Pixey Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 The Poll for the Candlestick is now open until Saturday 22nd September, 2 PM EST or 7 PM UK To see how that equates to other countries World Clock. Here’s a link to the Time Remaining. Good Luck Everyone - Fabulous Entries! How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted September 22, 2018 Author Share Posted September 22, 2018 And the Winners are: 1st Place is @MJW with 6 votes 2nd Place are @lynxster4 @welshblue and @Pixey with 5 votes each 3rd Place is @Pixey with 3 votes Congratulations everyone. Beautiful entries one and all 2 How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynxster4 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Congrats to all the winners! Lovely entries one and all! ? 1 My Art Gallery | My Shape Packs | ShapeMaker Mini Tut | Air Bubble Stained Glass Chrome Text with Reflections | Porcelain Text w/ Variegated Coloring | Realistic Knit PatternOpalescent Stained Glass | Frosted Snowman Cookie | Leather Texture | Plastic Text | Silk Embroidery Visit my Personal Website "Never, ever lose your sense of humor - you'll live longer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJW Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Great jobs by @lynxster4, @welshblue and @Pixey! I had a very difficult time deciding which entries to vote for. I think welshblue may have ended up competing against himself, with two similar entries. Thanks to Pixey for hosting! BTW, my candle (which I think turned out pretty well -- especially if the image is placed against a dark background) is based on a method stolen adapted from an excellent Photoshop tutorial. I had to make a few modifications to handle some PS features that PDN doesn't have. The color-gradient was produced using pyrochild's very useful Gradient Mapping plugin. Instead of the Outer Glow, I used my Edge Expander plugin, followed by a slight blur, then Kris Vandermotten's Sepia 2. To substitute for the PS masking layers, I first drew the diffuse and specular shading, without regard to the candle-image boundaries, then used BoltBait's Paste Alpha to trim them to the image boundaries. PS opacity values must go from 0 to 100, so that needs to be taken into account when setting alpha. If I were to do it over again, I'd try using the Texture Shader to shade a cylinder, with the candle-color gradient in the clipboard. It would no doubt require some experimentation to get it right. (Also, I should have made the flame oranger; it would have worked better against the white background. That's one of those details I realize too late, after the contest deadline.) 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 @MJW! @lynxster4! @welshblue and @Pixey! Congratulations to everyone and well done to all. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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