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Iris Chaimberlain

Iris Chaimberlain

I took a picture of a friend of mine and made a vector of it. Lots and lots of pen tool used to select areas and fill them with color. The only source used was the picture of my friend that you can see in the step by step.

For: mixed manipulations 5 contest

» Comments: 25
» Score: 62.36%
» Rank: 1 out of 21

Gas Mask Creature

Gas Mask Creature

Decided to make the mask into a creature! Everything is made out of pieces of the mask or just painted in. I wanted to spend more time on it, but I was cutting it close to the dead line. Either way I am pleased with the out come, what do you think :)

For: gas mask contest

» Comments: 22
» Score: 68.37%
» Rank: 1 out of 11

Evil on the Playground

Evil on the Playground

There is always some evil on the playground. I just took that thought and ran with it! Absolutely everything but the background I made in photoshop. Lots of work with creating textures, and lots of layer styles, and well lots and lots and lots of layers :)

For: good vs evil contest

» Comments: 17
» Score: 67.77%
» Rank: 1 out of 14

Destructive Curiosity

Destructive Curiosity

Absolutely 100% created in photoshop! Took a really really long time, but I feel the work was worth it.

For: mixed manipulations 6 contest

» Comments: 18
» Score: 65.88%
» Rank: 1 out of 19

My Tiny Seeing Organ

My Tiny Seeing Organ

I Spy a squirrel, a giraffe, and a curly tailed Monkey. A mantis, a cyclist, and the statue of Liberty. I used more source images on this piece then I have ever used for anything, and I also think that I spent more time on this than anything else before! All the sources (minus one font set) ar...

For: i spy contest

» Comments: 11
» Score: 59.07%
» Rank: 3 out of 9

Cornelius

Cornelius

I came across some great brush sets and decided to do some painting!!

For: self chops contest

» Comments: 12
» Score: 61.44%
» Rank: 2 out of 24

Ogellax

Ogellax

This nocturnal squirrel sized critter has a luminescent ball on its tail that is meant to attract bugs for it to eat. Unfortunately it also attracts the Ogellax. Mesmerized by the glow of its own tail, it sits all night just waving the ball in its face and staring.

For: flanimals dd contest

» Comments: 16
» Score: 62.24%
» Rank: 4 out of 10

Please don't tap the Robot

Please dont tap the Robot

Who doesn't want a robot powered by fish? I mean come on, you get a cool glass robot, that takes care of your fish for you! Please take a look at the high res if you have minute, there is more detail than you can see in the small picture, thanks :)

For: unusual robots contest

» Comments: 10
» Score: 57.77%
» Rank: 3 out of 6

Throne of Flames

Throne of Flames

A friend of mine gave me an awesome source image to work from, of a guy sitting on a bed. So I decided to ditch the bed and have him sitting in fire instead! (seeing as this is a "fire people" contest I thought that was a good decision). :)

For: fire people contest

» Comments: 17
» Score: 59.72%
» Rank: 3 out of 22

Angel of Light

Angel of Light

I spent forever making the wings, then got to busy throughout the week to do what I had hoped with them. But I liked the wings so much I had to do something. So I crammed this together last minute, hope everyone likes it :) For some reason I can't get it to upload any more steps to the step by st...

For: containers contest

» Comments: 10
» Score: 53.84%
» Rank: 8 out of 13

Playful Penguins

Playful Penguins

There is a wonderful Penguin exhibit at a zoo in Syracuse NY. I just did a bit of brightness contrast, some color editing, and a touch of sharpening. I was going to clean up some of the little scratches and floaties, but I wasn't sure if that counted as something you could edit, plus I kinda like t...

For: wild animals 2 contest

» Comments: 3
» Score: 68%
» Rank: 4 out of 81

That Doggie in the Window

That Doggie in the Window

Was walking the streets of NYC and had a really hard time passing this little guy.

For: cuteness 2 contest

» Comments: 5
» Score: 68.82%
» Rank: 1 out of 49

Lips in Lamp Light

Lips in Lamp Light

I had my model where extremely red lipstick. Then I desaturated the entire image a lot and because red was the only prominent color I think it really pops now. I'd love to select just the lips and really push it further, but that would be for a photoshop contest :) I also had to use a curses move to...

For: smoking contest

» Comments: 4
» Score: 68.93%
» Rank: 3 out of 21

Inked Beauty

Inked Beauty

A friend of mine who happens to have lots of wonderfully colorful tattoos! I did lots and lots of sharpening, some brightness/contrast, color balance and some saturating.

For: contest

» Comments: 8

Her New Addition

Her New Addition

A friend of mine got a new tattoo recently so the colors are still really vibrant! I did use a selective color adjustment layer to pop the cyans a little and a big curves move to brighten the whole picture a lot. As well as some smart sharpening ad a slight contrast edit. The photoshopper in me desp...

For: contest

» Comments: 11

CitySet

CitySet

Wide angle lens shot of a beautiful sunset over....well I'm not sure which city this technically is. I took it from a peer on (I believe it was) the west side of NYC, but this shots pretty old so I'm not totally sure. Just did a bit of color adjusting, some brightness/contrast, saturation, and some ...

For: sunsets contest

» Score: 62.71%
» Rank: 21 out of 80

Sun on Snow

Sun on Snow

Believe it or not there was roughly three feet of snow on the ground! This was taken near Chatauqua Lake in NY. Just a disclaimer, the black in the corners was not added in post, it happens with the wide angle lens that screws onto the end of my other lenses when you zoom all the way out.

For: sunsets contest

» Comments: 1
» Score: 66.58%
» Rank: 6 out of 80

Night Bend

Night Bend

A cool building just up the street from my parents house. I think this was roughly a 30 second exposure. In post I kept wanting to do some sort of color swing or sharpening effect, but nothing I did seemed to make it any better. Just goes to show that sometimes a picture stands its ground! I did end...

For: time lapse 2 contest

» Comments: 2
» Score: 68.19%
» Rank: 7 out of 36

Trees of Yellow

Trees of Yellow

Minute and a half exposure! Believe it or not this park was very very dark. The brightest blue light in the middle is a lamp post, that was the closest light to me. Back a bit from that there is a street with street lights, and a couple cars did go by. There is a factory behind me that lit the tree...

For: time lapse 2 contest

» Comments: 4
» Score: 59.47%
» Rank: 26 out of 36

Night Lights

Night Lights

I took this several years ago, but if I remember correctly this was about a 40 second exposure. The warmer lights on the right side are coming from a salt plant, and the colder blue lights on the left are coming from a Wal-Mart. It was a much wider picture, I just cut off the top and bottom to get t...

For: time lapse 2 contest

» Comments: 1
» Score: 62.89%
» Rank: 19 out of 36

Gummy Demise

Gummy Demise

My sister makes a great model :) well her and one very blue gummy bear. Did a bit of brightness contrast, some sharpening and some saturation.

For: body parts 2 contest

» Comments: 4
» Score: 65.43%
» Rank: 1 out of 38

The Parrosus

The Parrosus

This took pretty much all weekend. A LOT of hours, but the further I got into it the more I was liking it, so I just kept going and going! Finding new places that I thought there needed to be feathers and so on. It was a ton of fun to make, hope you all enjoy it :)

For: new species contest

» Comments: 32
» Score: 74.38%
» Rank: 1 out of 28

Battle Seahorse

Battle Seahorse

I knew I wanted to do this contest but it took me a long time to deiced what. I was almost going to but armor on a regular horse, but that just seemed to typical, then I realized I was just thinking of the wrong type of horse :)

For: armour all contest

» Comments: 22
» Score: 75.97%
» Rank: 1 out of 3

The Warmth

The Warmth

This little buy is just a couple weeks old. I shot it in front of a huge window with a thin sheet hung over it. Did some work in the raw developer to make it extra bright and glowy :)

For: parent child contest

» Comments: 1
» Score: 65.67%
» Rank: 10 out of 48