Hi
Great responses to last weekend's challenge. I had an image lined up for this week but decided to keep that for a future week and try something different this weekend.
The two characters below were created in Adobe Fuse, saved to the library then rendered against a transparent background in Photoshop and saved as a PNG with transparency. So no need for complex masking (I must be getting soft 
). If you have not used Fuse I'd recommend you give it a try - it's a lot of fun.
So the challenge this week is to take one, or both of the characters below, put them in a scene that tells us a bit of a story.
Anything goes as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc (so keep it clean 
).
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 without the forum scaling artifacts, right click and Save Image As / Save Picture As (or similar depending on your browser).
Enjoy !
Dave
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https://forums.adobe.com/people/Terri+Stevens wrote
'Hands of the Strangler'
Blimey Terri. That looks a bit risky in these days of 'Hash Tag Me Too'. Does Fuse have a Donald Trump head option?
davescm I now have CC15.5 and CC14 and the former still crashes with Select & Mask. I do have a few ideas though, so I might risk the frustration of losing it all and save out every 30 seconds. Terri, I missed that endangered species comment until Jane quoted it. I was thinking I'd have to try harder LOL. I'm really hoping that you don't know I'll be in the UK in May. Whoops. That was a bit of a 'Don't tell him Pike!' moment, so fingers crossed that you missed it. 
It still makes me laugh
Hi Trevor
I was not on my PC when I sent my last reply on getting fuse characters across.
So the steps are :
1. In Fuse - Save to CC libraries
2. In Photoshop drag from library to your open document
3. Click on the model in the 3D panel. Go to properties and select the animation (in the example shown there are 123 pages of animations to choose from
4. That will open a video timeline that you can clip, adjust, render etc
Hope that helps you
Dave
Hey Trevor, would you believe you can't watch that Dad's Army Clip in England, we only bloody paid for it out of the BBC licence
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For anyone who wants to know what happens -a German submarine crew has landed in Walmington On Sea and taken Captain Mainwairing and his home guard platoon prisoner. The German U-boat commander asks Pike 'Vot is yor name' and the very pompous Captain Mainwairing jumps in and says 'Don't tell him Pike' lol I bet the Americans would never get Dad's Army in a million years as it's such an English comedy.
Hey Terri ya gotta stay enthused this time of year when it's so cold out and I'm buried in snow. I hate Winter. Got to distract myself anyway I can. The challenge is an enjoyable way to do that. I love seeing the ideas people come up with ! Fun stuff !
To jane-e and Terri,
You have certainly made my day! Thank you for your very kind comments and suggestions.
But I only really know how to do this in CS5. Subscribed to CC just a few weeks ago and I'm hanging around here, reading posts, to help me learn how to use it..
Besides, photoshopping is my favorite retirement hobby and I wouldn't want it to deteriorate into anything resembling work
It'll be fun to go on playing with and learning from all of you, though.
Attempt#2
.... It was Tuesday afternoon and Tom was having a tough day. His boss wasn't pleased with the amount of time it was taking him to finish the current project for Pepsi Cola. What his boss didn't know was that Tom felt uneasy about this project as they were forcing him to ' fix ' a graphic that was done by a fellow employee... who happened to be his best friend Ron. Ron didn't know his graphic had been rejected since Ron had been out of work for a few weeks due to a horrible car accident he was in. Tom went to the hospital every day to visit his best bud who was still in critical condition and forced to be put into a coma. Ron was the type of guy that took his work seriously and held high standards for his designs. He was also the type of guy who would flip out if he found out his project would be handed over to someone else because ' it wasn't good enough ' ... When Tom's boss first approached him about redoing this graphicTom wanted nothing to do with it and in so many words refused the project. Well his boss wasn't taking no for an answer and wanted Tom to do it as he knew he'd do a great job. Tom hadn't even started the project yet. The whole thing just made him feel really uneasy and uncomfortable. He was feeling totally lost. On his way home he decided he needed to ' get away from it all ' so he stopped at the State Forest park where he often went with his family while growing up. Being in nature always made him feel better. He decided he would just walk the trails and try to figure out what to do. As he walked he simply just absorbed the feeling of comfort that being in nature gave him. He stopped for a moment and stood there on the trail with his eyes closed.He breathed in and out and started feeling a bit more relaxed... He stood there with his eyes closed a long time... it just felt like the right thing to do. It calmed him. Then all of a sudden the silence within him broke as the sound and movement in the air had changed..he opened his eyes and was completely startled by an owl who had flown down and nearly hit him in the head.. He jumped back and saw the owl looking right at him. he flapped his wings quickly then flew off. It seemed like the incident lasted an eternity but really it all happened in a matter of seconds. And in that moment Tom knew what he had to do. He felt stronger and more in control of this haunting situation he was put in. He knew exactly what he was meant to do.
~Jodi
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