Autumn Halloween PM Contest! - CLOSED

Journal Entry: Mon Oct 12, 2015, 11:59 PM


Happy-halloween-card-4 by nikkidoodlesx3

**EDIT/ Contest is now closed, I will have the winner results posted later this week!! **


It's been a long, long while since I held a contest on my page. Seeing as Halloween is just around the corner, AND it's my favorite holiday of all I'm going to join the band wagon and host my very own  HALLOWEEN CONTEST.

RULES



The only main requirement for the contest is that it must be a mix of Autumn/Fall and Halloween. Aside from that it can be anything fun and scary!

You must list and credit ALL stocks and resources used, even if it is your own.

Only 1 entry per person please & thank you!Increasing it to 2 entries per person!

I will accept entries that have been submitted no earlier then October 1st 2015.

Please make sure to mention this contest in your Deviation Description so other people can join the fun!

To submit your entry, you can either note me, or comment below with a link or a thumb. I will then add your entry to a favorites folder.

DEADLINE: November 21

Prizes



I don't have a whole lot for prizes right now, but I will be adding some more soon!

1st Place
500 :points: from nikkidoodlesx3
400 :points: from Gejda 
Journal Feature from nikkidoodlesx3
Llama from InspireliriumArchive

2nd Place
250 :points: from nikkidoodlesx3
250 :points: from Gejda 
Journal Feature from nikkidoodlesx3
Llama from InspireliriumArchive

3rd Place
150 :points: from Gejda
125 :points:
from nikkidoodlesx3
Llama from InspireliriumArchive


Everyone that enters will be featured in a journal entry on my page!

If you'd like to donate a prize, please note me! All donations are welcome :3

tumblr nsy3s40yM11rox539o1 500 by nikkidoodlesx3




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Unity Quilt

Sat May 30, 2015, 9:24 AM
Photo Manipulation Week


Some of you may remember from a few years ago that we have done this a few times before! Last time, if I remember correctly, there were SO many entries (well over 150) and because of the insane amount of entries the quilt was never fully put together!

Well, IT'S BACK, and my aim is to see this quilt finished to it's fullest no matter how many entries there are!
Just to show you an example of what a Unity Quilt looks like, I will show you a thumb of a Super Secret Quilt project another deviant and I had made a few years back:

Code Red Quilt by nikkidoodlesx3

What you do, is create a photo manipulation of ANYTHING you desire as long as it is 200px by 200 px. It's that simple! Once your finished, send me a note with the title "Unity Quilt Entry" and I will put them all together! I'm going to say about 2-3 weeks after today I will begin putting all the entries together to give everyone enough time to create and submit their pieces!

I'm looking forward to seeing your entries!

Best Wishes ~
:iconnikkidoodlesx3:

Quick Photo Manip Tips and Tricks

Sat May 30, 2015, 9:21 AM
Photo Manipulation Week


For the last week, I've reached out to you guys to find out what kind of tutorials you would be most interested in seeing! Once I collected the topics, I reached out to as many artists that I could find that were advanced in those topics to help write a "mini" tutorial full of tips and tricks for you guys.



"Overall Painted Look"


:iconsummerdreams-art:

"My techniques is pretty much simple and the soft painted look can be achieved quite easily. What I do is:

Using a spot healing brush I remove spots, if any from the skin.
Then use a mixer brush over it using the following values:
Wet: 17%, Load: 15%, Mix: 17%, Flow: 18%, which not only smoothens the skin but also softens it.

At the end of it all, I dodge and burn wherever necessary. Alternatively, I use a white brush of low opacity somewhere between 30-35% and paint over the highlights, then apply a Gaussian blur of 15-16 pixels. and for the shadows I go over them with a much lower opacity with a black brush of around 5-8%.

In the end I would like to tell to any one who would read it that this is just one of the many ways of achieving this kind of effect."





"Lighting"


:iconbenjaminhaley:

"I try to focus firstly on a more broad lighting of the overall picture. I locate where my light source comes from, then start thinking about how it will effect other elements in the scene. I use a lot of clipping masks, which I paint with black and white (black on normal mode and white on overlay or soft light). Some times I will use multiply for shadows instead of normal mode, but only if I'm adding color to the darkness, as black on normal mode will act the same as on multiply anyway.

I also paint again with black and white over the whole image including the ones I put in the image, so the paint is on both the objects and background, I think this helps the light look like it's on everything equally. So this is a new layer over all the layers.

Try not to over complicate things with multiple light sources.

Be observant to lighting around you and even other peoples work.

Remember to add shadows !

Take advantage and experiment with different blending modes such as overlay, color dodge, multiply ect."




"Color Adjustments & Sharpness"


:iconnikkidoodlesx3:

Color Adjustments
For me personally, my favorite tool when it comes to adding color to the overall image (or even individual stocks to help blend to the background) is the color balance tool. It's important to remember if your using the color balance tool that you switch between the highlights, midtones, and shadows, because adding separate colors to each will make your image pop a lot more. I find that certain colors go better together then others, but you can play around to see what you like. You can also use straight up the color adjustments, I personally don't use those too frequently. Sometimes when I'm still not happy with how the colors turned out, I will use a soft brush, with the layer on soft light, and just paint in some colors or I will also use the gradient tool until I am happy with the results.
Sharpness
There are a few ways you can go about adding sharpness to your image. A lot of people just use the sharpen options that Photoshop or any other program gives you, but I find that doing that can add a lot of pixelated noise to your image, so I avoid that tool at all cost.  I find that 90% of the time, I am able to sharpen images just using different color adjustments (especially using the Black & White tool feature). Another very common way to add sharpness to an image is by using the High Pass tool, which is located in Filter>Other>High Pass . To use the high pass tool, you create a duplicate layer of the image you want sharpened, go to high pass and choose as high or low as you want, personally I tend to stay on the lower end of the spectrum where the image edges (edges of object or model) look the most crisp.) and then just make sure you set that layer to overlay.





"Painting Hair"


:icontriziana:

Please click image for a larger view!






For the remainder of the topics you guys sent me, I found some helpful tutorials you can take a look at!

"Blending"


Simple tip for blending by sara-hel blending backgrounds tutorial by ladynaevia Photomanipulation Tutorial  on blending by tamaraR:thumb95966684:


"Textures"




"Perspective and Depth of Field"




"That Perfect Rainy Scene"


Rain Tutorial by Lady-Tima Rain Photoshop Tutorial: Part 2 by thundybear Rain and fire photomanip PS by peewee1002:thumb523736985:


There are tons of amazing tutorials out there for you guys, free, and right here on DA! Please go check them out, they are there to help you! www.deviantart.com/browse/all/…

What kind of tutorials do you want to see?!

Journal Entry: Mon May 18, 2015, 10:43 AM


Mini Tutorials



I'm going to be putting together an upcoming article with a bunch of different "mini" tutorials for photo manipulations.

However, I need YOUR help in figuring out what tutorials to post! I need you guys to comment below and let me know what kind of tutorials your interested in seeing and I will go out and find artists that are advanced in that topic and are willing to help make a small tutorial for you guys!

Make sure you favorite this journal and share it around so others can see it and post what they would like to see in a tutorial as well! I would like to get as many different topics as possible!

Current List


:bulletgreen: Adding that "Painting" look to an manip
:bulletgreen: Blending!
:bulletgreen: Textures (Example: ... by BaxiaArt )
:bulletgreen: Lighting
:bulletgreen: Perspective and Depth of Field
:bulletgreen: Color Adjustments & Sharpness
:bulletgreen: Perfect Rainy Scene

Best Wishes ~
nikkidoodlesx3

Fairy Winter + Christmas in Summer Contest Winners

Journal Entry: Sun Feb 8, 2015, 11:28 AM



Contest hosted at
:iconphotomanipulatorsx3:


Fairy Winter Winners



Advanced



Frosted
by msfowle

Intermediate


Fairy Winter by lauraypablo
Fairy Winter

Beginner


The gold snowflake by doclicio
The Gold Snowflake
by doclicio


Christmas In Summer Winners


Only one person submitted to this portion.

A  Summer Christmas by Elsapret
A Summer Christmas
by Elsapret


Everyone will receive the same amount of prizes, see list below

Bullet; Purple 50 Points
Bullet; Purple Exclusive Christmas texture pack from marphilhearts
Bullet; Purple Exclusive Stock from Elsapret
Bullet; Purple Journal Feature from nikkidoodlesx3
Bullet; Purple Journal Feature from debzdezigns-lamb68
Bullet; Purple Journal Feature from TaniaART
Bullet; Purple Journal Feature from EkaFantasy
Bullet; Purple Journal Feature from msfowle
Bullet; Purple Journal Feature from MariaSemelevich
Bullet; Purple Llamas from Alpanu
Bullet; Purple Llama from debzdezigns-lamb68
Bullet; Purple Llama from TaniaART
Bullet; Purple Llama from EkaFantasy
Bullet; Purple Llama from msfowle
Bullet; Purple Llamas from MariaSemelevich
Bullet; Purple A Fave from debzdezigns-lamb68
Bullet; Purple A Fave from EkaFantasy

Thank you to all of the lovely prize donators
:iconmarphilhearts::iconelsapret::icondebzdezigns-lamb68::icontaniaart::iconekafantasy::iconmsfowle::iconmariasemelevich::iconalpanu::iconlauraypablo::iconignisfatuusii:

and a big thank you to the Judges as well!
:iconnikkidoodlesx3::icontheheek:


Thank you to everyone who participated!


Please take a look at all of the wonderful entries! It was so difficult to decide on winners this time around because there were so many amazing entries!

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