They Came From Outer Space
An out of control experiment in photoshop with Kai’s Power Tools, and Strata, and the origin of these two martians. You may want to avert your eyes…
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Phineous Cas...
wild colours syd i digg it
syd baker replied
Thanks PC, this is what I call Way Over the Top!
Phineous Cas...
fun over the top though itsa great piece of work the bubbles in outa space look insane i really like this one
syd baker replied
There used to be a photoshop plug-in called Kai’s Power Tools, where you could design these 3D Orbs, then splatter them randomly on the page like grapes! That’s what this started out as, and I worked on it a little each day for weeks!
Susan Kimball
This is awesome!! I love it!!
syd baker replied
Thanks grin, grin, almost as scarey as the aliens that resembled pasta so much that we ate them. And they were delicious…
Earthmonster
:) Making me laugh Syd. I should say smile. If that isn’t retro nothing is.
syd baker replied
1950’s b-movie posters, with that Zoooom-lettering!!
Keith Reesor
Outstanding Syd!! :)
syd baker replied
I recall at the time, DaVinci painted on his Mona Lisa a bit at a time for years, and I worked on this off and on for weeks, playing with the old Kai’s Power Tools in photoshop 5 or 6! It’s not Mona, but it’s got purple globular lettering, 50’s style!
owlspook
way over the top (grin)
btw amazon is selling a copy of Kai’s Power Tools … was checking out old s/w there and saw it .. forgot how much it cost … don’t have even an older copy of PS so wouldn’t have done me any good …
syd baker replied
I’ve been upgrading my photoshop for years, so I have to keep the old ones, still have that old Kai’s working with psh 5, the Kai’s texture explorer is totally entrancing!
owlspook
oooo texture … my favorite texture right now in Gimp is called “clothify” I used it mostly in my “shawl” pieces … but have found it extremely useful when blowing up a very small image to one that is useful .. handy dandy … smooths away the pixelation …
syd baker replied
I know a useful Photoshop trick for enlarging, if Psh is what you use?
owlspook
no PS here … way too overboard on cost for my budget .. will have to stick with the tricks I know .. (smile)
Scott d'Almeida
awesome;
syd baker replied
I’m a little embarrassed, this was a page where a lot of things kind of splattered, never really showed it!
robpixaday
THE. COOLEST. EVER.
EVER!!!!!!
syd baker replied
Gosh!! I was hoping it wasn’t too SCARY!
robpixaday
tiptoes back in and whispers It was very scary…..but TERRIFIC!! runs like the wind
syd baker replied
Hee heeeeeee! You crack me up! Those same martians showed up later on shirts, the green one is nice, the red one is peskier than a Cornish pixie!!
syd baker replied
My first attempt at Thunderous Lettering, with an announcer’s voice that echoes!! And purple blobbies!!!
geirkristiansen
Awesome work! Love it!
syd baker replied
Thank you, what started out as an experiment ended up as layers and layers of stuff!
JenLand
Oh man Syd! I love your retro style here!! So Cool. :o)
syd baker replied
This is my Mona Lisa, kept adding stuff a bit here and there, kind of fascinated with how vitamin-enriched it was getting, goes back like 14 years! Same martians thats on my shirts.
Diana Maus
I love outer space! Your work is so very cool. Thanks for sending me your site!
syd baker replied
Aw, shucks, little lady, just showing off!
syd baker replied
Doesn’t show in the gallery, but the clocks are there because of a 2 part tutorial that’s posted in my Journal, about making clocks from your artwork, and where to get the parts. Since you’re so multi media, thought I’d bring it up.
linaji
Nice to take a gander over here in the land of FUN!! your work is so vibrant and the colors are out of control Syd!! Really like this one!
syd baker replied
Thanks Lina, this one was TOTALLY out of control, pushed to the edge, off the cliff!
hugh023
Cool!! . . .
syd baker replied
Thanks Hugh, I just kept trying different things and adding to this.