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Posted on 22/12/17 09:00:24 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 686: Down the chimney
It's Christmas... and all over Forumland Santa's elves are busy wrapping their presents and oiling the reindeer. I like to think that Santa dresses appropriately for the type of chimney he's squeezing down. What sort of surreal Santa might we expect in Barcelona, where the inspirational architect Antoni Gaudi built these rather extraordinary chimneys? High res is here. 
(Image courtesy of Sara Terrones under Creative Commons) Note: I'm taking a break over Christmas, so you've got two weeks to work on this one. Many thanks for your outstanding work this year, and for helping to make the Forum such a great place to hang out. Have a great Christmas and New Year. See you all in 2018! |
Posted on 22/12/17 10:58:18 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
And a very Merry Christmas to you Steve and all fellow hotchippers! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 22/12/17 12:14:44 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
How the fairy got on the top of the Christmas tree. It was a bad day in Santa's workshop. The gnomes were on strike and one the reindeers had diarrhoea. Santa was in a foul mood. Then the door opens accompanied by a blast of freezing cold wind and snow. In comes a fairy dragging a Christmas tree. "What would you like me to do with this tree Santa?" Wishing a rather better Christmas to all of you! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 22/12/17 7:59:55 PM |
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Emy
Composition Chef Posts: 390 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
_________________ Why not! |
Posted on 22/12/17 8:00:36 PM |
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Emy
Composition Chef Posts: 390 Reply |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
_________________ Why not! |
Posted on 22/12/17 8:59:57 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
This comes very close to cheating. I found this splendidly perfect fellow ready made complete with sledge and reindeer. I simply couldn't resist him. On the other hand cutting him out was a tremendously difficult task. I have subscribed rather reluctantly to CC 2018. I am sorry to say that I now understand perfectly why Select and Mask has come in for such fierce criticism and complaint from press and users alike. I ended up quick selecting and quite simply tidying up and painting the rest by hand. OK - I am an old hand and I should know better than to expect miracles - but Adobe should know better than to try and sell them to us .............. very disappointing.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 23/12/17 4:49:00 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4005 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
I watched a Scott Kelby video showing how to use Select and Mask. The subject was a young woman with rather dark auburn hair against a plain, lighter-than-mid-grey background ... just the kind of challenging background that we all have every time we do this kind of work.  Even with this background I noticed that not all of the hairs were extracted.
Still, now that Adobe will have such a ginormous cash windfall from Trump's tax bill being passed, perhaps they might invest some of that windfall and perhaps help me get CS4 to load and work on my PC??? 
_________________ If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you. |
Posted on 23/12/17 5:48:24 PM |
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Ben Mills
Luminous Luminary Posts: 570 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
Someone forgot to lock the door … who needs chimneys? 
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Posted on 23/12/17 7:32:03 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3231 Reply  |
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Posted on 23/12/17 7:49:08 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
On a normal Adobe install one of the first things it does is install Adobe Hot Air. It appears to be necessary for all the rest .........  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 23/12/17 10:06:06 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
Any of you who went searching for "patchwork cloak", colourful cloak", "Jacobs cloak", etc., as I suspect many of you may have tried, will have found, as I did, almost nothing but back views with the arms spread out to display the garment at it's best. At first this frustrated me ...... then it gave me a really rather tasteless idea ...... ....... but then I've never been one to fight shy of them ......
_________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 24/12/17 04:13:12 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3063 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
Great idea David. Did it come to you in a flash? |
Posted on 24/12/17 06:26:02 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
 _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 24/12/17 9:28:47 PM |
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Emy
Composition Chef Posts: 390 Reply |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
 _________________ Why not! |
Posted on 24/12/17 11:09:24 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3231 Reply |
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Do you see what I see?  |
Posted on 28/12/17 3:08:05 PM |
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Linda Eckert
maîtresse marocaine Posts: 148 Reply |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
A summer scene in winter… Happy New Year to all of you!  |
Posted on 31/12/17 12:37:54 PM |
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Ant Snell
Specular Specialist Posts: 566 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
Happy Christmas to all HOTCHIPS ers. 
Santa brought me a new PC so hopefully I will be able to participate a bit more in 2018 |
Posted on 31/12/17 1:44:16 PM |
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Ant Snell
Specular Specialist Posts: 566 Reply |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
.....and a Happy New Year!  |
Posted on 31/12/17 9:14:11 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
Cant seem to get going with this one but enjoying everyone's posts - some lovely colour matching! Anyway a very Happy New Year to all and looking forward to the next 52 challenges! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 31/12/17 11:31:58 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4005 Reply |
Re: Challenge 686: Down the chimney
Not looking likely that I will have time for this one but I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and thank you all for the fun and pleasure of your images in 2017. _________________ If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you. |
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