Contest Rules ~ Please read before entering!

[Meluivan Indil]

Main Theme: Freestyle Manipulation

Specified topic: Okay this one is gonna be a little different. You may take any picture of your choice dealing with any subject you wish, a person, a genre, a landscape, whatever and change the picture using any type of effect you wish. For instance colorization, manipulization with another pic, changing brush strokes. Anything that comes to mind. Please remember that we are looking for something to make the entry look unique. You may use as many different effects as you wish also.

Start on: July 1, 2007

Due Date: August 15, 2007 7:00pm Central Standard Time. For anyone who is not sure about time differences please pm Meluivan Indil.

Size: Any

No entries rated above PG-13 will be allowed.

To submit your entries please start a new thread and post both the before and after pictures. If a before picture is not supplied your entry will not be accepted.

Prizes:

First place will a custom made wallpaper, signature, and avatar.

Second place will receive a custom made signature, and avatar.

Third place will receive a custom made avatar.

A new rule concerning contests: If you plan on entering any of the contests please refrain from changing your display name after you post your entry and until the end of the contest. This has caused some confusion when it comes to making awards and we wish to prevent this in future contests.

Voting will begin on August 15, 2007 at 7:00pm CST and end on August 31, 2007 at 7:00pm Central Standard Time.


Thank you. I hope to see many wonderful entries for the contest. Please feel free to ask questions in this thread. Or you may contact one of the active contest panel members, Meluivan Indil, LadyRiona, Idril, Lady Mage, or Anime Monster.

[Lady Idril]

Some examples for all of you, in case you're still not quite sure about how these manipulations work...

Colorization: A perfect example for a unique colorization would be LadyRiona's Jared Leto Colorization. I've written a tutorial for colorizations in Paint Shop Pro 9 or higher here, but if you have any questions on how Ri achieved her effects in PhotoFiltre, I'm sure she'd be happy to fill you all in ;D

Manipulations: There are many different ways to manipulate multiple picture. For example I used pictures of a waterfall, a castle and a canal in Venice and cropped them together to achieve this manipulation.
Also, there are very fine examples of photomanipulations here.

Vectoring or Vexeling are digital techniques that, while time consuming, give a simple picture a very different look. Here is an example of a simple abstract vector. These are created with the pen tool in your digital editing program.

Other ideas, as M said, would be brush strokes. You can do something with the effects in your palette to completely change your picture. There are really no limits. Have fun and create something magical!

[LadyRiona]

I use Adobe Photoshop 7.0, for anyone who wonders about that. But for my colorization, since I don't have a tablet, I just used my lasso tool carefully to select the areas I wanted black and white and the areas left over to saturate as blue.

Anyway. Tada.

[Lady Idril]

Oh sorry Ri, I thought you used Photofiltre for that. Nevermind my stupidity for a moment, please.

I usually use a color balance effect in PSP - an easier way than I have in the tutorial would actually be to have a bunch of duplicates of your picture, each one a different color, and then use the eraser to let the different colors show through the section you want them to appear.

Okay, I officially cannot explain anything...