It's amazing what goes on in a basement (or cellar on this side of the Atlantic). I made this scene earlier this week for another purpose, can you now add to it and show what might be going on in this dusty old basement?
If you are just having a bit of fun - go right ahead. For the photo-realists, the lighting is a bit tricky with two main sources behind and to the side, but we can't make these things too easy 
Anything goes as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.
Anyone is welcome to have a go - whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert.
There are no prizes - just the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun.
When posting back your edited images please use jpeg and downsize to 1200px on the long side.
To download the image below in jpeg format with ICC profile (sRGB) and without the forum scaling artefacts , right click and then use Save Image As /Save Target As (or similar depending on your browser).
Have fun.
Dave
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jane-e wrote
I love the red eyes on your character, davescm ! I would be running if I saw him rising out of my basement floor!
Hah! Reading that has just made me realise it is a T-1000. I was put off by the gold colour, but that's Dave being ultra 3D accurate knowing that a T-1000's chrome like surface would reflect the colours of the room texture.
Jane. I didn't really mean that they should have been scared of you when I first made the comment, but when I saw your post #32 I couldn't resist being cheeky.
Yes you've got it Trevor 
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It's an Adobe Fuse character combined with a model puddle then given a silver reflective material.
The accurate way would have been to drop that silver textured model into the original 3D model scene and re-render it but that would have felt like cheating as no-one else on SFTW would have access to that original scene. So instead I just rendered the terminator in Photoshop on a new layer using the posted image as an Image based light. That looked OK on the body but the puddle reflections were wrong so I did those the old fashioned way by inverting, warping and masking the oil drums.
Dave
jane-e wrote
Trevor.Dennis wrote
Jane, tell us the full gun story. It sounds scary.
It was only scary for a few seconds.
Jane, you misunderstood me. I meant scary for the armed men. 
Hahaha, I should have known that's who you meant, Trevor! 
When we got to be friends, I found out they "knew" who I was because 15th Street was their beat (while I had my nose in a book and rarely looked up.) A couple of weeks earlier these same two undercover cops had tapped on the glass doors to the building and said, "can we come in?" They looked like young homeless hoodlums. The reason they had their guns drawn and were in shooting stance as soon as they burst through the back door to the office foyer was because they expected to find "something bad". Those were the days when cops had a good reputation, and these guys were all great. There were about five of them who worked the graveyard shift that cold winter who would stop in for a few minutes to chat and warm up.
Hi
Dave, you make me laugh almost every day. 
Bravo.
Pierre
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