No Painting - Photoshop Contest [18 entries]

Winning entry, with a score of:

73.1%

Contest goal:

Filters, Adjustments, Masks, Patterns, Fills, Liquify, and Transform. The powerful tools in Photoshop allow you to create without the ability to draw - IF you know how to use them.

The goal: To create an image using any and every manipulation tool available to you EXCEPT the Paintbrush tool. NO drawing, except for making selections, which you can then stroke or fill... Are you up to the challenge? Step by step is mandatory in this contest.

Status: finished. Check out the winners below!

Suggested by: MossyB

DigitalDreamer: Good challenge

it's fun to paint like this ( 5 years and 3017 days ago )

DigitalDreamer: erm draw like this I mean lol
( 5 years and 3017 days ago )

arca: Are you able to use photo's? ( 5 years and 3017 days ago )

minnie: I was going to ask the same... can we use photos or must it be all original? ( 5 years and 3017 days ago )

DigitalDreamer: Came back to ask if we could use a photo for reference hehe ( 5 years and 3017 days ago )

scratzilla1: YEA< a contest for ME,, I am one who can not draw,, , ME TOO. would like to know what you can use for your base medium.

( 5 years and 3017 days ago )

scratzilla1: just an AFTER thought... how about dodge and burn tool???? This is a brush painting type application. ( 5 years and 3017 days ago )

Hayato: Ha! This challenge might be intended for me... I'm eager to enter this with fang & claw. Since Brush is forbidden. So, let's see that I'm also able to do this. No cintiq, No intuos, No problem.

( 5 years and 3016 days ago )

Contest Moderator: As I read the goal, your entries should only be using using the tools of your graphics program, with the exception of the paintbrush tool. So everything made from scratch, no photos, no images from tubes etc. ( 5 years and 3016 days ago )

Drivenslush: Dodge and Burn USE the Paintbrush tool, so are those out as well? (and any other tool that uses the brush?) ( 5 years and 3015 days ago )

Contest Moderator: Dodge and burn are allowed, as they are more often used for highlights and shadows than digital painting. ( 5 years and 3015 days ago )

Drivenslush: YIPPEEE.. thanks mod

( 5 years and 3015 days ago )

Glockman: mod, What if one uses painter, there are a bunch of filters that are photo-realistic of all sorts of things, birds, plants ,fixtures ext ext. are they allowed ?? ( 5 years and 3014 days ago )

Contest Moderator: No Glockman, they are like the tubes that some programs use, and will not be allowed. If anyone submits something that looks very realistic, they will need to provide a detailed sbs, and I will ask for more detail to be provided if I am not satisfied. ( 5 years and 3014 days ago )

dollmommy: Does the work have to be done in photoshop or can Illustrator be used instead? ( 5 years and 3013 days ago )

Contest Moderator: @ dollmommy, any graphics program is ok ( 5 years and 3011 days ago )

MossyB: Other members seem to have been able to create images without using the Paintbrush Tool, so evidently following the contest rules wasn't THAT hard to do. It doesn't matter in what mode the Paintbrush Tool is used, painting OR masking, this contest does not allow for it.

ANY tutorial or SBS can hopefully help other members "learn something useful," but to state it so aggressively does not encourage anyone to want to watch it, even for just entertainment value...
~M ( 5 years and 3009 days ago )

CMYK46: "NO drawing, except for making selections, which you can then stroke or fill."
How hard is that to understand? ( 5 years and 3009 days ago )

Contest Moderator: Any entry submitted after 2000hrs GMT Friday 12th August will be removed ( 5 years and 3009 days ago )

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Coral Reef - created by George55

Favs: 16

SBS: 13

Hi-res

Rank: 1/18

Score: 73.1% (44)

14925 views

Selections, fills, filters, Transform tool, Dodge / Burn, Liquify - warp. Some of the suggested elements for this contest. No brush or painting used at all. Just an old PS program that I still have.

Anemonae desaturated and lowered brightness.

Fish, one of them, burned more lines to make it different from the other. (5 years and 3012 days ago)

31 Comments

Coral, Reef

Summer day - created by CMYK46

Favs: 10

SBS: 23

Hi-res

Rank: 2/18

Score: 68.3% (34)

11378 views

(5 years and 3013 days ago)

18 Comments

day, Summer

Big Stars - created by CorneliaMladenova

Favs: 9

SBS: 8

Hi-res

Rank: 3/18

Score: 66.8% (27)

23596 views

Only Photoshop used (5 years and 3010 days ago)

10 Comments

Big, Stars, night, glow, gold

Across the universe - created by CMYK46

Favs: 2

SBS: 22

Hi-res

Rank: 4/18

Score: 66.2% (22)

10079 views

Thanks to Greg Martin for the star field tutorial.
Except for the tut, everything is made from scratch. (5 years and 3011 days ago)

1 Source:

1: Star field tutorial by Greg Martin

8 Comments

Across, the, universe

Bucket of Pearls - created by lchappell

Favs: 4

SBS: 9

Hi-res

Rank: 5/18

Score: 65.9% (16)

10902 views

Picture was created by filling shapes created with tools other than the "paint brushes."Things like the selection tool rectangular and circular, shapes created with pen tool. Colors and gradient fills developed the depth along with dodge and burn tools for shading and lighting. Assorted filters for textures and layer styles along with blend and opacity corrections were used. (5 years and 3011 days ago)

11 Comments

Bucket, Pearls

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