun is rising BEHIND me. Photos to the east would have had houses in them, so none of the sun actually rising. That dot in the sky is the moon, going for moon set. How far can we see along the beach? Maybe ten miles. Each way. It's about a mile from the base of the cliff to the waves, and that's the narrow direction. People are usually little dots, or little tiny stick-figures, in the distance. What could you put here? Vikings? Pirates? Mythical sea creatures coming ashore? Or use it as a backdrop for bathing beauties? And a beach very much like this would have been there when the dinosaurs roamed. All 11 photos are: 2816x2112 (5.95 megapixels) 180 dpi. ***** Rendering 3D characters to add to a background? Here's a quick list of some very basic hints. 1- Make sure the characters are at the same angle as the background. 2- The light in the photo is the way the light in the photo is going to be. You'll want to match the direction, intensity, angle, and color of the light on your characters and props. 3- Your characters need shadows so that they don't float. Make a new layer below the character (in your 2D program), use a very soft round brush, black, 33% opacity (OR LESS) and brush under the feet and where the character will be touching things. If you can make the shadows realistic, kudos...but any shadow helps. ***** You MAY use this pack in all of your artwork, personal or commercial You MAY use this pack for scrap booking, both digital and printable - for yourself and for others You MAY use this pack to create your artwork for sale, such as prints You MAY use this pack to make greeting cards, websets, email stationary, etc. so long as they are altered and not redistributed as they are You may not print them out and distribute them as they are or re-distribute these files "as they are" in ANY format. You must use them as part of an artwork creation - however, they may not be used to make new backgrounds for free or for sale or any similar competing product. -------------------------------------- Files Included in the Product: Sunrise Wet Zone ReadMe.txt SWZ_13_R54.jpg SWZ_14_R54.jpg SWZ_15_R54.jpg SWZ_16_R54.jpg SWZ_17_R54.jpg SWZ_18_R54.jpg SWZ_19_R54.jpg SWZ_20_R54.jpg SWZ_21_R54.jpg SWZ_22_R54.jpg SWZ_23_R54.jpg