Caricature Challenge

I thought we could try something different I have always said I see PSG as a place where people are looking to improve their skills and take them to the next level. So lets look at a real life situation 1 of the more common things freelance designers are asked to do create a name/brand (if not already supplied by Client) logo, Business card and a website.

So after initial discussions it will go like this the name will be decided in this thread if their is interest in the challenge this is where we will find out.

week 1 challenge will designing a logo

Week 2 implementing that logo into a Business card

Week 3 Making a flyer or poster to advertise the fake company

week 4 design a website mock up for the company

week 5 make the actual website if we feel we want to take it to that level lol.

so vote in the poll yes or no if you would like to see this go ahead and if we have more than 10 votes for it then I will go about getting it started.

Hi, it's been a while since I came by or even posted on forum. Had to juggle between work and school. Anyway, right now Im on vacation and I thought, what better way to spend time then to practice photoshop skills. I want to recreate style of Sleeping Dogs video game cover, but it seems I cant find any tutorial or explanation on the interwebz. So I would really appreciate if someone could send me in the right direction. Mostly I wanna know how to create these comic style faces in cover. I started learning illustrator too, so it wont be a problem if there is something vector based in he images. Thanks a lot

This illustration appeared in today's NY Times Sunday Magazine. I've been trying all afternoon to achieve the same effect in Photoshop using the photo of Charlotte Rampling (sigh!) as an example, but having no luck. When I looked closer at the NY Times article I noticed that the credits say "artwork by Michael Mapes; photograph of artwork by Stephen Lewis", so it appears that Michael Mapes may have actually cut a printed photograph into a thousand circles and stuck pins into each one. But still, it seems like this ought to be do-able in Photoshop.

My idea was to create a custom brush of several roundish shapes and then use scattering and shape dynamics to randomly scatter circular shapes across the photo, create a clipping mask from that, and add the white strokes that are present in most of the circles. (I was going to worry about the push-pins later.) But that didn't work at all... all I did was create an amorphous blob rather than hundreds of individual cirles. Now I'm not sure how to approach this without actually creating each circle one at a time, which would take forever. I'm going to keep plugging away, but I thought this might make a good challenge to see if anyone can re-create the effect.

I linked here to the biggest picture of any galaxy taken by the Hubble telescope of Andromeda, M31. It is such an incredible photo, and when I zoom in, I can see each star.


But, as good as the Hubble is, each star is a bit of a blur due to the very long exposure times, and weaknesses of the photo sensors, etc...so the stars appear much larger than they really are. When you look up at night into the sky, you don't see each star as a blob like these, but rather, a pinpoint of tiniest light, sharp with emptiness around it.

So, the challenge is...is it possible to edit this photo to make each star a much smaller point of light, so the stars would appear as they do in reality?

If it's too big of a project, what about editing just a small frame of a zoomed-in image, like the pic above?

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/

My guy is a fan of professional wrestling. A couple of years ago he ran a sort of internet tournament thing once a month and, in the style of professional wrestling, it was a grand production. I was responsible for producing a poster in the theme of that particular show. I usually only had about a weekend to produce a themed graphic. I was relatively new to producing graphics on Photoshop and was pretty proud of myself. I enjoyed the challenge and the online audience (it was not a graphics forum, obviously) thought I was a wiz.

I was cleaning out my hard drive just recently and came across those posters. It's horrifying. Terrible cuts, bad blending, effects that scream "I don't know what I'm doing on Photoshop!!". Very humbling.......

I'm not sure what the moral of the story is, except to wonder if anyone else goes back and winces at the stuff you did "back in the day".

Alright, so I run a page on Facebook devote to the franchise, Fallout. I stumbled upon this picture and thought that it was an amazing idea. However, the photo is choppy and very poor quality. I was wondering if anyone was up to the challenge to attempt to create a better quality photo for me.

My page has 4.3K likes. So your work will be seen. I'll obviously credit you for it. By request, if someone wants to see the page, I'll post it in the comments. I'm not trying to advertise it, just seeing if anyone was willing to give this a go.

The idea of the photo is to 'shop doge's head onto dogmeats body, while keeping the same colors as dogmeat. It might be a very easy job, but as I'm a big noob with photoshop, I can't figure it out. I can handle the text.

Let me know, thanks for reading.

Image of original job:



Here's the image for you to use:



Image of Doge:

<---mine

<---original
I tried to make the hair darker and more saturated. I made it look all cartoonish. I was trying to get rid of a little imperfections.
Request:

Basically can you try to make it look like mine but more realistic? Do you see those grey spots on mine, I tried to get rid of those but everytime i tried to remove them it made the picture more cartoonish
(Dont use mine because it looks cartoonish)
-Thank you

Source : http://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=475243

Ok, this one is a real challenge! Are you up to it?

How is an edit like this done?

Clever masking? Like can anyone take the original, turn it into the after an explain what they did?

The colors and exposures are totally different, it doesnt even look like the same picture

Surgeons of the sight and physicians of photos, I challenge thee! I lost quite a bit of weight between the time of me getting this photo taken and now (25lbs or so). I'd really like to see what you fine folks are capable of in terms of editing. If you can make some 'weight loss' look as realistic as possible, that would be just smashing. (not as if you guys and gals aren't skilled enough at that as it is!). ;)

Specifically, I need my face thinned out a bit and my stomach sorted out a tad. Don't worry about anything below the bass guitar as I am pretty much just using the top half of the photo. As a token of my sincere gratitude, for any entry, I will be happy to for you to message me whenever you like for my knowledge on music practice, theory and anything else. Any questions, just ask.

Take care and happy editing!

(PS - Message me if you need a higher quality version. I'm not sure what to expect as I'm so new here)