NJP3 vs ondraedan: Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

• Keep it at or over 700x400 pixels
• Use an aspect of the previous image
• 3 images each
• 72 hours turnaround is encouraged

I thought I'd just use my R3 image to start us off.
http://www.thecureforcommon.com/battles/r3.jpg

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i don't know how you find your stocks, but they are always spot on. nice crisp image :thumbsup:

Thank you, ladies. Carly, most of the stocks I used in this one are from sxc.hu but the shepherd is from AilinStock over at deviantart. Again, thank you ;)

Very cool concept O, and you pulled it off nicely!

i saw that image on your website yesterday O and didnt know where it was from.

a hah!

yea i like that image alot, esp the light from the windows, i messed with that idea with the stock a bit but didn't really get it to work. I'll be out of town until monday man, but i'll try and return as quick as i can.

Thanks CI!

It's cool NJ, I've got plenty of battling to do against 2bad4u and extricate to keep me busy in the meantime.

i like the text.

Yeah the text is nice but the sshadowing of the text on the snow is hot nice little detail there. the wolf in the hood looks very believable and the yellow eyes is another nie little detail.

http://nj.njp3.com/why.jpg

hopefully i'll have a bit more time to put into next round's image

Ra! :) Great band NJP3, good choice for a quote. Sorry for pointing that out if you didn't want it to be, but you did pick my favorite band...

So happy to find other Ra fans out there. Great song. Nifty image.

Very nice image NJ! Though I'm not familiar with Ra, maybe I'll check them out.

luv the work but im lost like you O im not familiar with Ra either again though nice pieces good and clean.

song is Ra - Tell Me..i recommend it highly, along with: Do You Call My Name
glad you guys like the image.

that house stock image is making its way around the arena

Nice image man. I like the rays coming from the house

Because I can.

http://www.thecureforcommon.com/batt...omebubbles.jpg

Holy Anorexia Batman! seriously cool. Very bright, lotsa color. woot.

crazy picture, cool colours, and i love the ridiculously large eyes.

the distortion of the background through the bubbles is nicely done too.

it bothers me though that there seems to be one too many bumps around the hip area (on the left).

Thanks guys!

carly, the seemingly excess bumps on the left hip are because of the bubble distortion.

oh yeah you're right- sorry! just didn't look right at first glance.

haha. sweet image man, i like it. Quick turnaround too.

I really dig that last one O, the colors are vibrant and the blending/shadows are great.

edit: I just noticed a little black line on the left where the bubble is going off of the canvas. Not a big deal but it caught my eye.

Thanks NJ and CI!
Yeah, I thought I had gotten all the black from the left side there, guess not...Strange that I didn't notice it though.

crazy eyes!

I really like how the girl has a look like she was made from a really good animation, rather than an actual stock photo

soorry i havent returned, just been busy. soon though i promise

It's fine man take your time.

O, I must have missed that last image somehow. Really nice. I've noticed that all of your images look really crisp. How do you get them to look like that? Is it the stock, or some sort of treatment that you give?

For instance, that girl looks perfectly crisp, although clearly she has been chopped. Likewise, that grass looks perfect. Did you get that from sxc?

Thank you DaVulf! I am always careful to choose high quality stock, and that certainly helps with the crispness. In cases like the girl, where there's a fair amount of distortion involved that really kills the crispness, I'll sometimes use the smudge tool and smooth out any graininess, and then use the polygonal lasso, paintbucket, and dodge/burn to reconstruct edges that have become too blurry. And yes, the grass is from sxc, I believe.

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/8...pletemeze5.jpg

It's a couple days late, but it's here. Hard to distinguish the carried aspect, but since I didn't want to use my last image again, I used the white background in the snow. No prizes for creativity this time around =(

http://www.thecureforcommon.com/battles/innovate.jpg

Love it, and a nice use of lens flare :)

And nice one, NJ, good work on the blending.

I like both those images O and NJP3. Love the idea of NJp3's image

The text in both of them (more so in NJP3s') is a little hard to read on at least my bright Mac display.

i love NJP3's image. very simple and to the point yet also eye pleasing. The only issue i have with it, would be the puzzle itself. I know you used a stock photo for this, but what i would have loved would be for the missing puzzle piece to be the girl's head. I think that would have added an extra dimension to the image. Pulls things apart a bit more. Otherwise damn near perfect.