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Posted on 30/10/12 11:58:03 AM |
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joeysala
Perfect Palmist Posts: 604 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
Micheal - I just noticed the skeleton thingy at the end of the alley.........cool! What did you use for the grunge effect? _________________ "Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art........" Joseph Conrad |
Posted on 30/10/12 3:34:28 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3126 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
Hi Joeysala. Here's a screen shot of the .psd file. The Gradient Map causes the grunge effect. I reduced or removed the effect by painting on the layer mask. Same goes for the Colour Balance layer, which creates a bluish effect in places. The Curves layer darkens the picture, but again, only in places. The sky was dealt with separately, so was masked out of all three adjustment layers.  |
Posted on 30/10/12 4:56:48 PM |
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Jeepy
Modeleur Mystique Posts: 174 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
[quoted] Jota120 wrote: That's great Michael / Mariner, and also enjoy all entries  Can't beat a ClockWork Orange Jeepy
Anyway just one more from here Thank you Trevor/Jota120 
But really great great picture from Michael/Mariner  and thank you for sharing your knowledge Michael.
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Posted on 30/10/12 8:04:50 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
Nice one Michael.  |
Posted on 30/10/12 8:51:55 PM |
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puffin31939
Montage Mariner Posts: 383 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
Still short of time - but managed to find a little time for this  _________________ Man cannot change the direction of the wind but he can adjust the sails |
Posted on 30/10/12 10:08:05 PM |
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Emy
Composition Chef Posts: 390 Reply  |
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Posted on 30/10/12 11:34:52 PM |
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Emy
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Posted on 31/10/12 08:32:20 AM |
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bayer2012
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Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
I did not come for a long time, ask each friend good! Try to do an exercise!  |
Posted on 31/10/12 11:56:58 AM |
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joeysala
Perfect Palmist Posts: 604 Reply |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
 _________________ "Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art........" Joseph Conrad |
Posted on 31/10/12 4:00:29 PM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1770 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
Very spooky all -- I'm locking my doors !!! Some brushes and objects from Deviante Art-- some from Renderoscity.  |
Posted on 31/10/12 9:14:19 PM |
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Emy
Composition Chef Posts: 390 Reply |
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Posted on 01/11/12 02:31:57 AM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s211/fungismith/bury-prime.gif |
Posted on 01/11/12 06:56:17 AM |
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joeysala
Perfect Palmist Posts: 604 Reply |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
Thank you Michael, for sharing your techniques..really appreciate it.  _________________ "Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art........" Joseph Conrad |
Posted on 01/11/12 3:17:51 PM |
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marlcliff
Knight of Intrigue Posts: 171 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
I wanted to make this a little darker but i couldnt see it worked {and my wife is at work to see if it works} I tried a to make the black affect using a face and a green tint like in ghost hunting shows 
why has photobucket made it more complicated ?  |
Posted on 01/11/12 5:01:09 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
Well, this not necessarily Steve's technique, but we do our things and share. I just share and reference what I have done this time. CS5 (first entry). So only from me. Maybe not very helpful, sorry, and I can't show settings. 1/ Hue/colour balance. I try: a) Hue +51 c) Saturation -45 d) lightness -59 2/Colour Balance : I try: a) Cyan -19 b)yellow/blue +25 shadows: blue +6 highlights Cyan Red -41. 3/ Curve: Can't describe that sorry, but just get two handles near black and white and make a nice "s" shape. 4/ Vibrancy ... -20, Saturation -1 |
Posted on 01/11/12 10:38:53 PM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
Just a quick entry.  _________________ There are most happy who have no story to tell. - Anthony Trollope. |
Posted on 02/11/12 00:48:42 AM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
Not much of an effort I'm afraid, but I had a couple of spare skeletons ling about. And I wanted to get back to contributing.  _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 02/11/12 07:56:35 AM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
I added a little bit of light (it was too dark):  _________________ The most beatiful thing we can experience is mysterious. It is the source of all true art and sience. - Albert Einstein |
Posted on 02/11/12 09:49:56 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7052 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
A splendid image from tomiloi started this week’s spooky proceedings, with a highly populated night scene full of interest. There’s some great lighting here, especially the light from the windows falling on the ground outside and that strong, bright moon, but plenty of extra detail - the subtly-lit lettering, the pumpkin, the figure in the upstairs window, the cat on the chimney. Even the lighting on the pillars is in the right direction. Just a couple of things threw me: the reflection/light/shadow in front of the pumpkin isn’t possible, (a) because a light inside it would cast a very, very much larger impression, and (b) why is there a shadow as well? And the light from the street lamp looks too yellow and too hard-edged to be real. But otherwise, a very fine piece of work. A lot of activity from Garfield72, with pumpkins, whole glowing piles of pumpkins, skeletons and spiders and bars in the windows. I like the extra details - the figure hanging from the lamp post, the witch flying in front of the moon. But there’s a sense of separate elements here that don’t really belong together; the lighting on the skeletons has little to do with the light sources in the image, for instance. The best part for me is the glowing single pumpkin on the left - a good glow. Plenty of scary stuff in Jeepy's entry, including the cast of a Tim Burton movie and that scariest of all film characters, Alex from A Clockwork Orange. His position in the scene is strange, though: why is he so low? Surely he should be at our eye height, which (as of course you know) is on the horizon? I like that figure on the wall, though. But is the whole picture just a little too blue? A curious figure in the second entry - with a choice of backgrounds. Given the choice, and ignoring the different colouring, I’d always choose the second version. Why? Because in the first, the building is at the same angle as the body, whereas in the second it’s in the other direction, which gives the image more depth. A subtle, rather misty image from Ben Mills, with a strong hint of menace: a woman leaves her house, while death waits around the corner. I’d like to have seem a little extra lighting in here, as well as the moon - perhaps a light in one of those windows, or on the street lamp? Very neat work from Mariner, with menace represented by a pack of dogs - and very menacing they are, too. There’s extra detail, too, in the murderous goings-on in the upstairs window, and the ghost escaping over the rooftops. A hugely restrained and very stark treatment of the background, enlivened by the skeleton just, just visible at the end of the alley. Splendid! An interesting image from Jota120, with much of the street in deep foggy gloom, and just a single graffiti-covered wall lit up - with a blood patch dripping down the wall and across the pavement. But what is lighting this piece of wall? And are you sure the blood should be as bright red as that, in the dim light? I like the return of the Carmagnolle diving suit in the second entry - good lighting on the suit! The ghosts of monarchs past from Josephine Harvatt - that’s Henry VIII, if I’m not mistaken, looking decidedly peaky, so it must be either Anne Boleyn or Catherine Howard in the background, surprisingly untroubled by the proximity of her executioner. I like the arrangement of this trio, but have two questions: why are they so high in the scene, with their eyelines so far above the horizon? And why are they so white, when everything else is green? Plenty of creepy action in sciteach's entry, with a load of lit windows, a creeping ghoul, a lightning strike and a remarkably vulnerable-looking child on the pavement. I like the way the fog is partly lit by the windows, but you need to look again at the colouring on the girl and the ghoul: they don’t match the scene in which they appear. The simple solution is to desaturate these elements - at night, we lose colour far quicker than we lose luminosity. And a slight shadow on the side away from the window, perhaps? 
A clever setup from tooquilos, with a witch posing outside the Olde Salem Broom Co - appropriately, at number 13. (I’d question the typography, though, since Cooper Black wasn’t created until 1921.). The witch and pumpkin are great additions, but what I really like here is the carefully integrated cemetery next door - a perfect fit, the railings really making it look part of the scene. Some great action in the animated version - I like the twitching witch, and the flickering pumpkin; that’s a great bat fluttering around, and its transformation into Dracula is really well achieved. Splendid! Lucky I remembered to turn the volume down before pressing Play, though. A fine selection of zombies from Deborah Morley, looking suitable menacing as they inch towards the viewer. I’m finding it hard to read that bat, though - it took me a while to work out which way it was facing, and it first appeared to be hanging from a wooden support. I’d like to have seen a lit window in here! But maybe that would have detracted from those subtly glowing eyes and teeth... A brightly-lit scene from puffin31939, full of skeletons, bats and witches. An interesting painterly treatment to the whole image gives it an additional unreal quality - but is the street just too bright? With the moon in that position, shouldn’t most of it be in shadow? A beautiful image from bayer2012, with fantastic lighting - the glowing yellow of the street lamp contrasting well with the deep blue of the moonlight, resulting in a great mix of colours. I like the hooded figure, neatly lit from the left, and the stark skeleton: only the skeleton’s shadow seems to crisp and above all too high - if this were a street lamp, it would be much higher than the skeleton’s head, so its shadow would be a lot lower. But this is a very minor complaint - this is a very fine image. Welcome back! There’s a large amount of action in joeysala's entry, with a giant woman (Poser?) peering in the open window, a ghost at the open door, and a ghoul with glowing eyes right up front. I like the bats, and the smoke from the chimney. A couple of points: the figures inside the house seem much too big (where would the legs of the man on the left go?), and since the bottom half of the open window is fully lit, shouldn’t we also see some light through the glass in the top half? Oh, and a gentle nudge about eyelines and horizons, re the figure in the foreground... A truly packed image from Frank, with ghouls aplenty - and some good interaction here, with the girl looking suitably horrified by the ghost nearby. I especially like that grisly pumpkin in the pram, certainly the scariest pumpkin I’ve ever seen! The blood spatters, the painted scream, the eyes peering over the rooftops, the surprising foliage in the foreground, all combine to make a most entertaining image. A stark and deceptively simple entry from Emy - which may be your first Friday Challenge entry, I can’t recall - moving the house from its street location to a forest setting, at the same time adding a porch and turning into a small cottage. Nice work! I like the moon in that position, the added chimney throws it into good focus. Is the house roof a little too bright, though? I like the delay at the beginning of James's entry, while we wait to see what’s going to happen. And then it all takes off at once: the posts getting up and marching down the alley, the witch on her broomstick spinning the moon around, the firework shooting from the manhole in the foreground... a lot of fun! Nice one! A very foggy scene from marlcliff, with ghostly apparitions gliding down the street, and a hint of a witch in front of the moon. But what is that red dot in the upstairs window? And what is the yellow patch right in the middle? This scene would have been greatly helped by a lit window, or streetlamp, or something to focus the attention... you need a solitary object to really draw the eye here. A neatly darkened street from Emil, clearly lit by the distant moon, with just the lit pumpkin providing any illumination in the side facing us. A fine appreciation of the shadow direction: I was originally going to take you to task over the lit roof of the building in the distance, but I think the angle means it would indeed reflect the moonlight. Well calculated! And I think the second entry is an improvement. A couple of neat skeletons from Vibeke, wrapped around the chimney and marching down the street. I like the overall feel of this image, with its treated buildings that now have a starker, more surreal look to them. But what’s happened to the bottom of that pumpkin? Could it really be flattened like that, appearing to be behind the road surface? Good to see you back, Vibeke! Good work from all this week. A most entertaining set of entries. |
Posted on 02/11/12 10:28:27 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3126 Reply |
Re: Challenge 426: Spook the street
Thankyou Steve, but I didn't DO a ghost escaping over the rooftops. Now THAT is very spooky indeed! |
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