If you ever had one, you will know what it feels like. (5 years and 331 days ago)
I also used some metal texture brushes from https://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/57221-free-metal-photoshop-brushes. Wood source, filtered with radial blur and used as an overlay under the spark layers. https://pixabay.com/en/oak-tree-slice-old-round-nature-18557/ (5 years and 333 days ago)
Very Steam Punky!
Thanks Driven.
Nice punky gun.
Thanks BWR.
Steam punk indeed showing the old with the new and the colours are very Victorian....antiqued. I like the power of this upload, it is crisp and clearly seen. Nice work.
.......................ahhhh should've know it was yours!
Thanks Olga.
A really high scoring contest. The top 4 got 60% plus.
Congrats Skyangel 
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There's more than one way to kill some time. (5 years and 963 days ago)
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Source no. 5 the bullet holes is the download page, please change the source link to the picture and information page were the copyright status and usage license can be seen.
Now who's going to clean up that mess? Fun Chaos
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1. Prepared all the images i used by cutting out only the parts i need.
2. Created the a semi realistic explosion using a Tutvid tutorial as a guide line (source url 4).
3. Arranged all the elements in there end size and position.
4. Added shadows and motion bluer to the platoon and the explosion victims by using copies of the layers.
5. Used adjustment layers (Hue/Saturation, Levels, Exposure) to blend the segments together.
6. Added Orange - transparent - orange & rendered some clouds ( all to about 18-25% opacity) to make the image look a bit more realistic.
Thank you all at sxc.hu for providing grate stock images
Edit: Added SBS Guide. Hope you like it.
Edit2: Decided to redo explosion
Please comment. I like to see what you think. Good or Bad, I like to hear it all :) (5 years and 2623 days ago)
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I'd remove the drop shadows on the pieces above his left hand. Otherwise well done.
Thanks CMYK. I added a gradient mask to the shadows instead which lightened the shadows above his left hand because removing the shadows completely just did not look right to me.
The sparks are a light source. There couldn't be cast shadows on them.
OK, I understand that but if I take the shadows away the bits no longer look like they are flying through the air. How do I make them appear to be flying through air without shadows?
Any tips will be greatly appreciated.
ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch (great chop) ouch ouch ouch ouch
Thanks Driven.
Motion blur comes to mind.
Of course. I should have thought of that. Thanks CMYK. I will try it and see how it looks.
IMHO step 3 is better then end result. Personally I do not like the added egg shells.
Thank you Rob. It's nice to hear from you. I will try the motion blur first as CMYK suggested and maybe add less egg shells but I like the added egg shells flying through the air. To me, step 3 looks like the egg head is exploding into glass instead of egg shell bits. The glass is just supposed to represent the sharp stabbing pain of the migraine.
I removed all shadows, repositioned some pieces and added zoom blur to some pieces. The zoom blur layers were blended on screen mode.
Hey Rob, now it looks more like step 3 except with added egg shells flying off the head.
Thanks for your help guys.
Well I read all your comments and to me this looks like it has a point to it, and looks well done. I like the fire the explosion effect and it marries well with that face.
Thanks Olga.
Congratulations
Congerts SA. Really nice use of the source model and blending it in with the exploding egg.
Congrats!
Congratulations....
Congrats Skyangel, it looks so real
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