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M0nkeyBread β Fun with Colours 2013.11.03
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i like this a lot. there seems to almost be a 3D effect applied to it.
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Yep chromatic aberration...check out my response to one of the other comments up in here
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I actually really like the style and the colours, while being rather discordant, actually give the whole piece a very otherworldly feel that I find quite amazing 
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Thanks so much, that was what I liked about using it in this instance
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Great, will keep my eyes open for more of your work!
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Really fun!Β Makes me feel like I should have 3D glasses
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Cheers! ha yeah that's the chromatic aberration thing for ya
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I really like it!Β How do you do the chromatic aberration?
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Well it's basically a lens colour distortion effect that occurs when a lens doesn't focus different wavelengths of light onto the same spot. It basically means that areas of high contrast get a colour "fringe" often red to purple and/or a slight blurriness to them. Β It's characteristic of bad lenses and most photographers try and remove it! Recently it became a huge fad with artists and you'd see the effect popup absolutely everywhere which made it very quickly very very gimmicky (like lens flares).Β
I think used in the right context it can work well. Β
In terms of this image I basically just did most of the painting and once I was relatively happy with the values I duplicated the red and blue channels as separate layers and offset them from the base layer a few pixels, played with layer modes and blurring and masked it in areas where I only wanted it to show up so it wasn't too over the top.
'em and Google it for an in depth explanation if you're interested.
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