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Old 01-02-2012, 10:57 AM
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Jan 2012 Contest Discussion

Add your comments, questions or general discussion about the contest entries here. This is also a great place to share your techniques or ask others about theirs.

Most members are eager to hear comments/suggestions about their entries, so please take the time to help each other out.
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Old 02-16-2012, 04:20 PM
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Re: Jan 2012 Contest Discussion

Excellent work everyone! I hope you enjoyed the P2P contest.

And the winner is....

Cathy H


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CathyH - 31
Dron58 - 22
Cupcake - 21
Joeven - 17
philbach - 16
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Old 02-16-2012, 04:58 PM
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Re: Jan 2012 Contest Discussion

Thanks for creating the contest, Tpaul. I enjoy all the photo-art threads, but this had the added spice of freebies that made it just that bit more piquent (not that I had any real expectation of winning).

Congratulations, Cathy H. Well deserved. In a strong field, yours was clearly the best, IMO. Are you going to give away any secrets to how you did it?
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Old 02-16-2012, 07:17 PM
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Congratulations, Cathy. Well done.
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Old 02-16-2012, 09:21 PM
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Great work, Cathy. Congratulations!
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Old 02-17-2012, 01:17 PM
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Congrats Cathy!!
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Old 02-17-2012, 02:01 PM
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Congratulations Cathy, real nice work!
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Old 02-17-2012, 07:33 PM
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Thanks everyone it was fun. Now as to how I did it:
I made a new background. Then I removed the collar. Tweaked the colors and contrast in PS. Then took it into a free art program called ArtRage. Here I used the pastels tool on a tracing paper. After that I exported it back to PS and used it as a top layer set to multiply with the opacity knocked down to 70%. I did a small amount of d&b. Painted the eye and whiskers. That was about it. I think it helped that the dog photo was light, but with strong details.
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Old 02-17-2012, 09:01 PM
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Congrats Cathy. Excellent job.

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Old 02-18-2012, 10:55 AM
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Congratulations Cathy. You did a very nice job!!!

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