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The EGG-Phone, created by ab-design

final rank: 5 out of 47 (final score: 62.9 %)
for contest: egg

I used only the Orginal....

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this entry has 10 comment(s)

final score: 62.9 %

votes placed: 265

submitted: 1 year and 73 days ago

dancing in the rain...., created by ab-design

final rank: 2 out of 25 (final score: 62.8 %)
for contest: music notes

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this entry has 18 comment(s)

I personally love this, a very happy dappy upfeel mood.

(1 year and 105 days ago)

Nice idea, well done.
(1 year and 105 days ago)

very well done.,..
(1 year and 105 days ago)

High marks for creativity.
If I had a fave file it would be on it.
I'd like to see more of a highlight on the top of the note, or whatever it's called.
Shouldn't you remove the two horizontal lines?
(1 year and 105 days ago)

thx vicspa...you mean something like a face or what do you mean with more of a highlight?
(1 year and 105 days ago)

The idea is not original but it's been done nice.
(1 year and 105 days ago)

No, I mean how the water on the right sparkles more than the left, there should be some highlight just to make it pop more, right now it's an overall grey color, them again this is only my opinion.
(1 year and 104 days ago)

Nice image
(1 year and 104 days ago)

very creative
(1 year and 104 days ago)

Awsome !! I love it
(1 year and 104 days ago)

Very well done.
(1 year and 104 days ago)

I don't agree with ronald : i do think that this idea is very original !!! Congrats and good luck for this contest !!!
(1 year and 103 days ago)

Wow!! Nice.
(1 year and 102 days ago)

good stuff, high vote
(1 year and 102 days ago)

very nice
(1 year and 102 days ago)

Congrats!
(1 year and 101 days ago)

Congrats! Excellent job

(1 year and 101 days ago)

Thx all for your votes.......
(1 year and 101 days ago)

final score: 62.8 %

votes placed: 233

submitted: 1 year and 105 days ago

Keyhole Chopper, created by ab-design

final rank: 6 out of 48 (final score: 60 %)
for contest: keyhole

No other sources.....only the original
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final score: 60 %

votes placed: 189

submitted: 290 days ago

mysterious virus....., created by ab-design

final rank: 12 out of 30 (final score: 59.3 %)
for contest: arches hallway

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this entry has 11 comment(s)

final score: 59.3 %

votes placed: 287

submitted: 1 year and 97 days ago

phone box...., created by ab-design

final rank: 8 out of 26 (final score: 58.7 %)
for contest: red door

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this entry has 9 comment(s)

final score: 58.7 %

votes placed: 258

submitted: 1 year and 107 days ago

Life goes on, created by ab-design

final rank: 16 out of 36 (final score: 58.4 %)
for contest: clowning around

this entry has 11 comment(s)

final score: 58.4 %

votes placed: 239

submitted: 1 year and 34 days ago

The Original..., created by ab-design

final rank: 10 out of 25 (final score: 57.5 %)
for contest: red ridinghood

founded on an old document

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this entry has 3 comment(s)

final score: 57.5 %

votes placed: 238

submitted: 1 year and 73 days ago

HELP, created by ab-design

final rank: 9 out of 26 (final score: 57.4 %)
for contest: red door

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this entry has 10 comment(s)

final score: 57.4 %

votes placed: 233

submitted: 1 year and 105 days ago

Hope....only photoshop, created by ab-design

final rank: 26 out of 68 (final score: 57 %)
for contest: photoshop only

i used some brushes, color efects and some gadgetry with lights for this
work...view my step by step guide....

this entry has 27 comment(s)

Already I am impressed. This will be a very diffult contest to vote on if the rest are as strong as this starter.
(1 year and 69 days ago)

Interesting image

(1 year and 69 days ago)

beautiful work
(1 year and 69 days ago)

hmm not sure how this is photoshop only if image brushes are being used? i like the work tho

very nice
(1 year and 69 days ago)

I'd rather see how the tree was created. Nice work, I'll hold vote.
(1 year and 69 days ago)

Did you create the tree at PS? ... if not your work is out of contest....

If yes you must show the step by step how you made the tree.....

I vote later.... it the tree was made using PS = high vote if not RED FLAG!!!
(1 year and 69 days ago)

yes.about the tree is interesting to know...

(1 year and 69 days ago)

Thx for your comments....how to make the tree.....it was only made by brushes....look at step 8 ...there is an assortment of them...
(1 year and 69 days ago)

That not I call purely photoshop work.
If that is the case and it can be used than this contest cannot be judged because there are thounsands of ready made brushes which could give you a landscape at a touch. Where is the skill in that.
(1 year and 69 days ago)

I'm not convinced about step 8.....

(1 year and 69 days ago)

Sorry for giving you the third degree, but did you create the tree brushes, or downloaded them from some site.
(1 year and 69 days ago)

vicspa asks a great question. If you made the tree brush - you are well on-topic and my vote is about 30% higher. The result is very nice - and brushes ARE Photoshop... so even if you DLed them, i think it deserves to stay and take its votes. "Holding my vote for vicspa's question's answer."
(1 year and 69 days ago)

i can´t understand you folks....the contest rules say only photoshop....is this right???....and is the brush tool not photoshop??? what is the problem??? please ask me this question...is the brush tool photoshop ??? YES or NO??? When it isn´t photoshop ...then i delete my entry...
(1 year and 68 days ago)

i think it is not relevant if i make the brushes myself or if i download it.....relavant is only the idea,the work and the final result .....thats my statement to this ....
(1 year and 68 days ago)

I'M CONFUSED????????? Is the "brush" the entire tree? Hmmmmm
(1 year and 68 days ago)

yes MunkeC....the entire tree is the brush (look step8).....i took the same tree in 2 diffrent colors , lying upon each other, and change in all ranks the settings
(1 year and 68 days ago)

"Hello out there"....Does anyone else in the PST world own a brush that is shaped like a tree? I do not, If I have one can someone please show me where I put it.

The rules don't say not to use brushes with specific shapes, right?
(1 year and 68 days ago)

seems that rules in a contest are not always black and white, there are always some gray areas that come up.
For me, the tree brush is absolutely great, if the author were to tell me he created it, then I'd give high marks, I suspect it came from somewhere else, being that there is a bunch of them, so I'll vote on the rest of the image, (with the use of the brush.) unless I hear other wise. It's a nice tree, I'd like to create something like it myself, and then make it into a brush.
(1 year and 67 days ago)

Author, i think i understand your frustration!

I should be clearer what i meant... (I think that maybe many of us meant this):

If the tree was a brush aquired from PS or added later (we all now know this is the case, but we didn't before) _I_ personally still think it a fine entry! Very nice and moody, in fact.

If the tree had been something that you had made "from scratch" (aka: you drew the lines and made the shape yourself) i would have wanted to award you a few extra points, compared to the brush scenario.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with brushes and filters! PS would be dull and weak without such things! I(/We?) just wanted to know if we should give bonus points for the tree, if it had been your original work.

I see the work you did to make the shape better, and you get praise and credit for that, at least from me. (c=
(1 year and 65 days ago)

A few members seemed to feel brushes shouldn't be allowed in this contest, but as with entries (not this one) that seem on the borderline of off topic, i think we shouldn't take the entry away. If it bothers you, or you don't like when people use these things, i suggest rather than delete (aka censor) an entry, you just 'dial down' your vote.

I feel (strongly) that that is exactly what the voting slider is for! (c=

(And while i am "gassing on"... i do not feel this way when copyright is infringed!)

(Again, author this does NOT mean this artwork!)
(1 year and 65 days ago)

my point of view.. a picture brush is not a photoshop only work.. that contains a picture taken with a camera.. so its no longer photoshop only.. downloaded or not.. you didnt used photshop to take that picture and neither did the original author of that brush.
(1 year and 64 days ago)

good job author well done
(1 year and 64 days ago)

"Does anyone else in the PST world own a brush that is shaped like a tree?"

Well, i have never used any of the brushes except the kind of charcoal looking one.

But i got to thinking (rumble of thinder in the distance) some people make artwork using stamps that they buy at a store. They choose the colours and composition etcetera. Some say that is a 'craft' ... that ancient and pointless line of debate always makes me think of the quilts that have been kept for 300 years and more... the quilters didn't weave the cloth, print the patterns.... Old master painters used to grind pigment and mix up their own paint. Some still do. They made their own brushes (some from their own hair!). There is much to admire in that ...
but the film you can't see often enough would have been less effective if it had been forced to be carved / scratched and berry-juice-stained on a cave wall.

My new and growing opinion leads me to this suggestion. Reward the techniques you most admire, and like a judge at the Olympics, deduct points if you feel a "corner" was "cut" here or there.

I gas on for paragraphs (chapters, really) in the comments, so i don't want to appose anyone's opinions and comments - but i may also choose to try to balance out.

PHOTOgraphy has only been widely excepted as a true art form for handfuls of years. The quilt my Mother made last month will put happy tears in your eyes. Art i think is more suited for inclusion.

As far as level playing field... if someone enters a work of art using a brush - is the brush tool in your copy of photoshop disabled? Give it a go, you might come up with a masterpiece.

I am afraid i have grown into an excruciatingly... almost violently inclusive person, at least when it comes to making a work of art.

Sorry. (c!
(1 year and 63 days ago)

By the way - i want no one to think i don't read and regard ela's (and others) comments highly.

No offense intended to anyone, i just feel opinions from various parts of the art and technique spectrum / continuum should be added to the mix ... if genuine, and not only out of contraryness.

I also hope anyone reading these remarks later can recall that this was the very first entry in this contest, and the author may indeed have entered other works as well.

This was a "fast draw" and i still think it was pretty well "aimed" (to "bust" another "cap" in a metaphor).

I'll hush now, before someone insists i get charged by the word like olde time telegraphs!

(c!
(1 year and 63 days ago)

nice
(1 year and 62 days ago)

nice job. congrats!!!
(336 days ago)

Nice!
(336 days ago)

final score: 57 %

votes placed: 288

submitted: 1 year and 69 days ago

100 meter hurdles......, created by ab-design

final rank: 9 out of 25 (final score: 56.4 %)
for contest: wooden dummy

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this entry has 17 comment(s)

Ashuahaushahshuahs very fun!

Good work! o/
(1 year and 90 days ago)

Not bad, but the resolution is very low. Don't you have a high res. image?
(1 year and 90 days ago)

Good idea with nice excecution, but as above hurdler is quite pixelated. Hope you have time to do a little work before I vote.
(1 year and 90 days ago)

hmmm....i can`t understand it....on my monitor is it total clear...., but i will check this whats happend .....
(1 year and 90 days ago)

good effort, res. is low though.
(1 year and 90 days ago)

hahahahahahahaha lol
(1 year and 89 days ago)

Great chop...

(1 year and 89 days ago)

I see a lot of pixel here. It's not very good, especially because you made an exellent image with a very good chop. See if you can fix it... Good luck.
(1 year and 89 days ago)

I love what you did here
(1 year and 89 days ago)

maybe i know why the image has many pixels, ill try to tell in my bad english... if u upload the images ( sources) try to make all the images 600 pixels wide. than the image dont loose his quality .
if the sources are smaller, try to make a new layer below it.
hope it was understandable

anyway, nice work

(1 year and 89 days ago)

i'm holding my vote too. If you used "Save for web" in PS, maybe the quality was set low. ( compression set to "high" ).

The resolution in step one is fine... please try again from the original .PSD file, full quality, zero compression at 600 pixels wide, as jezalmaarzowezen said.

Hate to have a really good entry suffer from a "glitch"!
(1 year and 88 days ago)

thx for all your help.....i `ll check it now....
(1 year and 88 days ago)

i`ll checked it but i don`t know why it looks pixel...(i don`t know the word i hope you know what i mean)....
(1 year and 88 days ago)

Great job ..but blurry.... I suggest you to use...unsharp mask or Nik Sharpener Pro
(1 year and 88 days ago)

Go with Cluadio's suggestion - he knows PST like the back of his hand....
(1 year and 87 days ago)

MUCH improved! Glad you touched it up!
(1 year and 85 days ago)

well done
(1 year and 81 days ago)

final score: 56.4 %

votes placed: 288

submitted: 1 year and 90 days ago

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Best chops made by ab-design

The EGG-Phone, created by ab-design

dancing in the rain...., created by ab-design

Keyhole Chopper, created by ab-design

mysterious virus....., created by ab-design

phone box...., created by ab-design

Life goes on, created by ab-design

The Original..., created by ab-design

HELP, created by ab-design

Hope....only photoshop, created by ab-design

100 meter hurdles......, created by ab-design

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