r/photoshopbattles • u/PhotoShopBattles • Sep 21 '14

Weekly Battle | Closed Battle #130 "Piano Player" via previous winner, lumm0x

 

Previous Winner

This week's image was chosen by /u/lumm0x, the first place winner in Battle 129:

Stock image: Steppin' Out

Winning entry: Divorce

 

 

 

The stock image for Battle #130 is... Piano Player

 

 

 

Prizes

The winner of this weeks battle will:

 

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The Schedule

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  • The battle will end on Saturday, September 27th.

    Next week's battle will be posted early Sunday morning.

 

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

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u/fatdonuthole Sep 23 '14

R.I.P.  :'(

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u/milvus Sep 24 '14

Great work. I'm going to put my shoes on now.

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u/fatdonuthole Sep 24 '14

If I save even just one life, this post was a success.

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u/Magneticman555 Sep 23 '14

This is amazing, and definitely my favourite! This was fantastically done!

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u/ThrobinWigwams Sep 24 '14

The tear is a nice touch!

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u/lumm0x Sep 25 '14

Great work!

I'm particularly impressed with the floor. You took out the piano and the bench, but the floor pattern looks seamless. Mind if I ask how you did it?

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u/fatdonuthole Sep 30 '14

I'm sorry for replying to this so late. I'm a student full time and I work full time, so it's often hard for me to make windows to give decent explanations and such. I used a technique I found called frequency separation. It's basically dividing the image into two layers: A gaussian blur of the image, and then a high pass filter that is the exact inverse of the gaussian blur layer. It essentially lets you separate the image into its texture and tone. Place the texture layer on top of the tone and set the texture layer to linear light. You'll find a better explanation if you search for tutorials on YouTube, because there are quite a few steps involved in getting this technique to work and they can explain it better than I can.

So for the floor I just clone stamped the floor textures, and then I used a big fuzzy brush and colored in the color of the floor on the tone layer.

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u/lumm0x Sep 30 '14

You got a great result with the technique in this image. I'll definitely look it up.

Thanks for taking the time to reply! All the best for your work and studies.

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u/admancb Sep 23 '14

Your edit is so clean, I can't even....

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u/Shappie Sep 25 '14

I know this pain.

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u/lains-experiment Sep 25 '14

Excellent work.

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u/milvus Sep 23 '14

Shoryuken

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u/nicktrivi Sep 24 '14

my personal favorite

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u/Shappie Sep 23 '14

Nice job, man. Looks great!

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u/milvus Sep 24 '14

Thanks. It was an obvious choice but I wanted to get something in.

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u/slinkyw Sep 23 '14

When your jam comes on

2

u/nicktrivi Sep 24 '14

Me every day

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u/randomdreamer Sep 25 '14

maybe put an oncoming semi truck in the background, like he's about to get hit by the truck but he's so distracted he doesn't see it?

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u/whatthemeh Sep 23 '14

His true calling

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u/FueledByCoffee Sep 23 '14

Hahaha, its like Ben Folds, famous for playing the piano, passionate about playing drums.

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u/marveloriddle Sep 22 '14

That has GOT to hurt!

source Picture

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u/AcBoober57 Sep 25 '14

I read that as "that has Game of Thrones to hurt." so Im a nerd.

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u/MrFlopkins Sep 21 '14

Just.. Let Rufio think for a moment...

Still Thinking...

2

u/Shappie Sep 23 '14

Holy shit, that's perfect. Very well done!

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u/MrFlopkins Sep 23 '14

Haha, thanks. It was just the first thing I thought of.

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u/RabidRapidRabbit Sep 22 '14

tribute to the gods

2

u/Werv Oct 02 '14

I wish this was a shirt

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u/RabidRapidRabbit Oct 02 '14

Well I could send you the 4000x4000 px file :3

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u/reneefk Sep 24 '14

Good job, I like!

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u/Snorkelbender Sep 23 '14

I had no idea this would end up being so creepy

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u/fatdonuthole Sep 24 '14

Looks like something I would see on a satanist version of Sesame Street.

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u/FueledByCoffee Sep 23 '14 edited Sep 23 '14

He fell asleep at the piano, and now he's dreaming

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u/Shappie Sep 23 '14

wat

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u/FueledByCoffee Sep 24 '14

you are correct, sir.

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u/Srirachachacha Sep 24 '14

The piano keys are actually pretty subtle. Took me a second look a day later to realize they weren't train tracks

21

u/cooraal Sep 21 '14

You Can Almost Hear Him Rock

1

u/TheGoobKid Sep 24 '14

nice job on the colours

1

u/cooraal Sep 24 '14

Thanks! I thought some disco lights would be a nice touch.

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u/SuperNova_0 Sep 22 '14

Sucker Punch!!!

Never start a fight you can't win!

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u/gnostic_cat Sep 23 '14

http://gfycat.com/JauntyCooperativeFrenchbulldog

Imgur

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u/Shappie Sep 23 '14

So this sure is an odd piece of somethin'

I like it

2

u/RoyalPrinceSoldier Sep 24 '14

Those particles.. .. ..

Great job!

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u/Shappie Sep 23 '14

QWOP

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u/milvus Sep 24 '14

I would have thought playing the piano would make you good at QWOP. It seems not.

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u/Shappie Sep 24 '14

If anyone tells you they are good at QWOP, they're lying.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '14

Ride or Die

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '14

cave monster

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u/fatdonuthole Sep 24 '14

I love it when people go out of the ordinary.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '14

The Conspiracy's

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '14

Rufiiiooooooo!

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u/i4NDR3W Sep 21 '14

Street Fighter Pianist

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u/randomdreamer Sep 25 '14

well that's not fair, he's up against Chuck Norris!

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u/i4NDR3W Sep 25 '14

No one said it would be a fair fight...

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u/randomdreamer Sep 26 '14

Chuck Norris fought and defeated ALL the characters from ALL the Street Fighter series...in one Round.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '14

Władysław "The Pianist" Szpilman, had he been born some decades later.

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u/Jaimehrubiks Sep 26 '14

This is my first time in these Weekly Battles. Dalí would love this piece of art btw.

There is something here that just doesn't fit... I wonder what it is