r/photoshopbattles • u/PhotoShopBattles • Aug 16 '20

Weekly Battle | Closed Battle #418 "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" via previous winner, artunitinc

Previous Winner

This week's image was chosen by /u/artunitinc, the winner in Battle 417:

Stock image: Female Calopteryx Virgo

Winning entry: Hood Ornament | Base Image

The stock image for Battle #418 is... Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)

Cutout; courtesy of /u/GoddawDo, via /r/cutouts

Prizes

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Receive 3 months of Reddit Gold, courtesy of the admins.
Get to choose next week's stock image.
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u/RoyalPrinceSoldier Aug 18 '20

REFLECTION

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u/Maymayfish Aug 19 '20 edited Aug 19 '20

Trippy! Awesome work man, love the attention to the lighting on each repetition

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u/RoyalPrinceSoldier Aug 19 '20

Thanks man!

Great job on yours, I like how you did the painting effect, especially on Kurt's head!

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u/Maymayfish Aug 19 '20

Thanks man, yeah was pretty happy with Kurt, I wasn't too happy with Krist, lost a lot of details on his face, and the Grohl pic was too low quality to begin with to get the same details. Overall was pretty happy with the results though, cheers 🙂

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u/staffell Aug 19 '20

This is deep

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u/RoyalPrinceSoldier Aug 19 '20

hahahaha! I'm curious, how would you interpret the meaning of it if you were to analyze it for a sec?

Also great job on the cards, so seamless!

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u/staffell Aug 19 '20 edited Aug 19 '20

I get a real feeling of introspection looking at this.

Edit, and thanks!

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u/neigesdantan Aug 20 '20

can I have a go with this one? :)

my interpretation:

Immortality is granted through cloning multiple identical clones every ten years. but this time one of the new clones is unable to flush the old one and thinks: "did I die the first time I was cloned? "

great work regardless of the meaning! I will surely use the three panel format, it's great.

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u/RoyalPrinceSoldier Aug 20 '20

Whoa that's really interesting, thank you!

Honestly the initial reason I made it a panel was to show a close-up of the wet face/hair and body which only one of them is, and then I thought it might be an interesting way to make a "story" hahaha

u/texasfld57 Aug 18 '20

The real painting uncovered for the first time

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u/staffell Aug 18 '20

Lovely effect here!

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u/texasfld57 Aug 18 '20 edited Aug 18 '20

Lovely effect here!

u/staffell Thank you,used some of my favorite grunge textures that I have in my stock. Here is a link to the one of the textures I used... TEXTURE You are welcome to use it..

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u/staffell Aug 19 '20

Thanks pal!

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u/neigesdantan Aug 19 '20

Love the idea, great work texas!

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u/texasfld57 Aug 19 '20

u/neigesdantan Thank's I was not going to do anything...but changed my mind...the first thing that came to mind was the Nevermind album but opted out on that choice....I thought everyone else was thinking the same,glad I did cause u/Maymayfish would have punched a big hole in my Nevermind pic! LOL

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u/staffell Aug 20 '20

Right? Damn him and his stupid sexy skills

u/Maymayfish Aug 17 '20 edited Aug 17 '20

Nevermind

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u/ChiefLaRecette Aug 19 '20

gj man ! :)

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u/Maymayfish Aug 19 '20

Cheers mate!

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u/texasfld57 Aug 19 '20

Perfect! AWESOME job at removing the man. you kept the texture and lines pretty good too! You always pick out the best images for your composite. Well done brother!

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u/Maymayfish Aug 19 '20

Thanks Tex, great work this week on yours too. Clever idea and your texture work turned out fantastic

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u/artunitinc Aug 23 '20

Congrats on winning the Battle!

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u/Maymayfish Aug 23 '20

Haha I think I will treasure this award more than any other prize in this competition!

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u/staffell Aug 19 '20

haha oh my god I almost did this too! You did a much better job than I could have ever done though, Love the attention to detail heere, plus your little man under the water had me rolling. GJ, man.

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u/Maymayfish Aug 19 '20

Thanks man,

Better job than I could have ever done

I don't know, I have seen you work I reckon you would have put together something pretty awesome! Your piece this week is very out of the box thinking and superb execution! Awesome as always dude 👍

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u/staffell Aug 19 '20

:D

But no way, your paint-look skills are vastly superior to mine!! Have you ever done a tutorial? I've tried using a few youtube videos, but they never come out looking right.

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u/Maymayfish Aug 19 '20

I actually thought about it for the tutorial operation a while back, I guess because I do things on the phone my methods are pretty sketchy compared to other tutorials jumping between apps and what not. I might try to put something together at some point. I found DrWankalot did a pretty good tutorial which I use as a backbone to my method but each step is largely by feel.

http://oneksy.com/how-to-create-vintage-hand-painted-effect-with-photoshop/

My way is a bastardisation of this method

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u/staffell Aug 19 '20

Thanks! I'll have a play around at some point

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u/texasfld57 Aug 23 '20

I've been experimenting with advanced luminosity masks in my workflow with photoshop. I have also made an action for LUM, that has helped me cut back on my time with isolating darks,midtones and highlights, its very powerful tool to use to isolate with this method.

u/staffell Aug 18 '20 edited Aug 18 '20

Cards on the table

u/noeeee_fre Aug 17 '20

fishing

https://i.imgur.com/8clGtWD.png

u/TheExtimate Aug 17 '20

Dreams of a bygone Truth

u/LaFlecheNoir Aug 17 '20

Great Gatsby Pool Scene

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u/texasfld57 Aug 21 '20

u/LaFlecheNoir I like it! made me laugh

u/ivan_z5 Aug 17 '20

Portrait inside portrait inside potrait...

u/neigesdantan Aug 18 '20

Switching point of view

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u/Maymayfish Aug 19 '20

Absolute mindbender, how do you come up with this stuff? Awesomeness :)

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u/neigesdantan Aug 19 '20

this was quite a linear process: I find hockney's paintings to be filled with sensual tension, so I wanted to explicit that with a graphical alteration: switching from perspective to isometric projection, changing point of view and graphical rules so that the two characters could get close as they want. Thank you so much for such a sweet comment, I greatly value your opinion! :)

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u/texasfld57 Aug 19 '20

u/neigesdantan This is Damn good! you gave perspective to an artistic painting! nicely done,I like it!

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u/staffell Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20

This seriously melted my brain.

I have to admit, when I first saw the image for this weeks battle I was surprised the mods allowed it, but after seeing some of the entries, it opened my mind a bit. Hats off to /u/artunitinc for choosing the image, I really enjoyed thinking differently.

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u/neigesdantan Aug 20 '20

Thanks! I hope that the mods will always be more flexible with the image picked for the weekly battle. It's so nice to feel that extra power and choose something unexpected.