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Bolder drop shadow might be sufficient to make the words stand out more. (14 days ago)
thumbnails redux
Much better blue -- and yellow. I personally think the text could pop from the background more. The words blend in too much so I have to work too hard to read them (and I'm lazy). (15 days ago)
thumbnails redux
Good job with the reflections, too (although maybe the white dot should be more visible). (15 days ago)
logo and icons, crazy ideas.
Very attractive. Centering the 'tatrapiller' is perhaps a little compositionally weak. The Rule of Thirds suggests that moving it to the left a bit would make a stronger impact. (15 days ago)
Tatrapiller
Shadows under your meltings are a little weak -- see your source image. Why did only three of the six rocks melt? (18 days ago)
Hot Rocks
Kerning is a design choice. I don't think anyone [English speaker] would misread any of these words despite the tight kerning in some instances. Being able to use a larger font size is worth it. And the running together (along with positioning slightly below the vertical center) adds some sophistication (18 days ago)
Contest Thumbnails 2
The white glow at the bottom of "THEME" doesn't seem to appear in any of the other thumbnails. I would go for consistency. Also, the background is too blue -- your earlier entry was closer to the colors of this site. The words are the key element, and I think a lighter blue will make them pop more. But the overall concept is still great: create depth by interpreting PST blue as sky and think of the words as perched on the edge of an inifinity pool with different words having different cloud formations behind them. (Full disclosure: It was my suggestion to vary the clouds.) (18 days ago)
Contest Thumbnails Variation 2
I'm not sure the "PST" is necessary. The white glow on "Theme" interferes with the reflection; "Logo" is better in that regard. I like that the font matches that of the PST logo. It would be interesting to see a similar-but-not-identical variation, i.e., where each thumbnail has a different cloud in the background and the gradient on the letters maybe isn't precisely the same. (18 days ago)
Contest Thumbnails
Displaying your thumbnails on a white background would give a better indication of how they would look if actually used on this Web site. I personally don't like the different sized fonts. It would be interesting to see each word stretched so that it was exactly as high and exactly as wide as "PHOTO" is. (18 days ago)
Contest Thumbnails
Cool idea but a lot of reflection problems. Where's the red surface being reflected in the balls? The tops of the balls would not be visible in the table-surface reflection. (18 days ago)
chrome pool balls
The moon is lit from behind while the mountains appear to be lit from the front, except for the glow behind them. (19 days ago)
moon over Tatra
The hide is a legitimate cow part, but I don't think I would have figured out that that was these women's skin condition outside the context of this contest. (19 days ago)
Cowgirls
It's hard to argue with the basic sentiment, but the fact that his background happens to be the "Photoshop this" image seems little more than coincidental. (19 days ago)
Internet NutCase
Hard Violin Café? Interesting idea, but too dark for me, especially when some of the sky is bright. Might some of the windows have lights on inside? (19 days ago)
New pub in town
Some pretty colors. Would be more interesting if the 'eyes' looked like they were real rather than just painted-on circles. If the hand is going to show through the leaf anyway, why not make it a lot bigger and thereby reduce the amount of black background visible? (20 days ago)
natures eyes
I'll take your word for it that you have a face. I'll admit I would be surprised to find it on this side of you (which may merely reflect my limited experience). I guess I usually find it hard to look at a woman's face when I think I'm behind her. But more fundamentally, why do you declare you have a face when the theme is "eyes WITHOUT a face" [emphasis added]? (23 days ago)
I have a face!!
It's not clear why the foreground woman is much more solid than her reflection. And the foreground woman's facelessness is creepy. The theme would suggest a whole woman transparent EXCEPT for her eyes. But I still can't figure out how shaving fits into all this. (24 days ago)
Loving What Was You II
Idea has some potential. Bridge of her nose might be interpreted as part of her face. Did she rip out a pic of nose and lips from a magazine? Kind of tacky and desperate. Holding a mask that completes her missing face would be more elegant. Lighting on hand and the shadow it casts also need work. (24 days ago)
Your eyes without a face
My observation would be that perhaps the corners aren't pointy enough for a "cubic world." (24 days ago)
Square tomato
Why does your title have an apostrophe but the sign in your image doesn't? An explanation of what your image means and how it fits the theme would also be helpful (at least to me). (25 days ago)
Dante's Treehouse
...or put your Cheetos bag on a mirror to see what its reflection should look like [spoiler alert -- not like a shadow]. Do the same with the Cheetos themselves. (29 days ago)
Cheese Toes??
The cool distorted perspective of the house isn't matched by the rest of the image. (34 days ago)
Location Location!!
I like Step 4 as well, but with a full moon. That step also reveals that the left side of the house should be in shadow. (36 days ago)
Hallows Eve
The perspective does seem off. The closest vertical edge should be slightly longer (not equal to) vertical edges farther away (which should be receding into the distance). Draw lines along the edges of the boxes and the platform to see if the left-side elements share the same vanishing point, if the right-side elements share the same vanishing point, and if a line between the two vanishing points creates a level horizon. (36 days ago)
italian recycling
Like the idea. The tones/contrast of the wisher aren't matched by your additions so they look out of place. The wish cloud should be filled in so the patches of background don't show through. (We don't need a clear view of the legs to know it's a horse.) The perspective on the lamp is off. (Simple solution: Delete it. It's a nice touch, but not critical to convey wishing given the wisher's pose.) Also, erase some of the horse tail so it doesn't look like it's coming out of the wisher's ear. (45 days ago)
If Wishes were Horses ....
If all the snow caused buildings to tilt, would every building tilt exactly the same? Just wondering. (47 days ago)
Alive
Clever idea. Not clear why the pea in the pod's cheek against the backpack is so bright. (Flip horizontally?) (51 days ago)
Like peas in a pod
Title doesn't match the entry, but that's the title's fault -- although a creative interpretation of that title would be a good entry. Your triplets seem kind of cramped on that couch. Guy 2 has bright light coming from right, but Guy 3 is unaffected. I would lower background (today's fireplaces aren't that high, especially when in the distance), maybe blur it a tad (depth-of-field thing), and then crop so focus is the triplets. But still we're looking straight on at the guys, down at the sofa, and up at the fireplace (which cropping out sofa arms and blurring background would disguise). (51 days ago)
See No, Hear No, Speak No
The amber is cool but the inclusion seems to be an extreme miniature [don't expect large amber pieces] and the apparently strong back light suggests a more silhouetted Coke can. (57 days ago)
Coke can
Awesome job! A clear demonstration of how stunning entries don't just happen. (57 days ago)
My good old cam
Still mismatch in light direction between beach source and sky. Strong shadow on rock's unlit side, yet nothing similar on knight pieces. Was that a knight statue guarding the sword? I would expect the remains of a real knight to be a helmet with a skull inside. (58 days ago)
Sword in the stone
Signs in the rearview mirror capturing poetry for cars traveling in the opposite direction makes perfect sense, but "Burma Shave" is the very last sign (no signs follow it). The font on the signs should be a simpler Helvetica or Arial font -- not modern and easy to read for cars racing by. Perhaps more importantly, how does this fit the theme? (63 days ago)
Burma Shave.....
The thick ring underneath the lens isn't working (needs to extend down farther to bottom of lens and the ridges should be perpendicular to wall), so I would just delete it and have the lens flush with the face plate (with shadow). (71 days ago)
Retinal scanner
I don't get the point of the hawk since that's not what the boy is looking at. A clue as to what has captured the boy's attention (even if just a shadow on the grass) would tell a more complete story. Also, I think a bigger boy would be in better scale with the grass. (72 days ago)
Wall
Like the idea. Some fine-tuning issues: The cat seems to be looking at something other than the bird. I would reposition the bird to make it more obvious that the bird is hiding from the cat. The cat's legs appear to be casting shadows but not the head or body. Light on bird seems to be coming from wrong direction. (73 days ago)
Curious visitors
Don't use apostrophes to make plurals (unless you're writing about A's and B's or 1's and 2's). I don't know who "N.P" is, but it strikes me odd that there is no period after the P. (75 days ago)
"Thema"
Cute, but I like it a lot better when I flip it upside down and can really appreciate the little guy (who looks best in the brown hat). (75 days ago)
Chinese tesselation
A consistency quibble: first three bullets use sentence capitalization while the fourth bullet is initial caps. (75 days ago)
PIRATE TIMES
Great idea. But maybe her hips and shoulder are too camouflaged (make highest dunes?) while her feet are not camouflaged/hidden enough. (100 days ago)
Mirage
Maybe if there were a normal-sized tourist in front posing for a pic, we could appreciate your enormonosity. (100 days ago)
Giant Jay
Clever idea. I think symbol on sign should be a man, possibly with extra large feet, to match the warning. The humor comes from the fact that the men are obviously a lot bigger than one might expect. Also, arrow sign doesn't seem necessary and sign shadow should be perpendicular to the roadway like the weed shadows. (102 days ago)
Men Crossing
He is lit from the back with a down and towards-the-viewer shadow (more down and less forward would seem to match his intense shading) while she is lit from the back with no floor shadow but something happening between her legs. Each figure under their own primarily down light casting shadows accordingly might add to the realism. (102 days ago)
Elle and the Giant
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(13 days ago)
simplicity 2