Weekly Photoshop Contest Discussion: Week 4 [Archive]

tim8604

09-11-2003, 11:39 PM

Hehe murray, you took my idea ;). Nah.... just kidding, good job making the discussion thread as I just now was able to get on my computer. I'll try to whip something up later tonight.

And does anyone know, does it have to be a picture of a potatoe you take, or any old potatoe? I mean, it would be hard to prove otherwise, but I just want to stick to the rules ;).

rec

10-11-2003, 03:37 AM

I personally don't like the new topic, I would have liked to keep it Half-Life universe orientated, or at the very least game orientated.

SidewinderX

10-11-2003, 03:51 AM

element alpha takes the cake so far.

chu

10-11-2003, 03:53 AM

I agree with rec on this one.

tim8604

10-11-2003, 04:03 AM

Originally posted by chu
I agree with rec on this one.

Me too... and if at least not 'game' oriented, at least something somewhat challenging. Come on... editing a spud into something? I think I did a tutorial on this when I first began photoshop :p.

Never the less, I have a title to uphold, eh.

nw909

10-11-2003, 04:06 AM

mine are up :D

chu

10-11-2003, 04:07 AM

I'm going to pass on this weeks contest. The topic is too boring and not humerous at all. Oh well, good luck to the people who submit and by god tim if you win again...I will bite my thumb at you.

SnowBall

10-11-2003, 04:37 AM

Hah, this is great. not even gonna try to make one, but I know its sure gonna be hard to vote!

mOdEtWo

10-11-2003, 04:47 AM

Added mine.

Flyingdebris' spudcrab is my favourite so far.

tim8604

10-11-2003, 04:56 AM

I think by Friday there will be over 50 entries. That's what you get from such an easy contest idea ;). Maybe everyone will just get burned out and not want to do anymore though. Or maybe a ton of entries are being posted now because of the new publicity we received from that front page news. Either way, I think the easy contest contributes to it a lot. A few good ones are up so far though.

LoneDeranger

10-11-2003, 05:16 AM

Actually I kind of like the new idea. We got lots of people to participate and some of 'em were kinda funny. The one where Gabe is a potato cracked me up the most .. LOL

Mechagodzilla

10-11-2003, 05:55 AM

The spudcrab actually looks better than the original art...
Giving him a potato texture really makes it look more realistic somehow.

For the next contest, I say it should be an invent your own HL alien contest. That ought to be neat.

I can't enter since I have no photoshop though. ;(
This is discrimination! :)

Can I use paint?

Element Alpha

10-11-2003, 10:02 AM

Well, I'm glad you like my postcard. As a not-to-talented photoshop amateur, it makes me feel all goowy and mushy inside.
I hope the contest won't get to hard in the future, since I'm not a designer or anything. I try to skip a few bases using humor. I learned that trick spending time with women;).

Greetz everyone!

tim8604

10-11-2003, 04:37 PM

Originally posted by Mechagodzilla
I can't enter since I have no photoshop though. ;(
This is discrimination! :)

Can I use paint?

You can use whatever program you want, it's not like we'll know what the finished product was created with ;).

Originally posted by Element Alpha
I hope the contest won't get to hard in the future, since I'm not a designer or anything. I try to skip a few bases using humor. I learned that trick spending time with women;).

Greetz everyone!

I think it's a good idea to make comics and things, but I just thought as a photoshop contest, it would be based more upon graphical design skills, and not whose is the funniest. I'm just afraid with this weeks contest being so 'easy' that there will be way too many entries to judge. In the past, we have only had like 30 votes maximum, and if there are that many entries, it could get sticky at the end.

tuvalua

10-11-2003, 07:37 PM

Maybe the fact that it is so easy should give you jaded pro's a reason to produce your best work... I submitted the Tyson picture for now, after a little fiddling, but I would love a reason to put a little more effort into it (i.e. let's see what you got). You are lucky I found about this now and not earlier. Again, good luck.

The Dark Elf

10-11-2003, 08:11 PM

Originally posted by tuvalua
You are lucky I found about this now and not earlier

Why is that?

tim8604

10-11-2003, 09:01 PM

Originally posted by tuvalua
Maybe the fact that it is so easy should give you jaded pro's a reason to produce your best work... I submitted the Tyson picture for now, after a little fiddling, but I would love a reason to put a little more effort into it (i.e. let's see what you got). You are lucky I found about this now and not earlier. Again, good luck.

I'm shaking in my little space boots.

First of all, I'm hardly a pro. And what was going through your mind when you made that tyson entry :-p. It was done well, but I just don't understand what it's supposed to mean. Everyone's heads are replaced by potatoes except tyson? Looks good though.

SpuD

10-11-2003, 09:55 PM

haha! these are great!
This is the best comp so far!

tuvalua

10-11-2003, 10:13 PM

I guess it means that it would not be weird to see Tyson among a crowd of potatoes supporting. The guy is pretty close to the asylum as it is. From what I have seen a good number of submitters have a lot of Photoshop experience, that's what I meant by pro's. Anyway, let's keep the judging going :)

creationist

10-11-2003, 10:25 PM

its gonna be really hard to decide...

tim8604

10-11-2003, 10:37 PM

Originally posted by tuvalua
I guess it means that it would not be weird to see Tyson among a crowd of potatoes supporting. The guy is pretty close to the asylum as it is. From what I have seen a good number of submitters have a lot of Photoshop experience, that's what I meant by pro's. Anyway, let's keep the judging going :)

Ah, that makes sense. I just saw it when I got home from school and was all burned out :p. Wasn't really thinking that well. I hope to be posting my first entry later on today. I think i'll go for the 'out of the box' approach on this one ;). Good luck on your other submissions tuvalua!

tim8604

10-11-2003, 11:03 PM

In reply to synth's entry...

Nice attention to detail on the main spud's sun glasses. Many people wouldn't have thought to add the drop in opacity on the right part of his sunglasses where his head ends and void begins. Nice one.

The Dark Elf

10-11-2003, 11:07 PM

Originally posted by tim8604
In reply to synth's entry...

Nice attention to detail on the main spud's sun glasses. Many people wouldn't have thought to add the drop in opacity on the right part of his sunglasses where his head ends and void begins. Nice one.

the glasses look like part of the original image

NSPIRE

11-11-2003, 12:08 AM

I donno' if I even want to try and participate in this one... lol. I really don't care for the topic at all... oh well.

tim8604

11-11-2003, 12:55 AM

Originally posted by Fenric1138
the glasses look like part of the original image

http://www.novotrix.com/images/test/zombie.gif
son of a..... well i take back all of my compliments ;) hehe jk.

I made a couple and posted them up, so check em out and let me know what you think.

NSPIRE

11-11-2003, 01:27 AM

http://www.novotrix.com/images/test/zombie.gif

LMAO. Gotta' love the HL2 emoticons, haha. That's fuggin' great ^__^

tim8604

11-11-2003, 02:32 AM

Originally posted by NSPIRE
http://www.novotrix.com/images/test/zombie.gif

LMAO. Gotta' love the HL2 emoticons, haha. That's fuggin' great ^__^

I just wish they'd include em in the site emoticons so I don't use up all my bandwidth ;).

SpuD

11-11-2003, 02:49 AM

SpuD

11-11-2003, 02:50 AM

Originally posted by NSPIRE
I donno' if I even want to try and participate in this one... lol. I really don't care for the topic at all... oh well.

If you dont like my topics, give me suggestions!!!
i personally love this topic tbh

The Dark Elf

11-11-2003, 02:52 AM

Originally posted by tim8604
I just wish they'd include em in the site emoticons so I don't use up all my bandwidth ;).

lol damn, i was looking everywhere for that emoticon on the get more list too, explains things if it wasn't on there grrr :D

tim8604

11-11-2003, 02:58 AM

Originally posted by SpuD
If you dont like my topics, give me suggestions!!!
i personally love this topic tbh

hmm, could this relate to your name at all? ;)

Also, for whoever is a super moderator of this forum, I figured I would help you out in case you didn't know how to add smilies. It only takes a few minutes to add new smilies, assuming that you are running the same version of vbulletin that I am running on one of my client's web sites. Just go to the control panel, find smilies about 3/4ths of the way down, go to Upload, and enter this info:

Smilie File - Just save mine to your computer
Name - Zombie
Text to replace - :zombie:
Path to save image to - /images/smilies

This is just for any of the supermods out there who weren't sure :). I'm sure you guys have to get approval and all that jazz, just wanted to help you out, if you guys decided to use it or whatever.

The Dark Elf

11-11-2003, 03:10 AM

I dunno for sure but isn't it a guy on here called SpaceMonkey* or something like that who handles the forum coding? I suppose if you emailed him nicely and asked and sent a message to Munro at the same time they might agree to it. I guess it wouldn't hurt to ask them anyway

* sorry if I got the name wrong, im terrible with names, birthdays and phone numbers :D

tim8604

11-11-2003, 03:12 AM

Eh, I don't really care that much about it, I just made it for the community. I guess if they like it enough, they can ask to put it in.. if not, that's cool too. I'm too lazy to go emailing people, hehe. What did you think about my entries though?

synth

11-11-2003, 06:49 AM

That smiley rocks :D

And my photoshop didn't have that detail on the glasses, it was already there. Although getting the spud changing into the skin was hard in the back right one. Here's the originals.

http://otherside.junik.lv/pages/images/007b.jpg
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/potpom/var/latona/potato75f.jpg

Fender357

11-11-2003, 08:16 AM

Originally posted by tim8604
Come on... editing a spud into something? I think I did a tutorial on this when I first began photoshop :p.

:laugh: I did that one at school too.

Then everyone in class found out that someone had saved the finished picture for all six things and they could just print them out.

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I like that one :) (the agents)

tim8604

11-11-2003, 04:40 PM

ankalar, I like the football one you posted.

Element Alpha

11-11-2003, 09:01 PM

Spud, I noticed you called me "Element" in the picture line-up(page 1), but I'd like to point out my nickname is "Element Alpha", someone else already is "Element" on this forum(check the members section).

I've had a lot of fun making my submissions. I don't think it was a bad topic at all. It all started with that potato tutorial for me too. Those where the days...

tim8604

11-11-2003, 09:08 PM

What do you people want from me!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH.

/me burns out

With all of these submissions being made (32 as of yet), I don't know how anyone will be able to decide. Do you think for the competition people should be making funny comics with spuds in them, replacing peoples faces with spuds, or replacing objects with spuds? I think this category might be too broad, as all of the entries have been drastically different. I think it's good to get this many entries, but I just don't see how people will be able to decide on one, and if they do... it will split the votes so wide that the person who wins might get like 10% of the vote. It could be possible that it happens otherwise, but I just think if the contests are to be judge fairly, the scope should be more narrow. Something like, replace a commonly used object with a potatoe. Or, change a famous person into a potatoe might have worked better for this idea. I know you said you were out of ideas, but I was under the impression other people had been submitting a lot? And I know I submitted a few :-/. What do you guys think? I don't know what I should even make for my next entry.

synth

12-11-2003, 03:10 AM

I think people are better off only submitting one, so their entries don't compete against each other.

SpuD

12-11-2003, 05:32 AM

Originally posted by Element Alpha
Spud, I noticed you called me "Element" in the picture line-up(page 1), but I'd like to point out my nickname is "Element Alpha", someone else already is "Element" on this forum(check the members section).

I've had a lot of fun making my submissions. I don't think it was a bad topic at all. It all started with that potato tutorial for me too. Those where the days...
Sorry.
fixed...

tim8604

13-11-2003, 04:06 AM

Eh, I think it was a fake rebirth of the Art forum that we were experiencing. There haven't been too many new posts lately, or entries to the contest except for chu's.

Element Alpha

13-11-2003, 05:52 PM

I wouldn't worry about it. The vote is saturday, right?
Well, maybe there'll be a few more submissions, and a few comments to go along. Consider it as a weekly rendez-vous. I know it doesn't bother me. If I don't have anything to say concerning art, I'm not going to make void posts just to keep this section of the forum alive, and I think a lot of people feel the same way. Also, since this week's contest was a little on the easy side, most submissions were finished rather quickly I guess. I expect to see activity here on saturday and sunday for sure.

Most submissions I liked. I wonder where all this is going to take us. I can already see myself making strange drawings every week or so, I just don't know what they'll be about.

Does anyone have good idea's for upcoming contest? I suggest we post a few, or we may be working carrots next week.

I propose "original cartoons"(non-existing, self invented). Doesn't have to be funny, could be just cool or exiting, or whatever. But they must contain a little story.

chu

16-11-2003, 05:27 AM

uhm, how come voting hasnt started yet?

Doesn't voting start saturday?

IronHand

16-11-2003, 12:18 PM

Originally posted by rec
I personally don't like the new topic, I would have liked to keep it Half-Life universe orientated, or at the very least game orientated.

That's right. If the next one is going to be 'Gordon in the Matrix' (as some person wanted to), then it sucks. :( It's aint geengrocery site, nor Matrix page...