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Ok, the rules are set, the game is afoot.
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This should be fun ...Happy Easter, everyone ..
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Hi
Sorry but I don't understand this part of the rules -
7) " Reply to this thread with your best effort inserting the image into your post with the IMG tag off the result's small or Medium size image page. Feel free to add links to your any alternate creations in your main reply.
Could you explain what is meant by the above! particularly about how to insert an image?
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Howdy, Harry, thanks for dropping by.
Sure. When you're done with the image, you upload it here of course. Then you click on "Different Sizes" under the "additional information" section of the full page photo display. That brings you to the medium sized image. This really is a bit big for the thread, so click on the tab at the top labeled small. At the bottom of the page, there's html to create a picture <a> tag that you copy and paste into the reply. That makes images that you can click on, like in my rules.
Hope that helps,
-Bennett
P.S. Please don't be offended if that was too detailed... Other people may have that question, so may as well be absolutely clear.
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Express Repairs!!
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By the time I finished this I was seriously into a 5 liter box of Peter Vella Sunset Blush wine so the exact methodology escapes me. The guitar? When you mix Photoshop with a certain quantity of cheap vino there are no stinkin' rules.
The Golden Guitar Guy: Hue and Saturation > Colorize > adjusted to a golden hue, very saturated.
Bricks: Duped layer > Transform > Flip horizontal (and then flipped vertical on other duped layers) to create a whole lotta bricks. Then, layer mask > gradated dark to light > Blending mode: Color Burn.
Train Tracks: Deleted everything except the tracks > duped layer > Flipped horizontal > duped layer a few more times and flipped horizontal.
Full Image: Applied Little Ink Pot Chalkaholic plugin, and also BuzzSimplifier plugin.
I do not advocate drinking and Photoshopping for creativity, but it doesn't hurt (until the next day!)
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Yeah, fun stuff!
So some rule bending going on, I have to decide the penalty. DRP decided it was photwenie for a day, but I'll come up with something else creative. You just wait! Haha!
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I peronally disqualify myself for breaking the rules in my submission. It was the wine that made me do it!
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Hah hah! Well, yours is bending, not breaking. The intent was to limit the elements to those contained in the tagged items, yet... Hmm......
*FWEET FWEET FWEET* (throws the gold flag) Contentant jjlars, brought foriegn object onto field, creating a guitarist too old for his own good! The judges will now confer on penalty!
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Please don't throw me in the briar patch!
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*FWEET FWEET FWEET* (throws the yellow flag) Contestant Limey, too few pictures visible on the field, replay down. First down!
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"(oops sorry, dupe post)".
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The texture is behind the tear in the picture!!!
Forgot to mention:-
I copied the rails layer and used the glowing edges filter and then the overlay blend mode.
I sharpened the original layer 150% 2 pixels.
Selected the rails and used Auto FX dreamsuite to emboss and colour (not as effective as it could have been) overlayed those also
used similar method for the railwayman
I wanted a sort of poster/cartoon effect!
The split was done with the Vizros plugin *** they are now giving away this plugin and a few more - well worth having!!*** (you can thank me later)
www.vizros.com/
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*laugh* behind the tear! Or do you mean the underside of the tear? Looks pretty metalic to me...
Playing with the ref is not wise. ;) Watch this...
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*fweet fweet fweet* After conference, the officials have come to a penalty. At the termination of this contest, jjlars shall be locked in a room to listen to 3 hours of stairway to heaven played at high volume. For variety, there will be full length violin, washboard bass, tuba, xylophone, slide whistle, penny whistle, pop bottle whistle, and therimin versions played. May God have mercy on your soul. :D :D
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Pretty steep penalty for creatively breaking a rule. Plus, I already disqualified myself from the contest. Give a person a little power and it goes to their head . . . , but just don't throw me in the briar patch!
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Don't worry, if you actually make it through the therimin version without yelping in pain, the remainder of the penalty will be waived. *Laugh* Just having a little fun. *grin*
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"3 hours of stairway to heaven played at high volume"
I want to know why I can't do that?
(sorry for the earlier double post!! can't you remove one?)
better make it 4 hours....
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Sorry, flickr doesn't support deleting posts.. There are pluses and minuses to doing it that way... And, I'm also not the admin here, just a guest contest host. You can click on the little pencil, though, and just change the content of the first one to "(oops sorry, dupe post)".
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RoboCock vs. MechaniCareBear
1. Duplicated the background layer of the railroad tracks "scene" image (7623253) and changed the mode to Hard Light to deepen the color and shadow areas, then merged the layers into one.
2. Imported the cactus leaf (5487761) "texture image", applied Transform/Perspective to get the angle right, and placed it over the brown grassy field to give it some interest. Changed it's blending mode to Linear Burn (70%) and added a layer mask to "erase" sections where it bled over into the buildings in the background.
3. Imported both the rooster (7622801) and machinery (7623917) "foreground" images, silhouetted and scaled them down, and executed the same procedure as in Step 1.
4. Used a layer mask on the rooster and massaged it into the machinery below to form a half rooster-half machine creature I call "RoboCock."
5. Imported sections of the vending machine balls (7624044) "texture" image, silhouetted and scaled them down. I duplicated a few of the balls, rotating and placing them in different areas of the image.
6. Created a layer above the others and painted a bluish-black color in various areas (rooster, machine part, next to the balls) with different feathered brushes to create realistic shadows given the angle of the sun in the background image. Changed it's blending mode to Multiply (75%), and added a layer mask, cleaning up spill-over.
7. Imported the threads (5175221) "texture" image, applied Transform/Scale to bring it up just in the area of the sky, changed it's Hue/Saturation to blue, and used the Gaussian blur filter to soften it. Added a layer mask to clean up spill-over into the field and rooster.
8. Created a layer, picked a nice purple, and used the gradient tool to add color to the sky. Changed the mode to Hard Light (30%).
9. Imported the Care Bear (7622607) "foreground" image, silhouetted it, and applied Transform/Scale. Placed it on the horizon and dropped the layer opacity down to 60%.
10. Created a layer and added a little punch to the rooster's eye with a sharp blue using a hard brush, changing the blending mode to Vivid Color.
11. Done.
So, why did the RoboCock cross the tracks?
To regenerate his fuel core with egg-shaped power cells lying in the cacto-scape, before they were stolen by the giant MechaniCareBear looming on the horizon.
Of course!
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Oh, I love it DRP! I was especially fooled by the cactus texture! It really fits there in the new scene. Great job, take it easy, thanks for dropping in!
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Very imaginative. Thanks for sharing.
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great, great job, drp!
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1. Started with Scene #1, the cityscape.
2. Added Crowing for the Bellagio and isolated the rooster using a layer mask.
3. Brought in Elmo to plug a hole in the clouds.
4. Pasted the copper wire texture into a levels layer mask then ran a filter on the mask to get some texture for the overall picture.
5. Duplicated and resized some roosters because I liked the shape.
6. Added the heart from the Care bear.
7. Experimented with a variety of blending modes and filters.
8. Merged the layers and worked on the merged image with the clone stamp, paint layers and a burn and dodge layer.
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I took both of the backgrounds and combined them, then added the rooster and finally used one of the textures, run through several filters, for the "ground" over on the right. I'm more of a "realist," I discover!
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Terri Lynn [deleted] says:
eeekkkk these are so good...I hope mine will measure up when I am done with it!
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Guardian angels leave
Thanks Leo
Method
Find a story
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Terri Lynn [deleted] says:
Gold Rush Ghost Town
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Terri, It measures up OK. The gold has an amazing impact.
I'm still thinking what to do!
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Baskyes, Very sublty done.
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Nomine UK [deleted] says:
Method (or an approximation thereof):
1. Abused curves on the scene layer until I got a colour I liked.
2. This made the foreground black so I brought in the texture with a hard light blend mode.
3. Much tweaking of brightness/contrast and a colour fill adjustment layer in colour burn mode to boost the colour on the rooster.
4. Another copy of the texture layer in screen mode, masked to create the light on the ground around the rooster.
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I leave town for a couple days and imagination blooms! Great job! Love the interpretations! Keep em coming!
Mine is coming, but as my first attempt at Gimping, it's slow going, and tricky to find the right vibe. BUT nobody has stolen my thoughts yet. *GRIN*
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As I only have 56k dial-up, it is now taking 10 minutes to view this page!!
Would it possible to limit the file sizes to something similar to a thumbnail ??
especially as all the images are linked.
Harry
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I would certainly encourage people to edit posts and go down to small image at least. (blue pencil edit button) I would hate to encourage thumbnail as it's really a small image, but as we get more responses, maybe it's best... I can hardly bear to take the examples (1/3 the total) below small, myself, but at 13K a piece, 20 images should be loadable in.. Gaaah, a minute. Ok, thumbnails if you're feeling generous, and at least small images please, I guess..
Also, let's standardize tags. I originally requested pschallenge#2 to match DRP's pattern for his challenge, so can I have those with the pschallenge2 tags change to pschallenge#2? Thanks.
(If you just want to do a quick edit of the html and you have a standard sized image, put _t (thumbnail) or _m (small) in the IMG src="blah.jpg" part, and change the size to wide side, 75 narrow, 50 if it's a standard JPG. 240 x 180 for small. )
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I did a lot of things - I fell into my computer and didn't keep track.... sorry
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sisterscorpion [deleted] says:
I fiddled with it a lot, but I remember meddling with layer qualities, overlay, free transform, paintbrush for the sepia look, color burn on the edges, contrast and brightness... you get the idea. No clue, in other words :)
Also did a secondary one, care bear apocalypse... or something along those lines:
Night of the Bears
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Here are 2 versions, color & duotone.
Background created by blending 2 “scenes” together.
Brick texture wrapped to the subject using displacement map, heighten brick “depth” with PS lighting filter and bump map.
Lens flare added with PS supplied filter.
Layer masks utilize tone selections, gradient masks and soft brush. There is a lot of contrast masking, selective contrast adjustment, layer blending modes, cloning and patch tool stuff.
Final touch – add grain to pull the image together and selective USM to sharpen.
Scenes:
7623253_b8f7ee0853_b.jpg
7623324_1e24d19fb1_b.jpg
Subject:
7623917_d6bcf8ad82_b.jpg
Texture:
7623963_f846e0af80_b.jpg
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Oh, i really like this one. Good job!
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Very cool! I like the color one better, I think. Keep em coming!
Thanks for the responses on the shrinking of the photos, I'm sure Harry appreciates it! I should have mentionned this with my other administrative post, sorry. Can I get all you guys to put a link back to this contest in your photo descriptions? Just add this code:
<a href="http://flickr.com/groups/topic/22315">For photoshop challenge 2</a>
The "For photoshop challenge 2" text inside can be changed if desired, just so there's a link. Thanks, it'll help spread the joy. *grin*
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I'm still a bit of a n00b to photoshop, so please be gentle!
Cut around foreground #5 and added it as a separate layer to Scene #1
Flipped foreground #5 horizontally and increased the contrast and brightness
Added "cutout" filters to both layers.
Cut one of the keys out of Texture #7 added it as three separate layers
Rotated each layer.
Merged the three layers and added shadows and highlights.
Added "wind" filter to the merged layer.
Selected part of the colour of foreground #5 and inverted.
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that's what i did:
- took the scenery-photo, played with levels and changed it to b&w
- took the rooster, used the cutout filter and changed the colors
- took the tree-texture and added it to the house on the left, giving it a bit of structure
- finally changed the sky from white to yellow
hope you like it...
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![Road to nowhere [Photoshop Challenge #2]](http://photos4.flickr.com/8647860_8ec57d7352_m.jpg)
Ok, I've murdered another photo with Photoshop *grin*
This one used both backgrounds, (hey, why settle for one? *grin*)
Played around with saturation, colours. Added the texture (cactus) as a pattern layer.
Added the railway track.
Added neon glow, played around with the colours some more.
Added the rooster. Duplicated the rooster and distorted to give it a shadow, desaturated.
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1. Cut out the Chicken and Elmo. Tried drawing on the chicken's missing feet - got bored and used Jaded's Cowboy Boot FX plugin™ instead.
2. Solarised the Farm background, and added lightning using Xenofex.
3. Bent the Chicken's head down and stretched it's mouth open and used Motion Blur to create the "blast"
4. Used the Text Tool to insert some (badly translated by Google) Godzilla style copy - apologies to anyone who can read it! Added the Cactus texture to the main title.
5. Abused Elmo in the worst way possible...
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Interesting interpretations, one and all.
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Only 20 hours to go until the final flag... Any more submissions?
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Couldn't make the deadline this time. But will submit as a late entry when I get round to merging and overlaying.
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Thanks for playing everyone! Lots of fun interpretations. Thanks for the opportunity to host this JRR.
I'm not going to cut things off with a knife, so if you still want to join in on the fun, I'd say go for it, just don't ruin your appetite for the next one!
(Just remember that someday someone might sneak up on you, lock you in a room for a couple hours, and play stairway to heaven renditions for you. Solo trombone, Solo Tuba, flute, kettle drum, bagpipe, theremin and slide whistle. They even have orders to grab me if I do it too... Might happen. *laugh* And yes, Harry, the special cell phone ring rendition will come find you one day.)
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For those following at home, the following is bad enough to be penalty stairway to Heaven. Just stumbled across it today, and thought it belonged here.
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