r/photoshopbattles • u/PhotoShopBattles • Jun 16 '14
Weekly Battle | Closed Battle #117 "Tunnel Construction" via last weeks winner, fatdonuthole
Previous Winner
This week's image was chosen by /u/fatdonuthole, the first place winner in Battle 116:
Stock image: Dog Overlooking Landscape
Winning entry: Scar, brother, help me!
The stock image for Battle #117 is... Tunnel Construction
Prizes
The winner of this weeks battle will:
Recieve 3 months of Reddit Gold!, courtesy of admin /u/cupcake1713
Get to choose next week's stock image.
Get a number added to their contributor flair.
If you this is your first win, your standard flair will be replaced by this winners' flair. On your second win, you'll get this winners' flair, etc.
Get to keep the trophy for a week, after which it's handed on to the next winner.
(more information on flair here)
The Rules
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The Schedule
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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 Sunday, June 22nd.
Next week's battle will be posted the same day.
Best of luck, everyone, and don't forget to have fun!
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u/JoshuaHaunted Jun 17 '14 edited Jun 17 '14
Looks like Trevor is at it again...
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u/murderous_penguin Jun 18 '14
Excellent! How'd you get that effect?
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u/JoshuaHaunted Jun 18 '14
Thank you! Well, I started by making a copy of the source image on its own layer. Then used the Poster Edges filter. I had the thickness and intensity both set to 10, with the posterization set to 1. Once that processed, I used the magic wand tool, with a low tolerance (around 16 or so) and the contiguous unchecked, I selected a black area. Then I copied the black area onto its own layer, like this. After that, I started deleting the lesser black areas using the eraser and selection tools, while leaving the main black lines, like so. I deleted the color part of the posterized image, then made another copy of the unaltered pic. From the unaltered image, I used the oil paint filter. After that, I went back to the bottom unaltered image and I used the cutout filter. Now with the cutout layer on the bottom, the oil paint layer above that, and the line art above those, I went into the oil layer and deleted some of the oil dirt to let the cutout dirt show through. Once I was happy with everything, I merged the layers and started playing with exposure and saturation until I was happy. After that, I cut out the blue sky and added a sky from one of the GTAV posters. Then when I put Trevor into the scene, I went back to the background layer and used a small amount of Gaussian blur on it. Then when I added the hard hat and safety vest on a layer over the Trevor layer, I did pretty much the same kind of thing to them to give them the same kind of look, just without desaturating or blurring. Then did the same things to the truck when I added it.
Hope that helps :)
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u/murderous_penguin Jun 18 '14
Again, excellent stuff. Thanks for sharing your process, I'm definitely trying this out!
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Jun 21 '14 edited Mar 29 '20
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u/JoshuaHaunted Jun 21 '14
I really appreciate you saying that! I have fun explaining my methods, and luckily this time, I was able to keep up with what I did. All too often I'll just bumble my way through something until it looks good, but I'll forget how I ended up there because it's so much trial and error, lol.
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u/michaelarney Jun 19 '14 edited Jun 19 '14
Every damned week there's at least one of you S.O.B.s that completely kills it. Can you all not just phone it in one week for us regular guys?! ;)
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u/JoshuaHaunted Jun 19 '14
lmao, well I can't speak for the other S.O.B's, but I skip some, or just slap something together from time to time, lol. I didn't enter last week, and the one I did for the swan battle was just a quickie that I knew wouldn't win, but I knew it would be a fun 'shop. :P
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u/lains-experiment Jun 18 '14
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u/michaelarney Jun 18 '14
This is perfect! How'd you do the shadows?
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u/lains-experiment Jun 18 '14
I pen out the shape I want it to be. Then turn it into a selection, move the selection over to another shadow area and copy that. then just move it into place, maybe blur some edges or do some clone stamp touch ups.
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u/climber_g33k Jun 18 '14
This is beautiful! I would love to see some more in this style!
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Jun 18 '14
Thanks! This is my first time trying graffiti stuff. I used Photoshop and Paint.NET and had no idea with what I was doing. I couldn't find a proper tutorial, so I did a bunch of things to make it look, at least as much as I could, realistic.
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u/Shappie Jun 17 '14 edited Jun 17 '14
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u/michaelarney Jun 17 '14 edited Jun 18 '14
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Jun 20 '14
The couch one is better
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u/michaelarney Jun 20 '14
I honestly couldn't decide which one was funnier. Thanks for the feedback.
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u/Shappie Jun 23 '14
The couch one is hilarious.
"Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work we go.."
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u/Jowltha Jun 17 '14
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u/bigbeyer Jun 18 '14
Do you mind if I asked what filter or effect you used? Looks great, by the way.
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u/Jowltha Jun 19 '14
Yeah It's the Oil Paint filter, I think It's only on CS6 though... maybe
And thanks!
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u/l3t0m Jun 16 '14
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u/TheSilverRaven Jun 16 '14
Dont know if you noticed... but the writing on the can is backwards...
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u/gnostic_cat Jun 17 '14
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u/Shappie Jun 18 '14
I want to understand how your mind works.
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u/MrTraolie Jun 17 '14 edited Jun 18 '14
Wrecking Ball Updated Version: Wrecking Ball 2
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u/michaelarney Jun 16 '14 edited Jun 16 '14
Before gaining international success with his band The Clash, Joe Strummer worked in tunnel construction. His tiring work schedule would often necessitate Joe to show up at gigs last minute in full work attire. Seen here behind bandmate Paul Simonon.
He was often teased by his bandmates as well as contemporaries like friend Pete Townsend - seen here mocking Joe in this advert for The Who.
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u/ZachTheBrain Jun 19 '14
Why is this so good?
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u/michaelarney Jun 21 '14 edited Jun 21 '14
HA! Thanks! I actually thought more people would like it! Owell.
I spent so much time trying to get the noise and color and shadows juuuuust perfect. The whole time I was like "people will really appreciate how accurate this is". Haha! Nope. LOL! Honestly, it's not a super great idea. I started down the smashing-a-guitar groove and just had to see it to completion.
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u/JoshuaHaunted Jun 21 '14
I thought your first picture was phenomenal. The grain and blend is juuuuust right! In fact, this is one of the ones I voted for.
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u/bigbeyer Jun 17 '14
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u/jorkazatka Jun 16 '14 edited Jun 19 '14
Hey!!!! we found something useful "Every beginning is a new end"
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u/bit2reddit Jun 18 '14
Out of the box thinking..I have always loved post apocalypse wasteland! Alien crane and other aliens are nice touch..hope hollywood does not steal ur idea!!
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Jun 16 '14 edited Jun 18 '14
Any tips on fixing the shadow appreciated (very difficult to get it right)
Here is the photo after I removed the pipe if anyone wants to use it.
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u/michaelarney Jun 18 '14
I second the desire to know how to do shadows quickly and correctly!
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u/FullNoodleFrontity Jun 18 '14
I don't know about other ways but what I did was added a layer and then drew an object (vector graphic) that matched the existing shadows on existing objects (the pipe, the crane arm, the two workers...). Then I dropped the opacity of the shadow layers and tweaked the color so they'd look natural. In some instances I converted the vector to raster and applied some blur to it if I wanted to soften the edges. Then I hid the layer until I removed the original shadow using the clone stamp.
It isn't something that can really be done quickly; I use a graphics tablet c/w pen/mouse for input and it's time consuming. But, in the end I find it's worth it. By having the shadow on a separate layer I can move the objects anywhere I want and reposition the shadows accordingly. I can also stretch, shrink and even bend them a bit using warp if they're being cast upon uneven ground. Also, you can have multiple layers of shadows with different opacity (e.g. shadows of transparent objects).
If you take a look at my Starfighter burial, I used vector shadows for everything - the crane boom, the plane, and the worker out front (note that the canopy has lower opacity). On my Power consumption submission the battery, the worker out front, and the shadow of the rope were all hand drawn.
The rope shadow was drawn from scratch but the other two were traced around the original shadows. There are subtle differences between the drawn & original shadows: The pipe in the source photo was ribbed whereas the battery is smooth, so the battery shadow is also smooth (particularly along the top & bottom edges).
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u/ColdOven14 Jun 18 '14 edited Jun 18 '14
Your shadow probably could do with a little gaussian blur and a reduction in opacity.
Also, you've gota remember what's casting the shadow. See how the crane arm shadow and your shadow are way out of alignment? You can play round with the perspective and skew options in the transform tool to help with that kinda stuff.
Hope that's of some use.Edit: /u/drawsprocket's submission is a nice example of what I'm talking about.
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u/SAEverdraed Jun 20 '14
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u/FullNoodleFrontity Jun 17 '14
This should take care of our power requirements.
Also, tilt-shift version... I'm not sure which one I like better.
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u/Laurashrti Jun 18 '14
This is my first entry. I'm obviously an amateur, so I'd love suggestions :)
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u/FullNoodleFrontity Jun 19 '14
I think we're missing something here
I actually spent more time on this image than any of my other submissions, figured I'd upload it just for kicks... and let others use it for whatever.
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u/TheBlazingPhoenix Jun 17 '14
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u/FullNoodleFrontity Jun 18 '14
I think I used the same fossil on the wall as you did. Except that I rotated mine around (for the shadows).
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u/marklross Jun 22 '14
Construction of the Worm Hole Transport System at space station AlphaMorpheus Prime was going just fine...
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u/NotReallyEthicalLOL Jun 23 '14 edited Jun 23 '14
My god, I just spent six hours on this only to find out the contest was over. This makes me very sad.
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u/MarkDrees Jun 16 '14
YOUR PATH IS BLOCKED