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Posted on 11/05/09 9:12:13 PM
Jota120
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
0.3s sequel, the splash!
.... pig even more surprised!; she might be as well soon Actually he swims a long way underwater in reality....





Posted on 12/05/09 01:44:05 AM
mguyer
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Here is mine



Posted on 12/05/09 02:05:36 AM
Jota120
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Tomorrow or as Bill would say "Tomorrow and tomorrow creeps on this petty pace from day to day until the last syllable of recorded time" (if remember correctly)





Posted on 12/05/09 2:04:59 PM
horonggo
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Here is mine.


Posted on 12/05/09 2:17:17 PM
horonggo
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Here is mine.



Posted on 12/05/09 2:44:02 PM
Ben Mills
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Ello sailor!!



Posted on 12/05/09 5:01:29 PM
powerslave
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
In Josephine's words...look very hard at something wet and poke it!


Good idea Ben





Posted on 12/05/09 5:18:41 PM
Gerard
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Hello everyone,
here is my attempt to use the water more effectively!

Gerard



Posted on 12/05/09 5:20:43 PM
james
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s211/fungismith/dock-ducks.gif

Posted on 12/05/09 5:29:04 PM
GKB
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Sorry Steve, did you say Oslo or Copenhagen?



Only when I came to post this did I see that other minds were already working along the same lines.

dwindt - To get this wet rock effect I duplicated the rock layer and then using a curves adjustment layer I slightly darkened it. I then created a layer mask on the new rock layer and filled it with black to hide everything. Then I used a small hard-edged brush to paint back the 'wet line' (using white on the mask). You can then lightly enhance a few of the highlights using the dodge tool. Hope that helps with your earlier question.

Gordon




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Posted on 12/05/09 10:46:30 PM
josephine harvatt
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
What saucy ladies - I could have done with their help when I did my Feejee mermaid exhibit.

James - that looks like an awful lot of hard work there - I love the ending.

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Posted on 13/05/09 10:18:43 AM
The Mad Lep
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Great work from everyone so far. Jo I just adore your newspaper, very clever and so well done! Big thumbs up.

Apologies that I haven't contributed, I've had heaps of niggly Photoshopping to do in work this week and I'm just sick of looking at it at this stage. O the drudgery of the working class.

Posted on 13/05/09 12:59:49 PM
GKB
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
GKB wrote:



dwindt - To get this wet rock effect I duplicated the rock layer and then using a curves adjustment layer I slightly darkened it. I then created a layer mask on the new rock layer and filled it with black to hide everything. Then I used a small hard-edged brush to paint back the 'wet line' (using white on the mask). You can then lightly enhance a few of the highlights using the dodge tool. Hope that helps with your earlier question.

Gordon



The rather more elegant way to do it is to just use the original rock layer and apply a curves adjustment layer. Then you can use the adjustment layer's mask to do exactly the same job. That way you save on your file size by having one less layer.

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Posted on 13/05/09 2:47:00 PM
james
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Thank you Josephine.

Posted on 13/05/09 4:08:45 PM
dwindt
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Thats very interesting James. Well done.

Posted on 13/05/09 6:22:35 PM
Deborah Morley
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Tides out! and Galapagos crabs have migrated to cooler climes - maybe 'global warming'!
James great animation - loved the flapping wings then the synchronised 'ducking'
Josephine - great newspaper
Excellent ideas as always
For some reason I've had to save this at a massively lower resolution to get to file size. Normally I can save at about 88%, this time I had to go to 51%, even though the original file size is the same. Maybe it is the hue of the crabs!!



Posted on 13/05/09 7:56:40 PM
james
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Thank you Deborah.
It would be an insult to suggest your effort is a photograph; it exhibits such a high degree of skill. It’s amazing



Posted on 13/05/09 10:13:31 PM
vibeke
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Deborah Morley wrote:

For some reason I've had to save this at a massively lower resolution to get to file size. Normally I can save at about 88%, this time I had to go to 51%, even though the original file size is the same. Maybe it is the hue of the crabs!!



I nearly always have to save at 50% or even less, it has a lot to do with how many sharp details there are in the image.


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Posted on 14/05/09 10:00:32 AM
josephine harvatt
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Beautifully done Deborah, most convincing

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Posted on 14/05/09 6:10:47 PM
Emil
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Re: Contest 248: Out of the depths
Just like every week there are a lot of lovely pictures.

Here is mine.


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