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Posted on 30/04/10 1:10:08 PM

Jono
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Re: Challenge 297: Nick Clegg's makeover

Yep, good old Pirate Nick!

Posted on 30/04/10 2:59:48 PM

maiden
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Re: Challenge 297: Nick Clegg's makeover

Thanks Steve - I'm planning a tutorial for the scrolling effect. I've previously made a tutorial for a perspective scroll but it's rather complicated and overly mathematical.

The new tutorial will concentrate on Parallax Scrolling where objects that are further away appear to move slower than object in the foreground which is what I did with the Trees in my animation, however this will be much less complicated and easy enough for people to recreate. So watch this space.

Posted on 30/04/10 4:32:42 PM

LonnieK
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Re: Challenge 297: Nick Clegg's makeover

Steve Caplin wrote:
...seriously cool car (do they really make them with transparent doors like that?) and a casual jacket and T-shirt. Have to take issue with you on the guitar, though - surely Paul McCartney would have a left-handed Gibson?

Thank you for your generous comments, Steve.

Indeed the Pandion doors are "unique". Look again, sir. That IS a left-handed Gibson. As a matter of fact, it IS Paul's!

P.S. The postman delivered 100% Photoshop this morning. I'm anxious to dive in and learn some new techniques!

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Posted on 30/04/10 8:13:12 PM

vibeke
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Re: Challenge 297: Nick Clegg's makeover

Steve Caplin wrote:
I liked vibeke's vision of Clegg in a white suit surrounded by doves - a good take. But the thing about suits is, you can't simply invert a dark jacket to get a white jacket, because then the shadows (under the lapel, in the creases) are brighter than the rest of the suit, rather than darker. On the other hand, it's surprising how much you can brighten a dark suit simply using Curves, which preserves the balance between highlight and shadow. (Correction: I just tried it on the original photo you supplied, and the level of jpeg compression made the Curves approach unworkable for this image.)

I just had to rework the suit, not perfect, but better I think.

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Posted on 30/04/10 8:43:05 PM

BigVern
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Re: Challenge 297: Nick Clegg's makeover

Steve, thank you for your insightful comments. I will look again at the curvature of the lettering. It's amazing how I didn't notice the elongated arm until you highlighted it. My only defence (and it is a poor one) is that I did not create the arm (or distort it) I merely borrowed the whole body from a bucking bronco statuette rotated and recoloured it.

Glad you appreciated the homage to Dr Strangelove and the backward bomb riding Major Kong. The film is one of my favourites. "You can't fight it here - this is a war room!"

Cheers Vern

Posted on 30/04/10 10:01:22 PM

Eva Roth
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Re: Challenge 297: Nick Clegg's makeover

...putting all of them together in one image would have really made it work for me.

Brilliant idea! Sadly given that my starting images were quite different and that I had hardly any time for cheating this week I would have ended up with something like the image below...

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