Challenge Image

[Teeka]

Hi folks.

Lets see what we can do with this image.

http://www.petcastle.net/albums/album04/waterdrop.gif

I made this originally as a picture tube for PSP 8 but I wasn't sure if photo shop could open a tube so thought I'd just use a gif.

Same rules as before.. do what ever you like to the image, but it must be somewhat recognizable in the finished image. Let your imaginations sore :).

editied to add that the image size should not be more then 400 pxl on any side.

teeka

[Teeka]

what?? no ideas for this challenge image? I've been working on mine :). C'mon one and all,, get out your graphics programs and lets have a good old fashoned contest ;).

frenchie

[Impel]

sounds fun. ill try. lets see if any raindrops come to my mind.

[Impel]

:) :) :)

[Acrasia]

http://cat.streetsie.com/waterdrop3.jpg


Heres mine :)

[frenchie]

OMG !!,, that is beautiful. WOW. How did you do that btw? what methods?

frenchie

[Acrasia]

Thankyou frenchie, ummm methods lol well there is a mask, some blurring, distorting, gradients, blending, a great picture my bro took of a church steeple in the the uk, probably a couple more things but I just fiddle until I get what I want, I enjoyed doing that one. And BTW where is yours lol :)

[muijefr]

Here's one for a while...I may change it
let's see what ya got c_h !

http://www.the-ebiz.net/_Group/Waterdrop.html

:rolleyes: :p

[frenchie]

and here's mine,,, I used the challenge image as accent to an image I already made. the blue peices on the frame are the image that has been deformed and then darkened in color.

http://www.petcastle.net/albums/Digital-Art-by-Frenchie/pendant2.jpg

thanks for peeking

[Acrasia]

Thats very nice frenchie, I seem to remember a certain croc was saying he was working on his lol do you think he has finished ? :p

[frenchie]

hmmmmm ,, I wonder???

[Croc Hunter]

http://streetsie.com/images/firedrop.jpg

"Unrequited Love"

Happy now!. Some people around here sheesh!.. :P

[frenchie]

oh wow,, how did you do that image Croc,, I"m particularely interested in the swirlies around the rain drop :).

frenchie

[(jj)]

Croc is just a "swirly" kinda guy :D

[frenchie]

lol@jj.. now that's mean lol,,,

[Croc Hunter]

lol@(jj) Swirly you can't be serious

I used Photoshop. Took the raindrop.gif, converted to RGB, magic wand background, fill black, select inverse, copy paste. Using a fireswirls.q9q bitmap image and another bitmap of rebecca's face I combined by running them through a complex series of algorythms. Adding a caustic 64 effect, glass 95, iridescence 63 and iri colour 84 with a reflection of 83. Behind it all was a tropical sunset image consisting of various shades of browns and yellows. The background swirlies were created the same way, only with different bitmap images. In short, I used a Photoshop plugin called SuperBladePro. Screenshot (http://streetsie.com/images/firedrop_ss.jpg).

p.s Teeka: Photoshop does not use tubes.

[(jj)]

Nope, not serious at all, but then you already knew that ;)

Love the image Croc, very good job!

[YvetteKuhns]

All of the images look great, but I like muijefr's the best. :)

[Goose]

Cool ideas.

[muijefr]

Thanks Yvette, I was getting ready to send myself to my room. I've been working on your contest, and though I've got some really good resources, I'm not producing anything worth while, but... :rolleyes: