Hi
This will be our last SFTW challenge for 2022 so I thought we should have something seasonal. What can you make with this snowman? Will you change his location, give him a friend, have him 'walking in the air'.....?
The “rules”:
* 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.
To download the image below, 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).
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Have fun, and I wish you and your families a very happy Christmas.
Dave
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Bringing the snowman to Australia for this time of the year.
Giving the snowman an upgrade.
...nod to Bill Watterson...
Happy Holidays!
'The trick is, of course, to never, ever, under any circumstances allow the sticks to touch.
I'm hoping that at least one or two people get the gag and context.
Dean I used Move > Arrange to equally space some vertical lines, and used FT > Warp > Bulge to shape them, and some more FT to get a better fit. I copied the layewr and made the lines a bit fatter, and blured them for the shading and turned the opacity way down.
I copied the blurred lines: inverted them, and moved them over for the highlights.
Finally I made a white ellipse and blurred it, then FT'd an gennerally dragged it into place. I ended up giving that highlight a hint of colour to match the skin tone.
It's all clipped to the balloon of course.
It hellped having the real balloons on the right to use as a guide, and I think I uploaded and replaced this image at least four or five times.
The Red Dwarf image was much more problmeatic as having had the idea I found that the only relevant online content was from very old, very low res video that looked awful. So I found a later still image and reworked the heck out of it. Fortunately I found two high res images of the antimatter chopsticks, and one was square on view with a plain background, so a one click selection with how good Sensei selections are nowadays.
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