Thanks to all who put forward their interpretations of last weeks Lemon and Lime starter image. There were some great ideas and great translation of those ideas into images.During the two week period of this challenge, we have Halloween coming up. I got to thinking of Shakespeare's witches in Macbeth chanting 'Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble'. So, I've built a cauldron scene in Blender 3D using a fluid simulation for the fire and smoke, textured it in Adobe Substance Painter and finished the rendered image in Photoshop adding the moon surface from a NASA image.. What can you now do to bring it to life? For those that enjoy some realism, it poses challenges with the lighting, from the fire, and also the retention of the smoke and steam in front of any mid ground subjects. For other styles - just go for 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”. The challenge is not limited to Photoshop. Any Adobe software can be used. There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off your skills, or bring a bit of humor 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. To download the starter 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). 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

Community Expert

Question

Something for the Weekend - Part 252 - Double, Double Toil and Trouble!

Forum|Forum|3 months ago
October 24, 2025
34 replies
3078 views

Thanks to all who put forward their interpretations of last weeks Lemon and Lime starter image. There were some great ideas and great translation of those ideas into images.

During the two week period of this challenge, we have Halloween coming up. I got to thinking of Shakespeare's witches in Macbeth chanting 'Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble'. So, I've built a cauldron scene in Blender 3D using a fluid simulation for the fire and smoke, textured it in Adobe Substance Painter and finished the rendered image in Photoshop adding the moon surface from a NASA image.. What can you now do to bring it to life? For those that enjoy some realism, it poses challenges with the lighting, from the fire, and also the retention of the smoke and steam in front of any mid ground subjects. For other styles - just go for 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”.
The challenge is not limited to Photoshop. Any Adobe software can be used.
There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off your skills, or bring a bit of humor 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.

To download the starter 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).

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

Show previous replies

Semaphoric

Community Expert

Global Warming 😞

O

Oh.N8

things have gotten a bit warmer for sure. very creative.

O

Oh.N8

A jellyfishoon on halloween

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I think that must be the red-eyed monstor out of James' upload.

Leslie Moak Murray

Community Expert

davescm

Author

Community Expert

That did make me laugh, a modern day problem for those ancient witches! 🙂
Dave

Leslie Moak Murray

Community Expert

x

T

Turtle.PSD

Participating Frequently

I used Gemini to make a background based on a sketch and a sentence. All I'm saying is that the standards are at an all time high for drawings being put on the fridge over here haha.
Animated inside the PS timeline window.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Looking at this, I thought if the Space Shuttle is going to fly across the screen, it should at least take out a bunch of Starlink satellites, so I created this as the first frame and wasted 900 credits asking Firefly to make the shuttle crash into the satellites and make them explode into tiny pieces. I'm not even going to share the result as it was beyond pants. The lesson I learned here is to test your first frame and prompt at 540p with one of the lesser video models, and only waste 100 Premium credits. Of well. Serves me right for borrowing your idea @Turtle.PSD BTW The cauldron rocket motors are out of frame on the right. 😉

T

Turtle.PSD

Participating Frequently

Ha, I enjoy the Elon Odor hologram. I understand the feeling of "wasting credits" and frequently use Grok to negate the stress of credits and sometimes get really good results. But this was as good an excuse as any to use the shatter effect in After Effects.