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Posted on 19/12/14 08:38:58 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 536: Make 2015 beautiful
A wide open Challenge this week, to celebrate the new year: take this setting of 2015 and make it into something beautiful. Quite how you achieve that is up to you. I've saved the high res file as a psd with a clipping path for those of you who want to experiment with 3D - text works much better from paths than it does from pixels. High res is here. 
As is traditional at this time of year, I don't look at my computer between Christmas and New Year. So you've got two weeks for this one - I'll be writing this up on 2nd of January. |
Posted on 19/12/14 08:47:13 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4005 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 536: Make 2015 beautiful
Is that font 'Baskerville'? _________________ It only seems impossible. |
Posted on 19/12/14 08:50:31 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7025 Reply |
Re: Challenge 536: Make 2015 beautiful
Well spotted! Yes, it is Baskerville Bold, but I've edited it to remove the dropped tail of the 2 which would have made it difficult to place on a flat surface. |
Posted on 19/12/14 08:57:40 AM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 536: Make 2015 beautiful
Wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas. That was a first: as you had saved it as a psd file as soon as I clicked on the link it downloaded and opened it in photoshop! |
Posted on 19/12/14 11:03:07 AM |
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Ben Boardman
Printing Pro Posts: 615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 536: Make 2015 beautiful
Merry Christmas & Joyeux Noël From DownUnder |
Posted on 19/12/14 12:57:05 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 536: Make 2015 beautiful
Cherry Mishmash to all ! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 19/12/14 4:50:43 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4005 Reply |
Re: Challenge 536: Make 2015 beautiful
Has to be a quick one this week. Might get to do something better later. Unfortunately this one was just too big to fit on the 4th plinth! 
_________________ It only seems impossible. |
Posted on 19/12/14 8:36:03 PM |
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Ant Snell
Specular Specialist Posts: 566 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 536: Make 2015 beautiful
What better way to see in the New Year than on a Caribbean beach. Slight panic for a while but eventually got Photoshop working again. Happy New Year everyone.  |
Posted on 22/12/14 4:46:43 PM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply  |
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Posted on 23/12/14 6:35:18 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply |
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Posted on 23/12/14 9:08:09 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1864 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 536: Make 2015 beautiful
I think aliens did it. 
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Posted on 24/12/14 04:52:14 AM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 536: Make 2015 beautiful
Even though the man looks a little like Putin and the woman clearly is not appropriately dressed for a walk in the woods, don't over-think it.  _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 24/12/14 08:42:44 AM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply  |
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Posted on 24/12/14 8:16:54 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1864 Reply |
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It's wave time:
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Posted on 25/12/14 11:23:56 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply  |
HAPPY NEW FROM INGRID AND DAVID MAC
This challenge provoked me into finally getting to grips with a new trompe l'oeil which has been floating about in my head and on my sketch pad for a while now. I was very worried I wouldn't make the deadline for the challenge as an image like this would normally be done over several weeks ..... but a quiet Christmas and lots of midnight oil later here it is: a full fledged New Year Illusion card from the Macdonalds. Since the image is a little out of the usual a word or two of explanation might interest some of you. The intention here is more hyper real illustration than photography. Aside from Ingrid, myself and the water no photography was involved. The geometry, 3D Baskerville and the main structural elements were constructed initially in 3D in the wonderfully fast and intuitive Trimble Sketchup and exported in 2D to multiple photoshop layers. (The modelling is done in isometric parallel projection with no vanishing points. You could not create this figure with perspective as it would contain nine contradictory vanishing points and the surface would become curved). Since the geometry has rotational symmetry only one third was modelled. This was duplicated and rotated and the false joins created in Photoshop. This has to be done in 2D because you can't use 3D to model something which cannot actually exist in true 3D space! Texturing and lighting were done entirely in 2D in Photoshop. The two figures were posed and lit expressly for their final placement after the creation of the main image. The impossible typeface top left is also my own creation from several years back. Composed on many long sleepless night flights between Brussels and Mumbai. Each letter is composed of a fully scaleable Illustrator vector group. Lots of work!! But I had a really good time doing this ....... Do view this full size. There's lots of detail. Click once to go the larger image and then click again for 100%. Looking forward to a new year of fresh challenges. Thank you Steve for the last year. It's been such good fun.
 NewYearIllusionSmall by davidmac1943, on Flickr_________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 25/12/14 7:13:45 PM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 536: Make 2015 beautiful
Not excited about this one, but rather lacking in time, with lots of Christmas celebrations, and off on a trip South tomorrow. Heading for the Southern most part of New Zealand, Stewart Island. This contest has set me up for a New Years resolution, Learn more about 3D  _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 26/12/14 05:50:05 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply  |
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http://vimeo.com/115409137 James, that is just delightful! I love it  _________________ Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! I'm melting! |
Posted on 26/12/14 06:06:34 AM |
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Tom
Texture Technologist Posts: 401 Reply  |
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Posted on 26/12/14 09:33:24 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 536: Make 2015 beautiful
Just realised that, after all my rush to meet the Friday deadline, I didn't read Steve's post properly and had until the 2nd ...... DUH!!!! 
Oh well .... look on the positive side ....... we needed it before years end anyway to get it sent out in time. 
A wonderful New Year to you all. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 26/12/14 3:38:05 PM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 536: Make 2015 beautiful
Wow, Anna! That really is beautiful, and I had to laugh when I read your resolution about the head-banging music. _________________ I'm still learning. |
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