On the CD

Exhibit

Forget the high-budget nonsense of King Kong – our last challenge spawned a whole new monster…

here were lots of smiles T in the Photoshop Creative o ce when we saw some of the entries to issue eight’s challenge. Bless all of you who turned the exceptionally cute photo of the kitten into a endish monster on the rampage in the city of Hong Kong. We were hoping some of you would use the images in that way and were delighted to see the results.

But it was also good to see how some of you used the photos in a di erent way. Much kudos to this issue’s winner. Emma has taken all of the elements and given them an excellent twist, using a lm poster as inspiration. Also a big ‘well done’ to Chris Fearon and James Bear for their artistic approach to the challenge, and to Airwane and Thitima Brownhill for the bright illustrations. Plus congratulations to George E Boyce and Neil Burley for taking the stained glass tutorial and incorporating the techniques into their challenge entries.

Please don’t feel despondent if your entry didn’t make it in this time – we have a challenge in each and every issue, so keep trying and one day your creation will make it into print!

Get your work featured

If you’d like to share with other readers, send your work in to us and you could be featured on these pages. Just pop your images onto a CD and send to: Exhibit, Photoshop Creative, Imagine Publishing, Richmond House, 33 Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6EZ, UK WINNER! Gets a copy of the Fluid Mask plug-in

Alas, we can’t return any CDs. If your entry is under 2MB, you can email it to PCR@imaginepublishing.co.uk

THE WINNER!

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“I got my inspiration from the poster for the fi lm Night Watch, seeing as I liked the grunge-art effects they used on it. I gave the model a more frightening look by darkening her features and adding overlays of textures. The fi lm’s original tagline was ‘The only thing that stands between us and darkness is the Night Watch’. Hope you like it.”

Delphinium

“I adjusted the colour scheme using the Variations command. I used some distortion fi lters and the displacement map, applying it to some parts of the picture. To create these nice splashes, I used the Hybrid Genesis 39 brush.”

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“I was working on a Cyclops type ‘makeover’ image using the mirror tool in Liquify. When I saw the model image I thought it fi tted perfectly.”

The King Kat

“This month, your set of photographs inspired me to create an image based on King Kong. I wanted to show the kitten playing with a mobile of planes as if he were the king of beasts – while the girl knows very well that it will soon go to sleep or sit purring on her lap.”

Lady retouched

“Only just found time to have a go at this month’s Readers’ Challenge. I lack imagination since I am not an artist, but I’m sure as I follow your tips I’ll get braver. Keep up the great work – I am in awe of your creativity!”