My problem is supreme impatience and lack of attention to detail. I'm so in awe of chasingdemons . Her pieces are so meticulous, the hours of work showing in the final product. Not that I don't spend hours myself, but I'm kinda more the slash and burn artist, I think. Love the shortcuts, love using blend modes and textures to composit, light rays and dodge and burn.

Deviant Art is just a storage, though one that you can organise and view images in a much better way than LJ. No, I meant I posted them to DA first so that I could look at them. I do not know what it is, but looking at a posted image, I can see things I missed staring at it in Photoshop. What I really am beating into myself is to let a piece sit a day or two and then come back and look at it, full screen and pick at it.

I do this when making a piece now. Photoshop lets you take snapshots along the way, which is brilliant because even leaving the layers in tact you sometimes can wander away from your original idea and need a way back without actually starting over, which when you got dozens of layers, is just a big pain. Snapshots, though, are only available for as long as you keep the file open.

It's like writing. You need to build in an 'edit' time for your image. :D