Contest presentation

The website I have chosen to use is called photoshopcontest.com. The reason I have chosen this is because, I didnt want to make something like a front cover for a magazene, I wanted to something where you get given a photo to use and then manipulate it and turn it into something different. I have entered 3 contests in total, but two of them where just for fun but actually turned out quite well.

There isnt really any rules for this website about what you do to the source image (not that I could find).


Here is an example of an image that your allowed to use for a certain contest, you can basicly do you want to it as long as you use this image in some way. below is the image that won the contest:



Images I have entered

Contextual street lamp

Here is the original

This is what I came up with the image. to do this I selected the lamppost using the pen tool and dragged it onto a new document with a black background then duplicated the lamppost. I then made the first lamppost layer invisable and applied a gradient over the visable layer. Then on a new layer, behind the lampost, I rendered some clouds and blurred it a little. Then using the pen tool and stroke paths on a new layer above everything made some coloured lines, each line on a new layer, then changed the blending options to give them an outerglow. Next, below the lamp layer I used a soft brush, but in the brush palet I change the spacing and several other options and basicly dotted it around the background.











Here is another original image and what I did to it:



to do this I selected the head with the pen tool and dragged it onto a new document. then I got am image with stars in and put it behind the head layer. next, I got a picture of the moon, selected it with the pen tool again and dragged it on top of the bald head and chose overlay as a blending mode, then used the warp tool to aline everything. Next I got an image of earth, selected it and put it into the background. Then used the burn tool in several places.

Shatttered





This is what I came up with. To do this I got a picture of a break dancer and selected it with the pen tool, then inversed it and deleted the background. Then I duplicated the image and made it slightly larger and repeated the process a few times, in this image I carried the duplicates down where the splatter is. Then I flattend the duplicates and put them below the original. After this I then applied a layer mask on the duplicates and painted it black so you couldnt see them. Then I downloaded a splattered brush set from the internet and then painted a few areas with a white brush to reveal some areas, but not too much. Next I used the eraser with a splatter brush and painted the edge of the dancer giving it a better effect. Then I took the image I had to use put it on a layer above everything and changed  the blending mode to overlay.