What Would You Do (#83)

[Saralonde]

It's Saturday and time for a new "What Would You Do". This is from one of our Critique Moderators, Windrider86. How did you get that picture, Windrider ?



Here's a link to the larger version:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3094/...2aa7af5b_b.jpg

As usual, the game follows some very simple rules. Use the photo in this post. Edit it, then come back and show us what you did and tell us how you got there so that we can learn from your experience. It doesn't matter whether you use Picnik, Picasa, Photoshop, you can participate as long as you have something to edit the shot with.

If you would like one of your pictures to be featured in one of these WWYD threads, simply drop Nicole a PM with a link to the medium and large version of the photo.

Now, let's see what you would do!

[peeperita]

coffee was the only drug involved.....

i made a selection of the snake, altered it with too heavy of a hand in liquify, copied that twice and using my transform tool moved and flipped the other two now dragon-snakes til i was happy...between them i offered up a couple of layers of shadows so they didn't look just pasted on top of each other.....the snakes were tweaked as one image with usm, contrast, and a little bit of plastic wrap.....

i used an old smoke image of mine for the background, but i did make a few copies of it, moved them around, erased some of the overlapping portions until, once again, my coffee addled brain was happy....

to unify the color of the snakes and my background, i placed a solid color adjustment layer of a pinkish-purple over the whole thing....

this was fun.....strange, but fun....

peeper

[naeno]

This was the ONLY thing I could see in my head!



In GIMP:
Opened pic, increased canvas size, masked out unwanted portions around snake, found and opened pic of Mowgli as a layer, masked out unwanted portions of Mowgli, created a new layer, used the Pepper brush to fill the layer, used gaussian blur of 50.0 to blur layer, messed with curves and levels of layer, moved that layer to the background, rotated Mowgli, created new layer and added text, created new layer and put an elliptical selection around the text, created a path to make the "pokey" part to the mouth, add the path to the selection, filled with white, stroked selection with black to create boarder around the bubble, flattened image.

[Teewinot]

peeperita, that is totally awesome!!!!

[peeperita]

Originally Posted by Teewinot

peeperita, that is totally awesome!!!!

thanks, tee......i didn't know where i was going until i got there.....

[Crane]

Peeper, I'm gonna have nightmares with it!!!!

[Crane]

FIRE SNAKE!!!


Added a Vignette.
Added a gradient map adjustment layer. The gradien was red on the dark side, yellow on the bright side.
Changed blending mode to overlay and flattened.
Added a new layer and painted the flames using the normal brush and that tool that distorts things (It's a little white hand with a finger sticking down... sorry, my Photoshop is in Portuguese, so I have probelms translating the names of the tools...)

[private]

Peeper - absolutely divine. That can easily be a poster - I can actually see it painted on a motercycle. A Harley - I keep scrolling up to look at it - just great!

[windrider86]

peep, this is probablybest pp work I have ever seen you do! Fantastic! as is Mougli and the fire snake.
Now I just gotta figure out what a liquify is.lol

[douglas]

peeperita...that is wonderful (makes me realize I have a lot to learn!!!!)