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Olli: I love the way you changed the text! Djeebie: The colors you used work very well together, and help bring the complex designs in the piece together.

Sure thing. I'd love to see what you do with them. PM me if you have the chance. :wink: Thanks Crimson. BTW, I might not be entering the Miscellaneous Competition. I'm stuck. I'll probably just show my unfinished set in the discussion thread. >.< awwww... I look forward to seeing the unfinished set in the discussion thread, though.

Wow! looks almost exactly the same as a pencil sketch on paper! :o

I like it! The blue orb almost looks watery

I like the color choice in the background- It works with the sunglasses very well.

I really like the avatar you made, it looks sort of like the ring is catching the light.

The last one is my favorite-I'm not sure why though.

Thanks! It kept reminding me of the hobbit too when I was painting it- mostly the part with the dark forest.

I really like you signature template!

Which angle is it from?

try filling the canvas with black, using the line tool to make an evil eye shape setting the tolerance on the fill tool to 70, move it to one side, duplicate the layer, flip the layer, set that layer to lighten, then flatten. That should get you the eye shape. Then duplicate the layer and gaussian blur the layer on a high setting, and set the layer blend mode to lighten or screen or overlay. Hope this helps.

I concur, please complete it!

A shiny new piece, just as promised! This one I'm entering in the Large Art of the Week competition. 'tis a dark and evil forest, with faeries who love to lead travelers astray... Originally it was actually going to be happy and warm, but it sort of...mutated. :? I'm happy with it anyway. My only complaints with how it turned out are that the lights coming from within the tree don't really define a 'tree' shape all that well, more an amorphous blob, and I think the top of the mushroom turned out too light. And now, back to the warm picture of the sunset tree!

My entry: 'Tis a dark and foreboding forest, populated only by wicked faeries intent on leading travelers astray. :twisted: EDIT to explain about what I used to make it: no stocks or other outside sources used, with the exception of the basic layout, which I sketched out on paper first.

This topic may help you. Remember to use search in the future, though. :wink:

try opening a new document at 4"x6", then opening all four other documents and using the resize tool to resize them to 2"x3" and copying and pasting them each to their own layer, and then running the align object plugin on them to opposite corners of the picture. Or you could just paste them into the 4"x6" canvas and resize them with the move selection tool. But where's the fun in that? Hope this helps!

I would say hair removal involves the use of the clone stamp tool. :idea: Duplicate the layer that the photo is on, hide the top layer, and select the bottom layer. Use the clone stamp tool to cover the area behind the person's hair with whatever should be behind it, mostly background, and head. Now make the top layer visible again, duplicate it again, and hide the top layer again. (the hidden top layer is to replace any hair that you get rid of but didn't want to.) Now, on the visible, with untouched hair layer, start erasing where you don't want hair to be. If you accidentally erase some hair you don't want, set the clone tool's source on the hidden top layer, and match the brush's location exactly, pixel for pixel on the erasing layer. Hope this helps.

Now I'm truly confused as to what everyone thinks I'm doing. :? Work on the sunset tree has been temporarily put on hold until I'm done with my submission to the Large Art of the Week contest. My submission is far enough along that I think I'll be done sometime tonight. (it's about 12:30 in the afternoon where I am)

I had to do it for a photoshop portion of my tech class.

try right clicking on the image and selecting copy (image, if there is more than one copy option), and then in Paint.NET pressing control-V That uses he clipboard, which is a function that comes with windows. You don't need to download any other thing. If you want to see what's on your clipboard, one of the best ways I can come up with is opening Microsoft word and pressing control-V (which is the keyboard shortcut for right clicking and selecting paste) Because Microsoft word is able to paste most things that can be on the clipboard into the document-for instance, your problem may be that you selected just a bit of text along with the picture. Paint.NET won't paste that into the document because of the text, but microsoft word will paste something if you have anything on your clipboard. Hope this helps.

I really like all your work, especially your google. 8)

ooh! I like the color pad! To me it looks like there is a broken yellow platform with dark water below it. I've been watching far too many superhero shows.

Not as far as I can tell. :wink: I would say to make your shape in solid white, then use the gradient tool set to :AlphaChannel: to make the thing partially transparent. I would then duplicate the layer, and erase what wouldn't be a part of the reflection. For the reflections of the icons, simply duplicate the icon's layer, flip that layer upside down, move it so that it's touching the bottom of the original icon with its corresponding parts, and use the gradient tool again set on :AlphaChannel: mode, to make the reflection partially transparent. Hope this helps.

Well done!

yup. I'm talking about he sunset tree, more specifically, the area directly above the cliffs.