Digital Interface

Recent Work

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  lithographic experiment by dnlddean

  well this is me messing around saw an artical bout turning bland photos into lithographs so i took this stock photo turned it into black an white messed about with levels gave it loads of contrast blew it out in the unsharp filter an used the cutout filter then just to make it intersting i used the background pic to give it an aged feel an coss i blew all the sky out into a white background used the multiply in levels to get rid of all the white and added a border effect so thought i would upload it for fun

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  The Window by Rosalie Scanlon

  I know this was taken somewhere in Florida, but just can’t remember where?? / I cleaned up the rust spots on the cement and used the Highlight, Midpoint and Shadows in Paint Shop Pro to give the image a little more bounce. This was taken with my older Panasonic DMZ FZ20 camera.

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  Sharing my Stash With You…For those of you who like to work with textures, I have decided to share a lot of my photos that I use in my composites. Not all of them…

  For those of you who like to work with textures, I have decided to share a lot of my photos that I use in my composites. Not all of them, mind you! I worked hard to create some of them, so I will hold on to them jealously for a little while longer. In any case, there are a little more than 50 of them in a special album of my Flickr account, under Creative Commons licence. Most are big images with the larger side at over 3000px. I you use them, I would appreciate if you could give me proper credit and a link back to my Flickr home page as mentioned in the description of each image. Click on the image below to go to my texture album. Please note that only the images from that album are stock resources and free for the taking. All other albums are protected by copyright . Enjoy! Featured in TUTORIALS – Help and Advice Forums on May 7, 2009

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  Full of Good Things! by Johanne Brunet

  How many times have we heard our mother tell us Come on, eat it! It’s full of good things! Well, here is proof that moms are always right!   Again, this is my starting image. Please refer to Renaissance Still Life for more details on how it was made. I selected only the fruit with the elliptical marquee tool, and discarded the rest. Then I sperized with the distort filter, and scaled everything to fit into the apple.         To obtain the final image, I mostly stacked three layers of this image of a red apple ornament over the fruit, blended in screen mode in various opacities. Finally, I adjusted levels for each colour channel separately. Featured in the group Globes, Spheres and Curves on May 29, 2009 Featured in the Food for Thought Group on June 7, 2009 Finished in 3rd position of Top Ten in the June Avatar challenge of the Food for Thought Group on June 7, 2009

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  Renaissance Still Life by Johanne Brunet

  This image reminds me of old still life paintings by Rembrandt or the Caravaggio. To me, the light and colours seem reminiscent of the Renaissance period. This composite is made of three images:   This is my starting image. I placed a fruit bowl on the floor, and draped a large piece of dark fabric over it, then I filled it with fruit. The shot was made from above, with the camera on a tripod in a completely dark room. I used a five-second exposure at F/20 and ISO 100, while I painted over the fruit with a regular flashlight to get warm tones. A LED light would have been colder.         Last summer, I made this not-so-good photo of my rosebush after the rain. I used it to create a Ton sur Ton effect (matching tones). This layer is very subtle, and can be seen only in the larger versions, so you will need to click on the image to enlarge it. I desaturated, removed the white background, and applied parts of the image in the corners at 8% to 11% opacities.         Finally, when I went walking in Montreal last Sunday, shooting graffiti and old gritty corners, I also made a few shots of surfaces I could use as textures for my composites. This is one of them, which gives the appearance of an old painting to the image.

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  Drifting Into Adulthood #2 - Collaboration by Johanne Brunet

  This is the second version of the image that I submitted four days ago. As I mentioned in the description of version #1, there were chances that I would still want to improve on it. Well I was not really satisfied with it and gave it another go. The long crossing through adolescence and into adulthood is not always an easy one. For many young people, it often seems like a neverending path, flooded with tears, a river of dark and murky waters ... The model in this shot is Abi, my RB friend Shelly’s beautiful daughter who is 15. She was photographed by her very talented mom Work uploaded for a challenge in the Collaborations group.               The challenge consisted in using one or both of the two / images on the left as a starting point to create something / new. monocotylidono   Shelly Hiebert               / I chose to use both images, but also to add a 3rd collaborator.   Vikram Franklin has kindly accepted to let me use this photo of a boat, and I used a bit of sky to improve on the new version as well. / I also added some textures of my own, as described below:   This bit of agitated water was used mostly over the path. I simply copied part of the water from the image below into a new document and distorted the perspective a bit.   One of my bad shots of a river. Nice to recycle into a texture! / Here is another photo of mine used as a texture:   I use this photo of the St-Lawrence river in the fog very often in my composites. This time, it was used in at least 7 layers with various blending modes and opacities.   I thought that the sky needed something and a crying moon was ideal. I used a photo of Jade, my 14-year old niece, added tears of blood and spherized it to create a moon. Played with the sky and shifted the thinning clouds to place the moon in a better position. Finally, I added a sheer layer of moon glow. Featured in the group Images & Ideas on April 22, 2009 Featured in the Dream & Fantasy Art Group on April 25, 2009 Featured in the Collaborations Group on May 3, 2009 Featured in the group OLDER KIDS aged 8-16 on July 17, 2009 Featured in the Dream and Fantasy Art group on August 28, 2009 1st place winner in the Do me or Use me challenge of the Collaborations Group on April 30, 2009 Finished in 6th position of Top 10 in the Water challenge of the Dream and Fantasy Art group on August 28, 2009 / Here is version #1. Please click on the image to view the page /

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  Return Journey by mistertrooth

  This one pretty much made itself up. I started out experimenting with a couple of blackberries, and making a cluster out of them, and it took shape from there. Haven’t done a big one for a while – hope u like it. / For the groups that want a technical breakdown – it’s a photoshop work, obviously, and uses a surprising amount of layers – all the berry asteroid thingys are sourced from two original ones. The two faces on the moonberry are from the same image, and i used the liquify and transform tool to change the expressions.

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  Flowers for Mom by Rosalie Scanlon

  Flowers for Mother’s Day. The flower image was taken at Lakes Park in Ft. Myers Fl.. The image was cropped and some texture was added. Photo was taken with my Nikon Coolpix P80. Pls. enlarge for texture effect.

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  Cyber curves by Maggie Hegarty

  This was a straight shot of a bridge at night. I played around with Curves and Transform in Photoshop to achieve this abstract result. Best viewed LARGE to see the detail.

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  Kingdoms in the Skies by Ravenor

  Kingdoms in the Skies was created with Photoshop CS3, using two different skies, “one on top of the other”, plus extractions from eight different images. and a plugin filter for the lighting effects.. and lots and lots of playing around with the common photoshop tools, mostly Eraser, Burn and Dodge tools… and hundreds of other adjustments along the way.. :-) Thank you for looking….

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  Galleria by retepk

  Trendy Jupivenusian photographed outside of the upmarket shopping centre in the heart of New Jupivenus, the capital city. With its vast rooftop aerovehicular access and vast array of shops it is the place to be seen in New Jupivenus. / Jupivenusians love shopping. Among other things. Clothes are a popular purchase. As well as music. Popular at the moment is offworld music. From Earth would you believe. The long-disbanded Beatles can be heard coming from cafes and clothing shops along the promenade. / Created in Photoshop. Merging of elements from photographs with Photoshop-generated shapes and textures. Features from two different faces comprise the face which was then mirrored. The neck and shoulders are from a third photograph. The hair, jaw and sunglasses were made in Photoshop as was the spacecraft. The building was from a photo that was duplicated and then each file slightly distorted differently then merged. The sky was from a Bryce-made sky and a Photoshop texture combined.

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  Jason Live! by Scott Ruhs

  This one was just for fun. This is the other guitar player, Jason in my band, Under Pressure taken last Halloween during the Cancer Sucks fundraiser. I did a bit of work in PhotoShop on this image. Applied Levels adjustments to increase the contrast. Added a layer filled with 50% gray above the main image layer. Added noise to the layer and then applied motion blur at about 45 degrees. Switch the blend mode to hard light and lowered the opacity to taste.