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This is the challenge where you get to play with all your favorite tools, and perhaps try out some you’ve never used before.
Imagine a forest populated by elves, mages, and magical creatures. Generate a character from your forest using Firefly, Photoshop, Adobe Express, or text-to-vector in Illustrator to begin. Expand the scene, adjust the lighting and colors, and add elements that help create an illustration for the ages. Save an image, screenshot, or video clip of your final artwork, post it as a reply to this post, and describe your process and which tools you used.
This example uses multiple generated images composited in Photoshop, adjusted with the Camera Raw filter, and fleshed out with Generative Expand and Generative Fill.
There are no prizes other than the joy of creating and the experience gained in making different tools work together to a final creative product. What can you create?
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Obligatory- prime 135 cinematic 😉
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This king was magically turned into a bird
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Indeed. Off with his head!
With this change, I think you might want to brighten the human figure. She is now the side and apex of a very strong triangular composition, and her face is on a Rule of Thirds node. On both counts, she should dominate the image, yet the peacock competes for focus because it's so bright. Try that out, and see if it doesn't look better to you.
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Guardian of the forest
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Blimey! Wouldn't want to meet her on a dark night. Wonderfully sinister! Carilliantine has such a rich set of unusual ligatures. This is a nice use of them.
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Thank you Alan! Yes, I thought it was a good font for this artwork.
And don't worry, as for the forest guardian, I'm sure she'd let you enter the forest and go through the Torii gates without a problem 🙂
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I dunno, Cristelle. The little white ghost dude looks like he's trying to be as inconspicuous as possible!
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The little white ghost is a Kodama. When the forest is healthy, the Kodamas show up. They are forest spirits who symbolise hope and purity without any hint of malice. They are not designed to protect the forest, they reflect its health. Someone else must defend the forest (like Princess Mononoke or this guardian) and entries into other worlds (accessible via the Torii). The little ghost is behind the gardian curious to see if there's any danger or not.
For this challenge, I created a video, with wolves howling as music and a special sound when "BEWARE" appears ... then I realised I could only post one image ...
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Great poster Christelle!
This font looks interresting and adds a nice touch!
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Thanks Carillantine!
Thanks Franck 😊
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A mystical forest at twilight, where giant glowing mushrooms cast a soft luminescent light. A woman silver and green armor stands beside a crystal-clear waterfall, fireflies swirl in the air, and in the background, a towering tree with golden leaves rises above the forest canopy
This is what firefly came up with.
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Hi Mariam! Okay, so that's what Firefly gave you. What will you do with it?
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Another version of Alice in Wonderland. 🙂
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I wanted to depict an epic battle between two demonic creatures in an enchanted forest.
I first created this image using Firefly.
Then I brought the image into Photoshop.
I first extended out the sides in order to create a more landscape feel, by using the Generative Fill feature.
Then, to add some texture, I applied the Craquelure Filter.
And this is the final scene.
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Wow. I've not used Craquelure in a long time! That was creative thinking drawn from decades of experience!
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Sweet
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Well done Ron!
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This looks EPIC!!
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Workflow: Firefly to Photoshop to expand Poseidon pose, back to Firefly with reference made in Photoshop then Finishing in Photoshop. Hope it's cross platform enough...
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Thanks for sharing your process!
I love the final result with its mix of styles and techniques.
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Thanks Christelle! Much appreciated!
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Great stuff! The essence of the challenge is not to stop at whatever the first prompt hands you, but to turn it into a real creative product, and you've done that in spades! You've created a distinct style, which I could see being replicated across a series of posters, game cards, or similar. If you ever do a Greek Gods board game, you've already nailed the motif!
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Thanks for your comments Alan! Make a series is a great idea!
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Those abs
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He's a god after all @mj !
😉
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