You are doing just wonderful... Fabulous image.. You are learnig so well.. Keep it up .. Very high marks for this one..

Thankyou Morwyn :D

I am looking at the work you put into this and not at my personal preference for wallpaper design and I can give you the highest marks for design, layout, clean work, color blends, etc. Your work is not only unique, you have some major artistic talents when it comes to design. Well done. ;)

Wow...thanks B.J...really appreciate the supportive feedback ^_^

Wow, Fae. This shows quite a bit of sophistication using the tools you've used. Photoshop??? If so, maybe I can speed some things up for you. The grid: You can create a small 20 x 20 pixel file with transparent background. Then draw your grid in such as way that when it repeats over and over it will blend together well. Then select all of it, go into the edit menu and choose "Define Pattern..." Give your pattern a name, then close your file. Back to your big drawing now. Select the area you wish to fill with your pattern and choose Edit-Fill... Pick the pattern you saved, and bang, there you are without having to draw it all by hand. Then you can switch into quickmask mode (Q key), select the gradient tool and pick the foreground to transparent gradient. Draw your gradient from left to right, then press the Q key again to get out of quickmask mode. Then hit the delete key. Your grid will fade out like you've done in your picture. The other thing I can help you with is the emboss. Pick a picture you want and save it as a photoshop file (it's got to be a .psd file). Then choose Filter-Texture, and in that dialog box you can choose the file and set the emboss settings. All there is to it. By the way, I'm totally impressed with the skills you've been showing recently. Keep up the good work, my friend. Ask questions. We're all glad to help. Take care.

Thanks for the DESPERATELY NEEDED advice Nathan, lol...I really really appreciate it :D
And thanks for the lovely comment too ^_^

Wow I'M telling you Fae YOU HAVE TO make a carreer out of this! It is clear to me that you have the Passion for it, the talent and the eye so DO IT! I can predict you are going to be the next generation of Computer PIcasso! I'M stunned and subdued by your talent!:0))!

wow...very professional looking work here, Fae...glad Nathan helped out with some shortcuts for you, but meantime, your time and effort on this has paid off...way to go, kiddo...major marks on this one.:Pat.

Hehe, thanks both!
I like Marou's comment about *Computer Picasso*...lol, that's so cool!
And cheers Pat for the major marks, too :D

this is phat but your a goth

Phat? Lol...ok, erm, thanks for the comment anyway :D

I must put my advice out , this is by far the best attention to detail. You did a very awesome peice of work here. The lines just flow well with each other, color choice is perfect... A+++++++

Thankyou Dan :)
I also think the colours are nice...very refreshing and pure, lol

I agree with nmsmith a really great job. Nicely thought out. I really love the blue and the concept.

Great image! Great blues are used here also. Love this.

Thanks prismmagic, Andrew :]

Really good wook Fae...again, somehow I missed this one. I love the embossing. As for the gridwork...here's a tip. There is an excellent free filter from from Richard Rosenman called "Grid Generator" You can create a separate black layer in PS7 and use the generator to create custom grids very easily. If your image is less than full size, the grid will look very strange as many of the lines will be missing...worry not. You need to click "view actual pixels" to get an idea of what it will look like.

The cool thing is that you can set up a rectangular selection and create the grid only with that. Use the "Screen" blend mode and then decrease opacity or fill until it looks right. This will save you a lot of work and give nice professional results.

i love the colours this image its great!

Kuel.
-P-

Very awesome!

~Amber♥