PAINTMAX

PAINTMAX is the 233th MAX accepted in the album. While it might look simple, PAINTMAX is one of the most special MAXes, since it was originally painted in real life, prior to some re-touches before it's release. This is the very first MAX to weight 3 MiB, and the heaviest MAX in the album, the second being DISCMAX.

PAINTMAX is a semi-transparent cyan MAX, re-touched from a gray MAX drawed in real life. The background is completely separate, but was also painted in real life, with white color tones being converted to alpha prior to release.

Inspirations
PAINTMAX was inspired by DISCMAX because of it's huge weight.

PAINTMAX hasn't inspired any other MAXes.

Sequence
Photos of the background and MAX were taken in the highest possible quality to take the most weight. The addition of alpha in the background played a critical role in the MAX's weight.

Because of the current state of the real life paintings, it's no longer possible to re-create the MAX from them. However, they're easy to replicate. Below the sequences for replication in GIMP. Workarounds may be applied on paint.net

Background

 * 1) Spam random colors with brush
 * 2) Waves and Shift
 * 3) Color to Alpha

MAX

 * 1) Open CROPMAX.
 * 2) Colorize to green-cyan.
 * 3) Waves and Shift
 * 4) Color to Alpha.