Flickr Ratatouille - Photoshop Contest [15 entries]

Steampunk factory Picture

Winning entry, with a score of:
71.7%
Contest goal:

For this contest you are ONLY allowed to use legal Flickr images. The goal is quite simple:
Go to Flickr advanced search, type in the search bar two words (they can be whatever you want, but keep it decent), make sure that you've checked the CC option and hit enter.

From the first page with results you pick at least 5 images and make your entry with that. It's all up to you what kind of entry, but of course the more interesting the better. You are only allowed to use the images from that result page. Very important: you have to make a screen shot from the page with the Flickr results and add it in the Step By Step. Good luck!


Status: finished. Check out the winners below!
Suggested by: wazowski

erikuri: Do we have to post all the pages results or one is enough? ( 5 years and 3177 days ago )
rufkut: This will be interesting! ( 5 years and 3177 days ago )
RayTedwell: interesting idea. At least we know people will have to make new entries for this contest and not recycle old ones! ( 5 years and 3177 days ago )
pearlie: That's a WILD idea, Waz! And simply going to Flickr, then CC, then Attribute is much different than the Advanced Search, then CC. ( 5 years and 3177 days ago )
wazowski: erikuri: the images have to come from the first page that you get as result, so there wont be any pageS . BTW it would be nice if the used words are also visible in the screenshot (otherwise mention them in the description). For the rest, this contest is mostly to get (new) people to learn how to deal with CC images on Flickr ( 5 years and 3177 days ago )
Ressiv: Great idea! A very open contest in which you can get very creative ideas. ( 5 years and 3177 days ago )
lvstealth: it says at least 5, but we can use more than 5, right? ( 5 years and 3177 days ago )
wazowski: One other thing, you still have to be sure that the images are allowed to use for this contest (according to the rules from PXL), so be careful with what you pick ( 5 years and 3177 days ago )
wazowski: @lvstealth: sure you can use more than 5, as long as you pick at least 5 images ( 5 years and 3176 days ago )
George55: How do I know if the images are allowed to be used in this contest? ( 5 years and 3176 days ago )
erikuri: You have to choice advance search. There you choose "only photos", "Creative Commons" and contents for non-commercial use that can be modified. ( 5 years and 3176 days ago )
erikuri: Ok, Waz. Let's see if I got it... If I'm searching for "flower", the first result pages remains as a screenshot, right? Now, I have to use at least 5 different images (not related) or they can be 5 different flowers? And if they are totally different, do I have to make a screenshot for each one result page? ( 5 years and 3176 days ago )
George55: @ Erikuri: I think you have to show a screenshot of the "first" page. You'll choose the 5 pictures from that page only. ( 5 years and 3176 days ago )
artgirl1935: I just tried my 'two words' and almost everything on the first page is not CC. By going SEVEN more pages I finally found enough allowable sources, but can I use them since they weren't on that 1st page???? ( 5 years and 3176 days ago )
wazowski: Erikuri, see otherwise the first entry as example. In the SBS you see a screenprint from the 1st page with results. Compare it with the link that is placed in the description (it can happen that if you see the page yourself, you wont see all the images from the screenprint, in case you have a smaller screen than the author). But that's basically the idea. Ow, and you can take 5 flowers if you want, but you hàve to type 2 words in the search bar. If you want to know how to get legal sources from Flickr, check here: http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2009/06/how-and-where-to-find-legal-source-images/. And for the rest make sure that they're original photos and not a source that's made from other images ( 5 years and 3176 days ago )
erikuri: Ok, I think I got it. I used to pick Flickr's images, there's no problem. Thank u... ( 5 years and 3176 days ago )
erikuri: @ Lois: first you enter your two words; when the result page appears you click on advance search beside the word "search". ( 5 years and 3176 days ago )
telmafrancione: I just would like to know if can be foreign words, like French, Portuguese, Italian... can be? ( 5 years and 3175 days ago )
erikuri: @telma: olá, Telma! Welcome to Pxleyes! O meu Flickr está em português, mas costumo fazer minhas pesquisas em inglês mesmo, porque a gama de resultados costuma ser bem maior do que em português. ( 5 years and 3175 days ago )
Lamantine: When I search, I get only 20 images per page, but when I look at the SBS , I see more than 20 images per page, why can't I see more than that ?? ( 5 years and 3175 days ago )
robvdn: @Lamatine, this has to do with your screensize. There's a trick to get more (this works on Firefox) press CTRL - several times when you are on that flickr screen and you'll get the max 60 entries too. This trick makes it fair to all because it gives the same amount of images to everyone. ( 5 years and 3175 days ago )
telmafrancione: Obrigada Euriki... um beijo em você! eu também costumo fazer minhas buscas em Inglês mas achei uma boa série de imagens em Português. Será que posso usar? Alguma proibição quanto a isso? mais beijos agradecidos em você. ( 5 years and 3175 days ago )
telmafrancione: ops! Erikuri ... Erika...rs ( 5 years and 3175 days ago )
jack2: how can i save this page ( 5 years and 3174 days ago )
telmafrancione: with the "print screen" Jack... ( 5 years and 3174 days ago )
erikuri: @telma: pode ser até em chinês!... Desde que você diga quais as palavras-chave que usou para a pesquisa... ( 5 years and 3174 days ago )
Lamantine: Thank you Rob ! This helps a lot ( 5 years and 3174 days ago )
telmafrancione: hahahaha... obrigada Erika! Beijos em você! ( 5 years and 3174 days ago )
erikuri: Using CTRL and mouse scroll it's possible to get 60 entries on IE as well. I tried and it worked... ( 5 years and 3170 days ago )

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Steampunk factory - created by langstrum


Steampunk factory
Favs: 23SBS: 14Hi-resRank: 1/15Score: 71.7% (42)15290 views

Plot: Emil was an orphan after she was born. At the age of 6, a strange man told her that she was inherited a factory that her father established. He was a great inventor who loved steampunk machines. It took him 10 years to build up this factory and all the machines were made by himself. His wife was died after gave birth to Emil and then he disappeared. Emil went to the factory and was really surprised when she saw the world that her father created. No one knows that he also made a time machine, and it was kept somewhere in the factory. Emil found the Octopus ship and the records of her father introducing how to use his machines. She learned them everyday to control this factory and one day, the secret revealed...
I found these sources by the key words "STEAMPUNK MACHINE" and you can see the result in the SBS. If you want to verify, just go to Flickr, type these words, choose the advanced search: only photo, creative commons, can be adapted or modified. I used high resolution monitor, so I can get 60 photos on the first page.
Source 11th: http://www.flickr.com/photos/donpezzano/3044965125/
Source 12th: http://www.flickr.com/photos/weblogsky/3069600478/

I spent the whole weekend just for making this image with many many hours cleaning out the background of the source images. Finally I'm quite satisfied with that result, maybe the best that I've made. Please view in Hi-Res, thanks everyone.

Here is the list of the 10 sources, in case the links don't work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/san_andreas/56238634/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/garrettc/2258695616/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tontoncopt/2361248116/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/donpezzano/2724171374/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abelard/2783849717/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abelard/2783892409/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abelard/2784727350/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abelard/2784750626/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/donpezzano/2979763025/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/donpezzano/2979765549/ (5 years and 3175 days ago)

10 Sources:


Hybrid Surrealism - created by Tuckinator


Hybrid Surrealism
Favs: 9SBS: 3Hi-resRank: 2/15Score: 62.8% (30)15467 views

Here id the link to the page i got after searching "surreal castle" http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=surreal+castle&z=t&l=deriv&mt=photos&adv=1 (5 years and 3177 days ago)

5 Sources:


The arrival - created by erikuri


The arrival
Favs: 4SBS: 6Hi-resRank: 3/15Score: 59.9% (25)8309 views

The steampunk robots are coming...

Thanks to:
- Catherinette Rings Steampunk, Tinkerbots and christophercarfi @ Flickr.

The key words I used for research were "steampunk robots".
(5 years and 3170 days ago)

8 Sources:


Big Sky - created by lchappell


Big Sky
Favs: 3SBS: 9Hi-resRank: 4/15Score: 59% (20)8682 views

credit to: ToastyKen, ian koss, Emjay -> MJ, D'Arcy Norman,
Saguaro Pictures, dennis and aimee jonez (5 years and 3172 days ago)

6 Sources:


Underwater Discoveries - created by artgirl1935


Underwater Discoveries
Favs: 3SBS: 13Hi-resRank: 5/15Score: 58.4% (15)10662 views

Thanks to the following at flickr CC for the source photos: merche (fish and water and anemona), therefromhere (fish and coral, surgeon fish and batfish) Please see my SBS for details. (5 years and 3171 days ago)

6 Sources: