What Would You Do #128

[windrider86]

Hope I got the number right this week
This image was sent to us by Douglas. Thank you for sharing this with us and letting us have our way with your photo!




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The rules are simple, edit the image anyway that you see fit, you can chamge the colors, change the content, add images, delete images, anything you want to do to it. But, you must post the steps you took to get to your final image.

This challenge is as much about learning as it is about sharing with others so that they may learn.

If you would like to submit a photo for the challenge please pm a medium sized image (all ready in html code is a big plus) and also a link to a larger version. Thanks

[naeno]

Meet Mittens!



All it took were the words, "Mommy, those look like kitty cat ears!" from my 5 yo to transform this lovely canoe into Mittens. (FYI, shoot me in the head before I try to do another one as elaborate as this one, ok?!)
I did this yesterday, and there were a lot of steps. I'm stretching my brain to remember.

Opened image, copied canoe, opened new transparent layer, copied canoe, rotate vertically, transform the canoe to get the lower portion of the cat head, create new layer, cloned the water to get the eyes, painted out eyelids in black, free selected the nose from the water, copied, pasted the nose and colorized pick, used color picker to get the correct color for the mouth, painted on mouth. Thought I was basically done, then decided to create the body. I must have been crazy. Copied canoe, created new transparent layer, pasted canoe, rotated vertically, transformed to get half of body and legs, duplicated the layer, scaled slightly to get the back legs, copied the guy, pasted him in a new layer, scaled him to make the tail (yes, it's a little sick and wrong, I admit), used the paintbrush to create the collar, created the tag in a new layer and wrote "Mittens" on her tag, created a new white layer and masked out anything I didn't want, did a perspective shadow behind her. Finally quit messing around with it, and decided I was done!

PS - Douglas, I LOVED this picture. It's absolutely beautiful.

[douglas]

Naeno...Wow, what an imagination,and a lot of work! I loved it.

[ydnew44]

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isolated canoe and figure from bkgrnd. dragged in some pics of spray and flowing water - did colour match as necess and blended waves around canoe. warped man forward a bit to match angle of canoe!

[windrider86]

cropped, added contrast, added trypstich script, added 2 frames that I had previously downloaded into PSP

[douglas]

Bob didn't believe what could appear at full moon, but.....



Cloned out the ship Added the shark fins, giant salmon, and croc,gave them a wake
adjusted brightness and contrast for night time
in filters light and shadow, added the "moon shine"

[Vail Marston]

I didn't have any particular goal in mind for this image. I think this canoeist has stumbled upon a top secret military experiment.

In Paint Shop Pro:

• Used the Pinch effect to adjust the perspective of the image.
• Added a sunset image on a new layer set to Difference to create the black sphere and clouds.
• Added the sunset image again, flipped it and applied motion blur to create a reflection.
• Added a cloud texture layer set to Overlay.
• Isolated the canoeist in a new layer and set to Burn to maintain the silhouette effect.
• Copied the merged image a couple of times, applied some random artistic effects and merged with the rest of the image with various blends.
• Applied noise reduction and adjusted the color balance.

[UniqPics]

Originally Posted by windrider86

cropped, added contrast, added trypstich script, added 2 frames that I had previously downloaded into PSP

This is very good. ;-)

[junglebear]

'Hunt for Red Oktoberfest'



Slightly adjusted colour of sea
Added beer and submarine
Changed hue of yellow to red in the beer

[Soda]

Basically cut out the canoeist, added to a background of a stock photo of a lava flow, some selective erasing with a little lightly on the opacity around the base of the canoe and a small inner glow of redish/orange... all done with Photoshop CS3 (which I'm still learning).

First post and LOVE this thread!