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Decieving Appearances

Decieving Appearances

As you can see, appearances can be deceiving. After having extracted the flower with the pen tool, I used the photocopy filter. I stroked the edges of the flower with the paintbrush. I then cleaned up with the eraser tool. Following that, I used the eraser for "start" & "finish.&...

For: spiked flower contest

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Quattro Stagioni

Quattro Stagioni

All effects were done by me. The only thing I did not create are the leaves in the second panel from the left. The image I used for cloning was a pic of a tree that was taken by me for this purpose

For: open field contest

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This kid walks into a bar...

This kid walks into a bar...

...you know the rest. Used variations adjustment, burn tool, blur tool and clone tool on different layers so as not to screw up the preceding step. Thanks to morguefile.com for the source

For: roughed up contest

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