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Posted on 09/04/25 09:58:34 AM |
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lwc
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Posted on 09/04/25 11:43:43 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5551 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1048: Open the safe
If Elon could turn a little bit to his right Ben, he'd be doing us all a favour! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 09/04/25 11:52:48 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5551 Reply |
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'Cos you took down the original, silly David can't see the difference. Except maybe he's even nastier ......... _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 09/04/25 11:55:13 AM |
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DavidMac
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I do like Safe of Doom. Is that really Harrison Ford? _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 09/04/25 12:26:46 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3121 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1048: Open the safe
David - Difference in Cujo is very slight, added a bit more blood to the severed arm on the floor, and flashing eyes with a bit more overall movement to Cujo. "Is that really Harrison Ford?" Yes and no... actually a figurine, but was the only full image I could find that was adaptable to 'Safe of Doom'.  |
Posted on 09/04/25 12:34:09 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5551 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1048: Open the safe
When, as a young cameraman, I first started travelling to Paris to shoot there on a regular basis I decided that I needed to learn French beyond my schoolboy very basic level. Problem is when you try to read stuff there are so many trips to the dictionary that it gets just too slow and frustrating. I decided that comic strips would work far better. The french is not literary, it is every day colloquial french, whch is what I needed. The sentences are short and simple and you have pictures to help guess the meaning which means you can make fast enough progress to enjoy the learning. I went to a bookshop and bought what the assistant assured me was the entire TinTin collection. Over the next months I read them all from cover to cover. It really did help to get me talking. Twenty five hardback copies. This was in 1969, so they are just over fifty five years old now. I don't know if there were more releases later. or whether this still constitutes a full collection. I shall visit the archive and find out. Here they are ......... rather faded and dog eared. They were used and loved by both my sons as well when they were small boys. And now I really must stop. I've been hogging this thread with irrelevancies. Sorry Steve I shall try to behave myself for the rest of the week.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 09/04/25 12:50:52 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5551 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1048: Open the safe
How good to discover that someone else does that too! I've done it a couple of times in the past when stuck for famous characters.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 09/04/25 2:00:16 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1853 Reply  |
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Yes, nice work everyone!
Finally found a green screen to work in Filmora. ...Camera, lights, action...  |
Posted on 09/04/25 2:25:21 PM |
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Ben Boardman
Printing Pro Posts: 601 Reply  |
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Yes indeed, our market took a hammering as did my retirement fund. |
Posted on 09/04/25 10:11:22 PM |
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dwindt
Realism Realiser Posts: 871 Reply |
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A hard cover Tintin collection David! Nice. Sorry for going off track here Steve but in connection with David and Lloyd's comment re' celebrities, if anybody has peeped at "my first music video" under the "Straight photography and off-topic" section, you already know that I've set up ComfyUI on my system. It's a node-based AI platform that can run different styles or workflows of AI script. Although I set it up in an attempt to try videos, it can also do text to image, image to image etc. When I need a break from researching digital art's ever expanding fore front, I like to visit HOTCHIPS (here) and have a stab at what you are all challenged with as set out by the maestro, Steve! This week's challenge caught my attention. I also wanted an image / photo of a known character. In this case, Lucky Luke and a Dalton character. All the images I found were to cartoon orientated. I was about to call it a day and continue with research when I thought of ComfyUI and it's ability to do text to image and decided to give that another try. So David, now you know why you have never seen a 3D Lucky Luke character similar to the one I posted. It's an AI representation of a Lucky Luke character described by a prompt that I fed into a ComfyUI workflow. I tweaked the prompt and various options, until it produced a character close to what I wanted, changed the randomiser to increment and asked for 16 variations. It produced some very interesting options with a lot of promise. I did the same for Rantanplan, his dog and for Dalton. I used 2 halves of Dalton and married them together. It does have problems. Morphs limbs into each other, adds extra limbs etc but if you can manipulate images with Photoshop, you just have a better arsenal of graphic tools for image manipulation. Additionally, Daz Studio 3D characters come in handy to. If a hand has 6 fingers and you can't manipulate the image, pose a figure, render it and Photoshop that into the picture. I have the ability to digitally paint a whole scene. I can do it with airbrush, pencil or paint...but that would take days / weeks even. Now I have an arsenal of tools to get me what I want in a fraction of the time. What's digital art going to throw at us next. Can't wait. So, Lloyd, Harrison Ford - I couldn't get his leg up but I wasn't breaking my head over it. I typed a simple prompt and ran AI while I went about my chores. One of the 3 that I liked, had a disfigured hand. I posed a Daz character and rendered it, cut the hand off, applied photo filter, colour balance, then dodge brush painted in highlights as they had discoloured with the manipulations. Should any of you need a similar character, all you need to do is ask and I'll oblige. 
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Posted on 09/04/25 10:39:59 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3121 Reply |
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Interesting Dennis, I have no idea how to use any of that software. When AI was first showing up on the internet, I requested a squirrel holding an oversize peanut (I couldn't think of anything else...lol). At first I was amazed at what came back, but then noticed extra toes and two tails on the squirrel. That was a year ago, now it just keeps getting better. Your music video is very entertaining, nice work. |
Posted on 10/04/25 11:07:00 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5551 Reply |
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I have very mixed feelings about AI Dennis. Certainly it's not something that excites me. I will confine my comments here simply to creativity and not touch on all the other disturbing aspects of AI use. I am happy to use it for grunt work, it's made selection so much easier for example. We can go far beyond that and it's easy to argue that it's just another tool with sophistications we have never had before ............ but where you draw the line makes a huge difference. I have no interest in asking it to create. That's simply robbing me of the pleasure. That's my personal line. On a more serious note I am afraid that we are creating a generation, who, raised on this, will have neither the ability or motivation to create for themselves. So much joy lost! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 10/04/25 11:23:54 AM |
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Mariner
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I just loved this one. Putting my detective head on I think this is probably what happened: On bank holiday Monday when everyone in London has a day off the thieves broke in. They managed to saw off the safe's hinges with an expensive Stihl saw (google it). They soon found out that the safe was empty and left after first writing a sarcastic thank you note, taking the Stihl saw with them, but forgetting their crowbar. Next day, Ally Keyes (vocalist with Bedlam), was looking for a hotel room for an overnight stay after her next gig. Searching for a booking clerk in the almost deserted hotel she found the empty safe and picked up the forgotten crowbar, wondering what to do next... (to be continued. Maybe) 
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Posted on 10/04/25 12:07:43 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5551 Reply |
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I like the back story. Gives the image depth. So Ally is now left holding the 'smoking gun'. Really looking forward to episode 2. Lovely clean Mariner work but one very minor quibble ......... the door (which is beautiful by the way) looks to be considerably narrower than the space uncovered. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 10/04/25 12:51:08 PM |
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michael sinclair
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As always Mariner very good.  But it would be even better if the safe and the girl had their contrast increased to match that of the excellent contrast of the rest of the image.  |
Posted on 10/04/25 1:34:38 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3006 Reply |
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Thanks David. Do you mean the trees look to be the wrong size: Thinks. Ah, you mean the safe door! I will check it, and maybe change it. |
Posted on 10/04/25 1:38:05 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3006 Reply |
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I tried that Michael, but she looked too bright, so I toned her down a bit. The more so because the focus (for me) of the graphic is the view of the window. |
Posted on 10/04/25 2:04:13 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3006 Reply |
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I think you are right David, but it was difficult to measure the first time round so I will leave it alone now. Let's see if the guru spots it. |
Posted on 10/04/25 2:32:08 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5551 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1048: Open the safe
I wasn't suggesting you change it. You've obviously put a lot of effort and care into it. It was just an observation. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 10/04/25 10:13:32 PM |
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dwindt
Realism Realiser Posts: 871 Reply |
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I hear you David. Different strokes for different folks. I haven't drawn the line yet regarding AI (Art) but am exploring it to establish where that line may be. Every Photo shopper spends ages searching for an appropriate image. If AI can deliver, I'm willing to accept, especially if it's freeing my hands up to do what I enjoy, creating an idea. The same as my recognition in the promise that Daz Studio offered me as an artist. I'll combine whatever I can to deliver my idea. The next generation is hindered and blessed by the established fashions of our generation and later. (Questionable whether we have been successful or not, by the state of world affairs). The silent generation graphic artist most probably thought what we are thinking about AI art, when Photoshop was developed. Has it stopped us manipulating images? Did it destroy the conventional painter? I'm willing to explore and incorporate any worthwhile state of art, into my workflow. If I have an AI object manipulated within my idea, to achieve my goal, would it be scoffed upon? _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
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