r/photoshopbattles • u/rawveggies • Sep 05 '12

Special Battle | Closed [Battle SROTD] Tenacious D Celebrates PSB being SROTD

This Battle is in celebration of /r/PhotoshopBattles being chosen as the subreddit of the day.

The stock image for this Battle is Tenacious D Celebrates PSB being SROTD.

Simple Rules:

  1. Post as many entries as you like, Battle will be open for 72 hours.
  2. Vote as often as you like.
  3. Adding to, or subtracting from, another entry is encouraged.
  4. Tag NSFW entries.
  5. Every entry gets a random flair, the entry with the most upvotes gets a trophy flair.
  6. Downvotes do not count when counting votes for the winner.

Have fun!

edit: weaselstomp made a cutout that's free for anyone to use!

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u/FueledByCoffee Sep 06 '12

Kyle, you have no idea what you've just gotten yourself into...

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u/rawveggies Sep 06 '12

I see a lot of excellent photoshops and I usually follow reddiquette and just express my admiration with an upvote, but this one is exceedingly exceptional.

I would use one of my three wishes and ask to be half as talented as you obviously are, thanks for the art.

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u/DaminDrexil Sep 05 '12

"Jack! if you don't stop pulling that face, you can't be in the photo"

"Okay, guys, one more time"

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u/weaselstomp Sep 06 '12 edited Sep 06 '12

DAMMIT KYLE, NOT YOU TOO

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u/DaminDrexil Sep 06 '12 edited Sep 06 '12

Love it! The spray fits perfectly with the [good]fellas with their heads down.

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u/weaselstomp Sep 06 '12

Thanks! :) Any tips on getting the contrast/saturation/whatever just right? Yours seems to fit in, mine seems.... darker or stands out more (which isn't a good thing when I want to make it blend).

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u/DaminDrexil Sep 06 '12

Thanks!

You deserve it.

Any tips on getting the contrast/saturation/whatever just right?

Sure! Some of this will insult your intellignce, but I have no idea what you know; so I'll rattle on and maybe something'll stand out. Let's start from here.

The first, obvious step is to make it black & white. Play around with the settings to get it in the ballpark before you hit 'OK'.

Next, use the levels control to adjust the contrast. Use the middle slider of the 'input section' to make the image look brighter or darker, and use the 'output section' to brighten up the darkest parts and darken the brightest parts.

That's the heavy lifting done, now for the finishing touches:

Use the "Burn" and "Dodge" tools to manually darken/brighten parts of the image. This is to try and get the lighting to match up. I didn't do much in this image; but if you spend time here, you can almost make it look like it was shot with the same lighting.

Finally, Jack looks a little sharper than the rest, so we'll use a bit of blur to make him fit in a litle better..

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u/weaselstomp Sep 06 '12 edited Sep 06 '12

Some of this will insult your intelligence

Pfft, I've fallen in love with girls women who've insulted my intelligence more than this.

Thank you for the tips, I always forget about Burn&Dodge and I'll be updating my previous post with my newfound skill tonight for other battlers to work from if they feel so inclined :) Thanks DaminDrexil!

edit:updated link above. not a lot better, but I feel better about it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '12

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Sep 05 '12

NFSL, you mean

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u/wtmh Sep 06 '12

Watch where you're spraying that!  
 
 
 
If even one person tries to wipe off their monitor I'll count this a success.

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u/AndrewWasTaken Sep 06 '12

Take your success :(

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u/iwonsoha Sep 06 '12

Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me aren't you?

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u/weaselstomp Sep 06 '12

Upvotes for Mrs Robinson, she's been "good" to all of us.

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u/BlanketStacker Sep 05 '12

I'm equipping my spending pants for this one! http://i.imgur.com/9IY8M.jpg

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '12

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '12

Sorry for being late to the party, but here.

Champagne Showers.

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u/definitely_legit Sep 06 '12 edited Sep 06 '12

Was fun and much longer than I thought It'll take at first

http://i.imgur.com/sznp2.jpg

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '12

Pointless Head-swap.

My entry is bad, and I should feel bad.

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u/weaselstomp Sep 06 '12

upvotes for feeling bad. also pen 15 club.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '12

Oh man, if they had done the Pen 15 club thing in my school, I would have fallen for it every time. I JUST had to look it up again to find out what you meant.