Wwyd #96!

[windrider86]

OK folks it's that time again for the famous What Would you Do Challenge.
Rules are simple:
The rules of the game are simple. Edit the photo in this post, in anyway that you see fit. Change it, boost the colors, give it a border, change the background, just use your imagination. Then come back and tell us how you did it. Easy as that!

Now, let's see what you would do!



If you would like your image to be posted please send me a medium sized photo (html code would be a plus) and a link to a larger version

This weeks image is from the lovely and talented Peeperita Thanks for sending me your image!


Link to larger image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peeperi...52216/sizes/o/

[draftie]

He's a pretty little fish, he just needed to be in the right setting.

In photoshop, I silhouetted and pasted fish on another layer. Background was darkened, then added ocean wave. Fish was sharpened and slightly brightened and enlarged and then I flattened layers.

[NZMXr]

New Layer
used hue brush to colour fish
flattened image and took curves to an extreme to give the impression of a glowing fish in deep water
sorry didnt spend as much time on this as I would like I just have a couple of hundred Motox images to process before the end of the month, just did this to give me a break from the same subject over and over

[windrider86]

OK are you ready? I am gonna make this as short and sweet as I can.Took me about 2 hours.
Mirror image, create frame from ready made frames in psp,on a new layer, used pick tool set at free form, move corners to make frame appear to be tilted. add drop shadow. erase areas where fish should be showing thru. add tiger eyes and erase areas not to show. Using lasso tool trace around both eyes. Change to target-paint eyes green. Enlarge canvas so there is a white border. use pick tool again and manipulate corners as before. add drop shadow. use lasso tool again to trace inside white border (on a new layer) Flaming Pear flood tool and erase areas at different opacity levels to suit. On orginal background layer paste new image for new background. merge all layers. duplicate. set blend mode to muliply

[jiminyClickit]

The fish of peeperita and windrider's avatar - made for each other

After a small crop:

- Added sign shape and text; copied sign, darkened, blurred, distorted for shadow
- Copied avatar, applied to fish's face, distorted shape to fit, erased extra bits, smudged to blend in
- Copied/pasted Hershey's Kiss from Yahoo! images; created shadow same as sign
- Added line and hook, placed kiss on hook.

[windrider86]

OMG, Jiminy, this is great! You had me scared when I got your pm but getting up to find this in the morning gave me a big fat smile. You're a nut!

NZMXr: Love the neon green and gradient, really made the fish POP and gave it depth
Draftie: the waves was a great odea, I particularly like the reflection of the fish witht he same color in the water

[naeno]

Duplicated fish layer, selected around fish and used gradient tool to turn him into a rainbow, reduced opacity of rainbow layer, merged the two layers, opened actual rainbow as a layer, masked out fish area, applied mask, messed with levels, flattened.

[Nathan deGargoyle]

Duplicated and rotated the background layer 3 times then combined and cropped square so I had 4 fish swimming in a circle in a square image. Then applied Josh Summers Mathmap Droste9 code to make the spiral.

So no excuses now. Get GIMP get Mathmap and make your own Escher Droste!

More and better drostes here at the Escher Droste Pool on Flickr

[douglas]

Flipped fish, and rotated a bit.Found a shark picture resized, and pasted in the head of the shark, and sized both images, common background colour, and added text. Douglas

[windrider86]

3 incredible and imaginative images. well done!