Challenge 22: Create a Face

[chrisdesign]

more creatures from me
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Love your cute buggers nitea!

 

[ZipedX]

I'll throw in one too.

 

[chrisdesign]

Wow...this is a cool one! Love it ZipedX!

 

[chrisdesign]

This is a friendly reminder that this contest ends on Saturday May 31, 2014 12pm.(24:00) GMT

 

[ZipedX]

Awsome Chris. How do you get the sharpness and saturation so good? Also love the hair. Same part as the teeth + liquify? Trade secrets please.

 

[chrisdesign]

Awsome Chris. How do you get the sharpness and saturation so good? Also love the hair. Same part as the teeth + liquify? Trade secrets please.

Thanks for your comment ZipedX, though it is not easy to answer your questions. But I'll try.
I have no secrets how I edit my pictures. From experience, I just follow certain rules from the theory of colors (contrasting colors, complementary colors, light to dark contrasts, sharpness or blur). Exactly the way I learned it long before Photoshop was invented. Of course my pictures seem to have a professional look, as I've been working 20 years with photoshop for highend applications.


In this particular image the head is a little blurred, which seem to make the main features of the face slightly sharper. Such things I do just automatically. I hope this gives an insight into my way of working.

Chris.

 

[ZipedX]

I like your answer chris, it's alot more educational than you might think. I started out my ps career just a few years back and have been at it on and of from a photographic view point. So I know how sharpness and blur effects a photo, it just never struck me that the same applies here. Silly really...

Just shows one has just peered out through the lid of the box I guess.

 

[hershy314]

I think a lot of learned how to do things by tutorials and by experimenting around

 

[ZipedX]

And a second one, not really a face but...

 

[ibclare]

Looks like a face to me, just kind of a squinty squid face is all. Well, not so squinty; I just liked the alliteration.

Very imaginative!

 

[chrisdesign]

Great idea ZipedX!
Definitely a face...I like your alien squid! A little to greenish?...but maybe this is just me.

 

[ZipedX]

Great idea ZipedX!
Definitely a face...I like your alien squid! A little to greenish?...but maybe this is just me.

Aliens squids are green aren't they?

Nah..! I see your point I just wanted a more underwater feel. Didn't work did it?
Anyone who got improvment tips please share.

Thanks Chris/all

 

[chrisdesign]

Some bubbles like this?

 

[ZipedX]

Some bubbles like this?

I like that, more like the picture I had in my head. Did you render the backdrop yourself or is it borrowed? If yourself how did you achive that nice surface?

 

[chrisdesign]

The bubbles i googled from the internet and put them on new layers.

 

[ZipedX]

The bubbles i googled from the internet and put them on new layers.

Bugger, would have been cool if you made the surface and bubbles from scratch. Would have wanted to learn that.

Thanks for the ideas though, I really like how yours came out gonna play around for a bit and see if I can achive something similar.

 

[chrisdesign]

If you want to create your own bubbles, you can try this:
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/bubble-brush/
And please post an update of your work, I'm very interested to see your version.

 

[ZipedX]

Well this is what I got at the moment. I more or less ran a copy cat so thanks Chris.

 

[chrisdesign]

Now this one stands out! Great colors ZipedX!

 

[ibclare]

Ziped, I like your latest post. The color is so much more vibrant. I was going to mention the lack of contrast, but you've more than fixed that.