Thanks to those who took part on our previous 'Heading Home' challenge. This week, instead of looking out to sea, we have a bit of driftwood that has been washed up onto the beach. We did a driftwood challenge in a previous SFTW (part 7) and got a great response. I hope this new piece of driftwood sparks your imagination and you can show us what you can make with it. The “rules”: Use the starter image as at least part of your own image entry. Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright, etc. Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert. This is not just for our forum “regulars”. There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go! The starter image is made available for you to use in this forum challenge only. Sorry to emphasise this, but the image is not for use elsewhere. To download the image, hover over the image and click on the circle with the arrows at the top right. Then, when the image opens in its own window, right click and choose “Save Image As/Save Target As” (or similar depending on your browser). I know masking is not everyone's favourite past-time but was not sure whether putting a clipping mask into the jpeg would make it through the forum image upload and download process, so to save you a bit of time, I've attached a rough mask below which you can use to separate the wood from the background. You can download it the same way as the image. When posting back your image — please use the blue reply button in this first post and use the 'Insert Photos' icon at the top of the reply box. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry, then please use the grey reply button next to their image post. Have fun! Dave

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Something for the weekend - Part 202 - Washed up

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November 24, 2023
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Thanks to those who took part on our previous 'Heading Home' challenge.

This week, instead of looking out to sea, we have a bit of driftwood that has been washed up onto the beach. We did a driftwood challenge in a previous SFTW (part 7) and got a great response. I hope this new piece of driftwood sparks your imagination and you can show us what you can make with it.

The “rules”:

Use the starter image as at least part of your own image entry.
Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright, etc.
Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert. This is not just for our forum “regulars”.
There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go!
The starter image is made available for you to use in this forum challenge only. Sorry to emphasise this, but the image is not for use elsewhere.

To download the image, hover over the image and click on the circle with the arrows at the top right.

Then, when the image opens in its own window, right click and choose “Save Image As/Save Target As” (or similar depending on your browser).

I know masking is not everyone's favourite past-time but was not sure whether putting a clipping mask into the jpeg would make it through the forum image upload and download process, so to save you a bit of time, I've attached a rough mask below which you can use to separate the wood from the background. You can download it the same way as the image.

When posting back your image — please use the blue reply button in this first post and use the 'Insert Photos' icon at the top of the reply box. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry, then please use the grey reply button next to their image post.

Have fun!

Dave

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Henrik Heigl

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There must be children also...

regards,Henrik

davescm

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You start off with one , turn your back and............................ 🙂

Dave

Jacob Bugge

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True friends waiting for help together

Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still

davescm

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The old returns to meet the new Jacob. Bonus points for bringing in the old SFTW image.

Dave

Jacob Bugge

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As I said it was a long winding way that brought me back, to where I had never been before.

Puzzled by the green board fence here,

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/something-for-the-weekend-part-202-washed-up/m-p/14257894#M767164

I went back through my own images and saw that your starter image in SFTW178 only had the middle part, so I went all the way back through the image archive that Jain has kindly made available to find out where Dean had found the full board fence, in vain, so that is still a riddle.

But it led me to discover the SFTW7, and I was in a hurry to post before anyone else came upon it.

And now I have finally seen your mentioning it in the OP, so everyone else had known about it all the time.

I always look at the starter image first, and often start working on it straight away. I wonder what others do.

And I still have no clue about the board fence.

Lukas Engqvist

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Wanted to be transparent with the use of Ai, so decided to have a screenshot of the layers, before I embedded the screenshot.

Lukas Engqvist

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I needed to do another version

davescm

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I love the second one - it would have fitted well with our Loch Ness theme a few weeks ago 🙂

Dave

JR Boulay

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It's winter now.

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

davescm

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That's just how it feels here today JR 🙂

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ronald pottkaemper

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didiermazier

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Out of disguise

davescm

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Haha - you caught it out Didier ! 🙂

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EuanWilliamson

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Something seems to have gone wrong with my "intelligent" camera inbuilt color correction 😉

Best regards, Euan.

davescm

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It's using a C-Log LUT Euan 🙂

Dave

Trevor.Dennis

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Jesus Rameriz did an interesting video recently, where he created a LUT and used with OBS to improve webcam image quality. It was simple to do, and made a huge difference. OBS is Open Source as well, so it costs you nothing. Definitely worth look if you still do the odd Zoom meeting post COVID, or even if you have a YouTube channel and use decent equipment, it would still help you squeeze that last once of image quality from your uploads.

EuanWilliamson

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Now that Thanksgiving is out of the way - ITS CHRISTMAS !!

(obscure reference - Noddy Holder - Slade)

Best regards, Euan.

jane-e

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That's absolutely true in the USA, Euan, where we actually celebrate Thanksgiving! 😊 Christmas lights went up on all the houses in my neighborhood this weekend. Live Christmas trees are now on sale, although the lighting of the National Christmas Tree won't be until Thursday. How does the rest of the world know when the Christmas season begins?

Jane

EuanWilliamson

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Here in the UK we know it's Christmas usually the week after the big food stores - Tesco etc start selling Hot Cross Buns in early anticipation of Easter 😉

Best regards, Euan.