dricciotti VS. >flashl!ght< ::: Castles in the Clouds

[Adobemedia]

Flashlight, that looks really intense. Dricciotti, nice idea.

[>flashl!ght<]

Okay, sorry for the gratuitous delay; I am back in action after some business travels.

I liked the butterfly theme. Not any interesting concept here just messing with effects.

[squidlips]

absolutely love flashlights first image. greating lighting, stella cloud manip (i'd be interested to know what/how you did this) and i'm a sucka for vignettes.

[Dricciotti]

Very nice flashlight. I like the color palette, which is something im a sucka for

[>flashl!ght<]

stella cloud manip (i'd be interested to know what/how you did this)

Basically what I did (for both images) is looked for shapes in clumpy cloud images where there were entire clouds against a background, then I roughly lasso'd them out and desaturated and used levels/curves to get a white cloud on black background, then used screen blendmode to isolate it. I just arranged maybe a dozen different cloud shapes to try and get the form I wanted. Then I put some cloud shadows back in using multiply blendmode to get some body back into it (the all-white from the screen blend looked just very flat.) Only a little bit of erasing and cloning here and there to get clean/soft edges where it looked awkward.

[Dricciotti]

I used the same technique on my first 2 images (more on the second). I drew an outline of the object I wanted, and set it to a low opacity so I could see where to put the clouds.

[Dricciotti]

I tried to recreate the ribbons from your last volley. They are a lot harder than I thought

[>flashl!ght<]

Dude, very cool, another great concept too. This gives me lots of ideas.

[Dricciotti]

This was the original image I made in response to your volley. It was closer to keeping elements, but I didnt like it much.

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