Thanks to all who participated in our previous, Halloween based, challenge. There were some great ideas and images shared. This week we have something different.
'One hundred and eighty', the highest score with three darts, became famous for the way it was called out by Russ Bray, a professional referee with a unique style to his declaration of the score. So this week, I bring you three darts (actually a 3D render). What will you make with them, 180 or something else entirely?
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). It is rendered with a transparent background so no need to create an initial mask.
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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Gen Fill for the hand. The rest is all manual.
Energize!
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A great idea JR. I looked at this and was thinking of how the Enterprise goes into warp, or in this case comes out of warp. I've used a Nukly.com flare for this, but render fibers and Polar Coordinates would do the same thing. But it's not that simple, is it? The flare is symmetrica, but we need a distortion that brings the axis of the imagined cone inline with the Enterpise direction.
You'd need to move the centre of the flare while keeping the outside stationary.
Warp and drag the centre of the flare rather than the handles gets you some of the way there, but is still very wrong.
The best I could do was to copy that warped layer. Set it to Lighten, and rotate and transform some more. Flipping it to get the curves in the right direction. The step that had the biggest effect was to make a rectangular selection of the right side of the merged flare layers, and transform them stretching them out from the center of the flare.
I would dearly love to know if there is a better way to distort the flare affecting its apparent axis?
I'm thinking of that SDtar Trek warp effect. It has changed over the years and used to be less fluid, and more star burst.
The Millennium Falcon had a similae warp effect, but that was close to 50 years ago.
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