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Posted on 06/04/26 5:50:57 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6119 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
Lots of fun this week and good to see Vibeke back. I think I have to make a special mention for the splendid Fabergé eggs. Gorgeous! This has so many failings Steve could die of boredom before he's half way through pointing them out. Some could be repaired if I put in enough time, but I've run out of steam because it's becoming clear that many are quite beyond practicable rescue. But I managed to put a lot of time and effort into getting even this far so I am posting unfinished and uncorrected - warts and all. 'Cos it's still quite fun ................ 
In the event of anyone feeling I have failed to present them in a sufficiently flattering manner, an S.O.E. should be supplied for complaints to receive a response. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 06/04/26 8:15:43 PM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1848 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
Cute David, glad to see my hair is still black. |
Posted on 06/04/26 8:46:48 PM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2191 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
Thank you,I will try. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 07/04/26 04:08:13 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2970 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
http://vimeo.com/1180671636?fl=pl&fe=sh I hope everyone had a great Easter. Good to see you again, Vibeke. Love the Faberge eggs, Ben. I laughed at your boxed set, David. Well done. Even with the rotate tool, I struggled with this one. The perspective is all over the place.  _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 07/04/26 3:46:09 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6119 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
The egg marketing board are doing a new promotion: ”Personality Eggs”. Each personality consists of six eggs. There are a lot of personalities and the decorated eggs are randomly distributed one to each half dozen on the shelves. So chances are you'll need to buy a lot of eggs to get a full personality. So far I’ve been really lucky and managed already to get half a Dolly Parton! 
_________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 07/04/26 7:49:45 PM |
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Ant Snell
Specular Specialist Posts: 626 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
In the event of anyone feeling I have failed to present them in a sufficiently flattering manner...... Good fun David, had I known you was doing this , I would have sent you this self portrait I did a few years ago. http://flic.kr/p/dssjb7  |
Posted on 07/04/26 8:04:29 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6119 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
LOL!! It's amazing how often we seem to get similar thoughts .......... _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 07/04/26 11:08:32 PM |
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vibeke
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Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
I love it, and thanks for the welcome, and the inclusion. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 07/04/26 11:09:32 PM |
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vibeke
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Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
Stunning _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 07/04/26 11:11:55 PM |
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vibeke
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Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
Very nice Anna, I had a go at having a chocolate egg in my box, but couldn't get it right. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 08/04/26 3:14:53 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3298 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
You remember René Magritte and his picture of a bowler-hatted man with a big green apple covering his face? It is a form of surrealism known as DADA. This is MAMA. Not to be confused with Making Americans Something Something. 
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Posted on 09/04/26 10:07:50 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2970 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
Thank you, Vibeke. Mariner, you removed the eggs 'eggspertly'  _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
Posted on 09/04/26 11:14:11 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3298 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
Anna, eggstraordinarily punny! 
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Posted on 09/04/26 12:08:18 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3298 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
Anna, sometimes Steve eggspeggs too much! |
Posted on 09/04/26 1:40:25 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4139 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
Please, please stop it with all these yolks already. Nothing from me this week I’m afraid. Too busy with other projects and I will be off on my hols on the 24th … to Azerbaijan on the Iranian border 😱 so if you don’t see me on HTCIP for a while … _________________ Have you ever noticed that all the instruments designed to detect intelligent life are pointing away from the Earth? |
Posted on 09/04/26 2:36:37 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6119 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
A little eggsplored school of eggspressionism ineggstricably yoked to eggsistential thinking. The surreal eyes poached from eggsternal source's and scrambled together out of conteggst gives them an eggstremely perpleggst eggpression that be might even termed shell shocked! Eggserpt from "The Story of Art" - E. H. Gombrich. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 09/04/26 3:20:16 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3298 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
Brilliant David! "shell shocked" indeed! Hahaha! Lovie it! |
Posted on 10/04/26 07:34:45 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7157 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
First to crack the eggs this week was Ben Boardman, with a splendid range of decorated and opened eggs – AI free range, no less! I like the cracked one, and the chick (although the shadow on the chick is a little odd). An interesting selection. The Fabergé eggs are gorgeous, and I love the detail of the velvet insert and the gilded egg box. Glorious. A touch of politics from Ant Snell, with the Donald juggling eggs and hand grenades – and he’s in the perfect pose for that. I like the egg box falling off his chair, and especially the detail of the broken egg on the floor. Very tasty. And great to see the self portrait again. Glad to see DavidMac has been getting good use out of Rotate Object. It really has done a great job here. Did you use Harmonize to add the shadows? Ah, those little lions… Some hand decoration from Frank, with a clutch of very cute faces. The only thing that jars is the size of the hand – or are these duck eggs? The rebuilt egg box lid works very well. An egg-munching snake from lwc, with a couple of superhero eggs among the set. Looks like the snake has already chomped on something very much larger. I really like the face on the golfball. I wonder how hard it would be to get the drawing to follow the indentations. Great to see Vibeke back, with a tasteful Easter assortment. Perfect work – you haven’t lost your touch! The tiny chick is especially pleasing. Welcome home. It took me a few seconds to interpret Mariner's egg-based pun – you must have spent almost as much time on this as on the artwork. A nicely mapped flag, but why is the shadow so spiky? The Eyeball entry is fun, although I’d classify Magritte (who only worked with paint) as solidly surrealist, rather than Dadaist (who tended towards found objects and collage). Still, worth it for DavidMac’s eggcellent eggsplanation. An entertaining boxed set from DavidMac, full f Forum regulars. Who is the tonsorially disadvantaged person second from left in the top row? And I seem to have shaved off my beard. Most amused by the Dolly Parton souvenir egg set. Tee hee, you naughty boy. A fine array of Easter eggs from tooquilos, and it’s good to see that a couple of them have hatched. Perspective… well, yes, but there’s no reason the egg box shouldn’t be on a slope. The sugar content of the animated version is bad for my cholesterol! |
Posted on 10/04/26 08:16:53 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3298 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
Thanks Steve. you missed my other entry (Pete Hegseth, the skunk), but you are forgiven. You seem to know a lot about dada. I must admit I know very little. |
Posted on 10/04/26 09:45:17 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6119 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1099: Easter eggs
Oh Steve! I was leg pulling because of our exchange and my lengthy post on the rotate tool the week previously. No rotating was done at all! It's nothing more than the absolutely untouched original photo with lion logos and date stamps added by me on the front.
I felt it looked completely 'shopped" but given the subject I guess that is unavoidable. The gentleman referred to is Michael (Mariner). I didn't have a photo of him and he doesn't have a photo avatar I could use. By pure luck he posted his back view in the "Three Holes" challenge and I borrowed from that.
I couldn't resist that one. It was unplanned. I was looking at the image and suddenly the twin eggs as cleavage popped into my head from nowhere. Once seen I couldn't un-see. Another one that had me stumped to begin with and proved to be fun. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
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