PHOTO ART: Mini-Challenge #29 - London Bridge

[DJ Dubovsky]

Sorry Danny. Couldn't let that one sneak by. What would our British members say? It's an honest mistake though cause that song makes it the most famous bridge in England to all of us who've grown up singing it.
DJ

[d_kendal]

Originally posted by DannyRaphael
DAVID:
Glad you had time to jump into this one. Looks like you had a lot of fun. Look forward to seeing more of your "arty creations" in the future.

Did you get the academic verion of PS yet?
~Danny~

thanks danny! Re photoshop: I'm still saving up for it, waiting for my next paycheck to come, and I ended up not being able to afford car insurance for now ($300 a month was the lowest quote i could get, and thats just for liability - collision coverage costs more.. ouch ) so I'm selling my car and once I do that then I'll be able to get it.

- David

[Leah]

On the London Bridge/Tower Bridge point... just to add that we do still have a London Bridge in London in addition to all of the other bridges (presume that after we'd sold the old one to the US we used the cash to build a new one that was less picturesque but worked better and hence did not have to be built up with iron & steel, silver & gold, etc. etc.)

But making the current London Bridge look photogenic would be a real challenge!

[darkstar]

One of great things about photo art is that a major error early on can be skillfully worked around by some creative applications of filters. I did an extremly bad job of selecting the sky, put in the one you see, converted to greyscale, duped,blurred, darken only on top layer (i love that effect, use it more often than any other), and then added the lightning. Cant really remember exactly how i did that. Tried a bunch of diffrent things before i got it to work. I think i used a similar technique as the one to make star wars lighsabers.

[pstewart]

OOOoooo...
Darkstar, that is almost scary... great Halloween pic!

You know you can make lightning with the render-->clouds filter too. Just have to adjust the blending. I have never tried it, but have seen pics of it in a PS book I have.

Phyllis

[DannyRaphael]

Leah:
You're making me feel better all the time. Thanks - I needed that!

DS:
Accidental art at it's finest. Looks like it's right out of a 50's Frankenstein movie!

David:
I admire your resourcefulness and sensibility. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. The bright side: Once you get PS, you would have been spending a lot less time in a car anyway!

[Sanda]

. The proportions are a bit off, I've just been playing with this one.

[CJ Swartz]

Sanda -- cool! Love the night colors. So what/who is that crawling up the structure -- it looks somewhat like a Hopi dancer dressed up as a Kachina.

[Sanda]

I't my attempt at the Werewolf of London. just for halloween.

[siodhach]

London Tower

To me, this was quite a challenge … but I enjoyed it.

Duplicate … Select Sky, Bridge, Towers and Water. …Load Sky and Import Sky Background and “Paste into” the image behind the Bridge … Load Towers and select Filter > Texture > Craquelure, Crack Spacing - 15, Crack Depth - 6 and Crack Brightness - 9 … Opacity - 75. Select Image > Adjust > Levels, 5,044 245.

Flatten.

Don

[pstewart]

Don, nice choice of sky...the colors are perfect with the bridge. And the texture gives it a ancient, romantic, look. Nicely done.

Phyllis

[siodhach]

Hit the wrong button ...

[DannyRaphael]

Some great entries this time. The "Werewolf" is outstanding!

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This one is based on the Hayes Island Cafe technique described .here.

[darkstar]

Tried another time on this one, tried to get danny's effect (which, by the way, is excellent) in an entirely diffrent way. Not exactly, but came out pretty good anyways.

[darkstar]

Whoops, forgot to attach pic.