good morning Nocturns

no special things on this pix, all done with the basic techniques in doing some manips on pictures. One of many tuts dealing with this kind of photo manips can be found at http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/create-a-beautiful-and-dramatic-scene-with-photo-manipulations-basix/

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nocturnal visit

as a photoshop newbie, this kind of manips is something I like most. this pic requires no high skill in doing manips, this is done in very basic way of manipulating like masking, blending, cropping, some layer adjustment and burn or dodge tool action...most of all, it is not so time consuming,..the ...

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golden city

yups...this pic was mostly done by transforming a cropped source to create a hotel look like building and some color adjustment was also applied for sure,...the SBS will be the illustration of the way to make it,...

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getting old never growing up

this pic is not as complicated as it looks, meaning that it is easy to create. Mostly it was done using transform tool, masking, and some lighting effect (filter>render>lighting) to render the texture I created previously by going to channels and create a new channel for the texture. after th...

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fisherman's friends

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glam

things that matter in creating this pic are a lot of masking,..and thanks for the stock providers sharing great pics,......one of them is michaelow http://www.sxc.hu/profile/michaelaw

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the cart

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the tour

lil bit confused to decide whether it is for ' joke' or 'friend or foe' contest,....yeah,...now here it is,.....whatever....!

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the cave

more than 10 sources were used to complete this pic, thanks for the source providers like the ones I mention here : garwee http://www.sxc.hu/profile/garwee , http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1024188, Obsidian Dawn http://www.brusheezy.com/Brushes/1473-Bird-Photoshop-Brushes

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birdie

right after reading the amazing tut by George55 at http://www.pxleyes.com/tutorial/photoshop/1965/How-To-Create-Beautiful-Birds-And-Flowers.html, I was tempted to put it into practice,...but it was too bad to me that the smudge tool on my comp. didnt work well so I tried to find another way, was tha...

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woman

check out the SBS for details

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early in the morning

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indoor summer

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color

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the aura

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reach for the sky

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the cranberries

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love is absurd

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one too many morning

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strawberry telling

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bird eye view

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ten years later....

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born to be wild

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DD

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