MikeRobe

BoltBait, why bother taking another image when you can just CSI enhance it? Just get the image, push a couple of buttons while you say "enhance the image" and done. You can actually get 1440p full HD photos from a single coloured picture..

Holy wow, that's neat. I like it a lot, nice an simple. The shadows and lighting are spot-on.

I don't think I dithered anything - what you're seeing is a roughened vignette, for that 'grunge' effect. There is also definitely smoke there, but it's probably not as noticeable as the other plumes. Yours is pretty good, it does look a lot like cross-stitch. Perhaps duplicate the layer twice, add noise, motion blur the first up, the second across, blend layers. The best blend mode seems to be 'Darken'. It adds a little more 'thread-y' texture to it.

Not bad! Perhaps the front 'engine' bit isn't required, and maybe the rear one could be enlarged. Looks neat though, keep it up! Here's one I was commisioned to do. It's my sister's guinea pig attacking Tokyo. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236475228/gonirra.png

Nice! They look like the MegaTowers from Simcity. I hope they're more profitable!

Time to revive this with my latest abstract:

Wow, that's epic! Thanks Foto!

GG

Sometimes I find the transparent gradient tool a bit tricky to use (lol), so I'm sure this plugin will come in handy! Perhaps an option to pan the effect would also be useful!

And it had better be diamond-encrusted.

Interestingly Jehovah's Witnesses have long been the subject of persecution. In fact, in South Korea, Russia, and the like, many have been imprisoned for neutrality. Some countries just don't want people to be neutral. (Also, I am, in fact, a Jehovah's Witness )

It happened a lot in during WW2 in many allied countries too. Many people who didn't want to join the army were imprisoned, or at least ridiculed, attacked etc. There was a lot of that in the US...patriotism and all that. I'd object to conscription too, regardless of the consequences.

Wow, that really is fantastic! +1 for the plugin version! I'd download it a hundred times.

So no crackling then?

I still use a static keypad phone