On the CD

Exhibit

Welcome to the pages of the magazine where we hand control over to entries for previous Readers’ Challenges. Are you featured this time?

Issue 16’s challenge featured a merry band of mismatched images including a cockerel, a snail, some sea shots, beer barrels and a stone archway.

Lesser mortals may have been ba ed by what to do with all these, but we knew you wouldn’t shrink from a challenge and were delighted to see all the di erent entries piling through the postbox.

It seems the cockerel was a rm favourite with a lot of you, and he appears in all sorts of guises – from the leather-clad biker in our winning shot, to vector and pattern designs.

It was also good to see how you used tutorials in the magazine to make your challenge entries, and we feature two such entries over the page.

Please don’t feel despondent if we haven’t featured your entry here. We do get sent an awful lot, so keep trying and one day you will see your artwork in print! So enjoy this issue’s entries and turn to page 98 for the latest challenge.

Get your work featured

If you’d like to share your work with other readers, send your pictures in to us and you could be featured on these pages. Just pop your images onto a CD and send it to: Exhibit, Photoshop Creative, Imagine Publishing, Richmond House, 33 Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6EZ, UK Alas, we can’t return any CDs. If your entry is under 2MB, you can email it to PCR@imagine-publishing.co.uk

THE WINNER!

Rock ‘n Roll

“The sheen on the rooster’s black plumage put me in mind of a leather jacket, and so on to a Fifties rocker. With a bit of warping here, desaturating there and a study of your Displace Filter article, I came up with Mean Gene.”

Why it’s a winner!

Chris has done a fabulous job of merging the leather jacket in with the feathers, and created a very convincing image. The fact that feathers poke through make the jacket look like it really belongs. The background helps contribute to the feeling of the Fifties, and you can almost hear the revving of motorbike engines in the distance. Well done Chris!

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“I made approx six copies of both the hen and snail. I rotated each so that they formed a fl ower shape and then I linked the layers to copy the fl owers.”

What Have We Here?

“Martians return to the scene of their devastation, only to fi nd a sole survivor… the lizard from challenge 13! Can you fi nd him?”

Vineyard

“This is a vineyard with a twist. This is the fi rst time I’ve had the courage to send my brainstorming in, and I hope you like it.”

Good Layer

“For this old-style inspirational poster, parts were hand-drawn or traced with the Pen tool. I particularly like the eggs – made using Dodge and Burn.”