Challenge 21 : imaginary world

[ibclare]

Very cool and imaginative. Different.

 

[fotograffiti]

Beautiful!

many hours and many layers later


And I know what you mean. I gave up counting after 60 layers on my most elaborate one.

 

[chrisdesign]

Ceci est rendu très joli. C'est merveilleux fotograffiti!

 

[fotograffiti]

merci, thank you, imagine to step outside and find such a place...

 

[ibclare]

Beautiful work foto. My criticism is that the figures are floating. Shadowing would take care of that and some of the grasses painted over their feet/legs to put them within the surroundings. The figures also have some white halo which refine mask or refine edge and a little mask touchup would fix. But I love the idea and the execution in other respects.

"fotograffiti;

many hours and many layers later"


And I know what you mean. I gave up counting after 60 layers on my most elaborate one.



PS: is anyone else having trouble with the reply with quote function?

 

[fotograffiti]

Clare, they have their shadow but you are right about the feet.
I don't understand why the white halo was there.

 

[ibclare]

I can't be sure about the white halo but go to refine mask or edge and place the object on a black background and you'll be able to see the edges and if there are halos and where. Alternatively, just make a black background layer below the figures, zoom in to the edges and check them. Either way is what I do when I don't use the pen tool. Well, actually, no matter which selection tool I use, as I zoom while using it. I zoom the edges almost or directly to pixel view so I can remove gray/white pixels, or create the pen tool points within the outline rather than just along it, avoiding the incidence of haloing.

 

[inkpad.t]

Imaginary World



Not done one for a while.

 

[ibclare]

Wow, you all are doing such different takes on the fantasy "map" idea that I am very impressed. Mabe not so impressed enough as to do one similarly -- following in your footsteps. Of course, you know all great paintings, photography, math, literature, etc., builds on what has been crated before it. Like an ever expanding pyramid. So maybe I should! Follow in your great footsteps. On further thought (2 minutes worth), Nah.

Great work all.

I think this challenge is coming to an end. Is that so fotogafitti?

 

[ibclare]

Imaginary World

Not done one for a while.

As usual, you give us such a unique view(point) in your art. I feel like I have entered a child's story in which, like Alice, she finds herself sized equal to all the bugs lurking in her new jungle.

 

[inkpad.t]

Than you so much...

Considering i join here around 18 months ago ( i think ), i never thought i could get to this stage at all seeing as I had never manipulated or painted anything in Photoshop before then. This challenge and this image has give me an idea for another challenge, this image was created with only 2 separate images , and one of them was just a rock.

I used only 1 Photoshop tool to do it, apart form some minor painting, and all with the built in brushes within Photoshop.

So whoever wins the challenge i will still set a challenge forward anyway.

Thanks again everyone.

 

[ibclare]

I like the separate challenge idea inkpad. It often happens, as we all know, that one kind of challenge appeals to some, not others. Whether or not, it's fun to have more than one going. I find it inspirational fun in my creative downtimes. Which lately are quite a few more than I would like.

 

[chrisdesign]

Imaginary World

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Not done one for a while.

This is a very imaginative and atmospheric masterpiece with exceptional lighting. Awesome work inkpad!!!

 

[MikeMc]

This is a very imaginative and atmospheric masterpiece with exceptional lighting. Awesome work inkpad!!!

............What he said............

 

[inkpad.t]

Thanks again everyone.

Maybe the challenge i was going to put forward after thinking about it has been done before or would be too boring for a challenge .

I was going to say or put forward that the challenge was to only use The Built in tools of Photoshop, The Brushes and mainly the tool i used on this image which was the WARP tool.

I used 1 image of a rock and duplicated it many times , then merge them together and warp them to create the shape rocks in the image. one image of the funny shape rock in the middle and the rest was painted, lighting,atmosphere, and lights etc.

I also used one layer using the clouds filter, then used a mask, applied the same cloud filter to the mask and then inverted the mask. Then used the perspective tool which all aloud me to get the main clouds and atmosphere and then used soft light, then painted over that.

So the challenge i was going to do was to use 2 main images and warp them in to any image you want them to be, only using the tools of Photoshop paint or do or add anything you want to create the overall image, but i guess that's a boring challenge .

But thanks again everyone.

 

[ibclare]

The challenge is now closed. We'll have a winner and a brand new, exciting challenge.

Poll to follow soon.

Good work everybody!