r/photoshopbattles • u/PhotoShopBattles • Apr 27 '14

Weekly Battle | Closed Battle #110 "Venice Beach Street Performer" via last weeks winner, JoshuaHaunted

 

Previous Winner

This week's image was chosen by /u/JoshuaHaunted , the first place winner in Battle 109:

Stock image: Dancers

Winning entry: A Moment in Ice

 

 

 

The stock image for Battle #110 is... Venice Beach Street Performer

 

 

 

Prizes

The winner of this weeks battle will:

 

The Rules

  • Submit your entry as a comment to this thread.

    You can post as many as you want.

  • To vote for an entry, just upvote the users comment.

    You can vote for as many different entries as you want, but please do not downvote. Downvotes will not be counted when deciding winners.

  • Every entrant gets a contributor flair.

    These will be handed out by a bot, but due to our comment hiding system, sometimes it misses people. If you entered but didn't get one, just send the mods a message, and we'll fix you up.

  • Please be sure to tag NSFW entries appropriately.

    If you see anything inappropriate that's not tagged, either report the comment or send a message to the moderators.

 

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 minimize child comments.

  • Contest mode will be disabled on Thursday.

    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 Saturday, May 3rd.

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

 

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

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u/MySubtleKnife Apr 29 '14

Sermon on the Mount: Rock n' Roll Edition

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

"did he just say 'blessed are the cheesemakers'?"

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u/[deleted] May 02 '14

It's not meant to be taken literally; he means all manufacturers of dairy product.

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u/Razorray21 May 01 '14

"And now we will celebrate. With 10 days of VanHalen!!"

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u/FullNoodleFrontity May 01 '14

You did a really nice job of making him look like part of the painting. Both tone and texture look like they belong.

Did you use a surface blur to get the paint-like texture?

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u/MySubtleKnife May 02 '14

Thank you! I actually relied mostly on the curves tool to get the color right and that did most of the work. I just did a very slight application of the brushstrokes filter. It didn't need much because he was so small in the frame.

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u/chaindrop Apr 30 '14

Excellent! Bogus!

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

So far this is my favorite. Could be that I love this movie.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '14

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

awesome.

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u/xMagox Apr 29 '14

Rolling Battle

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u/Kng_Wasabi May 03 '14

The reviews are great.

2

u/NShinryu May 03 '14

Yngwie Malmsteen's review, though very good, really doesn't do him justice...

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u/daveberzack Apr 28 '14

Boo

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

Well done.

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u/Klovar Apr 28 '14

https://i.imgur.com/uDwibZn.jpg

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u/Razorray21 May 01 '14

Oh man, I was actually wondering if someone would do this. he looks like he can be inserted into a lot of old movies set in a desert

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '14 edited May 05 '14

Rocking the house since 1690! EDIT: i think I killed psbattles

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

Thanks. I usually just fiddle around with the color blending mode until i find the right one

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u/lains-experiment May 04 '14

Excellent work. Tough competition this week, so you earned it!

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u/[deleted] May 04 '14

Thanks, I appreciate it. /u/smileykitty's submission was awesome, I really liked it. But I'm happy to finally have the flair.

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u/dhpii May 04 '14

Congratulations! You have been here for a long while and it makes me happy to see you finally won :D Very good job!

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u/[deleted] May 04 '14

Thanks! I can't believe it finally happened.

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u/smileykitty Apr 29 '14

Meanwhile, in India

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u/smileykitty May 02 '14

A lot of people seem to be interested in how this was made. Here is a gallery showing some of the steps

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u/wisdom_of_pancakes May 03 '14

What? No poorly centered rollerblades in India?

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u/lains-experiment May 04 '14

Nice work. Some people think this is just filters but I know this is some hands on detailed work. Quality work sir.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

If this was done in photoshop I'd love to know how. Did you completely draw the whole thing?

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u/smileykitty Apr 30 '14

Photoshopped the guy into a painting I found online, and then "painted" over him in the same style as the painting

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u/katsumii May 01 '14

This is beautiful, you deserve merit for this. How long did it take you?

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u/smileykitty May 02 '14

Thanks :) Around 2 hours

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u/FullNoodleFrontity May 01 '14

So in this battle I've voted for two images. Each of them has completely different styles but both make it look like the street performer is part of a painting.

Although I think it would've looked better (albeit less appropriate) if you kept the guitar instead of turning it into a sitar, I think you did a really nice job on this.

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u/smileykitty May 02 '14

Thanks very much. Thought about keeping the guitar, but thought it would be more fitting to the theme with the sitar :)

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u/smileykitty May 02 '14

I posted a step by step gallery as a reply to my submission

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u/[deleted] May 03 '14

Looks cool. I'm guessing you use a tablet? I tried to work with one once and I was ready to set it on fire within a few minutes. One of these days I'll have to commit to getting used to it.

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u/MooYork Apr 28 '14 edited Apr 29 '14

Statue of Liberty

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u/1millionbucks May 01 '14

Nice creativity!

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u/MooYork May 02 '14

Thanks :)

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u/deadendy Apr 28 '14

Harry's concert was great, he even signed a photo for me.

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u/beebs21 May 03 '14

Did you find a second photo of the guy or did you meet him?

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u/deadendy May 04 '14

I found the photo and added his signature

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '14

What you didn't see on the island.

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u/MightBeWombats May 04 '14

Am I the only one who noticed the drum set says Wilson? WILSON!!!!

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u/[deleted] May 04 '14

Glad someone caught that haha

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

I like this one.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

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u/[deleted] May 01 '14

Winner here.

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u/Zaptross May 02 '14

wow.... got my vote

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '14 edited Apr 29 '14

I knew there was a conspiracy

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u/Learning2Shoop Apr 28 '14

Rock for Allah

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u/aragorn_22 Apr 30 '14

He is one big man

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u/Razorray21 May 01 '14

"And now we will celebrate with 10 days of VanHalen!!"

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u/FullNoodleFrontity Apr 29 '14

Venice Beach Reaper

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u/FullNoodleFrontity Apr 29 '14

This time around I figured I'd document the changes I made...

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u/[deleted] May 01 '14

heh, your gifs look like my gifs

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u/FullNoodleFrontity May 01 '14

I'm not sure whether or not I should take that as a compliment... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) The end result might be similar but the way I made it was a bit of a kludge.

I didn't actually record my work as I was going along but instead, whenever I added or significantly modified anything on it, I did so on a new layer. To create the animation I simply hid all the layers except the background and exported as a jpeg. Then revealed the layer I added next and exported as a jpeg. I repeated that last step until I arrived at my final image.

Then I used an online tool to combine the jpegs into a gif and another online tool to optimize it & drop its size.

Now that I've thought about it, I could probably do a much better job on the animation... When I do 'shops at work, I do so with the graphics apps running in virtual machines (I've got PaintShop Pro in one VM, Photoshop, AfterEffects and Premier (CS2) in another. Ideally I could use VMWare's recording capability to record the whole process and then just edit & convert the video.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '14

shops....at work? You can get paid for this? sign me up

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u/FullNoodleFrontity May 01 '14

Yeah, 'shops at work.

It helps that I'm ridiculously overqualified and horrendously underpaid. I used to teach college-level computer programming but I was laid off. Now I do software testing for a company that doesn't give two sh!ts about its employees; I make just a shade over $50K/year but I could easily make 50 to 100% more if I quit and went to work elsewhere, I'm just too friggin' lazy to bother.

I also know as much or more about programming than the guys who write the code that I test and I've managed to automate a lot of the work that I'm supposed to do. There are three other testers in my department and they each put in 40+ hours/week. I think I put in about 2 hours of real work each day and I still manage to get more accomplished than any of my co-workers.

So my manager(s) bring me all the high-priority, critical stuff that needs testing and then they leave me alone to get it done. I run a handful of scripts to test the hell out of those programs and then spend 6 hours/day browsing reddit, taking the occasional online course, playing a few games, reading, and honing my 'shopping skills.

It may sound sweet but I to tell you the truth... I hate it.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '14

Hmm.. sending pm

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

[deleted]

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u/argusromblei Apr 30 '14

I think a more succinct title would help

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u/[deleted] May 01 '14

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u/argusromblei May 01 '14

Yeah I understand, it just looks like a non-descriptive run on sentence. What if you started with Name of Metal Album - Venice Beach Guy with the image, then can put lyrics you make up under it repeating like a song, I dunno.

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u/Bangapseumnida Apr 28 '14

here's the cutout if anyone's interested: http://i.imgur.com/uFbsPAe.png

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u/Breadedturtle Apr 29 '14

Sandy Strings

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u/bountyhuntersamus May 01 '14

this is amazing! but i just noticed it looks like his shadow is excited.

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u/Breadedturtle May 01 '14

Hahaha, so true. Thanks!

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u/vmxeo Apr 28 '14

If he's not in a band, he is now

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u/vmxeo Apr 28 '14

bonus animated version because I don't know

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

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u/vmxeo May 01 '14

Entirely possible, but I probably won't have time till the weekend to try and fix it (sorry, but I threw it together right before catching a flight.).

Alternatively, if anyone has AE and wants to play around with it, I'll happily upload the files.

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u/tekteq Apr 28 '14

E sharp, is the same as F flat

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u/kjata Apr 30 '14

And yet neither of those notes exist.

So what is Sudden Clarity Guitarist at? [8], [9]? [8]#?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '14

before sid

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u/Bob-AFett Apr 28 '14

Tuesday's Special: Free Bird

http://i.imgur.com/kBo3grf.jpg

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u/marklross Apr 28 '14

Don't trust modern technology...

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u/killerapt Apr 30 '14

What is that vehicle??

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u/marklross Apr 30 '14

To tell ya the truth - I have no idea. I just assumed it was a mock up for some sci-fi movie. Here's the original pic. Perhaps you can ask the photographer. /if you find out - please let me know.

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u/killerapt Apr 30 '14

It is actually a 3D render based upon the Mad Max vehicles. This site has the most pictures

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u/FullNoodleFrontity Apr 30 '14

The artist who rendered it is Marek Denko (http://marekdenko.net) and here is a link to the page for his buggy series.

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u/JBatman1080 May 03 '14

This guitar is a serious type of weapon! This is my entry :) check it out guys :D

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '14

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

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u/RobChar3 Apr 30 '14

Just walk away

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u/[deleted] May 04 '14

What was the original image?

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u/waits4u May 04 '14

Imgur (Playing to nature)

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u/THEOscarJ May 05 '14

Do you guys remember that rockin' solo at the birth of Jesus?

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u/MentleG3N May 05 '14

Quirinus Quirrell

"Let the Dark Lord serenade you Harry"