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Posted on 24/05/09 1:06:21 PM

josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 250: The cabinet of curiosities

Great work everyone !
I have gone for the more literal approach

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Posted on 24/05/09 1:11:52 PM

josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 250: The cabinet of curiosities

And I would like to echo the sentiments at the end of Anna's animation

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Posted on 24/05/09 3:28:29 PM

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Re: Challenge 250: The cabinet of curiosities

http://www.keyguides.co.uk/katew250ss.gif

Posted on 24/05/09 6:26:26 PM

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Re: Challenge 250: The cabinet of curiosities

MrsMguyer and I recently took our grandson to the British Museum to see the HOW TO CHEAT IN PHOTOSHOP exhibit.

Posted on 24/05/09 7:31:01 PM

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Re: Challenge 250: The cabinet of curiosities

My first messy/grunge try. I put a cabinet in there (lower right), but did not seem to use it much, yet! Strange what you find in an attic in a strange place .....

Posted on 24/05/09 8:15:53 PM

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Re: Challenge 250: The cabinet of curiosities

mguyer wrote:
MrsMguyer and I recently took our grandson to the British Museum to see the HOW TO CHEAT IN PHOTOSHOP exhibit.

Very subtle. Great!

I hope you all enjoyed

Posted on 24/05/09 8:29:35 PM

josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 250: The cabinet of curiosities

Is that you Jota - what a cluttered attic you have!

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Posted on 24/05/09 8:30:34 PM

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josephine harvatt wrote:
Great work everyone !
I have gone for the more literal approach

Great Josephine. I think you are keeping to the brief very well. No comment for my work keeping to the brief (and others, but just enjoy).

What no sepia!, but you have great older silver photography (One stage process?). Looks authentic and interesting to me.

Posted on 24/05/09 8:39:48 PM

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josephine harvatt wrote:
Is that you Jota - what a cluttered attic you have!

No not me! But I do get a bit cluttered sometimes.

As you do, she gave me a tour of the old house, we climbed out through that window on to a very narrow ledge and up some scary ladders to the top of the roof (no safety). Great view of Xiamen!!

Posted on 24/05/09 10:50:19 PM

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We just overlapped. Maybe the star went through something common in us,

Joking, I love to laugh .....

Posted on 25/05/09 4:51:24 PM

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Posted on 26/05/09 00:13:43 AM

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Posted on 26/05/09 07:26:24 AM

Nick Curtain
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Posted on 26/05/09 08:49:59 AM

The Mad Lep
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Re: Challenge 250: The cabinet of curiosities

Lovely work everyone! Nick that egg is seriously cool. How did you get it to blend in so well? Love that idea.

Posted on 26/05/09 09:09:06 AM

Nick Curtain
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The Mad Lep wrote:
Lovely work everyone! Nick that egg is seriously cool. How did you get it to blend in so well? Love that idea.

Thanks Celia.
To blend effectively, the colours and lightness of the egg and face have to match and this is achieved by playing around with colour fill layers, blend modes and Hue and Saturation / Curves. This is 90% of the task achieved and then it is just a matter of painting onto a mask until you are happy with the result. The final step, which adds the finishing touch, is to copy a section of the egg, clip it to the face layer and run the high pass filter. This will add the texture of the egg to the face and make the blend more realistic.
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Posted on 26/05/09 11:58:10 AM

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Its so interesting seeing all the old challenges together like this. Josephine, Nick and Steve - brilliant. The egg -face Nick, looks so real.

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Posted on 26/05/09 4:58:18 PM

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Re: Challenge 250: The cabinet of curiosities

Hello friends,
here is my attempt to start a museum of photoshop!
Not very imaginative but I did have not much entries myself.

Anna, .......... !!!
Katew, nice Mac feature!
Nick, how do you like your eggs in the morning!!
The rest is way better then my entry!
On to bank holiday now!!
Gerard