Musical Desert
After adding and removing flutes, piano keys, and other musical elements, it became apparent that less was more for this entry. Musical notes were created by hand, then applied layer styles, shadows, etc.
For: violin contest
After adding and removing flutes, piano keys, and other musical elements, it became apparent that less was more for this entry. Musical notes were created by hand, then applied layer styles, shadows, etc.
For: violin contest
Depicts the personal battle of one man's struggle for redemption and....aw, c'mon...it's a guy climbing a flaming wall!
Last minute entry... Felt bad that Emik thought no one liked his strawberries! Thanks to Liam Stock for the Violin Lady. Thanks to David Niblack for the background image.
For: strawberries contest
Sometimes products don't quite translate well into other cultures...
For: kabooza contest
In search for the elusive Purple Mermaid...
For: shell contest
This one kind of evolved during its making, and then became way more complicated than it looks (for me anyway!) Used source image, a texture from mdpratt on deviantart.com, as well as a stock people shot from David Niblack at imagebase.com. The intention was to keep it soft and moody, almost monoch...
For: four glasses contest
Source image, cropped and stretched background, added married couple and butterfly, shadows, etc. Thanks to David Niblack and Michaela Kobyakov for the use of source images.
For: tiny leaf contest
Just used source image. Converted source image to 3D object (sphere, CS4), added stars and sun, and light flare. To make satellite, cropped leaf out of source, applied some layer styles, duplicated the layer, free transform, etc. Added "antennae".
For: tiny leaf contest
Used layers, styles, brushes, gradient, texture (see credit), dodge and burn, etc.
For: egg contest
Art gallery viewing. Source image only.
For: daisy front contest
Used desaturate, channel mixing, and noise to create image. Layer mask with gradient to throw background out of focus from close to far.
For: sicily contest
Orange was stock, water and splash created.
Used only the source image and Photoshop tools. Her hands and feet and scaled-down bulbs, her skirt is the bulb base, her body is the bulb innards (the part that holds the filament), her head is a small bulb, her hair and eyebrows are the filament (using smart objects and warp to shape them), and h...
For: bulb contest