

| THE CREATIVE PROCESS "Padme Amidala" |

| STEP 7 I then use the gaussian blur to make the background fade away from Padme. It brings more focus to her, but doesn't make it seem that she's standing on a blank canvas. I normally don't have the black border, watermark and signature on my image while working on it, but I add those when the image is complete, and it's at the pixel size I want to post the image at. |