Hi
Thanks to all who took part in last week's challenge - some great ideas and images were posted.
This week's image is a bit different. I was watching the Formula 1 racing last week and the superb graphics on some of the drivers' crash helmets caught my eye. It got me wondering what designs our Photoshop folk would come up with. So for this weekend , I've supplied the crash helmet (or at least I've modelled one). Your challenge is to design the graphics. If you want to go a step further, can then put it on a driver in a suitable vehicle?
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.
There are no prizes apart from 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 color 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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Are you sure about that Graham? 
A couple of years back, a PJ buddy posted some rodeo pictures, and one had the rider flying from a bull with his hat perfectly aligned, but several feet from his head. I mean it was just asking to be tweaked, so I removed the rider's head from its body, and put it back in it's hat, and made some appropriate edits to the now severed neck. And then I posted it back on Facebook, but to the Camera Club's FB group which is closed to non members. What I did not realize, is that this was a junior rider, and he was only ten years old, and by heck, his mum and dad were not amused! It was a close call as to whether my head was going to be removed from its body. So I took down the picture and sent an apology, and I more or less, didn't get murdered. Black humour is not without risk... just saying.
I wish I still had that picture though ROTFL. I'll get my coat 
Very dark USSNorway !
Nice job Trevor - I love the choice of logos.
Reading your earlier comment on the difficulty of getting the graphics shaped I wonder if some guidelines based on the model mesh would help. Just drop them in as a temporary layer with blending mode screen or add
Dave
Normally I would do something like this in a 3D painting app. but this decoration was done in Photoshop. I used brush symmetry on a Photoshop 3D sphere - then put that 3D sphere into a smart object and warped it into shape on the helmet. The rest is just layers built up to change the colour and add reflections in order to make the dark look glossy.
Dave
rayek.elfin wrote
Would be nice if you could share the actual Blend file with us? I'd put the texture on it and re-render.
But that would defeat the point of the SFTW challenge - no limitations on what tools are used, but we all start with the same image 
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Jerry - I like what you've done with your avatar graphic. The racing on the TV is a nice touch.
Trevor, the Noddy car was just extracted from an online image and then altered a bit. Whether the original was created in 3D or as an illustration I don't know.
Dave
davescm wrote
Jerry - I like what you've done with your avatar graphic. The racing on the TV is a nice touch.
Dave
That confused me. I went back up the thread looking for something like this. 
Haha - Health and safety reaches Pandora
Dave
[Edit to add : Lest my comment be mis-interpreted, I do support the wearing of helmets for bikes, and car racing and cycle helmets for cycling. A colleagues son had a devastating, life changing, accident when cycling. After seeing the results of that I always wear a cycle helmet.]
Dave
jane-e wrote
davescm wrote
[Edit to add : Lest my comment be mis-interpreted, I do support the wearing of helmets for bikes, and car racing and cycle helmets for cycling.
Adding to what you say, Dave the requisite helmet should be a MIPS (Multi-directional Impact Protection System). I replaced my helmet several years ago. They are made for motorcycles, bicycles, skiing, and more.
I’m sorry about your friend’s son. A relative of mine has a brain injury after a fall, and I also know how devastating it is, both to the injured and to the family.
A wee angle on helmets — whether for motorcycles, cycles, skiing, horse riding etc. — the craze of hanging a camera onto your protection system, can dramatically compromise its ability to do the jog it was intend for. Just ask Michael Schumacher. Or rather ask his wife who has looked after him since his GoPro pierced his helmet and skull when he had his ski accident.
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