digital tide waters

    digital tide waters

    Use of Mehdi K-scope plugin for Adobe on the cut out. I promised myself when I joined the new PST that this time I would make images for myself that pleased myself - Before I was making myself miserable trying to do something gimmicky that would catch voter's eyes - now, what I make is just for me....

    For: shore contest

    » Comments: 6
    » Score: 47.56%
    » Rank: 15 out of 15

    Aquarion Galaxy nursery

    Aquarion Galaxy nursery

    Only souce - see SBS: Used distort/liquify, then Redfield plugin/water ripples, dodge

    For: water bubbles contest

    » Comments: 4
    » Score: 51.65%
    » Rank: 11 out of 20

    Zero Gravity Lake sculptures

    Zero Gravity Lake sculptures

    Used Corel PSP 9 Circle selection to make the Spheres of "heavy metal". Then floated them over my photo of a small pond in a local garden center. In building SBS, I actually liked what I came up with better than my original version, so I'm doing a swap.

    For: rusty contest

    » Comments: 10
    » Score: 56.65%
    » Rank: 4 out of 10

    perfect setting

    perfect setting

    just layered over my photo of a necklace pendent...dodge and burn

    For: rusty contest

    » Comments: 9
    » Score: 51.43%
    » Rank: 9 out of 10

    20 years younger

    20 years younger

    In my line of work, I've touched up a lot of people's photos - This is an image of myself taken by my friend who was with me at the bird store that day..taken with my little Canon Powershot. A lot can be accomplished with a light smudge tool to move neck and chin lines back into youthful place...and...

    For: beauty pageant contest

    » Comments: 11
    » Score: 51.09%
    » Rank: 50 out of 79

    Unexpected sources of light

    Unexpected sources of light

    ALl I did was crop and then darken the image then played like crazy with dodge tool to "turn on lights" here and there.

    For: beach bottle contest

    » Comments: 6
    » Score: 51.67%
    » Rank: 6 out of 6

    Bird's Eye view

    Birds Eye view

    Perspective is what seemed most important to me about this image. THe photo was taken from a very low angle, almost as if the photographer was laying down next to the object, looking up at it. This precluded my incorporating it into a garden scene, etc. So I took some pics of a bird from a similarly...

    For: wooden sculpture contest

    » Comments: 7
    » Score: 53.83%
    » Rank: 5 out of 13

    Your Next Top Model????

    Your Next Top Model????

    Source and portions of 3 of my own photos. Did black and white to simplify blending issues.

    For: lace contest

    » Comments: 14
    » Score: 51.17%
    » Rank: 27 out of 48

    Are you my Mommie?

    Are you my Mommie?

    layered in cut-out from my photo of a baby Quaker Parrot, which I had "tinted" blue. Cloned more background and blanket around the baby bird and did some shadow work where the bird's beak meets the foot.

    For: baby foot contest

    » Comments: 11
    » Score: 53.94%
    » Rank: 18 out of 41

    Birds in the field

    Birds in the field

    My photo of McCaws layered in to the poppy field. I took a few liberties with their feathers with my smudge tool and darkened them and did the d0dge tool thing to highlight.

    For: poppie field contest

    » Comments: 12
    » Score: 54.78%
    » Rank: 12 out of 29

    watery dream

    watery dream

    only one outside image used..my own, and in the end, I didn't use much of it at all. Just turned her upside down and used smudge tool and dodge tool to give her a watery look. - oh, and adjusted color, of course.

    For: lace contest

    » Comments: 4
    » Score: 51.64%
    » Rank: 24 out of 48

    Fire Bird

    Fire Bird

    Used 2 contest images - I saw this done on the old site so I guess it's acceptable. Dress from Lace and one poppie from the poppie image.

    For: poppie field contest

    » Comments: 8
    » Score: 52.1%
    » Rank: 18 out of 29