Okay, so I've finally gotten all the details to a level where I'm satisfied 
with it. (You wouldn't believe how many tweaks I've made since the last 
version I posted, that probably no one else than me even notices...) Making 
test-prints with my printer have made me aware of issues with things than 
don't work as well on print as on the screen, because nuances in colors and 
luminance is lost once printed. To deal with that, contrast of certain 
textures have been enhanced, which looks better on the screen too as a 
bonus.

Anyway, I've splitted the image into several layers, and once the background 
layer was separate, it suddenly got temptingly easy to play around with 
it... In my head the background was always just white, but after having seen 
some of the possible alternatives, I'm suddenly not sure I prefer white 
anymore. I don't know which version I want to have printed!

What to do, what to do...

What do you think?

Teaser image is attached, the full versions can be seen here (in png format, 
so the page is slightly heavy):
http://runevision.com/3d/metalandflowers/

BTW, the blue, teal and green color is carefully selected. Colors with red 
in don't work well so shades of red, yellow, and violet are out. Also, light 
colors don't work well (except completely white), nor almost black or gray 
ones (except completely black). I also tried some linear gradient with color 
to white and color to black. At first it looks really sweet, but after 
looking at it for a little white it begins to just look cheap. Compromises 
don't work here. Just one strong color.

Rune
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