Quote:I just want to understand it a bit better
I inserted a small paragraph that i copied from the Thunderbird Web site breifely explaining what the Thunderbird is.
The name “Thunderbirds” was soon adopted by the unit; influenced in part by the strong Indian culture and folklore of the southwestern United States where Luke is located. Indian legend speaks of the Thunderbird with great fear and respect. To some it was a giant eagle … others envisioned a hawk. When it took to the skies, the earth trembled from the thunder of its great wings. From its eyes shot bolts of lightning. Nothing in nature could challenge the bird of thunder, the story said, and no man could stand against its might. The story of the Thunderbird was repeated, voice-by-voice, across the generations, until at last, it assumed the immortality of legend.
(Luke, means Luke Air Force Base in Phoenix AZ where the team was founded in 1953.)
What I was trying to portray was a transition from Legend to todays Thunderbird. The eagle is shown seperating the clouds with it's wings hence creating a blue sky behind the eagle and clouds. I know the legend has it the lighting strikes from the eyes.... Well I had to compromise when I was looking for the image.. kind of a thats the best I could do at the moment.
Quote:What's up with the clouds?
The clouds are FS Skyworld, (check My Novemeber C-17 Contest Entry, all I did for this pic was change it to the F-16 and used a different angle. When I inserted the Eagle I had to blend in the clouds with the blue so it wouldn't appear as if the image was just thrown on top. When I started doing this with Adobe Photo Shop I started getting different colors and kind of just went with it. I started getting black and some red and white, well it started giving the appearance of a "thunder"storm and just went with it. Addmittedly I'm a moron when it comes to Photo Shop and still don't understand many if not most of the features. Yep I agree, there are some things I should have done better and differently, chaulk it up to lack of knowledge of photo shop and patience.
Quote:Why is there blue around the bird?
See my explanation of the thought behind the image.
Quote: Where are the bird's wings?
That was just the way I found that image, some of the wings did get covered up when I blended the clouds.
I would like to give proprer credit for the artist of that image, but I don't know who it was( Don't worry I don't stand to make one penny on it.)
So I hope this gives a little insight into what my pea sized brain was thinking about when I did this edit.
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