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    Falconius, Max, thanks for the input. I like the idea of making the explosion a bit more influential on the overall cover. I've tried having a bigger supernova effect, but the fireball is too big.

    I like the idea of playing around with the color saturation, so I tried blending your ideas. I made a couple copies of the map, de-saturated both, and put the colored layer between them. I added a transparent black mask to the top, and left the bottom opaque. I dropped the color layer's opacity to 45%, and then I airbrushed a soft, white circle around the explosion on the top greyscale layer's mask. This way, it doesn't darken the image, but it brings out the boom a bit more.

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    Apologies to the powers that be; I didn't intend this to be such a work-in-progress kind of thread.
    Last edited by Coriolis; 08-14-2013 at 11:56 PM. Reason: fixing my grammar and clarifying

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