Photoshop CS4: Abstraction - Chapter 4: Playing with Fire

FINISHED IMAGES:

V1: http://i51.tinypic.com/etis5u.png
V2: http://i54.tinypic.com/2heyc95.png
V3: http://i55.tinypic.com/6pnjhh.png
V4: http://i53.tinypic.com/16kz695.png

Total time taken: around 36 minutes

This one is exciting, don't you think? The wonders of smudging, the possibilities of distorting something innocuous into something else entirely.
Like the previous 'chapter' in my Abstraction series (http://i37.tinypic.com/2yo95y1.jpg), Playing with Fire uses smudge as a predominant basis for the focal effect. In fact, they even use the same base object.
Like Playing with Water, it presents an abstract focal which based on its vivid color allows one to interpret it as the caption would suggest.

Like before, the end part shows both an upscaled version for people watching in lower resolutions and a 100% for people with the privilege of watching in full high definition.


Songs, in order:
LIGHTNESS - MusicMaterial http://musicmaterial.jpn.org/mp3/lightness.mp3
REFRESHING WIND - MusicMaterial http://musicmaterial.jpn.org/mp3/refreshing_wind.mp3
Happy Pop - 煉獄庭園 http://rengoku-teien.com/rengoku_mp3/happypop.mp3
Yellow (instrumental) - kz (livetune), こっち向いて Baby/Yellow


All resources used are credit to whomever made them. I don't know who made what so don't ask me to list them.

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