Connie's Ramblings

Here is this weeks starting image…

And the image I created from it…

The shots along the bottom strip are the ones that were used to make the image. Specifically the starting image, a camera, and two rolls of film. I made the background from scratch just playing around…

The photos along the left are the starting and finished image from the past several battles…

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Here is this weeks starting battle image

and my creation from it.

I didn’t really know what to do with the image… the first guy to post had done up a great morphing of the bobble head into a devil bobble head with some really cool fiery text at the bottom.

the bottles and bottle top are from stock-xchng… fish and marbles were from a previous battle I did… and the dinosaur toy is a photo my son took when he was 6…

Here is this week’s battle starting image…

And my creation…

The velvet was downloaded from stock-xchange… the starting image was inverted and converted to b/w using a b/w adjuetment layer. The buterfly on the face is from a battle a couple years ago… the flowers come from a custom brush and the small butterflies are just the same little tear shaped jem arranged… the color on the lips comes from a hue/sat adjustment layer set to color…

Here is this weeks battle image…

And my creation from it.

Several parts of my image were created from scratch such as the dragonfly’s body, the center lotus blossom, and the peach colored border. The glass for these was done using the Rough Pastels’ Filter (Filters >Artistic > Rough Pastels) and a texture called “Blistered Paint” which is on the “Goodies and Extra’s” CD for CS3.

The dragonfly itself was drawn using the pen tool. The head was copied from the bottom of the original image and then warped slightly. The center red spot on the body also came from the orginal image as did the glass textures in the wings. I just painted the lotus, on hindsight I probably should have used the pen tool on that as well…