Jan 2012 Contest Discussion

[T Paul]

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.

[T Paul]

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

And the winner is....

Cathy H

Top 5:
CathyH - 31
Dron58 - 22
Cupcake - 21
Joeven - 17
philbach - 16

[Crapaud]

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?

[philbach]

Congratulations, Cathy. Well done.

[Veralisa]

Great work, Cathy. Congratulations!

[Cupcake]

Congrats Cathy!!

[fenix]

Congratulations Cathy, real nice work!

[CathyH]

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.

[Joeven]

Congrats Cathy. Excellent job.

Joe

[Janet Petty]

Congratulations Cathy. You did a very nice job!!!

Janet