r/photoshopbattles • u/PhotoShopBattles • Oct 18 '15

Weekly Battle | Closed Battle #183 "Horse & Carriage" via previous winner, Adaptapple

Previous Winner

This week's image was chosen by /u/Adaptapple, the first place winner in Battle 182:

Stock image: Aral Sea Wreckage

Winning entry: Exploration

The stock image for Battle #183 is... Horse & Carriage

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u/FueledByCoffee Oct 20 '15

http://imgur.com/oD0zukk

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '15

That is really good, what inspired this?

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u/FueledByCoffee Oct 25 '15

Thank you. Honestly, this was one of those rare times when I had no plan in place when I started. I just started throwing things out there to see where it would go and this time it seems to have worked out.

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u/Puuohntim Oct 25 '15

very nice

u/TheHongKongBong Oct 20 '15 edited Oct 20 '15

1895

Wanted to make a creation gif but accidentally all layers so here's a source album

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u/HylianTimelord Oct 21 '15

Would title "Dysentery"

u/graphleek Oct 20 '15 edited Oct 21 '15

stripes

edit:creation gif

zebra

pattern

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u/Thaanus Oct 21 '15

How did you do this ?

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u/graphleek Oct 21 '15

The short simple version is that I lightened the horses and pasted a zebra over them in overlay blend mode. I pasted a zebra pattern over the carriage in lighten blend mode.

Longer version: I already had a layer mask made from the first entry I did (“streets”), so I used that as a clipping mask and found an image of a zebra that was roughly the same angle/perspective/etc. as the horse. I dragged that image into the clipping mask and transformed it (scale and distort) to fit, and then did some puppet warping, mostly on the legs. Since both horses are almost identical, I copied layers for the horse in the back, adjusting as necessary. The zebra layer is set to overlay blend mode. Then I masked out the reins and stuff. I adjusted the horse layer curves to lighten all of the horse and carriage so that the horses were white, and all the details were visible on the carriage. Drivers and horse tails were masked out of that adjustment layer. The background curves are lowered in the midrange, except for the trees. There’s also a black and white adjustment layer on the carriage, but it’s barely noticeable. There are some desaturation adjustment layers for the zebras. The zebra pattern on the carriage is set to lighten overlay blend mode, 50% opacity and I masked out the trim at 50%. There’s about 20 layers used, including adjustment layers, but it didn’t need to be that many. It ended up with so many because of the disorganized way I put it together, figuring it out as I went along.

I’d upload the source images but imgur appears to be misbehaving.

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u/Thaanus Oct 21 '15

Can you make a creation gif ?

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u/graphleek Oct 21 '15

creation gif

zebra

pattern

If you want to try to reproduce it and you have any questions, just pm me, I'll be glad to help.

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u/RoyalPrinceSoldier Oct 23 '15

Your creation gif is very helpful! Great work man :)

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u/graphleek Oct 23 '15

Thank you!

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u/Thaanus Oct 22 '15

Nice ! Thank you

u/Adaptapple Oct 19 '15

The Headless Forest

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u/RoyalPrinceSoldier Oct 20 '15

That's great man, I love the atmosphere! Looks like something you'll see in the Forbidden Forest

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '15

very cool!

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u/JudeDay Oct 25 '15

Absolutely love this - my first time ever doing this comp - think your going to be my future inspiration

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u/Michafiel Oct 22 '15

This feels like a still from a horror movie trailer. Well done!

u/graphleek Oct 20 '15

streets

u/FullNoodleFrontity Oct 20 '15

Drawn horse drawn carriage

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u/OldWolf2642 Oct 21 '15

Nostalgia factor 10 captain!

u/Darcy123456789 Oct 23 '15

What pedophiles looked like during the 19th century

u/nolladuschar Oct 20 '15 edited Oct 20 '15

Steampunked

Creation: http://imgur.com/Msl34Zo

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u/super_bison Oct 20 '15

Dude this is epic! But your final touches with the darkness detracted so much from the amazing details, i would've scaled that back a bit, if it wasn't for the creation gif I would not have known how good yours was

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u/nolladuschar Oct 20 '15

Thanks! Yes I know it's rather dark but I thought that the details were too sharp and I wanted it to look more artistic..

Here's a brighter, sharper version

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u/Jake_Snake_Clark Oct 23 '15

This one looks great, it's definitely a contender

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u/rdnckctyboy Oct 23 '15

I think all of your nice detail in this brighter version would work better if the sky were replaced with something a lot darker. Perhaps grayish storm clouds that recede more into the background and don't distract so much from the foreground. Really nice job tho!

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u/super_bison Oct 21 '15

Mmm I see your conundrum... looks great anyway, you've got my vote