{"id":1259,"date":"2012-12-16T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2023-06-16T21:08:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T01:08:38","slug":"chrono-cross-desktop-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/16\/chrono-cross-desktop-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrono Cross Desktop Background"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ChronoCross\/comments\/xk4bib\/oil_painting_filtered_desktop_background\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=ios_app&amp;utm_name=ioscss&amp;utm_content=2&amp;utm_term=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"745\" src=\"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/284952C5-A34F-4512-93D3-D86CF3DF5575-1024x745.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/284952C5-A34F-4512-93D3-D86CF3DF5575-1024x745.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/284952C5-A34F-4512-93D3-D86CF3DF5575-300x218.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/284952C5-A34F-4512-93D3-D86CF3DF5575-768x559.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/284952C5-A34F-4512-93D3-D86CF3DF5575.jpeg 1164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Simple composition with some filtering and layers. I made it in 2012 after a playthrough and a lack of available PC Desktop backgrounds.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a PC Tech, not an artist, so there\u2019s not much to this. I took an existing background from the game (the dock in Arni Village) used an \u201coil painting\u201d filter in a photoshop equivalent like GIMP or Paint.Net, then added a gradient at the bottom between the two most extreme colors (black-blue and cerulean or seafoam), and topped it off with the logo filtered with a bit of transparency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I learned this style more than 5 years ago from an AV technician who put up slides on a \u201ccommunity access\u201d TV channel. According to him (back when people were still watching on tube-TVs), artistic use of blur and focus can take any quality of photo and make it look amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this photo, the \u2018blur\u2019 is in the seam along the gradient (to expand the image) and in the \u201coil painting\u201d filter across the normally pixelated artwork (I might have also played with the contrast; it\u2019s been a long time). The logo is the sharpest part of the image and holds the viewer\u2019s immediate focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every image is telling a story. In this case, the blurred image is like a written paragraph describing the sharp logo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple composition with some filtering and layers. I made it in 2012 after a playthrough and a lack of available PC Desktop backgrounds. I\u2019m a PC Tech, not an artist, so there\u2019s not much to this. I took an existing background from the game (the dock in Arni Village) used an \u201coil painting\u201d filter in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-moods","tag-reddit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}