the reflecting god ... anyone wanna critique it?

>>technically it is very well done. but seeing marilyn
>>manson in there is a little disappointing. i don't like it
>>when people aren't inspired enough to come up with
>>their own imagery. i get the feeling of 'fan art' rather
>>than 'fine art'.

i know what you mean, but image editing is something i enjoy a lot, and marilyn manson is really the only person who has pictures that i can use, mainly because of the way the pictures are taken of him. he strikes poses like no one, and uses his own body to create art. thats really the only reason i use him.

">>2. The border that goes all around the pic: did you
>>make it from scratch or took an image and played
>>around with it? if from scratch, how did you get that
>>texture?

that one's easy. i used the marquee tool and made two virtical bars about 6 or 7 pixels wide, then added short horizontal lines all the way down the two vertical ones. then, i used the airbrush to give it some depth. after that,
****i opened a picture, transformed it to were it was the same height and width of the bar****

, and used the layer mode "color burn". "


What do you mean you transofmed the picture into the border??

>>What do you mean you transofmed the picture into the border??

oh, i mean i streached it using scale to make it the same size as one of the bars.

Very good. I like it.

Marilyn Manson ;).