I added another contest entry to Worth 1000. I’m not really sure that it will be allowed in, as I used some techniques I discovered from this blog post to ‘cartoonize’ the photo in a manner reminiscent of the Charles Schwab commercials that have been on lately. Even if its not, I like the end result. The before image:
And the after image:
Here’s another contest entry. I was happy with the way the selection of the tiger turned out, as well as the splash of light across its face. However, I wasn’t as happy with the lighter grays I was able to get, and tried to compensate by adding some extra shadows. I didn’t do that well in the contest, but I think that was because people were looking for more outrageous mutations.
And the original:
I entered another Worth1000.com photoshop contest. There were a number of good entries, I encourage you to check them out!
The original
My entry
It was hard to find a good source for a big vat of soda (and I had thought it would be so easy!). I had fun with the foamy parts, which I got from one of those “What happens when you drop a Mentos into coke” pictures. I especially like the reflections of the girl with the water bottle and the trees, which I added.
So this website is pretty cool: Worth1000
They have some very talented people on the site. I entered one of the beginning contests, and encourage you to vote if you like what you see, as appreciation is the surest way to an artist’s heart. After the contest I will post my entry to the gallery and update this post with a link, but it is against the spirit of anonymous voting to show you the entry ahead of time.
So I managed to get Gimp to recognize Python extensions today, and it turned out to be more hassle than it probably should have been. Still, Gimp is great as a free program, and I haven’t met an application yet that doesn’t have quirks. For those who have not been able to get Gimp to recognize python, I refer you to this extremely helpful forum post (scroll downwards for salvation). This worked for me on the latest Gimp release, 2.6.4.
This was all to get better organized, as by default Gimp does not support any organization of brushes beyond alphabetical by name. Brush Manager fixes that problem, and I am happy to say it worked for me with few problems. I found that I had to move my brushes directory to a directory structure outside of the default Gimp folders. For anyone looking for more organization (such as gradients, palettes, etc) than that, you could check out GURM.
Well, I spent some more time working with the Gimp (An open source graphics editing program not unlike Adobe’s Photoshop) following tutorials and generally just exercising my right brain. A particularly cool tutorial is this one, where Ziaphra shares his cool Manga-fying techniques. I managed alright, you should be able to check out my attempt in the new galleries I installed, if they work right.
