Photoshop Contest!
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| For you people who were in the paint competition and those who were not, how about we have a contest for the best picture in photoshop |
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| Sounds like a good idea. can it be, like an edited picture, or does it have to be hand drawn? |
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| You can post either! Do you think I should be aloud to participate? |
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| Why not have a theme? Doesn't have to be something tangible like cars, it could be something more abstract like time or darkness. Then you (hopefully) have a little more coherence between all the entries and it won't be too hard to judge. You pick the theme this time and then the winner picks for the next competition or something? |
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| Ok, lets change it to drawn from scratch? (input encouraged) |
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| sure, although i probably wont be able to do crap. I have a few good ones though, ill sort through and post later. |
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Heres one Heres another  I did these for backgrounds, sorry so big! youll have to win, then choose the next one, or we could just screw that, and have that be the next one...? |
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| Here is a little something i whipped up. I am sure it wont win, as it is not the best i can do. Secondly i dont have photoshop, i have Corel Paint Shop, which really isnt bad, but it isnt as good as photoshop. but any why, thought i would post it. Ill probably post another later.  |
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| kool! We should expand it to these two programs, since not all of us have it! I fooled around with a corel demo before, it was pretty cool. |
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| It is a fairly good program. Doesnt compare with paintshop though. I think, you should be able to use any other photo program. Since photoshop is the best out there, using anything less should be allowed. As long as its a photo editing program. |
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| sounds good to me. |
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 portrait of a serial killer by Dog |
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| hmmm... abstract, really neat. is the killer the redhead? |
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| Here's a few of mine (made for various fark.com photoshop contests in the past) Pope John Paul II (original and photoshopped)  -  (Probably the most challenging part of that one was to turn the white robes gold colored) Mike Tyson:  |
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and here's a from-scratch one as well: |
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| Those are good! Love the wood texture on the last one |
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| @Blitz3dCoder The "killer" is YOU! It's an awful picture. (kind of the point) =) |
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| Lol, pope loves star trek. Very nice picture! =D |
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 This is more representative of my work but wasn't done in photoshop. |
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| what is it? (other than random) lol |
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 A real photograph? No no no, actual screenshot blacked and whited, blurred, noised, and pasterized =) |
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| @Blitz3dCoder I love questions that answer themselves. Quite... |
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| What is it screenshot from? one of your projects or is it from another game? |
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| what did you do that random one with? |
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Here's one I put together: |
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| thats cool! what with ? |
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| Thanks. Photoshop. |
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| Very nice Ked. I gotta get photoshop. Corel just isnt doing it for me |
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| its worth it, you should get a wacom tablet to, they help greatly. Sure beats the ol mouse! :) |
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| I only have Paint Shop Pro 9. I'm offended! |
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| Ked: I hope you don't mind :)  |
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| Is there supposed to be a change in the logo? |
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| This is only just for fun. If Ked will ask it then I will remove it immediately. |
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It's surprising how much time I spend in my 3hr English classes doodling.... Drawn from scratch in my sketchbook via blue col-erase pencil, scanned/quickly-coloured in Photoshop7. [EDIT] Hmm, wonder what it looks like for a 50x50 sig img. |
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| Wow Doggie I didn't know you're such a talented painter. Is this done in your computer or manually on paper? |
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| Thank you! That pic I used Twisted Brush http://www.pixarra.com/ I also use paintshop, Deep Paint and ZBrush 2. Most of my pics are on my old computer. Someday, if I get around to it, I'll put up a gallery. |
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| Ked: I hope you don't mind :) I probably should, but I don't. :) I've downloaded Gimp but haven't really worked at it. It does create some good super nova effects. :P |
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| You've got the meaning!. I just wanted to remind Gimp. It is powerful, free and its worth to check out even if someone uses the leader Photoshop. I have found in Gimp some very useful filters. There is, for example, a filter you can make a texture seamless with a click! |
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| gotta get that |
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| Right here is an entry, for all the Greg Martin lovers out there: Excuse the size, made it that big so people could use it as their desktop if they so wished... It's mine at the moment. Everything was made in photoshop from scratch apart from the space ship, that was 3dsmax.  |
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| Dang, how long did the whole thing take you? |
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| The background of stars was the easy part, took me about an hour. The planets took me about half an hour each, just due to shadow painting and trying to get it looking correct. The spaceship took the longest, that took a day and a bit. Of course these are estimates, I don't really keep track on how long stuff takes, I just make it. :D So those times are probably give or take an hour. |
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| that was good, my two look like crap now |
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| Alright, I just have to ask: Where the bloody hell do you learn to render stuff like that in PhotoShop. @.@ (particularly the planet, I'm assuming there's some layer-trickery involved) Also, got a higher-resolution version of it by anychance? |
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| Wow, really really nice space picture |
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| is this enuff 2 vote? |
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| ok whats the code to post imgs cuz its not working for me... |
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| No code is required. You simply enter the (URL-encoded) address of the image and it shows. |
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| hey sting, would i be aloud to use that img? |
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| sure no prob. I could give you one w/ out the burn layer aswell. |
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| @Genexi2 Yeah I thought that once too, but its surprisingly simple. By experimenting with the noise filter, and clone brush, as well as colour filters, you can come up with some pretty convincing star clusters. For the planets, its all about painting with the brush tool using large sizes and a mode other than Normal. Again experimentation is the key. I start out with a coloured circle and work from that, shadowing and highlighting etc. You'll find tutorials all over the net to help you get started... And no, that is the highest res I have of that. Its the size I painted it at, so there is no anti-alias-resizing-trickery going on there. @mintybreath Thanks! :D |
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| sting: Post one without the shadow layer,so i can see. Also if you want, put somewhere in the corner that you made it, so im not taking credit for your art. I could do it but... |
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| Wow. so you painted the whole planet? I thought you did what my friend did, and took a photo off the internet and did a circle wrap thingy. Damn, now its even more impressive. I think i know who im voting for.. |
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| Sting, also, could you make it a bmp? |
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| xlsior: you like digger I take it? |
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| http://tinyurl.com/3azzc6 There just wantet to try out the url thing. :P Anyway I hope taking off the top layer is what you ment. |
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| there both pretty cool. Which one would look better as the background for the blitz3d psp theme im working on? |
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| Ooo.. Snazzy. I personaly like the one w/ out the burn overlay. Mainly because i just put that in as an opticle illusion for this spacific board. :) |
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| xlsior: you like digger I take it? One of my all-time favorites... One of these days i'll finish a remake. :-? |
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| kool thats wat ill do |
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| Thanks for the image sting_gs13, sure i use it! ;) |
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| I think we should vote now. Who agrees? |
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| I do. |
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| I do, so lets vote! ------------------------- I actually liked ICECAP's the best for drawn from scratch Sting_gs13's was useful in one of my projects And xlsior did great in bringing out the inner pope ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Since this was a contest for from scratch, I would say ICECAPE |
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| Amazing how many people here have such expensive software. |
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| yeah, the most expensive i can go is photoshop. 3ds max is like $9000 where do people get it? |
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| Helps when you own a business that does 3D renderings. :D Wait till you start getting into the custom plugins too. Vray and plant/tree creation plugins, that'll set you back another US$3000 or so. Discreet used to offer a version for educational use as well, I started on that years ago, only cost me about US$150. |
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| It helps when you do visual effects and motion graphics for a living. Getting software like this I mean. |
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| I vote ICECAP all the way. They were all great, but i think ICECAP's exceeded my expectations. |
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| Blitz3dCoder gets my vote for the comet picture. Mainly because the tail of the comet has a very unusual appearance which doesn't look like a computer painted effect. It looks like someone has dipped a piece of string in paint and used that to get the effect. |
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| Come On, we need more than two or three votes this time. |
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| There are some interesting and easy to follow tutorials on how to do star fields and planets like the one's above. The one's I found most helpful are made by Greg Martin. Starfields: http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_star_field.html Planetoids: http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_planet.html |
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| Are there ones to teach you how to make really good looking 3D models of space ships too? :D Knowing how is half the battle, but it helps to also have some extra *zang* to pull it all together. |
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| ill have to try those Is anybody else going to vote? |
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| ok no more votes? icecap 2 me 1 |
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Well heck just for fun... I drew it then colored it and touched it up on Photoshop. Doing stuff like this every now and then sure is fun. |
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| Nice pic Xyle. Is that Link from the Zelda serries? |
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My entry- What do I win? |
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| lol |
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 All hand-painted, no reference photo or layering with them. |
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| @Tyler: You made that? Geeze. That is good. Looks like you've got some competition ICECAP |
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| Ked , could you render me one of those fireworks in transparant PNG? using SetColor i could make a cool fireworks show of that. XD |
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| Since nobody is Voting, Maybe we could even have the post renamed to Photoshop Gallery, or something? (hint hint) |
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| @mintybreath - Thanks for the compliment, but it's only the third or fourth one I've tried, and it took about a week to do, so it's not as good as it should be, but I'm working on others. Oh, and I vote for myself, :P of course. |
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| I thought it was cool |
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i got another one! I did this in like an hour about an hour ago.  |
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Here's one of mine |
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| I know this is old, but I forgot about this post till now and had to complement this great drawing. tony, your robot one was great too, do you do this for a living? |
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| unfortunately no, its just a hobby. I'm an industrial designer which is still a fun creative profession so I can't really complain. |
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| Well... There have been some new people on this site, and i was thinking... I would resurect this thread, and see what new artists have to offer. Its not really a contest anymore, just an unnoficial gallery specifying photoshop. |
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| I would start a new thread so people don't have to scroll down so far. :P |
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| aight. |
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| Perhaps a little late to this thread but doggie mentioned the image created was with TwistedBrush, just a small point of interest perhaps is that TwistedBrush is a BlitzPlus application!! Ken |
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| Perhaps a little late to this thread Maybe just a little :/ |
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