Battle #1 (no, not dancing)

[floormat]

heres the image:

Rules:
judt download the picture and have at it, bend the pixels to your will! visually enhance! and then upload the picture so we can see.
you can start out on your own, or take someone elses and enhance it(unless they state that you cant)
prize: wookie life debt
[ 26 February 2002: Message edited by: floormat ]

 

[chrissie]

ill definitely be participating in this battle
fear the jungle faeries artistical wrath
with work and such, and working on some projects, i wont get to work on this as much as id like to, but im definitely going to put some effort into it...
so whos down for a battle??? :D

 

[chrissie]

ps-- very good picture to work from matt... it leaves an enormous amt of possibilites

 

[Swoosh18]

Adding to it or just using the picture as it is?

 

[chrissie]

add to it, take away from it
warp it, use it, abuse it
make it your own

 

[Swoosh18]

Ahh....treat it like a woman! J/K!

 

[Dexium]

go easy, im a beginer :D

 

[Deleted member 10878]

 

[Swoosh18]

That's a freaky lookin' "angel" thingy in the top middle of that .bmp!

 

[floormat]

Dexium, that is fucking beautiful.
if ya dont mind me asking, what'd you do to it? i kno you flipped it and overlapped the mirror, but how'd you get that "wrinkly almost gaseous" looking effect?
very very nice

 

[Swoosh18]

Here's a couple of mine.

[ 02 March 2002: Message edited by: Swoosh18 ]

 

[chrissie]

haha swoosh, that et one is great
dexium, i must agree with matt, that is a beautiful image. the jewel tones and waviness give a lovely warm evil feeling i especially like the glow of the white. good job*

 

[Swoosh18]

Am I the only one that noticed this? Spooky!
ok...Edit.....Wife just got home and some of you may think i'm nuts. I asked her to look at the image and I had to point it out to her. Apparently it's because i'm colorblind.(deficient) I notice shapes more then colors on pictures like that. Somebody help me out here.....do you see the image?

[ 28 February 2002: Message edited by: Swoosh18 ]

 

[floormat]

yeh, i noticed alot clearer in the other picture, it looks like a descending angel with her arms spread.

 

[Swoosh18]

That don't look like no angel to me!

 

[Deleted member 10878]

looks liek a mixture of Brak and that moth thing in the Mothman Prophecies

 

[NoodleGurl]

hm, we can post images here?

it's shoddy. oh well.
edit: so we can't post images.. hrm.
[ 28 February 2002: Message edited by: NoodleGurl ]

 

[Swoosh18]

I guess dex isn't gonna come back to tell us how he made that "flame" look.
Noodle.............what do you mean you can't post images? Also..........I think you could have taken some of the lines with the rivets and colored them the same "yellowish" color.........maybe ran them diagonally or across? I don't know.........it's cool though!
It's funny to see how all of our creative minds think differently. I think i'm gonna post this image on another forum to see what they come up with.

 

[Dexium]

Hey guys. I really regret not saving my original photoshop file now, because I can't remember all the steps I took to get the nice effect I obtained here. But I can give you a rough guide... it's really easy.
In photoshop:
1) I created 3 duplicate layers of the image, and each of these was blured with a different blur, (radial spin, radial zoom and gaussian). I then set the opacity of these layers to a level where the original picture was still the main emphasis, but it had gained a kind of glowing, diffusion lens look (the merge types were left to normal).
2) I created another duplicate layer of the original and put a distort->ocean ripple filter on it (both parameters at 9), and set the merge type to overlay, and the opacity to around 50%.
3) I then flattened that image played with it's levels somehow (can't remember), duplicated that layer, and flipped it. I then set the duplicated layer's merge type to multiply.
thats roughly how I did it. I have a feeling i've missed out more than just where i played with the levels, but you guys will get the picture (no pun intended) if you manage to work out my rushed instructions.
[ 28 February 2002: Message edited by: Dexium ]

 

[Dexium]

btw NoodleGurl, i really like your peice.. damn styleish. Minimal, industrial, slick. yum. Swoosh, your ET moon just rocks. The connection between the original subject and the finished grafic is clever.. there's a fancy phrase for that but I forgot what it was. Startripper, your image is kewl and it would be great as a background for some nice dark foreground abstract shapes/text or something trippy like that.
ok peeps since I didn't actually get the thumbs down for my last attempt at fucking a picture up, I've done it again :D

[ 28 February 2002: Message edited by: Dexium ]