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Doh, the jpeg compression made it look a bit to 'sharp' or sth o.O =) Reply »
(2 years and 172 days ago)
Abandoned - created by wlado
Sunshine Ruin - created by wlado
OK, I haven't prepared a SBS, but the techniques I used are easy to explain, so:
1. duplicated the layer, tweaked brightness and contrast, and left the windows only. Then radial zoom blur at the top right corner of the image, and I got the rays effect by putting the layer to Linear Dodge (Add).
2. Tweaked Brightness, contrast a bit, did a little burning and dodging at some places etc.
3. Just some final touches like sharpening and colour filter.
And done! Not very hard to do if you have the idea, but nice, you must admit. =) (2 years and 170 days ago)
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Get what the poet's trying to say? =D 
Love Nuts ;) - created by wlado
Were they made of coconuts too? 
Wlado - created by wlado
I made this one quite some time ago, just for fun, and it just felt great for this contest. =)
So, what I did:
1. Create the 3d 'wlado' model in 3ds max and textured it [altered the textures in PS before that]
2. Imported into photoshop, added the background sky
3. Did some burning, dodgeing, contrast, and other tweaking.
4. Add the clouds around (brushes)
5. Flattened the image and added warming photo filter.
And that's it, hope you like it =) (2 years and 105 days ago)
3 Sources:
- 1: Sky
- 2: Pavement texture
- 3: Brick texture
Yesterday or 33 years ago? - created by wlado
This is a photo of my mum and her best friend taken 33 years ago while they were still in high school. The photo is really small, I'd say as an average business card, so it was really hard getting it to look sharp. I used a special technique for making the edges look normal (since sharpening filters know to make that strange blurry glow on some places), check out the SBS. I also used some other images from flickr for facial parts and parts that were to small to be sharpened with filters (eyebrows, glasses, nose....), it's all listed in the sources.
Hope you like it. =) My mum sure did, she even made me some cookies :D
(2 years and 140 days ago)
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Be a character, not a type - created by wlado
Enjoying the View - created by wlado
This is my first digital painting ever, and I did it with MOUSE!!! It was very hard, but after some time I got familiar with how to move the mouse etc. So, I know it looks kinda crappy when you look at the high-res, but watch it as a whole, I couldn't make it much detailed. Hope you like it! =) (2 years and 164 days ago)
Mystic Magic - created by wlado
I don't have much of an SBS, since I usually save my work periodically for it, but this time I forgot. So I'll describe what I did:
1. I cut the hand in pieces, and put each part as a separate layer
2. Then I started warping, and arranging them a lot (this took me like 2 hours when summed up!)
3. Then I started shading them, adding shadows, wrinkles etc...
3. The bottom hand is a copy of the top one, flipped and with small alterations.
4. Then I added the magic stuff or whatever you call it. I copied some patterns from the gloves, the rest are brushes.
5.Then I inverted the colors on hands, and made everything blue.
And that's it. =)
I can also supply a PSD file to verify that I did this.
OK, here's the SBS! And brushes I used are in sources. :) (2 years and 162 days ago)
go to wlado's profile
I know it's not down and up, but I hope it's OK. Appreciate my originality =) Reply »
(2 years and 176 days ago)
like this one Reply »
(2 years and 176 days ago)
Contest states two entries original and altered...top and bottom.. I think this left right comparison in one image is great, don't know how others will take on the theme, I think it works, but a high res is needed! Good luck author! Reply »
(2 years and 176 days ago)
I love it...and I can see some dif as well :P Reply »
(2 years and 176 days ago)
Great piece - could you upload a hi res if you can.
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(2 years and 176 days ago)
Thanks everyone. Hi-res coming in a second =)
Edit: Done =)
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(2 years and 176 days ago)
Hi res looks very good IMO.
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(2 years and 176 days ago)
stunning
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(2 years and 176 days ago)
Very nice work. Correct spelling of differences in your title.
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(2 years and 176 days ago)
Thanks everyone =) Haha, thanks, will fix now. =) Reply »
(2 years and 176 days ago)
nice work! Reply »
(2 years and 176 days ago)
I like this better side by side - easier to compare on my laptop. Love this entry!! GL Reply »
(2 years and 172 days ago)
Nice job...yep this is easier to compare. Nice original thinking too.
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(2 years and 170 days ago)
This is fabulous entry,my personal favorite,gl author...high marks from me.... Reply »
(2 years and 170 days ago)
Very nice job......G/L Author. Reply »
(2 years and 167 days ago)
Congrats, really nice work
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(2 years and 167 days ago)
congrats on your first place Reply »
(2 years and 167 days ago)
Thanks all! =) Reply »
(2 years and 167 days ago)
Congrats! Reply »
(2 years and 167 days ago)
Congrats!! Reply »
(2 years and 166 days ago)
Congrats!!
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(2 years and 164 days ago)
I see why this is a winner, I mean can you be any more creative here. It's like a puzzle and an awesome picture at the same time = ) Reply »
(1 year and 309 days ago)