DrewDale's Images - Updated Dec 26. 2014

[DrewDale]

Thank you all for your visits and comments, it means a great deal to me. Your all inspirational to what I doodle and share. 

 

@ Helen - Thank you. I know gloss is your thing and I'm happy you like how I make mine.

 

@ Daniels - Cheers sir, the colour was originally going to be on the comp entry, but didn't seem to work on the smaller version.

 

@ Welshblue - Cheers mate, credit also goes to you for coming up with (and sharing) your tutes. The text one is a personal fave of mine, glad you like what you see. 

 

@ Barbieq - Thank you for your feedback, always kind words that give me the inspiration to try and better myself.

 

@ Dug - Thanks mate, without the tutes I would be lost on many things, happy you like them, thanks for the vote too. 

[sashwilko]

The barrel looks better now that its not green in colour, the re make looks more rusty.

[HELEN]

The rusty barrel, wow, I must say it looks realistic! Very much so, actually. Great work on the texture and adding the shadow. Very good!

[skullbonz]

I agree, Nice job on the rusty barrel. The cement floor looks awesome but the bricks look a bit large compared to the barrel, unless it is a small barrel. Nice anyway though.  

[DrewDale]

Thanks @ Sasha & Helen - It was an easy to follow tute and giving up great results too, glad you like

 

@ Skullbonz - Credit goes to you for the tute in the first place, top one.
I will go with the idea that the 'barrel' is 'small' in that image  The real reason was I couldn't be bothered to go back out side and take another picture of one of my walls from further back

[barbieq25]

This is what I said in the image umbrella thread: DD, very atmospheric, I get the feeling of things past & imminent events such as a rat or something about to dart out. The building itself was a great image but what you did was just great. 

[HELEN]

First off, you took a great photo! And second, I love the barrels. They look like they belong in the photo--the consistent lighting is what makes it that way. Great job!

[DrewDale]

Thank you Barbieq, If a rat darted out I would be right up that ladder I am pleased with the overall ambience of the finished product though.

 

Thanks Helen. It was one of those kind of views that begged to be captured. I only thought of adding the barrels after looking at the one doughty made.

 

New one on page #1 while I am here again  

[Daniels]

Looks pretty good to me. The drop shadow is a little heavy on the first few bands where there isn't a change in diameter of the cylinders, but it's not terrible. Good work

[HELEN]

I first saw the sig earlier today and smiled to myself thinking that it was inspired by Welsh. It's pretty good.

[dug]

Nice photo-manip,you have done a good job of blending it all together.New sig is looking pretty cool as well.  Keep it up.

[barbieq25]

Liking your new sig too

[DrewDale]

@ Welshblue - Cheers mate, I'm pretty pleased with the end result of the photo manip.

I have changed the sig slightly to add a little more shape to it. For the matal effect I used a gradient on a negation layer for each part and then colour balance to make some parts golden. I did play with blend modes on the overlap part, I think it looks better now.

 

@ Daniels - Cheers sir, got to admit I either use too little drop shadow or I go for overkill - I'm sure there is a happy balance, I just can't find it

 

@ Helen, Inspiration from one of the best is always a good thing Thanks for your comment.

 

@dug - Many thanks for the visit and comment too, glad you like them.

 

@ Barbieq - Thank you, it took me a long time to make, but the result is worth it (I think)

 

Modified the sig slightly to make it less tube like.

Edited August 7, 2013 by DrewDale

[sashwilko]

That photo manipulation is really good, a dark and moody setting with great use of shade. Love the sig too

[DrewDale]

Cheers Sasha, I'm pleased with the photo-manip, I don't really do many of them, but pleased that you like it. The sig is my attempt at emulating the King on here

And with that in mind - A perfect opportunity to post on page #1 a gun barrel that was made by a tut that Welshblue did for me.

[skullbonz]

Nice job on the tutorial picture but it needs some fine tuning,lol. (Just beating welshy to the punch,lol)  

[DrewDale]

Cheers Skullbonz. It has already had the Welshblue seal of approval.(I e-mailed it to him)  I have had it on my hard drive for almost a month before I decided to upload it today

[Beta0]

Russian roulette... That's what I'm thinking about. Great work with texture. :]

Edited August 15, 2013 by Beta0

[HELEN]

Awesome! Looks very clean and just straight up superb!

[Daniels]

Nice work, Drew. Looks like I'm staring through the cylinder of a revolver, so you made your goal

[barbieq25]

Really well done! Welshy approved is the most important thing

[Pixey]

And you have been so busy too     What lovely results from your experimentation with all the plug-ins and tutorials.  I so admire those of you who know how to use the plug-ins, which do-my-head-in most of the time.  Very nice take on the revolver barrel of @Welshy's, which is a fave of mine.  You have some great work there, also, with the Clipwarp plug-in

[DrewDale]

Thanks all for the recent feedback and comments in here. Welshblue giving me that tut has helped understand a lot about blend modes and duplicating layers

(for drop shadow among other things) something I never did before.

 

Good to see you active again Pixey - as you can see I am still a clipwarp-aholic. And not looking for a cure either

 

Two recent doodles on page #1. 

 

p.s

If anyone can pm me a step by step how to guide on how to use the hidden content feature on here I will buy them a house or car or a pony be very grateful. I don't like how long it takes to view page#1 and would like it to look cleaner in my gallery.

[DrewDale]

Cheers mate, does the direct link url go between the spoiler parts - where you have placed the dotted lines?

 

Do I need to do the spoiler - links - spoiler for every image I want to hide? 

 

I used to have a version of splinter cell on a phone a few years back and was hooked from then on. He is one cool dude who I would like on my side

The tiled one was originally going to be a stepped path but it didn't work with the photo I was going to use it on, when I rotated it and duplicated one side then flipped it, it seemed to work (in a fashion) I'm not real sure but if I added some more tiles and use rotate/zoom on some text it would be ok as a sig

Edited August 29, 2013 by DrewDale

[barbieq25]

Both pieces are beautifully done. The sig in this size shows it in all its glory & it is a pleasure to view!

 

The tiled image I like a lot too. Lovely clean lines. Great job on both of them!