Pro tip: stop zooming your canvas to 800% just to add tiny details nobody sees

I was in a digital art showcase last week and saw this piece with insane tiny leaf textures that you could only see if you pixel-peeped. But from normal viewing distance it just looked noisy and messy. I used to do the same thing obsessing over 2-pixel highlights on eyeballs until a friend pulled up my art on a phone and asked why it looked grainy. Now I set my canvas to 100% every 20 minutes to check the big picture. Has anyone else caught themselves going too deep into micro-details?

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anthony1277d ago

Does zooming out ever actually make you delete those details or just stress about them?

the_anthony7d ago

Zooming out just means you get to see all the same crap you forgot about in one big panoramic view. @anthony127 you're basically just stress-multitasking at that point, admiring your mess from a different angle. It's like looking at a half-finished project from the top of a ladder - nothing changed except your neck hurts now.