The September Free For All

[gare]

I was originally holding a soda straw in our kitchen; the brick is a photo.

Here's what I did:

? I read too many Harry Potter books, and grew a beard.

? My wife photographed the interior and exterior of Boldt castle on the St. Lawrence Seaway, a wonderful resource for ?Goth? scenes and props.

?? Barbara also photographed a suit of armor from many angles at Sonnenberg quarter; built in 1893/95, another photo resource for New Yorkers.

?? There were velvet queue ropes all over the place at both sites. I removed them with the Clone Stamp tool.

?? I blurred the armor slightly to suggest midground focus, then blurred the background a little more.

?? The wand was modeled in trueSpace.

? The glows were done in PS; I loaded the wand as a selection, Modify>Expand, filled them on a new layer and Gaussian-blurred them. Because Gaussian blurring alters transparency on a layer, Screen mode wasn't necessary.

? I added highlights in my glasses (details, details!), and in the palm of my hand.

? I flattened and shrunk it, copied the layer, and applied the Dry Brush filter to sharpen the image, put it in Overlay mode at 45%, flattened it & exported.

My Best,

Gare

[nitrobutler]

Thanks Gare for the kudo's and the info
I think it's time for me to calibrate my monitor(which I've never done before), cause while putting this together Mariah looked fine with the correct contrast density, but when I viewed it at work on a mac, Mariah was indeed washed out :{

[Nikkie]

Monitor calibrating ??? \:/ hmmm call me stupid but i've never done that either... ;\

BTW congrats Nitro :}


Gare as a d*** blonde... is this what you meant ???
I've never played with vectors before...

[gare]

Nikkie--

Oh, vectors are wun-der-ful! Download a copy of Xara Webster and take it for a spin.
http://downloads.theregister.co.uk/W...a-webster.html

My Best,

Gare

[nitrobutler]

Hi Nikkie, How are you ;)
As far as color calibration is goiing, I thought it'll be easy as just changing my color settings(Edit>Color settings>....) but from reading the posts on the new thread, I've got alot to learn so I'm following the other thread gare started.

[Nikkie]

Hi Nitro i am fine ,thanks. ;)
hmmm i think i'll check out the other thread as well ...

Gare thanks for the link? 8}

Nikkie

[SnowDog]

Hi everyone

Its been a while as I have been busy with life and the wife and a 2 year old. But here's one I wanted to share with you all.


http://www.pbase.com/dfastb/image/49345005

I know all you Ipod and Apple and Steve Job fans will love this one!

Take care

SnowDog

[Welles]

Perfect! I give it a 10!

[gare]

SnowDog! ROFLPM!!

Wow, you got the fonts down, the lighting, and the bizarre touches such as the subhead!? Why didn't you post the image instead of a link?

Leapin' Larry Ellison predicted this, for he is the Oracle. I'm not under non-disclosure now; I was a beta tester for the iGod. Here's a picture of the original design, which was revamped due to beta forum complaints that this iGod was made a little too much in the creator's image.

Outside of the beige box, I'm pretty much low-tech. I don't own a cel phone (I detest the custom rings of others' in restaurants), and for mp3s, I bought a Panasonic CD/mp3 player--I figure I saved $300+ bucks. Although the iPod is going to become Newton's Revenge, what with phone and video capabilities. I love the idea that soon, we'll be able to replace HDs with RAM in our PCs, but I fear that with all this miniaturization, iPods and PDAs are going to become an easy and costly item to lose!

False iDols and all that,
Gare

[Welles]

8D 8D

Hilarious! The Rasputin glare of 'ol S.J. is fabulous!