I may or may not do an SBS for this one.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GUMO_hitching_post.JPG
Hitching Post - TY Fredlyfish4
https://pixabay.com/en/wishing-well-well-old-wood-wooden-76869/
Well - TY Kaz
https://pixabay.com/en/moon-half-moon-half-moonlight-322222/
Moon - TY 185053
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Night_Sky_Stars_Trees_03.jpg
Stars - TY Michael J. Bennett
http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/Prairie-Canada-Tall-Grass-Sky-Saskatchewan-873906
Tall Grass - TY CC0 Public Domain
http://pixelstains.deviantart.com/art/3-Particle-Brushes-for-Photoshop-517711672
Particle Bruses for Tree Leaves - TY pixelstains
http://palnk.deviantart.com/art/Smoke-Brushes-318849260
Chimney Smoke Brushes - TY palnk
(5 years and 980 days ago)

5 Comments

metal, horse, book, waterfall, creek

demi says:

Congrats

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George55 says:

Congratulations.

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Drivenslush says:

Congrats!

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lolu says:

Congrat !

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skyangel says:

Congratulations BWR.

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Mostly from source. (5 years and 1013 days ago)

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guitar, bwr, metal, bug

Drivenslush says:

ya ya.. the steampunky swat

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author says:

What's a "steampunky swat"?

(5 years and 1011 days ago)

Drivenslush says:

It's a steam punk bug that's going to get a swat... I don't know.. leave me alone, I'm not paid to think.. hehehe (great job by the way LOL)

(5 years and 1011 days ago)

demi says:

very nice

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author says:

Thank you demi!!

(5 years and 1011 days ago)

wedoo2 says:

Clever stuff. SWAT

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author says:

You guys are freaking me out with this SWAT stuff. I feel so out of the loop sometimes.

(5 years and 1009 days ago)

velkanx says:

Aww a steampunk fly! Love it

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author says:

Mahalo velkanx.

I really didn't intend to make it steampunky, but I reckon that's how people are seeing it. I just wanted it to look like someone made a metal bug in their garage or something. I don't even know what kind of bug it is.

(5 years and 1009 days ago)

velkanx says:

Na'u ka hau'oli
Maybe I love steampunk thats why but the result is great in anyway Good luck

(5 years and 1009 days ago)

spaceranger says:

Hoohiwahiwa koʻu hoa!!

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author says:

Mahalo oe i koʻu hoaaloha!

(Thank you my friend)

(If anyone wants to know what spaceranger said: "Congratulations my friend !!"

(5 years and 1009 days ago)

demi says:

Congrats

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author says:

THANKS DEMI

(5 years and 1009 days ago)

velkanx says:

Congrats

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author says:

Aloha velkanx

(5 years and 1009 days ago)

madamemonty says:

Congrats

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author says:

Are you copying the two posts above you?

Mahalo sister. (I am assuming by your name that you are female).

(5 years and 1009 days ago)

WYSIWYG says:

Cojgratzzzz!

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author says:

Thanks WYSIWYG.

(5 years and 1004 days ago)

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Are you made of gold or some harder metal? How much heat can you stand before you melt?

The work was inspired by the movie Terminator 2 in which the T1000 is a metal shape changer. I wanted the end result to look more like melting metal than melting wax. If you have any tips for improvement, please share.

Process: Cut out model. Make new background by painting a new layer with black and overlaying the flames on screen mode. Mask out unwanted bits, desaturate and darken the green bits.
Use some cloned flames for the ground and push them around with the smudge tool, then liquify to make it look like a puddle.
Add some smoke around the flames.
Lighten model as much as possible, use plastic wrap filter, then chrome filter over the plastic wrap. Draw some drop sections over the model freehand, copy and paste them in various places. Use puppet warp, liquify and smudge tools on model parts to increase the melting effect and blend the feet into the ground puddle. Adjust levels and curves. Add colour from the flames. I used two new layers for the colour and blended them using colour and colour burn blend modes. Merge all layers and save. Took the end result into filter forge to add a black frame.
That's it in a nutshell. I played around a lot more than that, trying different effects and ended up scrapping a lot of layers. That is why
I did not make an SBS with pictures. I started trying to make one but I changed my mind because I scrapped and changed too many things in the process. (5 years and 1051 days ago)

10 Comments

Melted, metal, gold, fire

finnphotography says:

Looks like you put a lot of work into this masterpiece. Hopefully it wins!

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author says:

Thank you very much. I am honoured that you consider it to be a masterpiece.

(5 years and 1051 days ago)

Drivenslush says:

I've been in that mood.. but usually some MiraLAX clears that up in a couple of days... I AM JUST KIDDING.. but I couldn't resist.. giggle snort..

Great job all round

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author says:

A slushy mood or a hard metal mood? I think Miralax would just make you feel more like sitting down in your own private room or more "sitty". Add an "h" in there next to the s.
I left it out deliberately so as not to offend any tender readers who have not reached adult age yet. Hopefully they are too young to figure it out.

(5 years and 1049 days ago)

spaceranger says:

Congrats Angel!!

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author says:

Thank you

(5 years and 1043 days ago)

Moderator says:

Congrats on 3rd place!

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author says:

Thank you

(5 years and 1043 days ago)

still26 says:

WOW...I just popped over to the Photoshopped Section and the imagination, the skill it takes to do this just blows me away...BUT HECK...you already know that...

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author says:

Thanks Olga.

(5 years and 1042 days ago)

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Recycled rusty scrap metal sculptures.
Created totally from source image. (5 years and 1093 days ago)

Before the pyramids in Egypt were built, metal structures of enormous proportions were found everywhere. Where did they come from? What was the purpose of building them in the desert? You guess it... Alien cultures lived on Planet Earth? (5 years and 1327 days ago)

14 Comments

Metal, Structures, Desert

LifetimeDamage says:

The box you made looks great, but the shadows of the people en donkeys goes up, the box shadow is on the other side. great idea.

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author says:

Thanks for comment... you mean the shadow should be behind the box or at the front.... a little higher. I see the shadow on the camels, down.

(5 years and 1327 days ago)

CMYK46 says:

The shadows of the figures are sharp and dark. Try to make the shadows of the metal objects match. The light source in the source photo is from upper left, so your shadows should show that too.

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author says:

Thanks Bob, I made some changes....

(5 years and 1327 days ago)

Verikakis says:

Nice concept !

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author says:

Thanks...

(5 years and 1326 days ago)

Drivenslush says:

There goes the neighborhood

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author says:

Hey Driven.. yes, they will have an ice cream stand in the corner of the cube.

(5 years and 1325 days ago)

Drivenslush says:

Congrats

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author says:

Thanks.

(5 years and 1323 days ago)

spaceranger says:

Congrats George!!

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author says:

Thanks Rein....

(5 years and 1323 days ago)

TorDoni says:

Congrats George.

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Verikakis says:

Congrats

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