Thanks to all who took part in our previous 'What goes up' challenge.
This week something a bit different. I heard the phrase 'Poison Pen' in a TV drama recently and my thoughts arrived at the image below. Made in 3D, the objects on the 'desk' are from Substance 3D assets, which I textured, along with the desk, in Substance Painter. The background was AI generated in Photoshop, using Firefly, and blurred to match the image before taking into Blender prior to rendering. Finishing was in Photoshop.
So we have our starter image, what will you do with it? You could use any or all of the objects, or make something using the entire scene.
When you post your response can you add just a few words on how you went about it. It may help others see the potential of different approaches, software, and tools to such a challenge.
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
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An interesting point about this is that it did not compress very well. At 1000 pixels wide and 64 layers (I think) it exported at 20Mb! To get under the forum's 10Mb max size limit, I had to drop the pixel size to 800 eide, and reduce colours to 64 (from 256). I was surprised as there are large areas of similar colour in both still images. They look surprisingly OK for having so few colours. I could have run the Oil Paint filter to flatten it making it a wee bit cartoon now I think of it.
Blimey, I tried with all Oil Paint settings at minimum and Lighting turned off, and the Gif came down from 20Mb to 1.2Mb. It is back to 256 colours, but definitely a bit softer. I think the 64 colour version looked a wee bit better, but that's a heck of a file size saving.
I initially started reworking the pen to orintate it to a more conincing writing angle, and then had a Duh! moment and simply flipped it. It's too small to see that the text on the clip is flipped.
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