Dingle Ball Stock

Another stock attempt.

Please read comments until next bullet.
This is a little dingle ball, meaning a toy ball for pets with a little bell inside. This is a cat toy that my kitties are rather fond of.

It's a little transparent in some places while other areas are a darker blue color.

This may be used as stock! If you'd like to use it, please inform me via note or comment here on dA. Credit me, obviously, when you upload the finished product. Please then send me your finished work so that I may see it.

Additional comments
Yep, my second attempt at stock. This took considerably less time (only about an hour and a half, from shooting to uploading). Part of that time was interrupted by the kitties. Ludwig, especially, did not appreciate me taking away his ball. He kept batting it away during my paparazzi phase.

This is another attempt for . I wanted to try again as they foolishly indicated that my first attempt was decent and it encouraged me to try again. They'll soon learn to just ignore me so I don't bother them.

My reasoning for this particular subject? Well, I wanted something to try again with, something easier than the elephant. Maybe a somewhat transparent dingle ball doesn't seem easy but it was the only thing that jumped out at me. And I figured, my cats like it. Maybe the dragons in Misty Vale would too. They need toys too.

Oh, and in case it's not clear: The ball is not smooth. It's made up interlocking plastic plates, with the bell inside. That's why there are sections that are indented and such.

Let's see...technical stuff. I tried all sorts of things to make it look a bit more usable. I still can't figure out how to feather the eraser so I basically zoomed way in, and decreased the values for opacity, hardness and density. Then I did a sort of ring around the object, going around the ball. After that, I put all those values back up to delete the excess background. I will admit that the bottom of the ball gave me trouble because of the shadows. But I hope this one is better than the elephant.

I did do some other editing. I increased saturation to make the blue a richer color and I did play with brightness levels before erasing the background. The downloadable version is resized, 30% of the original. If this is too small, I can upload a larger version.

I'd luve more criticism, again, only constructive stuff. If you don't like something or there's something that makes this impossible to use as stock, let me know but give me an idea of how to change it in the future. Thank ya.