Product Name: Campsites Contributing Artist: Rowan54 ************************************************************ Product Description: 23 photographic backgrounds in jpg format, and at 480 dpi. Some of them are 2848 x 2134 pixels (6.1 megapixels). The rest of them are 2848 x 1896 pixels (5.4 megapixels). Photos were taken on various dates in 2010 with a Kodak EasyShare C613. Whole packet is a little over 22 Mb and was created with Photoshop on a PC. The photos are of real campsites in Western Washington state in the Cascade Mountains on the Mountain Loop highway (Big Four mountain, Red Bridge Campground, Bedal Campground, and along the south fork of the Sauk River), and by the Taylor River, which is up the Middlefork of the Snoqualmie River. All places photographed were public lands. I cleaned up the photos somewhat in Photoshop so that there are no people, signs, or garbage in the pictures. I also balanced the colors and reduced the extreme contrast that occurs when photographing something that includes both extreme sunlight and extreme shade at the same time. ***** System Compatibility: PC only. (Created on a PC.) Individual files range from 603 KB to 1314 KB so you'll want enough processing space to handle documents of that size. Software Compatibility: Anything that will open jpg files. ***** Installation: Install directly to the directory where you keep backgrounds that are used for Photoshop, or which ever program that you are using. ***** Useage instructions: These can be used as backgrounds in art programs such as Photoshop or Gimp; as a backdrop in a program such as Daz Studio; or as a texture in a program such as Bryce. 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) Check that light on the character is close to the same intensity, the same color, and the same angle as what is in the photo. (3) Your characters need shadows so that they don't float. Make a new layer below the character, use a very soft round brush, black, 33% opacity (OR LESS) and brush around the feet and where the character will be touching things. If you can make the shadows realistic, kudos...but for cartoon characters and places it won't show much, a roundy shadow works just fine. ***** 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 in your artwork creations - however, they may not be used to make new backgrounds for free or for sale or any similar competing product. ***** \Readmes\Rowan54\ Campsites Read Me.txt \CAMPSITES\ Campsites_1_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_2_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_3_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_4_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_5_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_6_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_7_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_8_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_9_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_10_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_11_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_12_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_13_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_14_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_15_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_16_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_17_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_18_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_19_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_20_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_21_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_22_Rowan54.jpg Campsites_23_Rowan54.jpg ***** "The developer owns the copyright and/or has the rights to distribute all of the content contained within this ZIP file."