A children's book cover for a book about a bear. In Holland we have a saying, loosly translated as seeing bears on the road, which means that you see problems everywhere.
That is what the book is about. I illustrated the bear, and used alien skin eye candy for the fur. Further i adapted the type, to make it look like grass.
No external sources used.
(5 years and 2475 days ago)
I replaced the sky in the original photo, (with masking) and made a mist effect on the water to create a unworldy kind of look. For this i used gaussian blur and twirl. Added more detail to it with white lines and another blur, twirl. Masked out the rocks for more effect.
The sky comes from Stockxng, a photo from Shannonc5 named incredible sun and sky.
Yesterday i made a robot for the chadelier contest, but found out i couldn't enter yet. I made it solely out of the source picture. I added it to the scene, to make it more interesting.
I primarly used transform, a lot of layers and masking to create the robot. Shadow and highlight detail was made though black and white with several layer blending modes.
Created shadows with free transform, blur and blending modes. after that applied color overlays.
(5 years and 3560 days ago)
A couple on a romantic trip, for them it's a nice evening 'out' as you can see.
Transformed the bulbs into (R2D2's brighter cousin) a bulb person, and pasted it into the background. Applied a cool photofilter and a lens blur to finish
Guide will follow later (5 years and 3554 days ago)
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Nice done! 
Don't get me wrong I like it, it fits more with the theme than most others in the contest.... BUT I would say it fits more into the digital drawing contest side of things rather than a PS contest, as judging by your description it seems only minimal use of Photoshop was used, but ill wait for your step by step.
There, the guide is added as promised
@JamesD: I understand where you're coming from, however i see a lot of PS entries that have been digitally painted. I don't see why this is different.
hehehehe... love the whole concept
and even though I don't know the language the whole description really helps the whole concept.. great job and good luck 
RE my original comment, In your original description you said that you used sketchbook pro to illustrate - and from what I assumed colour!! My original point was to highlight that in order for your entry to be more in line with a PS contest; that it be completely illustrated or at least the bulk of it illustrated in PS and not in another piece of software....
Yes people will submit digitally painted entries; but they will have used PS when entering these contests - you can use whatever you like in the drawing contests...............
So in answer to your post regarding that comment..... that was the problem!!
ANYWAY!!! -
Congrats with the deserved win
Great entry
Congrats Duke
fabulous work
Congrats!
Howdie stranger!
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