Conquer Club

t-o-m wrote:PSD plz

Sorry, i frogot about that http://www.sendspace.com/file/h9paqu

gimil wrote:Gimil Round 1

Unfortunatly the ways of the worlds have kept me busy, but this is what I swqeezed i.

Funny - I searched for 'snake eyes' when trying to find the picture of the dice I used on my image... I nearly used those dice I think, but I found some red ones instead... did I leave the white ones on the PSD??

t-o-m wrote:ok heres my pathetic attempt:


i used lone's turtle.

look for the CC star

This makes me happier. It may not be the most professional-looking but at least it shows you know your share of the basics, without blatant plagiarism. This is a step in the right direction guys.

Kaplowitz wrote:Okay tom, here's my serve

You're up next

It would have been awesome if you could get the paperclip to take the form of a dice somehow.

woops about the star i didnt really read the rules super well so i didnt know i was obligated to

wcaclimbing wrote:

gimil wrote:Gimil Round 1

Unfortunatly the ways of the worlds have kept me busy, but this is what I swqeezed i.
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Gimil, its pretty good, but I would like it more if the background was a bit better quality. the texture just isn't working for me right now. Maybe if you redrew it and added your own effect to it, it would have come out better. Overall, Its good, though.

Its just an image off google with a filter or two stuck on it. Athought I bet no one can guess the letter and font that makes the CC star

MrBenn wrote:Funny - I searched for 'snake eyes' when trying to find the picture of the dice I used on my image... I nearly used those dice I think, but I found some red ones instead... did I leave the white ones on the PSD??

I dont think you posted a PSD, I found that image on google. I had a great idea then realised I wasnt after mibi

gimil wrote:Athought I bet no one can guess the letter and font that makes the CC star

Eh Twill told us all before for that advertising contest.

static_ice wrote:

gimil wrote:Athought I bet no one can guess the letter and font that makes the CC star

Eh Twill told us all before for that advertising contest.

I cant think of the name, but its some Photoshop font...i think it's "R"

gimil wrote:
Its just an image off google with a filter or two stuck on it. Athought I bet no one can guess the letter and font that makes the CC star

boeh i thought i had it but i cant find it now

Lone.prophet wrote:

gimil wrote:
Its just an image off google with a filter or two stuck on it. Athought I bet no one can guess the letter and font that makes the CC star

boeh i thought i had it but i cant find it now

Carta- R

Wring kap. PM me if you think you get it.

gimil wrote:Wring kap. PM me if you think you get it.

Carta R works though

nvr mind.... see next post.

Ok, here it is:

I took the new years theme, the fireworks, and the turtle/monkey theme from the previous pic.
Here you go, I'm pretty happy with it:

wow that's awesome!

why are they both naked?

Nice one Kap - I like the way you've got the lights of the fireworks reflected off of Andy's nicely waxed tummy

What about poor little twill?

gimil wrote:What about poor little twill?

what about him?

MrBenn wrote:Nice one Kap - I like the way you've got the lights of the fireworks reflected off of Andy's nicely waxed tummy

That's wca's... but agreed, great image.

pepperonibread wrote:

MrBenn wrote:Nice one Kap - I like the way you've got the lights of the fireworks reflected off of Andy's nicely waxed tummy

That's wca's... but agreed, great image.

I must have got confused by the topic review

On another note, did you do the fireworks yourself wca? I'd be interested to know what software people are using - can people add that to their post with their pic along with their file location/size details? Some people might find that sort of thing interesting?

MrBenn wrote::oops:

pepperonibread wrote:

MrBenn wrote:Nice one Kap - I like the way you've got the lights of the fireworks reflected off of Andy's nicely waxed tummy

That's wca's... but agreed, great image.

I must have got confused by the topic review

On another note, did you do the fireworks yourself wca? I'd be interested to know what software people are using - can people add that to their post with their pic along with their file location/size details? Some people might find that sort of thing interesting?

some people as in you?
lol
yeh ide like to see people's PSD's - i find that i learn the programme a lot more when looking at other people's work

Nice job wca. From the aforementioned reflections to the smooth character drawings. And you didn't skimp out on the details.

MrBenn wrote:On another note, did you do the fireworks yourself wca? I'd be interested to know what software people are using - can people add that to their post with their pic along with their file location/size details? Some people might find that sort of thing interesting?

I'd like that too if people could take more time, I would.
The fireworks must have come from this image, maybe he touched it up a little. But the results are great, I don't know any other way to get this effect nearly as realistic.

MrBenn wrote:On another note, did you do the fireworks yourself wca? I'd be interested to know what software people are using - can people add that to their post with their pic along with their file location/size details? Some people might find that sort of thing interesting?

All done in Photoshop Elements 3.
One firework was from a picture (the red one, i think). Then I just changed the colors and made it into the other two.
The monkey and turtle were both originally pics from google. but they were really small and really not what I was looking for (I think the turtle was originally a stuffed animal....) So I brought both of them into photoshop, then redrew them in a second layer above it.
Everything else was completely photoshop.

gimil wrote:What about poor little twill?

Twill wasn't in the first pic, and I don't think Dilbert would be a good addition to the pic.
If you prefer, just go by the time when Twill didn't have an avatar. Then he's invisible, sitting between Andy and Lack.

t-o-m wrote:yeh ide like to see people's PSD's - i find that i learn the programme a lot more when looking at other people's work

If you want to see a PSD from this, you have a choice. I ALWAYS make my pictures at 2x size, so i can get in all the details I want. I can upload the 2x (in this case, its 1200x800 size) or I can shrink it to 600x400.
the big one is 9.04M , a pretty big file. the smaller one is 2.87M.
If the large file size won't bother you, go with the 2x one. it lets you zoom in a lot without losing any quality.

You'll be able to learn quite a bit on how I did it if you look at the layers. I keep everything in lots of seperate layers, because it gives me the most control over the pic and helps me not get confused about what everything is.

static_ice wrote:The fireworks must have come from this image, maybe he touched it up a little. But the results are great, I don't know any other way to get this effect nearly as realistic.

That is correct. Good job finding that.
The trick to make it look like that is to take the first layer, set it to screen, so your sky color shows through.
Then copy that layer, put gaussian blur to about 10 pixels (something kinda small, but enough to give you some nice bright spots).
Then copy the blurred layer and blur it to about 50 (probably a bit more than that. enough to give it a lot of glow around it.
Then just mess with the opacity of those two blurred layers, and you will probably find something you like.


Thanks for all the compliments guys!

yes, nice work WCA. I think it's pretty clear who the winner of this round is.