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WOW Runner up in my first posting since January.
Well chuffed with this one and a sign that I'm starting to get the hang
of this Photoshop lark.....
Here's the source picture called Peeking Out. |
With a fair old amount of chopping involved I
decided to introduce a waterfall I photographed on holiday in Antalya,
Southern Turkey. Blending the two together was made easier by
flipping the original horizontally. A bit of cloning and a tweak or two
with levels finished it off. About two hours work and a good result in
the contest. |
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Title - Oops, there goes the wife! |
My entry from the 7th Jan 2006 Contest - Skydivers
I removed the skydivers from the original picture above and separated
them the best I could. The second picture was of a guy bungee jumping
from the bridge so I removed all the sky etc, just leaving the bridge.
The male skydiver was reversed and rebuilt using the clone tool then
reshaped using Edit-transform tools on a new layer. The same for the
female skydiver who needed a little painting too. The sky was from
another source pic off Google - Images which made the final layer. Then
it was just a matter of drawing in the bungee rope and repositioning the
layers plus a fair old bit of repainting the girders on the bridge.
not too successful at all, a measly 7 votes - 37th out
of 60 entries |
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is the subject for the October 3rd 2005 contest and what a fantastic job "Mindgraph"
did on his leading entry. Fantastic piece of work turning this simple
picture into a story in itself. Well done Mindgraph a worthy winner I
hope, you'll certainly get my vote. I think it's time I had another
entry, I'm getting lazy. |
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I returned to Photoshop contest this week and posted
this entry which did rather well. The subject was simple enough but
posting on the first page was certainly an
advantage.
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My finished image was achieved by blending two images together and
adding the cartoon type ducks and bird on top of the final layer just
for fun. A little final cloning and colour blending finished it off
nicely. Well pleased with my best ever votes (38) and 8th place from 84
entries.
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Oh Boy - A
contest win for moi!!*
(* for reasons best known to themselves the PSC
lot demoted this entry to runner up after over a year. I never
found out the reason for this and nearly didn't bother posting again.
it still peeves me no end but I still won this one at the time and they
can't take that away from me) I couldn't believe it when I checked to see how this effort was
going and found out I was in the top four entries. There were a number
of quality entries but this one held it's own with them and amazingly
ended up first. I only spent about half an hour creating this image when
I used it in a tutorial I was trying. Well it paid off and I was as
pleased as punch when many of the regulars sent me emails congratulating
me on my first contest win. I suppose it also backs up my comments below
in the other August entry when I stated that the
advantage
system doesn't necessarily entail you spending any longer on your
images.
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August 2004 |
Not a great deal of work on this one, a nice Turkish Sunset for the sky and a simple reverse image plus a little fading
and added ripple effect and Bob's your Uncle as they say. |
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Considering that Photoshop Contest is an American site
I was really chuffed to see an English football ground featured. I
eagerly set about demonstrating to our US cousins what a full football
ground looked like. Filling it with players and spectators wasn't easy
for me but I think this was my best piece of work yet on the site.
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Including my favourite football team, the glorious
Manchester City was completely wasted on the American folks and the fact
that they were not playing Bristol City also thankfully passed without
comment. Finished 10th of 67
October 2004 ish |
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Original Image
My Photo-shopped version |
August 2004 entry
I decided to take a few weeks off Photoshop Contest to reassess my
whole approach to posting pictures. I realise that there is a method to
gaining votes and improving your VPP and hopefully after studying many
entries I can improve my votes. The first thing that becomes obvious is
that the pro's are out of my and many of my fellow PSC'ers league. Some
of them are awesome but, there is nothing to stop us learning from them.
The message boards are also a great help, you can post any question here
and the users are quick to help with the answers. There is also the
advantage system which for a few quid gives you the opportunity to see
the images a week in advance. This allows you to get your entry in on
time without any pressure but, normally you spend the same time on your entry
as you did before joining advantage. It also helps to finance the site
but does cause a fair bit of controversy as many believe it gives the
users an unfair advantage. For me it allows me to chop at my leisure and
post on time and to be honest my votes have improved but maybe so have
my entries.
The lower picture on the left is one of my contest entries which I
chopped out from the subject picture above. I'm quite pleased with
the finish to this picture which is clear and clean, two of the most
important vote winners in my opinion.
This comment was left by a voter : I'm gonna vote for the cleanness, but
I will tell you that Turkish Planes, would never get that close to a
carrier just for a "look." It just shows you have to get things
just right with these guys...
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