No Painting - Photoshop Contest [18 entries]

Filters, Adjustments, Masks, Patterns, Fills, Liquify, and Transform. The powerful tools in Photoshop allow you to create without the ability to draw - IF you know how to use them.

The goal: To create an image using any and every manipulation tool available to you EXCEPT the Paintbrush tool. NO drawing, except for making selections, which you can then stroke or fill... Are you up to the challenge? Step by step is mandatory in this contest.

( suggested by: MossyB )

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Coral Reef Picture
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Coral Reef Picture
847 votes
Coral Reef Picture
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18 entries submitted in this contest:


Coral Reef - created by George55


Coral Reef
Votes: 847Favs: 16SBS: 13Hi: yesRank: 1/18Score: 73.1%3388 views

Selections, fills, filters, Transform tool, Dodge / Burn, Liquify - warp. Some of the suggested elements for this contest. No brush or painting used at all. Just an old PS program that I still have.

Anemonae desaturated and lowered brightness.

Fish, one of them, burned more lines to make it different from the other. (291 days ago)



Summer day - created by CMYK46


Summer day
Votes: 815Favs: 10SBS: 23Hi: yesRank: 2/18Score: 68.3%2676 views

(292 days ago)



Big Stars - created by CorneliaMladenova


Big Stars
Votes: 805Favs: 9SBS: 8Hi: yesRank: 3/18Score: 66.8%2278 views

Only Photoshop used (289 days ago)



Across the universe - created by CMYK46


Across the universe
Votes: 775Favs: 2SBS: 22Hi: yesRank: 4/18Score: 66.2%2438 views

Thanks to Greg Martin for the star field tutorial.
Except for the tut, everything is made from scratch. (290 days ago)




Bucket of Pearls - created by lchappell


Bucket of Pearls
Votes: 841Favs: 5SBS: 9Hi: yesRank: 5/18Score: 65.9%2075 views

Picture was created by filling shapes created with tools other than the "paint brushes."Things like the selection tool rectangular and circular, shapes created with pen tool. Colors and gradient fills developed the depth along with dodge and burn tools for shading and lighting. Assorted filters for textures and layer styles along with blend and opacity corrections were used. (290 days ago)