r/photoshopbattles • u/PhotoShopBattles • Mar 11 '14

Weekly Battle | Closed Battle #103 "Senseless Drawing Bot" via ApiContraption

 

Previous Winner

Battle #102 is still too close to call, with just a couple of votes between the top three entries. The winner will be decided shortly.

This week's image was chosen by /u/ApiContraption.

 

 

 

The stock image for Battle #103 is... Senseless Drawing Bot

 

Cut-out, courtesy of /u/CantUseApostrophes via /r/cutouts

 

 

 

Prizes

The winner of this weeks battle will:

 

The Rules

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The Schedule

  • All entries will be hidden for the first 48 hours.

  • Voting will open on Wednesday, after which all entries will be visible.

    Contest mode will be enabled for another 24 hours. This will sort comments randomly, obscure vote counts, and automatically minimise child comments.

  • Contest mode will be disabled on Friday.

    From there on out, each comment's vote total will be visible, and entries can be sorted by karma (just like any other reddit thread).

  • The battle will end on Sunday, March 16th.

    Next week's battle will be posted the following day (Monday).

 

Best of luck, everyone, and don't forget to have fun!

33 Upvotes

88% Upvoted

150 comments sorted by

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u/lains-experiment Mar 12 '14

Photoshop Terraforming.

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u/Ghoti_Ghongers_40 Mar 13 '14 edited Mar 13 '14

Damn you. Not only did you steal my idea, you went and did a better job of it.

Joking aside, awesome work.

EDIT: Just wanted to point out that both shops were submitted while entries were still invisible, just in case anyone thinks I actually believe my idea was stolen.

2

u/hoogie Mar 17 '14

As in... fish fingers?

12

u/still_thinking_ Mar 13 '14

Nicely nicely done. I will gladly hand my trophy over to you (or back to you, as it were).

6

u/ThrobinWigwams Mar 14 '14

Haven't seen you around here in a while, but you never fail to impress. The subtle Ps logos on the bot are a nice touch.

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u/lains-experiment Mar 14 '14

Work has been picking up lately. I have a home business and used to start the morning Photoshopping a picture for here. Now I usually come here to look quickly but get back to my other work. Sometimes though, I get inspired by something here and have to do it anyway.

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u/ThrobinWigwams Mar 14 '14

Sometimes though, I get inspired by something here and have to do it anyway.

I know that feeling, and it's especially worse when you haven't had time to do any others. I'm glad you found the time though, this one is really creative and well executed!

6

u/lains-experiment Mar 14 '14

I like the weekly battle because you can see the image the first day and still have 48 hours to think and work on it. On the daily stuff you got about 2 hours or you'll be at the bottom.

"Ain't Nobody Got Time for That"-My, pain in the ass, responsible side.

3

u/tacothecat Mar 16 '14

That's the only reason I ever get upvotes...

3

u/Kanel0728 Mar 14 '14

Aaaaaaand that's amazing.

Battle is over, folks. Come again next week!

3

u/[deleted] Mar 15 '14

The machine doesn't have a canister of the colour red! Maybe the rest of your picture should be without red too.

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u/lains-experiment Mar 15 '14

The red comes naturally from the Mars landscape that the blue and green are painting over. Or something like that ¯_(ツ)_/¯

2

u/RoyalPrinceSoldier Mar 13 '14

What effect is that warping thing? Cuz' it's awesome!

6

u/lains-experiment Mar 13 '14

Some transform/warp and some liquify with the pen tool making select edge cuts.

2

u/olafpkyou Mar 13 '14

Good job man! I love it.

2

u/PickingOutANameIsHar Mar 15 '14

This transcends a computer program. Wow.

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u/ULTDbreadsticks Mar 11 '14 edited Mar 12 '14

The Paint Wars.

6

u/lains-experiment Mar 14 '14

Personal favorite. What is that background from? it look like a model train scene. also reminds me of a realist minecraft picture.

5

u/ULTDbreadsticks Mar 14 '14

Thanks man! It's a photo of the Chocolate Hills by photographer Didier Baertschiger. Accidental google find, but guy has some phenomenal work!

2

u/lains-experiment Mar 14 '14

Wow! unreal looking place. I love when nature is more surreal than my own imagination.

3

u/tacothecat Mar 16 '14

Curious how people find their source images. Do you remember what your search phrase was when you found that?

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u/ULTDbreadsticks Mar 16 '14

Something along the lines of 'rolling hills landscape' which lead me to a photo of the Chocolate Hills. Then proceeded to search for 'Chocolate Hills photography' and BOOM.

4

u/[deleted] Mar 17 '14

Reminds me of that old flash game 'tanks'. Damn that was fun

2

u/ULTDbreadsticks Mar 17 '14

Exactly my inspiration.

1

u/MisterQQ Mar 15 '14

This looks simply fun. Lacks paint smudges over the hills tho.

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u/RoyalPrinceSoldier Mar 12 '14 edited Mar 13 '14

Post-apocalypse

EDIT:: Edited the title.

27

u/[deleted] Mar 13 '14

sneaky sneaky dickbutt

4

u/aquair Mar 17 '14

I CANT FIND DICKBUTT

7

u/MoHashAli Mar 17 '14

All the way on the right.

2

u/elcarath Mar 17 '14

It's partial, FYI

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '14 edited Mar 11 '14

Senseless Pepper Spray Bot

But wheres DickButt?

9

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '14

Dickbutt spotted!

5

u/[deleted] Mar 15 '14

He used his laptop webcam to film this? That's worse than the iPad people at a concert.

2

u/olafpkyou Mar 13 '14

They look like oompa loompas!

68

u/colacube Mar 11 '14

The Creation of AD4M

5

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '14

Hilarious. And good job with the perspective. I always manage to fuck that part up.

63

u/gnostic_cat Mar 12 '14 edited Mar 12 '14

Where do you light it?

gif

5

u/olafpkyou Mar 13 '14

Very natural looking, nice job!

1

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '14

ahaha this will win, I dont even need to see the others

61

u/00spool Mar 11 '14

This will probably get me banned from r/pyongyang.

14

u/ArtifexR Mar 13 '14

Banned? Don't you mean commended for excellent reporting?

10

u/Bullroarer_Took Mar 13 '14

Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if this makes it to n Korea as a real news post

87

u/captainrex Mar 12 '14

Suck it, Mars!

2

u/olafpkyou Mar 13 '14

You got an audible laugh out of me. Good job!

1

u/captainrex Mar 13 '14

Thank you!

1

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '14

I love it!

26

u/FullNoodleFrontity Mar 13 '14

Cage rage wall

Using the absolute worst in animation tools...

3

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '14

Better than I could have done.

6

u/FullNoodleFrontity Mar 14 '14

Nice of you to say, but I doubt it.

  • I used Paintshop Pro to create 46 separate jpgs.
  • I used VirtualDub to combine them into an uncompressed avi
  • I used Microsoft GifAnimator to convert the avi to a gif
  • I then went to ezgif.com to compress the gif to a reasonable size.

And as strange as it may sound, I ended up deleting some of the frames since the animation appeared smoother without them.

I have limited access to decent editing software at work

2

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '14

Every time I make a gif the file ends up too huge to put on imgur, even if its one of those two frame "party hard" style gifs. I need to watch some tutorials on this shit.

2

u/FullNoodleFrontity Mar 14 '14

Same here... mine was over 5 mb coming out of GifAnimator. I discovered ezgif.com yesterday and after uploading my 5 mb gif, it compressed it to under 400 kb with no real loss in quality that I could see (yes, that's right, it was really that crappy at 5 mb).

1

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '14

Good to know! I'll have to check it out

51

u/BigMacCombo Mar 11 '14

Killstreak reward

5

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '14

Bonus points for photobomb guy.

5

u/DaminDrexil Mar 14 '14

Ditto prince Charles!

51

u/cakes1todough1 Mar 11 '14 edited Mar 13 '14

Future Human; The return home

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u/ThrobinWigwams Mar 14 '14

Damn, that's well done, J. J. Abrams.

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u/cakes1todough1 Mar 14 '14 edited Mar 14 '14

What gave me away?

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u/ThrobinWigwams Mar 14 '14

Well, I met you once and said you looked like a cake, and you said "cakes one to dough one". So yeah, pretty obvious really.

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u/lndsbkr Mar 12 '14 edited Mar 12 '14

fortune favors the brave, dude.

*Edit: fixed noob imgur link

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u/Ghoti_Ghongers_40 Mar 12 '14 edited Mar 12 '14

If only things were that easy

EDIT: I'm not happy with the canvas texture but I had to match it to the Mars image somehow. I'd like to tone it down a touch but I didn't save the PSD file.

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u/RoyalPrinceSoldier Mar 13 '14

That's awesome! Nice concept.

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u/Ghoti_Ghongers_40 Mar 13 '14

Cheers. For how it should have looked, check out /u/lains-experiment's entry.

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u/lains-experiment Mar 13 '14

Thanks. Your mountain transition is great. but definitely start off with the highest resolution images you can find. You never know when a quick Photoshop job is going to turn out to be a great idea, and you don't want to be caught with your resolution down.

2

u/RoyalPrinceSoldier Mar 13 '14

I really like how realistic it is, like the robot is really there!

20

u/deathproof-ish Mar 11 '14

Last Last Supper

3

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '14

I love this.

3

u/deathproof-ish Mar 14 '14

Thank you! Wow this made my day! (Seriously it was turning out to be a bad one)

22

u/craig1011 Mar 12 '14

Budget Transformers - coming to a theater near you.

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u/alexjbarnett Mar 12 '14

I call it "The Alan Parsons Project"

1

u/[deleted] Mar 12 '14

Shading is a little bit off, but the shop is nice nonetheless!

1

u/alexjbarnett Mar 14 '14

I never seem to get the shading perfect, but thanks for the feedback! :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '14

just another hoax

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '14

Senseless Exploration

1

u/FullNoodleFrontity Mar 11 '14

Strange... Your submission has been visible to me for about 20 minutes. I've seen submissions visible for up to 5 minutes in the past but never more than that until now.

8

u/fiendlegend Mar 12 '14

"I think we used the wrong paint boss" http://i.imgur.com/P1fUX1D.jpg

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u/LoftyLynx Mar 11 '14 edited Mar 11 '14

Drawing Bot on Moon-Mission

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u/blomhonung Mar 13 '14

Can I ask how you did the shadow?

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u/MadnessLLD Mar 14 '14

Not my submission but I can tell you how I do shadows. Duplicate the layer with the subject and put it underneath the original. Add an adjustment layer and drop the exposure to 0 (making the subject black). Then do a transform warp to drag the 'shadow the proper direction, etc. Adjust the opacity to preference. Then I like to add a gaussian blur to finish it off.

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u/blomhonung Mar 14 '14

Thank you for that, I'll try it next time I'm photoshoping. I usually use the burn tool or try painting the shadows + some opacity changes, but that just turnes into a mess and never looks realistic. Your way seems so obvious now that I know about it. Thanks again!

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u/EPSDP Mar 12 '14

Title: Temptation in all of us. Link: http://imgur.com/gQEVOkl

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '14

I am a total GIMP amatuer

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '14

It looks good for an amateur. One thing you can do is look at the surrounding scenery and how the shadows go and replicate it with the objects you add. Just a suggestion for the future :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '14

Yeah I gave it a shot and it looked horrible. Try and try again I guess

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '14

Exterminate!

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u/ArtifexR Mar 13 '14

Since you refuse to give us the location of Morpheus only one question remains... will it be the red paint or the blue paint?

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '14

[deleted]

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u/mikevonline Mar 14 '14

"actually really quite".

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u/FullNoodleFrontity Mar 14 '14

undoubtedly literally