Ok first of all CT....HOLY ****ING **** ! Those are the sickest images I've seen. Just amazing. DaVulf, nice job ! You are doing great. Speaking of...I'm going to go brainstorm on the next volley.
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Ok first of all CT....HOLY ****ING **** ! Those are the sickest images I've seen. Just amazing. DaVulf, nice job ! You are doing great. Speaking of...I'm going to go brainstorm on the next volley.
Thanks Noise and Dave-O both. I really didn't think this was on par with my last two volleys, but I am glad that those who have seen it thus far seem to like it.
Can I go next or is this a one-on-one thing?
Just one on one I'm afraid :) Try looking around the arena to see if anyone is looking for a battle, or take part on one of the marked open battles. Or you could start one yourself. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by naughty_rick
Goodluck.
Yeah I really like this last one. Nice nice stuff. The one thing that caught my eye was that on some of the green leaves there was still a slight white edge. But really I am only mentioning it for the sake of it, it;s hardly noticeable :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DaVulf
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Originally Posted by ctranter
I noticed too, but I thought he did it on purpose :D
I have that same problem, I can never cut stuff out properly...
Sunflower leaves or tree leaves? The sunflower I painted out (with layer mask tool and a tablet laptop, which makes things a heck of a lot easier to cut), the fire background didn't involve any cutting, so any white there must be caused by the fire.
I did try to brown up some of the edges of the sunflower leaves because they looked closer to the fire. I'm glad you like the image though guys, it seems I'm on opposite footing most of the time with these things. Go figure.
hell yeah! i need to grow one of those!
lol. I love the way you did that Chris. :)
that is one sweet image, how'd you do that?
Very nice job on that last one C. You blending is right on. I love all the negative space as well. It really works for this image. The only thing catching my eye may be purposeful. I looks like when you were masking on the pedals straight above the guys eye, that your brush slipped ;) I know this can't be possible but it caught me eye mate.
Great battle so far guys. Keep them rolling.
That image looks so dark on this monitor at work compared to my macbook.
Wow! Magnificent.
Yep. Until I took it into PS and lightened it all I could see was the head surrounded by blackness.Quote:
Originally Posted by ctranter
lol that is all I was seeing as well. I actually think I personally like it better in the sea oh black, but it looks pretty cool seeing the background in there as well....Quote:
Originally Posted by RUSHVision
I will have to buy a macbook so I can fully appreciate your imageQuote:
Originally Posted by ctranter
Yeah buy me one to while you are at it. I mean you want everyone to full appreciate you battle don't you ;)
Amazing battle and images from the both of you. I really need to get back into PS...been too long.
Naw after Gerbick gets done ebegging we should all ebeg one at a time ;) first macbook the photoshop.... so on so forth
Alright guys, I've been on vacation this week so I haven't really been working too hard on the volley. This weekend is the long one, so I should have some time to get something done. It's surprising how this feels like a much harder leave than the others, really adds some challenge. Always nice to have a challenge :).
Okay big guy, I'm pretty happy with the way this one turned out.
http://www.briancomeau.net/fk/volley5g.jpg
Comments/Crits welcome.
Looks good DaVulf. one of you best.
My only critique... the rock of the man's face isnt the same color or type of rock as the rest of the stuff around it.
Thanks Dri. I tried to get the blending relatively close, I cloned the stone around the base of the 'neck' area. I tried to lighten it up with a soft light layer, but it didn't really do a ton of difference.
I'm glad you like it though :).
Nice work! As a layperson all I can say is I think the foreground doesn't sit naturally with the background. It has an 'overlaid' look.
I like it, DaVulf. I agree that it's one of your best. Personally, I think the sharp delineation between the mountain ranges does a great job of bringing the viewer's attention to the most important part of the image. The rocks on the head might be a little off, but overall I think you managed to pull it off rather well. I'm also diggin' the text. :thumbsup:
I don't know if it was intentional or not, but I'm seeing a hint of what could be a screaming face on the back of the guy's head. The concept of this fits so well with your message that I think it likely that you intended for that to be there, but I think I might have tried to push that inference a little farther. These are just suggestions, but here are a couple of ways I might have gone with it. One of the main things though, if you were to do nothing else, it looks like there should be far more light on the left side of the head based on the light that is present on the surrounding rocks. I also adjusted the levels on the hilltop just below the text in the examples below.
http://home.comcast.net/~mudabir/fla...ley5e_adj1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~mudabir/fla...ley5e_adj2.jpg
Rush, man, thanks for the critiques. You've always been my saviour with the lighting. How did you do some isolated levels to bring just that area to match? Did you copy the layer and do a mask, and then modify the levels on the head, or did you do the surrounding rock. For the lighting on the back of the head, did you put a soft-light clipping mask and paint some lighter colour in there, or is there another way to do it? Personally, I think your version looks better than mine, but I appreciate the kind comments nonetheless.
As far as the screaming face goes, I do like that concept. Although entirely unintentional, it would have been a good concept to run with. As always, I appreciate the clarity and depth of your criticisms. Thanks for that :).
I'll say first that I don't think those are perfect examples of how things should be, but I'll tell you how I got those results, anyway. :)
In regard to your question about how to do isolated level adjustments, there isn't any one answer that will fit every situation. In this particular case, all my adjustments (for the most part) were going to be made to the head only so I copied just that part into another layer. Then I did do a slight overall level adjustment, but that alone wasn't going to achieve the kind of lighting that I thought it required to match the rest of the scene. I think I also made the head a little more orange and increased the saturation a bit.
I started by doing some dodging and burning, but that will sometimes play havoc with your colors if you do too much of it. For the most part I worked on increasing the amount of light on the back of the head, but doing it in a way that also brought out specific details. So I dodged the back edge of his ear with a small brush because he either had no ear or there would be more light falling on it. I also burned the front of his chin because there was as much light falling on the side of his jawline as there was on his chin, and darkening it both served to give the head a little better dimensionality and more closely matched the light on the surrounding rocks.
After I had made those 'gross' adjustments, I took a picture of a screaming face (you might recognize the one in the top image as one of the March Madness stocks...the second is the same, it's just been manipulated more), stuck it over the head, scaled it, then used a Layer Mask to blend it in with the head. Then there was more dodging and burning, taking into account the specific features of the face that I wanted to highlight.
After all of this, I still wasn't completely pleased with the results so I used various parts of the surrounding rocks to clone light or dark portions onto the face on the back of the head. When you are doing this keep in mind that how soft the edge of the brush is and the opacity of it give you lots of different options as to how the cloned 'stamp' looks. If you are doing tiny areas keep the brush edge fairly sharp to retain details. Another thing I will often do is to do my cloning in a separate layer so I'm not initially altering my original pixels. Just check the box next to 'Sample All Layers'. If I like it I can always merge it later.
So the way I did it...and there are many others, I'm sure...was a combination of a lot of different things. For instance, when adjusting the levels on that one little mountain peak I just used a Quick Mask.
Thanks for the breakdown Rush. I can really see the difference that it makes to the images. Its nice that you conceptualize and come up with 'meaning' in images, I think that it would have helped if I had thought of that sort of thing before I finished the image. You're also right about the lighting. I tried doing a soft-light overlay in order to dodge and burn the layer, but it wasn't working for me. I suppose the more destructive dodging and burning might give a little better effect.
Again, thanks for taking the time man. I appreciate it :).
http://ctranter.co.uk/flashkit/battles/cliff/tree.jpg
eh... not so happy with this. Couldn't work the idea how I wanted and have just been a bit busy recently.
Still looks pretty good to me, Chris. We didn't set a return time for images, so it doesn't matter how long you take :). If you're busy, then no worries.
The image is nice looking, I love how sharp the foreground is, and the angle of the image. The text is pretty well done as well. I'm not entirely a fan of the colour scheme used, but I can see you were going for the more 'dismal forest' type look. Again, it looks pretty nice. I will start on a return when I've got some time this weekend.
Alright boyo, it's been a while but I've finished it.
Thanks to Nat for some help. MASSIVE thanks to Rush for his contributions :).
http://www.briancomeau.net/fk/ctvolley6d.jpg
I hope you guys like it, I'm really feeling the sense of this image.
Comments/Crits?
gotta be your best yet davulf. Great lighting and colors.
Some of the textures on the walls seem to be a tad off, especially the white ones on the right.
Also there seems to be a problem where the stairs and the girl's dress meet. It seems there should be some sort of shadow there. The hand on the girl seems to not have enough shadow on teh fingers that meet the window pane as well.
The far left corner seems too dark to me. The wall being dark is fine, but some points of the leaves on the ground should have alighter feel to them only for consistency sake.
i'm just picking things apart ...but it's awesome otherwise :thumbsup:
The white things don't bother me too much and I agree with the shading on the right, I also might have pulled the saturation on the reds in the leaves a little. Looks like a little too much hasty use of the burn tool (maybe a little over use).
I like the crispness and color of the girl in contrast to her surroundings. This is really cool image.
random thoughts
somethin about her feet are really kinda creepin me out
would there be red foliage on the ground when it's all green outside?
I was looking back on youre last few cause I been likin your text and I noticed the last 2 images have very similar quotes
Lefty: Thanks for the comments man. I'm glad you enjoyed the image. I know what you mean about the shadows on the left side of the image, it is dark and I should maybe have added more light.
JWin: Although the burn tool may also have caused a similar effect, I don't actually use that tool as it tends to be destructive. The feet might be creeping you out because they aren't the right proportions... They're actually small for a girl her size. The last two images are both about silence. My first one about silence started it, and then Chris' image seemed to follow into the silence theme. This last one just followed that same trend.
Thanks for the comments guys :).
you've made the window bigger. Youre still using the stock of the deformed chick and overall the image is darker than the origional.
Theres really no need to thank me, you've disregarded what I had to say about the image in the first place. Sorry if thats harsh.
Nat, this is a version 'd'. I had an external focus, and I tried messing with the proportions of the girl.
After several attempts, I just wasn't pulling off the look I was going for. It doesn't mean I don't appreciate your help.
So when is this battle going to continue?!@
:)
Not my volley ;).
all the pictures are alsome and way out of my leage i am learning more advace photoshop but my strong point is illistator and creating logos.
Soon, now i'm back hopefully :)Quote:
Originally Posted by WannaBe_80z