✂challenges-feedback

[left abyss]

Challenge 3, Maggie is my Agility dog and she loves it! I liked the rainbow of colors effect so I kept it that way instead of focusing on one color.

[deft pumice]

Game On😆

[river bison]

This was a very hard one!

[modest panther]

Photoshop Daily Creative Challenge - Curves Adjustment Layer Day-3
https://www.behance.net/gallery/94048177/Photoshop-Daily-Creative-Challenge-16-27-March-2020

[young karma]

@river bison Not wrong! But I think you have done a good job there.

[fallen elm]

Photoshop creative challenge #3

[river bison]

@young karma thanks👌

[young karma]

Fieldhockey from Holland. I am going to use this image voor the #stayathome challenge

[ruby panther]

Challenge 3 Ver. 2. Thanks for the feed back. @lethal mural

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to Jesús Ramirez

[slender breach]

Day - 1 Challenge Retouching

original

[young karma]

Tried the #✂challenges-feedback number 3 with this image of gaelic football (I'm from Ireland!). Learning a lot from these challenges 🙂

[young karma]

Took it into a more graphic direction!!! Also a little inspired by an earlier challenge with Kladi (the cover image). Here is my day 3 challenge!

[winter tinsel]

@bleak fossil Thank you for your kind words on this one. I’m going to have to get some advice on the masking of a subject and painting with black to reveal areas. I couldn’t get it to work for this image. But thank you again! I learned a lot.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to SamPetersonArt

[young karma]

@vivid nest I like your image and the way that the foreground image stands out. Have you tried making the skin tone more of a blue hue to match the night theme?

[stiff torrent]

Hi guys. Seems like there is a huge community here which is really awesome. I made a tweaks myself to the challenge raw material. Hopefully i did what they challenge required me to do.

[loud yoke]

Challenge 3

[stiff torrent]

Made a few lightning changes. Sorry for repost.

[primal fulcrum]

originals

challenge #3 layer styles. Hope I learn an easier way to edit masks. if I was painting on the mask layer, I was painting blind because I couldn't figure out how to see what was below. There HAS to be a better way. How? @bleak fossil or @lethal mural

[frozen junco]

Day 2! This one was fun. Needs more work but I learned a bunch of new tricks. Thanks @lethal mural

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to Jesús Ramirez

[neat flax]

Challenge 3 💥

[young karma]

@primal fulcrum with alt+click mask becomes visible (althoug the image becomes invisible). Ctrl+click shows a selection of the mask, while leaving the image as it is. Also if you click once on the image (not the mask) and hold any selecting tool, you can click on "Select and Mask" or "Refine mask" (dependng on the PS version you have) option on the tool bar, this options gives you several ways to view the mask and the image and modify it. Hope it helps!

[rose salmon]

Day 3 Challenge 3 - Layer Styles - Sports Poster #✂challenges-feedback. Feedback from experts appreciated for improvement 🙂

[plain sable]

Day 3 Layer Styles new version. Thanks @bleak fossil

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to SamPetersonArt

[bleak fossil]

@plain sable Ooh, looks great! Loving the intensity of those colored rays 😄

[plain sable]

Thanks @bleak fossil Lots of guilt free time to play with this with my shelter at home 🙂

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to SamPetersonArt

[fallen elm]

Yesterday challenge 3

I do not succeed to upload my images. Can someone help me?

[latent pebble]

@fallen elm are they jpeg images? it is showing unknown file

[fallen elm]

I could not install Discord on my laptop so I installed it on my iPad. While in Ps, I send the image to the apple photo library and then to the discord on the iPad. Very complicated ans it dozens not work...

It is a .psd file

[latent pebble]

@fallen elm try sending as jpeg to ipad and then to discord

[fallen elm]

How do I do that 🤗

[latent pebble]

messaged you

[royal minnow]

Day 4. Text Layers challenge

[fallen elm]

@latent pebble Got it. Thanks

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to bharat

[fallen elm]

Daily creative challenge #3

[sage cargo]

DAY 4😃

[vast widget]

DAY 4

[young karma]

My attempt to enhance Chicharito in Black and White - it was a very welcomed approach to dodge and burn. I didn't even work hard on the light and dark selections and still was an effective application - thank you Jesus

Why cant I see the stream on youtube?

[obtuse topaz]

DCC day 4 - text layers

[bleak fossil]

Good question @young karma I’m not sure. But you can still find it on Behance here: https://www.behance.net/live/videos/4929/Photoshop-Daily-Creative-Challenge-Text-Layers?tracking_source=to_replay

[fading tundra]

Week 1 design challenge!

[foggy leaf]

Day 4 - text layers

[gusty geyser]

Challenge 4 of this week!

[light wren]

Challenge 3 - layer styles....Feeling a bit flat today but just writing the word yay and in the context of this pic made me laugh. yay

[whole tangle]

Here is my day 3 challenge. I didn't make the black and white layers (effect) quite as strong because the photo was pretty muted to begin with. Not sure about the type either. Thoughts?

[primal fulcrum]

@young karma YouTube has the replays. See the live on Behance. See and join the chat only on Behance

[young karma]

@primal fulcrum Ya the replay was not showing up, but I got it now

[primal fulcrum]

@young karma it isn't instant. It usually takes about 30 minutes to show up there from what I have seen

@young karma I did try most of those and didn't find them particularly helpful. But I didn't try that refine mask option. That red is annoying but I guess better than painting blind, which is what I did. Thanks

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to Guga

[fast moth]

Day 4 challnge

[compact pecan]

Day 4: Text Layers

stock image

[cyan terrace]

Thank you Jesus for teaching these techniques. Here's my attempt.

[compact pecan]

I thought the vignette looked awful so I fixed it. Hopefully this looks better.

[tacit condor]

PSDCC #3 Layer Styles

[gray kayak]

Challenge Day 4 - Original

Day 4 challenge - result

[young karma]

Here's my attempt took some time to adjust the bokeh effect

[buoyant nova]

Challenge 4

[primal fulcrum]

@young karma found it! For some reason it is called Density instead of opacity. That let me do what I was trying to do which was make the mask more see through so I could see where I was painting.

[young karma]

Awesome @primal fulcrum !!! 🎉

[neat flax]

Champagne Party! 😈

[wide ridge]

Any means to filter the current-challenge postings by which challenge they are in response to? I'm delayed in following the challenges, working from the videos. Would like to be able to just look at the posts pertaining to the challenge I'm working on. Perhaps this would me challenge specific discord channels?

[dim brook]

Challenge#4: Text Layers

[young karma]

@wide ridge there is a search window in the upper right but it´s not very good for what you want. Although you might try searching "Challenge 2" and you might get some results to check other people´s work!

Challenge 4: It took me a while to use the techniques with good results! I´m just amazed of all the things I don´t know can be done in PS, even if I have used it over many years!!!!

[spiral apex]

Not professional but happy to try new techniques! #Challenge04

[wide ridge]

@young karma thanks for the reply. The postings are not consistently tagged, but I'll give your suggestion a try. I've not used Discord before so I have much to learn about the app, and getting what is most relevant to me from the fire hose of stuff pouring through it.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to Guga

[vast widget]

Day 1

[viscid matrix]

Day 4: Clubbing from Home

Before

[formal ravine]

Hmmm Day 2...?

original

[viscid matrix]

@formal ravine That looks really cool! There's still a bit of Cyan left on the girls that I would try to filter out.

@cyan terrace I really love your text effect! What did you use?

[formal ravine]

@viscid matrix awesome, thanks for the feedback!! I'll try it out!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to haleybird

[viscid matrix]

@short mica You source image already has so much cool stuff going on - I think the new effects, like the bokeh, can be much more subtle. Also you're covering the subject's face with your text - I recommend moving it much lower or higher. Love the theme though! Had the same thought 😉

@spiral apex That looks so great. I love the text!

@young karma Really dig the removal of the background. Really makes you feel like she's dancing out on the floor! I would make the bokeh bigger and remove the one that's going up her nostril! haha!

[formal ravine]

update #2 thanks @viscid matrix - I think it's a little better!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to haleybird

[viscid matrix]

@foggy leaf Realllllly dig your text here. Only suggestion would be to have it fade a bit more in the center of the text over her face, so you can still see her!

@formal ravine Yeah that looks REALLY dope. Great work. There's a bit of cyan left on the left girl's shoulder - For a quick fix, you can just do a new layer on top of the girls' layer and paint it yellow over where her arm is, then attach it to the layer below with layer effect set to "color". Only other nitpick would be to decrease the background blur in the foreground closest to the girls - it feels too blurred compared to how sharp they are.

[forest aspen]

Day 3: "Sports" Poster - the player is from Pixabay and the background from AdobeStock

[true holly]

I have a question. Soon as I add the layer to do the gaussian blur to "colorize" the bokah in today example I loose the ability to do any image "adjustments". What am I doing wrong here. Help me @lethal mural please! 😂

Or maybe it is working I have no idea... haha

[proper cave]

@bleak fossil I made the changes to the blur motion effect as you asked as well as some fine tuning.

[formal ravine]

upload #3! @viscid matrix Thanks for your advice, I tried the yellow but it just wasn't coming out right so I just made her sleeve black instead haha. But I adjusted some of the overall color of the photo too & updated it.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to haleybird

[viscid matrix]

@formal ravine Looks so good!

@true holly Trying to figure out what exactly is happening. Like, you add gaussian blur but then can't make any further adjustments? You can always make the image a smart object first and then anything you do will be adjustable. Or is there something more nefarious happening?

[true holly]

i am sure it is something that I am doing. Though I don't know what exactly it is or how to explain it

[short mica]

@viscid matrix The text is placed there to hide an imperfection that got past me ,when I was transforming and flipping and all that good stuff.....

No doubt I have a heavy hand....it's same the kitchen 🤣

I appreciate your time and feedback.. have a great safe weekend 🕊️

[viscid matrix]

@short mica You too, J!

[brisk elk]

The block layer is very light, I can hardly see them. The text looked fine on my computer. I changed it below. 🥴

[river bison]

Here an old photo of the band of my friend The Maureens. Check them on spotify! they are great!

[hasty oracle]

Challenge Day3_Sports Poster

[alpine nexus]

@brisk elk I really like this! If I could make a slight suggestion, I would either put the girl in front of the circles or reduce the amount of circles used because she kind of gets lost in the background with all the circles on her. But that is just my opinion! Still, its great work!

[blazing cairn]

First try

2nd try

[forest aspen]

Day 4: Dance Club Brochure - Larger woman provided by Jesus is from Unsplash; dancing figures from Pixabay. I've added 3 layers of home made bokeh (two the same but one flipped, and a 3 different). The dancers added some bokeh as well.

[blazing cairn]

@forest aspen The dancers add a great element to the poster. Well done! And the pink makes the image more interesting to the eye

[brisk elk]

@alpine nexus Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to Elly

[sudden plaza]

before

after

[viscid matrix]

Is there going to be live feedback today?

[true holly]

Challenge 3 Accepted

[neat flax]

Updated

[neat carbon]

Here comes my Challenge #3. Judging from the product, the exercise seems easy, I found it is the hardest so far. I will revise the exercise on other image I have on my folder. Comment please

[tacit condor]

PSDCC #4 Text Layers (images might be risqué)

[vague swift]

I did have fun with this lesson, thanks again for tutorial!

[fair panther]

Hi, my version of the Nightclub Flyer

[plain sable]

Day 4 Text

Day 4 Text - having too much fun with this 😆

[modern halo]

Daily Creative Challenge 4

[plain sable]

Tweaked this a bit more...

[bitter cradle]

Challenge 3 😀

[sullen hollow]

Challenge #3

[unkempt field]

Challenge 4 😎

[winter tinsel]

Challenge 4 Club Flyer.

My original images...

[mighty linden]

am

another variation

[vast widget]

Day 2: i still dont feel like its close to looking real. Help please!!

[unique veldt]

Bokeh AND extrusion you say...well that escalated quickly. What do you think, too many fonts? If this were an actual club flyer, the client would give you 50 more words to put on it 😂

[primal fulcrum]

not my best, but I had fun and learned a few things. Also was beginning to think something was seriously wrong with my computer, no matter how many times I set the gradient to foreground/background, it showed as foreground/transparent. I shut down PS and rebooted and got the same problem. Finally figured out that somehow the opacity had gotten turned down to 40%, when I grabbed that slider and put it back to 100, I could see the little window change to foreground/background. Unintended lesson in there. LOL

[raven condor]

Challenge 4 Text Layer Club Flyer

[haughty gale]

Enjoyed this challenge.

[tame jacinth]

Challenge 4

[sacred abyss]

My Day 1 Challenge @lethal mural

My Day - 2 Challenge @lethal mural

[hidden pendant]

@unique veldt I actually love it.

Challenge No 4 Text. I actually had a lot of fun with this and love blend modes more each day. Can't wait until my friends kid needs another flyer for his concert, have learnt so many different ideas from these Challenges. May have to wait until end of year though. 😷

Original Image supplied by Victoria_Borodinova on Pixabay. Who has stacks of great portraits.

[latent pebble]

Challenge 4 Text, feedback welcome 👀

[north galleon]

Day-04

[river bison]

👌

[ruby panther]

Challenge 4.

Before.

[jovial moss]

My day 4 challenge

The blue on the text was much brighter and easier to read in the photoshop file! 😕

[rigid bridge]

Wouhou let's dance

[jovial moss]

I have managed to make the text appear brighter now. Is this better?

[young karma]

@viscid matrix Awesome copy! Really funny!

@true holly Love the font in "NEON DISCO"! Can you tell me how you did it??? 🤓

@vague swift looks very legit! Also great combination of elements! An image that tells story!

[modest panther]

Day 2: i still dont feel like its close to looking real. Help please!!
@vast widget use curve adjustment layer to your object and pick darkest and lightest color from your background and also pick grey as a midtone. It will help you.

[young karma]

@vast widget the contrast is not matching. Use curves adjustment or brightness adjustment to match it. Also check lesson two on how to easily match colors!

@unique veldt that is definitely out there!!! VEry cool and very original, it is very eyecatching, like some sort of out of world party is about to take the streets!!!

[true holly]

@young karma I wish I could take credit for that part. That came from the Adobe Stock site. I felt like it needed a club logo or name on it since this was supposed to be a flyer/poster but I couldn’t think of one so I started googling. Using a stock one seemed like a better option than using a real club. That being said if love to figure out how to actually make lettering like this.

@young karma looking at again, not sure which font or effect you would need to get the “neon” looking lettering, but the kerning (space between letter) would need to be decreased and some lens flares would need to be added.

@young karma check this out https://youtu.be/l9S_4swRM1A

[light wren]

challenge 4 - work in progress - just playing around with the different techniques

[visual iris]

My challenge 4

[deft pumice]

Day4

[sacred abyss]

Curve Adjustment Layer Challenge Day 1 Challenge

[buoyant nova]

After

Before

[cinder bay]

New to this photo shop thing but loving it

[young karma]

Never knew you could make a bokeh effect this way! Thanks for showing us 🙂 #✂challenges-feedback number 4

[young karma]

@true holly thanks dude!!!! 🙌

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to aarbutina

[true holly]

@young karma youre welcome

[empty merlin]

I've just joined and want to start at Challenge #1...thanks

[arctic rover]

@empty merlin Ciao! Just in case, here's the link to the 1st video: https://www.behance.net/live/videos/4905/Photoshop-Daily-Creative-Challenge-Retouching?tracking_source=to_replay

[mortal hollow]

challenge 4 ... PS = PlayStation 😉

[bleak fossil]

@rose salmon This is looking really cool! I like the layering you did here. I think it’s looking quite solid, but I feel like you could probably try drawing more focus and attention into the players by controlling the background contrast. Currently everything is equally saturated and bright. Maybe making the background black and white, or overlaying a color grading to make it monochromatic, or even adding a bit of a vignette are all options that could reserve the greatest contrast for the players to make them stand out even more. Nice work on this design!

@neat flax I really like the idea of the flaming ball, very cool! Really nice work on the color masking as well. I feel like it might look cool to push the ray effect coming off the player even more, and I wonder if making the rays the same color as the flames on the ball would give the whole design a really unified feel and make it pop even more. Just some thoughts looking at this piece. Really cool!

@gusty geyser These are both looking really solid! I really like the balance of the pop of red with the bold white text, they work together very nicely. Really solid designs all around. The masking out of the text on the soccer is a nice touch that adds some nice depths too!

@fallow quiver Loving what you did with the color focus in this image and mirroring it in the text, really effective! The blur effect adds a nice sense of motion too, well done!

@sage cargo I really like you take on the outline around the player! The color gradient shift within that effect looks really nice too, and the watch it matches the effect around the text ties this whole image together very nicely!

@cyan terrace Very nice, I like the style and shine on the text! It fits the theme and mood of the image nicely. My only thought is that the whole thing seems a bit dark. I think brightening up the background or the text to really make one of them a bit more bright and dominant might help give the image a bit more solid focal point. Looking good!

@winter tinsel Really cool, liking your choice of color on this design! I feel like the “DJ Riot...” text below “Dance Fighter” could be lowered down just a bit, it seems a bit too close and crowded at the moment. I wonder if adding a slight gradient to darken the background mostly towards the bottom might help the text pop a bit more and strengthen that neon/glow in the dark vibe you often see with dance clubs. Just some thoughts, really nice work compositing these elements together!

@unkempt field Challenge 4 is looking good 👍 Nice job with these different elements. Though I think lightening the bokeh effect around her face so it’s not so obscured might help keep her as a subject and focal point. Nice work!

@sullen hollow Really liking the text you chose for Challenge 3! The bokeh effect is looking really cool too. I feel like some added brightness around her face for a stronger secondary read might look good and balance the image. Nice work with this 😄

@bitter cradle Really great job on the masking on this. I really like how much you darkened down the background, it still reads nicely but the foreground has such a strong visual impact. The blue and white colors between the text and player works really well to unify the design too!

@plain sable Really cool effect with the colors in this one! The bokeh adds a really fun element and the sort of radiating square shapes add a little energy and sense of perspective. This turned out nice!’

@cursive swallow The text style on the dance club image is looking really nice! You got an interesting effect going with the bokeh and radiating lines as well, nice work! There’s a good amount of visual weight in the upper half of the image with the text and face, but not so much on the bottom. I wonder if moving the text closer to the bottom might give the image a nice balance. Either way, looks good!

@vague swift Really nice work with the background elements Janet! I think the text could have a stronger read value wise. I think making it a similar brighter blue to the top of the background might pop really well off the dark background and also repeat the colors from up top which would give the image a great cohesive feel. Just some thoughts, looking good!

[winter tinsel]

Challenge 4 - Club Flyer (Revised)
@bleak fossil Taking your advice, I lowered the “DJ Riot” text layer and added a gradient to the lower half. Looks much better! Thank you!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to SamPetersonArt

Gave +1 Creative Carma to SamPetersonArt

[gusty geyser]

@bleak fossil Thank you so much for the feedback!

[zealous ridge]

Challenge 4 - Club Flyer

[noble jewel]

🙂

[bitter cradle]

@bleak fossil Thank you for the kind words! 💖

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[bitter cradle]

Challenge 4, I had a lot of fun working on this project! I would also like to mention Photo is by Akshar Dave from Pexels. I will add the original image for comparison.

Here is the original image.

[lavish portal]

My day 3 challenge

[fervent violet]

My Day 4 Challenge. So much good information. Thanks, @lethal mural !

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @lethal mural

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[plain sable]

Thanks @bleak fossil

[rancid vale]

Come to our club for a great night out

[arctic rover]

Fooling around on a Saturday...trying using all the lessons from this week. Thank you Jesús!

[modest panther]

Challenge Day#2 https://www.behance.net/gallery/94048177/Photoshop-Daily-Creative-Challenge-16-27-March-2020

[wraith cliff]

Sorry, I'm really behind. Here is my challenge #2. I really feel like I didn't get the colors quite right- too much yellow?

original

[lavish portal]

My version of Challenge 4 (finally caught up!)

[neat carbon]

I am catching up on these Challenges

[hasty oracle]

Day 4 Challenge. Thought I would adventure outside of the box today.

[mighty linden]

Aditionally I Added an 85A warming filter at 60% to more closely match the background.

[modern halo]

@lavish portal I really your sports poster. Your poster makes me wish I could still play like I used too.

[unkempt field]

@bleak fossil thanks for your input I masked out some of the effects around her face.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[lavish portal]

@modern halo thanks!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @modern halo

[unreal inlet]

@bleak fossil thanks for your input I masked out some of the effects around her face.
@unkempt field Hi. How do you create this effect? Thanks!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[unreal inlet]

Challenge #4 complete 😃

[oblique anvil]

my Day 3 sports poster

[coral cloak]

Day 3

[vital cypress]

Day 4 Challenge

[sacred abyss]

https://www.behance.net/gallery/94128337/Curves-Adjustment-Layers

[sacred abyss]

Day 3 Challenge @agile ruin

[sudden plaza]

4th challenge, I actually made a previous one that I didn't like so I made this one now

I used different text styles

[blazing quail]

Day 4 Challenge

[rose salmon]

Day 4 Challenge 4 - Text Layers - Night Club Flyer #✂challenges-feedback 🙂 Expert Feedback for improvement appreciated 🙂

[rose salmon]

Thank you @bleak fossil for your suggestions. I have done the needful as per your advise. Do let me know if it is looking good now. Thanks once again.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[mental ruin]

My first challenge ever 😀 (ok, I'm just a bit late...)

[compact pecan]

Catching up with this week's challenges. Here is my "layer styles" image. @lethal mural went pretty fast with this one, but I only had to pause a couple of times on the replay.

Here's the stock image I started with.

[young karma]

I don't have a pet, so I took one of my hollidays photos for the #challenge 1 Retouching with Jesus Ramirez. I would love to get some feedback.

[manic loom]

quick retry

[errant hazel]

hi every one

how can i start !!

[young karma]

@errant hazel go to this page, there you can click on every challenge open until now and watch the tutorials and get the resources. https://www.behance.net/challenge/photoshop

[errant hazel]

thanks Guga

[fringe mirage]

I can't watch any of the instruction videos. The Behance player shows "An error occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: olX3xFoECEXFti6C)" every time I try to play something. Is this happening to anyone else?

(update) Nevermind, I just switched to watching the video on YouTube and plays fine.

[fallen elm]

Photoshop daily challenge #4

[whole tangle]

Here are my day 2 and day 4 challenges.

Day 4 flyer

[tropic knoll]

Challenge 1. Mr. Meow. This isn't as easy as Jesus makes it look. Fun though. Thanks for the instruction!

Challenge 1. Mr Meow. Perhaps the vignetting and the ear near the window is a bit dark. Will have to practice more on how to lighten it.

[mental ruin]

my 2nd challenge....Done😁

[dire glacier]

Playing Catchup - Day1 Retouching

Day1 Original

[young karma]

Here my challenge 2. The picture still don't match very well. Any help?

[fringe mirage]

Another great challenge. Thanks again @lethal mural

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @lethal mural

[dire glacier]

More Catching up - Day 2 - Curves

Starting point for Day2

[dusty pond]

Challenge 4

[uneven glade]

@lethal mural I used another style. What do you prefer? V1💯 or V2👍 ? VOTED!

[cyan terrace]

Updated version of day 4 challenge. Thanks everyone for comments and feedback.

[mighty linden]

Dancing encouraged

[brisk elk]

This is my third try I made some changes, THANKS for the suggestions

[coral cloak]

Day 4 - Text Layers

[honest gorge]

Day 3 🏈

Day 4

[tropic knoll]

Challenge 2. BEFORE. This took me some time to get. The Curves panel is confusing. It took me a few times to get the skin right.

Challenge 2. AFTER. I hope you feel my skin color is correct. That was difficult for me. This challenge was loads of fun. Thank you!

[hot crag]

Challenge #1 - PET PORTRAIT (RETOUCHING)
I actually couldn't decide which photo to do, so I did 3, lol. I think the 1st one is the best retouching, but IDK. I just love the other two pics! This is my baby Budders...
@lethal mural ~ FEEDBACK APPRECIATED ~ I'm still somewhat of a beginner, so to speak, and I'd love constructive criticism. Challenges 1-4 are below

Challenge #2 (CURVES ADJUSTMENT LAYERS)

FINAL ~ FEEDBACK APPRECIATED

Challenge #3 - Sports Poster (LAYER STYLES)

FINAL ~ FEEDBACK APPRECIATED

[vague swift]

can we not upload mp4 files?

[hot crag]

Challenge #4 - Night Club Poster (TEXT LAYERS)

FINAL ~ FEEDBACK APPRECIATED
I just had to have a lil' fun with this one given we're all on lockdown over here 😉 😆

[lime sage]

Challenge #4

[sacred abyss]

Challenge #3 @lethal mural

[woven patrol]

Challenge #2

[young karma]

I have some more time now due the corona virus and the almost lock down

[oblique anvil]

@hot crag I love all three of them, but as a portrait, I think the one on top works best. You did a nice job bringing out the eyes.

[primal fulcrum]

Hey guys are you running late today? Where is the starter file? It's usually up way before now

LOL as soon as that posted, the file appeared.

[dim brook]

Challenge#5: Remove Objects

original file

[warm raven]

what tool is best for removing the powerlines that run across the front of the building?

there is so much detail in the brickwork I don't want to lose

[plain sable]

@warm raven Jesus used the spot healing brush for the lines away from the building & the clone stamp tool by the building. I like to re watch the video when I'm working on the challenges for reference...

[warm raven]

Thanks @plain sable 😀 I didn't see him work on the ones in the front, so I think maybe it's best to just leave those alone. Or perhaps he just ran out of time lol

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @plain sable

[plain sable]

@warm raven Re watch the video, that will help 🙂 That's what I'm doing now.

[obtuse topaz]

DCC - removing unwanted objects

[kindred kernel]

Original

[tropic knoll]

Challenge 5. BEFORE

Challenge 5. AFTER. Thank you!

[spiral apex]

#Challenge05 done!

[rancid vale]

Challenge #5

[buoyant pasture]

Before and After Challenge 5

[austere topaz]

Before and After Challenge 5. This photo has been on my To Do list since 2016 - thank you @lethal mural !

[fervent violet]

Challenge 5. Nice selection of tools for removing unwanted objects, @lethal mural . Thanks for another great session.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @lethal mural

[sleek smelt]

My light bokah effect was not coming too much. @lethal mural any suggestion? what do you think ?

[young karma]

Hello jvverdi from Belgium

[lethal mural]

@sleek smelt try using the levels adjustment layer to give it more contrast.

[jaunty comet]

Challenge one. 😌

[earnest magnet]

My take on content aware fill

[young karma]

A quick attempt at #✂challenges-feedback number 5. Image I found was probably a bit difficult to use, but I tried the different techniques to remove all the people. Here's the before:

Before picture

After picture with people removed

[arctic rover]

I'm doing something wrong with clone stamp tool and I can't figure out what it is. I set the target area, I paint away the area, but it doesn't stay painted, it just reverts to the original version. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

[uneven glade]

WO.O! How much I enjoyed this challenge! #❓ask-a-question (I to post my daily challenge but my image is so small because it said that my image was huge so I changed it but... How can I compress it without lossing quality? or what size is good and good quality? Thank you!)

[hasty oracle]

Day 5 Content Aware Fill. This feature is very useful, even more so now that I know how each of these tools work. Thanks Jesus!

[safe mirage]

Gone with a complete make over here. Did it work?

[uneven glade]

@safe mirage ... another tutorial where you teach us how you do this!

[safe mirage]

Start

Straighten

Clone and fill

Sky replacement

Night from Day LUT to foreground

Turn on the lights

Add Glow to the lights

[fast moth]

Day 5 challenge before

After

[wraith cliff]

I'm way behind! This was a really difficult challenge for me.🥰

[river bison]

Removed some ugly lifts

@safe mirage wow Nice those lights!

[arctic rover]

Icon Before

Icon After

[unkempt field]

My take on Challenge 5

[neat carbon]

Here comes my Challenge #5. Not that successful on using the Content-Aware Fill tool; as after application, I was not able to use the Clone-Stamp nor the healing brush to finetune the image. Gave up & just used the Clone-Stamp. Rest are perfect. Please advise on possible mistake I have committed

[safe mirage]

@river bison thanks 👍

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @river bison

[safe ledge]

OMAN before. I tried to get rid of the steps and the garbage can. This is a freshwater "hole" near the ocean. There are these little fish that come up and bite at the skin on your feet. There also is a pretty big monster in the far side but he got away.

So I could not get rid of the garbage can... what went wrong? usually I . would just start over. Sultanate of Oman

[arctic rover]

Here comes my Challenge #5. Not that successful on using the Content-Aware Fill tool; as after application, I was not able to use the Clone-Stamp nor the healing brush to finetune the image. Gave up & just used the Clone-Stamp. Rest are perfect. Please advise on possible mistake I have committed
@neat carbon I ran into the same problem. Nothing was working...not even add a layer. I finally restarted my laptop and that fixed it.

[eternal mica]

DCC Day 5

[true holly]

Turns out I wasn't the only one that the lamps were shouting at. Fun Challenge.

[coral stone]

I like what you did to the sky @true holly 💯

[true holly]

@coral stone thank you very much. I had fun with this one. The one lamp on in the original photo was begging for the other lamps to be on too.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @coral stone

[cerulean gate]

Added some colour and did some removal

[coral stone]

@cerulean gate great job! Looks like a beautiful day 😀 My only suggestion is to darken just a little bit the sky, it will look more consistent in comparison to the buildings 😉

[safe ledge]

Oman Wadis before

trying for an aged photo effect.

[neat flax]

Before & After picture I took at a place called Sunken Gardens near by where I live. It's a gorgeous and relaxing park that I always love taking photos at.

I remember thinking to myself, "I wish that chair wasn't there..."

[marble reef]

Challenge #1

[neat flax]

trying for an aged photo effect.
@safe ledge I like the green tint to the water! The mountains may be a little over done...get it? XD

[plain sable]

Day 5 Content Aware Fill

[wispy compass]

Day 4

[forest aspen]

Day 5: I liked the challenge of straightening the distortion, so I used the provided starter image. I start with ACR and work my way out. Did you know that if you put the crosshair of your healing brush on the intersection between two materials, and move away at a 90˚ angle, it will generally not smudge or distort. I find that if my brush it a bit bigger than I'm using elsewhere, it seems to work better

[wraith cliff]

This was so much fun and I loved learning how to make Bokeh!

[eternal mica]

Original

After

[young karma]

Same as others I removed the objects but also tried to turn it into a night scene!!! First time giving it a go, so tips are welcomed! Challenge 5:

[maiden briar]

I removed the people, tried to remove the lamp but it looked really weird without it so i kept it, then i did some editing on the photograph

[icy cargo]

heavenknowsffs, this command is disabled in this channel

[eternal mica]

Guga, for me the night picture takes away the beauty of the building and the plaza. Maybe if you lightened it up.

[open ermine]

I removed the card near the wall and the lamppost. Any feedback?

[vague swift]

Where's Wally 🙂

[glacial path]

@vague swift ha! Very cool idea with wally 😄 . The content aware edits look very clean and I can't see any artifacts apart from a slight blurriness around his feet. The color grading amplifies the beautiful colors in a very pleasing way. Well done 🙂

@open ermine I'd remove the cables in the sky, so you can have an unobstructed view of those clouds 🙂

[vague swift]

Thanks 🙂

[glacial path]

@eternal mica Very interesting. This feels like it was shot later in the day. Almost when the sun was setting. Just be careful not to use too much saturation, or it can start to look like those oversaturated post cards. There are some artifacts in the sky which you could remove using the spot healing brush 🙂 .

@maiden briar Yeah, sometimes it can be very difficult to remove an object, if the background texture is too busy and non-repetitive. Honestly, I don't think you should worry about those lamps- perhaps you can remove the cables in the sky instead 🙂 . Using the spot healing brush, this shouldn't take too long. Regarding the color work, I do like the contrast you've added, but I wouldn't darken the shadows that much. If you look at the windows, they are almost pure black. 🙂

@young karma wow! That's really impressive - well done! This night scene looks very natural and I love the dark sky 😄 . I would bring out the glow of the lanterns even more

by adding a glow layer

And, this is just a personal preference, how about some stars behind the clouds 🙂 ?

@eternal mica This is a really difficult object to remove - very impressive. There are still some pixels which are showing through. So you could use the spot healing brush to remove them. To avoid those artifacts, always select a bit more than just the object you'd like to remove. 5-10 px is a good radius to keep around the object.

the bottom border and some parts on the left however are very distorted. this would need manual fixing by taking photos, which look similar and pasting them onto the scene. Honestly, I'd just crop out that part - I don't think you'd miss the skyscraper on the left 😉

or the trees below the building

@wraith cliff Nice one! Bokeh is indeed a lot of fun to create and use in your images. I love the colorful transformation of the source image. Just make sure to keep the color contrast between the text and the background high, so everyone can read it. The pink of the text and the magenta in the highlights behind the text look too similar, so the text is a bit difficult to read. 🙂

[marble reef]

Challenge #4

[bleak fossil]

@lime sage Really liking that background effect, almost gives it a sort of stained glass look, very cool! My only suggestion would be to increase the contrast of the girl. Right now the background has the most contrast and takes focus away from her a bit. Maybe using a levels adjustment on her and fading off the bokeh effect near her face could strengthen her as a focal point. Nice work on this challenge!

@hot crag Challenge 4 is looking good! Liking that title text and the colors of the whole thing. The bokeh effect is looking good without being too heavy obscuring the face which is nice. I feel like all the block of texts are rough the same size at this point, it could be nice to see the title text even bigger to be more dominant. Maybe have it overlapping her hair a bit, or even separate it into 3 lines. Nice work :D
(Challenge 1, 2 and 3 are looking great by the way! Budders is adorable)

@tropic knoll Nice work! Curves can be a bit tricky, but also gives a lot of control. Though I use levels the vast majority of the time myself. The color grading is looking really solid, my only suggestion would be to boost the darks on the man so that the deepness of the shadows match that of the background. Looks good!

@honest gorge Really nice work on the color masking for the Day 3 challenge! It looks really clean and crisp. My only suggestion is that the red splatter effect on the image pulls a lot of focus due to the bold color, which takes it away from the player a bit. But it could be an interesting effect to make the blur/ray/glow effect behind him colored red to really draw attention to the effect while highlighting the player and making him pop out even more. Just a thought. Nicely done!

@coral cloak Day 4 is looking good! I like the cohesive colors you kept with the text, and the bokeh effect kind of gives that lens flair effect, or as if the light is hitting glass. I feel like the text could probably be even bigger but it really just depends on what you’re going for. Very cool, nice work!

[honest gorge]

@bleak fossil thanks for feddback 😊 , i will follow your idea 😉

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[lavish portal]

Challenge 5

[cosmic cradle]

This is my spoiled puppy. Instead of black and white I did a vintage look, blurred the area around her, and increased texture and clarity of her face/chest area. I also lightened and darkened a few areas.

This was my starting photo. I did straighten it and removed her tags from the photo.

[primal fulcrum]

original Victoria, Canada

I removed a bunch of lightpoles, some scaffolding, the hotel sign since it had a weird bracket in the middle of the word, car, people, sky. Straightened building on the left, added sky with clouds and played with the blend if modes because the colors were a bit too intense with too much contrast in the sky so I added a layer of color. When I was done, I took the whole mess into LR and added artistic #4. It didn't change it much from what I had already done in the camera raw filter. But it punched it up just a tad

oh and I chopped off that tree that was covering the windows. Redid the windows and took the top of the tree that I cut off and added it back into what I had left of the shortened tree. I forgot to add the birds back in, but they were hardly visible anyway.

[raven condor]

Challenge 5 before and after, content-aware fill. took all the trash and humans out, put lights on the left light post, and highlights then boom! @lethal mural @bleak fossil what u think?

[hot crag]

@bleak fossil thanks! And yes, I was red the title larger too, but it seemed to overlap her face a bit. Didn't think about splitting it into 3 lines... brilliant! Will try that. Thanks again!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[bleak fossil]

@young karma Really nice job on the object removal, and I like that you took it the extra step and turned it into a night scene! The lanterns are a great touch and look really good. My only suggestion is I think you could brighten the sky up a bit, even with it being night. If you look at some similar night photography you might often see the sky still being brighter (and maybe a slightly different color) than the ground due to the moon light. Looking good!

@vast osprey Nice work with the image retouching! The trash removal looks really natural. The only thing that catches my eye is the dark area of the wall where the man and cart was removed. I think some work with the clone stamp, or even a lasso tool with the dodge function could help clean that up. Nicely done!

@cosmic cradle I really like the effect of your pet portrait! It gives the image a nice professional look and those tweaks seem to do a really nice job of pulling focus to the dog’s face. Solid work on the tag removal as well!

@lavish portal These edits for challenge 5 are looking good! The object removal is looking nice and natural, well done!

@eternal mica Wow, really impressive work removing all those objects and people! That can definitely be tricky when dealing with that many elements. It looks really natural and clean. The only place I really notice some rough areas are around the base of the structure, but that seems like a pretty tough area. Really great work!

[bleak fossil]

@primal fulcrum Very nice, you nailed this challenge! All the object removal looks very natural and clean, and there definitely seems to be some tricky and textured areas on this image. The sky replacement also adds a really nice element of interest. Really solid work all around!

@wraith cliff Very cool, I really like how you stylized the colors in this design! There’s a nice color contrast between the blue and the red too. My only thought is that the “cafe dance” text doesn’t stand out as much as it could due to the areas of light background. I wonder if you darkened down the bottom of the image a bit it might give the text a stronger read at a glance. Nice work on this!

@raven condor This is all looking really good! Nice work on the object removal, it’s looking nice and clean! The added contrast is a really nice touch as well, it helps the image pop a bit more and strengthens that natural orange/blue the image has going. Looking good!

@forest aspen Good tip Marie! A lot of time the object removal and retouch edits come down to making sure the natural texture and crispness of the image isn’t smudged or lost too much. Day 5 is looking really good! The effect is looking very nice and natural.

@wispy compass Nice work, I really like the background effects you have going with the bokeh and geometric shapes. Subtle but adds an interesting effect. Good job 👍

@plain sable You really transformed this image! Very effective edits, nice job. Removing the other objects really puts the focus on her and the color adjustment really accentuates that sort of yellow/purple contrast between the building and street. Very nicely done!

@marble reef Very nice, the sharpness and contrast on Challenge 1 is looking really good. Nice work 😄

[plain mortar]

Challenge 5 Content-Aware Fill before and after

[mighty linden]

05 Content aware practice

[bleak fossil]

@neat flax Very cool! Those object removal techniques can definitely be super helpful with certain images. Nice job removing the bench! I like the color grading you added as well, it gives it an interesting feel. The only thing I notice is the area around where the top part of the bench was seems to have a dirt texture where it appears that it’s supposed to be concrete. Though that’s a bit of a nitpick as it’s hardly noticeable and only if you zoom in, but figured it was worth mentioning. Looking good!

@safe ledge Really cool photo for this challenge! The only thing that really looks a bit off in this image is that it looks like you adjusted the background of the image to be darker, but the rest of the image seems unaffected, which makes the lighting in the background look a bit off or unnatural. I think if you apply a uniform effect like a sepia filter, or even some old photo/paper texture to the whole thing might help give it a more cohesive effect. Just some thoughts. Nice work!

@cerulean gate Really liking the color adjustments of this image! It definitely gives the photo a bright feeling and really makes that blue/orange contrast pop. The object removal looks very convincing too, things like that light post can be pretty tricky. Great work!

@true holly Loving the colors of the sky on this challenge, the sky replacement is definitely a nice touch to sell that time of day shift. Really great lighting all around. Nice work on the glow of the lamps as well! My only thought, and this is more of a minor nitpick is that I think the light effect of the lamps on the surrounding area may be a bit unnaturally bright. I think the glow of the lamps themselves is spot on, but the brightness of the wall behind the center lamp for example seems very intense like a powerful flashlight. Usually lamps are a bit softer. Just a thought, this turned out great!

[lime sage]

Challenge 5 before image

Challenge 5 after image

Challenge 5 after image with red sky

[maiden mango]

Hi all, I've just joined, sharing with you the first challenge Retouching

2nd Challenge - Curves Adjustment Layers

2nd Challenge - Curves Adjustment Layers - trying with an old picture... I need to keep practicing, couldn't find the way to blend them better, I think the light difference is too much

[cyan elbow]

Before

After

[plain sable]

Thanks @bleak fossil

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[sage cargo]

05😃

[north galleon]

Day-05

[young karma]

@glacial path Totally man! Great tips! 🙌 That is what I was missing to turn it into something great!!! Will try and post again!!!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[young karma]

Thanks @bleak fossil, I did struggle a lot with the sky! I´m going to tweak it up and post again!

[ruby panther]

Challenge 5. Did not come out as cool as I thought it would.

Before.

[rose salmon]

Day 5 Challenge 5 - Content Aware Fill #✂challenges-feedback Experts feedback appreciated. Thanks! 😀

[fallen elm]

Photoshop creative challenge #5

[ruby panther]

Ver 2 Challenge 5. I removed the handles from Ver 1. Looks better when you open original.

[eternal mica]

Tim and Sam, I want to thank you for your comments. I have never had the courage to post my work anywhere for review. The DCC has inspired me to try new things, step out, and get professional's opinions. Your positive comments are really encouraging and motivating. Thank you.

[modest panther]

Day 5 Challenge
https://www.behance.net/gallery/94048177/Photoshop-Daily-Creative-Challenge-16-27-March-2020

[neat flax]

@neat flax Very cool! Those object removal techniques can definitely be super helpful with certain images. Nice job removing the bench! I like the color grading you added as well, it gives it an interesting feel. The only thing I notice is the area around where the top part of the bench was seems to have a dirt texture where it appears that it’s supposed to be concrete. Though that’s a bit of a nitpick as it’s hardly noticeable and only if you zoom in, but figured it was worth mentioning. Looking good!
@bleak fossil Woot woot! Thank you so much for the feedback!! I very much appreciate it!

[primal fulcrum]

@bleak fossil thanks so much. I want to do more composite work. Fantasy type things so your comments are really encouraging.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[buoyant nova]

Challenge 5. Think I understand the Clone Tool now, thanks Jesus

[cosmic cradle]

Challenge #2. Still not happy with the shadow...I need to learn more tricks.

Originals: Background and goal are from Pixabay and the player is my own photo.

[plain sable]

@cosmic cradle Good job with the composite. You could try removing the shadow from the basket ball poll, they seem to be in conflict the shadows should be going in the same direction. See what you think then.

[modern halo]

Challenge 5

[true holly]

@bleak fossil Hey Sam, I adjusted the lighting on the wall behind the center lamp post. Does this look better? I also replaced the stained glass window to add some more detail to the photo. Thoughts?

[oblique anvil]

Removed the pedestrians in the background of this photo of civil war re-enactors at Old Fort Niagara on Lake Ontario

[tropic knoll]

Thank you, Sam!

[twilit sphinx]

hello from Belgium

[sullen hollow]

Challenge #5

[winter tinsel]

Challenge 5 Content Aware Fills! Here's my before and afters....

And after!

[clear prairie]

Before

After

[young karma]

Challenge 5

Before

[formal ravine]

dance club = rock club flier when you're in a band lol before & after

[zenith karma]

Before

After

[dim brook]

Challenge#6: Auto Blend, using Sunglass Guy, Mustache Guy, and Nose Ring Girl

original

[bitter cradle]

Here's my challenge 5 Content-Aware Fill 😀

[obtuse topaz]

DCC - day 6 face mash up. Added nose, eyes and glasses. Had some trouble with perspective and legs of glasses. Any tips how to do it better (more realistic) maybe? Anyway, it was really fun challenge 😄

[whole tangle]

Here are my day 5 and 6 challenges.

Day 6, lotsa fun! Thank you Jesus!

[zenith karma]

Challenge 5

[spiral apex]

#Challenge06!

[young karma]

#✂challenges-feedback number 6. Here's the final image:

And here are the originals

[short mica]

cabin fever or creativity ?

[zenith karma]

Had some fun with challenge nr. 4. Learn some new tools, filters. Thanks

[fringe mirage]

I learned a lot from this challenge. I really like the tools for removing unwanted objects in Photoshop. I wish those tools in Lightroom were as powerful. Thanks again @lethal mural

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @lethal mural

[wispy compass]

Day 5 - Content Aware Fill

[tacit condor]

PSDCC #5 Content-Aware Fill - BEFORE

PSDCC #5 Content-Aware Fill - AFTER

[river bison]

Wel thats my beard!

[sleek shoal]

March 16th challenge.

[loud agate]

Hi My Friends i'm Hamd , From Egypt

[neat carbon]

Here comes my Challenge #6. I like the eyes of the other model while I also like the idea of putting on a sunglass with dropped shadow, so I took this approach. However, I am not able to find suitable legs for the sunglass & have to settle this way. Please comment

[hasty oracle]

Day #6 Challenge. This is way harder than the video made it look. Replaced eyes and nose, with a whole lot of blending and smart filter adjustments.

[late spruce]

Day 2 - a little behind but loving the challenges!

[true holly]

PS DCC Challenge #6. Whatcha think?

[pliant geyser]

March 24 Challenge... Had fun with it adding in some dodges and burns etc. Think I should have added a stronger eyeball arch on the left eye, but it's a first go at any of these challenges. I realize the proportions are wonky, but it was completely intentional.

@obtuse topaz - Well done. I think you have the arms on the glasses going too high though - if you draw a line straight back from the side of your eye, you'll see that it likely very nearly lines up with the crease of your ear where it begins.

[tropic knoll]

Challenge 6. Eva, the Lioness. My sunglasses don't look real to me. This challenge was just that - a challenge. Thanks for the fun!!

[compact pecan]

I hope this gets easier with practice. I definitely need to practice.

[bitter cradle]

Challenge 6 Auto-Blend - Also original Photo by Anastasiya Gepp from Pexels . 😀

[mighty linden]

Back from the Salon, a whole new woman

[left abyss]

Challenge 4, in house party with my dogs!

[lavish portal]

@bleak fossil Thanks for the feedback!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[vague swift]

those cheekbones! 🙂

[raven condor]

Challenge 6 Auto Blend I don't want to make the model look creepy so I just kept her beautiful 😍

[stray storm]

😄 Face swapping is always fun. #📣creative-challenges

[hidden pendant]

Challenge 5 content aware fill done. Think I took this in San Pedro Chile.

This is before image.

[sullen hollow]

Challenge #6

[winter tinsel]

Challenge #6 ...."Take a walk on the wild side....."

My "parts" images.

Challenge #5 (Revised) Content Aware Fills. Paul T. critiqued my image during the live feed and wondered why I put a gradient on the image so I took it off. 😎

My before image...

[sullen hollow]

Pretty version of challenge #6

[lavish portal]

My version of Challenge 6

[cyan grotto]

Challenge #5 (after)

[bleak fossil]

@mighty linden Hah, really clean transition between the two photos. Very nicely done!

@bitter cradle Very cool, it’s crazy how small changes can make such a big difference! Did you blend in lips from another photo or did you just use some edits to make it look shut? It just seems like it’s missing the soft transition into a shadow tone near the corners of the mouth, and a bit more between the lips, but that’s more of a minor nitpick if I had to choose any. Nicely done!

@compact pecan Haha, very nice, I think it’s looking pretty solid! I think edits with faces like this can be tricky because such subtle changes can make really noticeable differences, but it’s definitely something you get an eye for the more you do it. I think the main thing I noticed is just softening up those hard lines around the top of the mouth where there’s a hard horizontal line, and the hard lines below the eyes. It might help to rotate the entire eye section clockwise just a hair too. Really nice work with these!

@tropic knoll Ooh, I like how wild you went with this one, hah. The Lion hair looks great! I think the main thing I notice is that the lion eyes seem noticeably lower resolution and therefore softer than the rest of the image. Finding a higher rez image, sharpening the top rim of the glasses, and even blending the fur around the eyes more gradually into the face might help push this image even further. Really nice work with all these elements!

@mighty relic Looking good Linda, the object removal is looking really clean and natural in this challenge. Nice work!

@neat carbon Ooh, really slick work with matching the sunglasses to the position of her hands and even keeping a little transparency in the lens! The drop shadow is looking solid, though I think softening the edge just a touch might make it look a bit more natural. Nicely done!

@river bison Haha, I’m loving all these challenges from today. Really nice blend between the images here! This is a minor thing, but I notice the contrast in the image of the girl seems to be deeper than the contrast of your image with the beard. I think if you increased the contrast of that area (maybe with a masked levels adjustment using a soft brush to boost the darks) it would really help tie the two together seamlessly. Looking good!

@sleek shoal Nicely done for the pet portrait challenge! I like the high contrast look. I wonder if adding a subtle blur to the background might help focus the contrast on the dogs face even more. Just a thought, nice work!

@left abyss Hah, really like job with the effects in this one! I like the sort of purple/pink gradient and how it focuses the light in the center. It could be nice to make that bright point land on the dog’s face, and even add a bit of a vignette to darken down the outside to push that club style lighting even more. Nice job on this challenge 😄

@tacit condor Oh wow, you cleared the whole beach out, haha, really nice work! Images like this can definitely be tricky due to all the texture, nicely done. I think some of the spots on the beach look a bit cloudy, but I kind of wonder if a simple levels adjustment to boost the lights and darks could help. I notice the areas that seem a bit cloudy look that way because they don’t have the same deep darks and bright brights that the other areas have, which gives it that sharp textured look. I wonder if using a round brush and masking a levels adjustment layer might help sharpen up key areas. Just a thought. Really nice work!

@fringe mirage It’s definitely pretty impressive what Photoshop is able to do, I definitely had that feeling again for today’s (Tuesday) challenge. This is looking really nice! Nice work on removing the objects and keeping crispy clean edges, looking good! 👍

@zenith karma Very cool, glad to hear it! Always nice when you can pick up some new tools/techniques from these challenges. Really liking your image for Challenge 4! You have some really nice value contrast and the large bold text works really well over the darker background. The background textures/effects add a really nice element of interest too. Nice work!

[primal fulcrum]

originals

needs practice I think. Oh well it was interesting.

[bleak fossil]

@pliant geyser Haha, wow, I love how wild you went with these proportions! This is looking really solid. The only thing that stands out to me is that the forehead doesn’t seem to match the light of the rest of the image as much. Everything seems to have a harsh shadow to indicate the light is coming a bit from the right, but the forehead doesn’t seem to match that. Maybe if it had a bit more shadow on the left side kind of like the original photo does it would fit in a bit more. Though that’s a fairly minor note. Maybe something like this? Really nice job!

(it seems to show better quality when you click on it and click "open original")

@hasty oracle Looking good! I think a lot of times finding photos with similar quality and lighting can be a big part of the battle. This is looking solid, I think the main thing I notice is the eyes seems like they might be from a lower quality image, or it might just be that they seem a bit low contrast to the rest of the image. The contrast looks a bit washed out in the eyes especially in the right hand side near the corner of the eyes and eyebrow. I think pumping up the darks in those areas (and the brights in the whites of the eyes except for the inner part of the white on the eye on the right hand side) will go a long way to fit these elements together. Maybe something like this? I used burn and a little dodge (and a color layer to correct any colors that got blown out). Really nice job with this challenge!

@true holly Ooh, very nice! I think a little hint of a cast shadow from below the glasses would really sell this effect. Maybe even increasing the contrast of the glasses too since this photo is so high contrast. Looking really good!

@kindred kernel Hah, this is looking great! The mustache swap is spot on. The glasses look really good too! I think if you added a bit of a cast shadow for the glasses with the layer settings or a multiply layer it would sell the effect even more. Very nice!

@late spruce Really nice job with the color masking on the Day 2 challenge! I also really like how you repeated the uniform color in the text, really ties it all together nicely. I think this image could definitely benefit from a tighter crop to really bring the action up front a bit more. Nice work!

[tacit condor]

@bleak fossil thanks, definitely need some more fine tuning, image was challenging at first I was getting a muddy effect after the content aware fill, so I mixed the patch tool and healing brush to mix it in a bit more.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[mighty linden]

version 2. I added glasses besides the hair, eyes, nose and mouth. I am working on Autoblend layers action that saves at least 10 steps.

[plain mortar]

Challenge 2020/3/24 Auto-Blend

[left abyss]

Challenge 5, I'm happy with how her mouth turned out, her underside not so much.

original

[north galleon]

Day-06 I know this is the most worst edit i have ever i did. i have to work on this more!!😝

These are the source files i have used

[covert loom]

Chalange

[covert loom]

Face Mash Up Starter

[young karma]

#Day5challenge. Hey all this is what i came up with.😊 #✂challenges-feedback #💎past-challenge

[river bison]

@bleak fossil thanks for your comment, I'm going to work on it!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[kindred kernel]

Update @bleak fossil

[sage cargo]

06😀

[hidden pendant]

Challenge 6 completed, this was fun.

Images Used

2nd version

[young karma]

Sorry for the nightmares guys!!! 🤣

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[pliant geyser]

@bleak fossil. - Thanks so much for your comment, and you sir, are 100% correct. Not enough shadow on the forehead. I will have to go back in and muck with that a little bit.

[ruby panther]

Challenge 6. Just silly.

Assets used.

[mental ruin]

I was a bit late, so I mixed Challenge 6 & 2😆

[young karma]

challenge 5 I had a lot of troubles with the lights how to match them

[true holly]

@bleak fossil thanks for the feed back. I meant to put a small shadow on there it then forgot. I also was going to go with more of a sepia toned final photo but I screwed up some layers early on and did a black and white mask on the glasses later and couldn’t figure out how to recover with out redoing everything. Lesson learned for next time I guess

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[bitter cradle]

@bleak fossil I ended up using the lips from one of the images provided in the download file. When I left them the color they originally were they looked better but I was wanting them to be as close to the original color. I was having a lot of trouble with the shadows and using the color replacement brush for chaning the lip color. What I ended up doing in the end was selecting the lips and copying them onto their own layer and then coloring them. I also selected the eyes again and copied them as well. then I just put those on the original copy image and merged them together. Then used a mixture of patch tool, healing tool, dodge and buring tools to try and make them feel like one. It helped a little compared to how it was looking but yes you're correct lol. I need more practice. Thank you for your critique! 😀

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[primal fulcrum]

@topaz cape @lethal mural why are we getting the files so close to the start of the show? For the challenge that @agile ruin did we had the files hours before the show.

[fallen elm]

I’ve experienced some problems with the shadows on the faces. Anyway, I send you my tentative😁

[wet thistle]

Challenge #6

[rancid vale]

I am a fire eater also

[young karma]

challenge 6 changed the eyes & nose

[eternal mica]

DCC 06 03/23/2020 I used the young man as my base, the eyes from the model, which I flipped to face in the opposite direction, and the hair and glasses from the from the other male picture.

[dim brook]

Challenge#7: Compositing

[spiral apex]

Fire!! #challenge07

[whole tangle]

Here's my day 7 challenge. Blend modes and adjustment layers. Super hero!

[latent sand]

Day 7 Challenge.

[silver trench]

Day 7 Entry 🙂

[jolly quest]

@silver trench THIS IS AMAZINGGGG!!!

[tropic knoll]

Thank you, Sam. I really appreciate your suggestions. I hope you feel her eyes are more realistic. I tried to put her parents in the reflection of her sunglasses. That was tough getting the colors right so you could see them. I got emotional knowing they were gazing at one another. Can't thank you enough for your help!

[worn yew]

Compositing

[queen surge]

@dim brook I really like the fire breathing effect.

[obtuse topaz]

DCC - day 7 super hero composite challenge. Since I did all the flames with same image, it looks a little too repetitive for me but after all, turned out kind a good, I hope 😄

[safe ledge]

These are the images I was using. My daughter's head shot for modeling and mine plus the voodoo man. The ending wasn't so good....

[runic flume]

This is my composite for Day 7

[safe ledge]

see other photo above of my daughter

[sage cargo]

07😕

[safe ledge]

I was trying to put her brown hair on me.

this hair and eyebrows on me. I guess I will try again

trying to move several things and it just got mushed together plus the video at the end was Kinda rushed so had to re watch

[mental ruin]

I start loving photoshop😊

[safe ledge]

not me I seem to be going backwards.... trying that mixing faces thing again..

[mental ruin]

@safe ledge I had the same issue, I managed puting a bigger feather between the 2 layers😉

[dim jasper]

Challenge #07 😁

[light wren]

Challenge 5 - a nice introduction to more tools, I found the clone tool is one to get used to, I was losing my patience a bit 😑 first time using it though so I'm pleased with what I've done and enjoyed it in my more patient moments 😀

[cosmic cradle]

Challenge #3 I learned a lot in this challenge!

[eternal mica]

Background

Foreground

My attempt at DCC 2 03/18/2020

[river bison]

Here i am, you can call me SuperSierk 🤣 (making shadows are hard, perhaps somone knows a tutorial of it?)

[neat carbon]

Here comes my Challenge #7 image. I want to retain the cracks & the lava flow kind of feeling on the guy's chest. I also want to add brightness to the shorts & legs, but that is the best I can do. Please comment

[compact pecan]

Day 7 - Compositing. I tried to combine yesterday's challenge to auto-blend his face and today's challenge to composite the cracks on his skin. I'm not too sure about the hair - I don't think I did a very good job of making it look realistic at all.

stock images

[fading tundra]

Here's my challenge #2

[true holly]

Challenge #7: I'm A Fire Starter

Can anyone actually hear the live steam right now

I think @lethal mural has himself muted

[lime sage]

Challenge 7; playing with fire!
Burning love! 😀

[fervent violet]

Challenge 7

[eternal mica]

DCC 03 03/19/2020 This took me so many tries. There seems to be a discrepancy between my layer mask setting and Jesus' that does not allow me to paint on the b&w layer mask to let the color show through, so I tried something different. In the end, I really like this look

[dim brook]

Thank you @queen surge - The size of that extra flame just felt like it needed to go there 🔥

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @queen surge

[lethal mural]

Hi Everyone! I recorded my DCC live review today. If you missed it you could watch it here!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3joaaavme60g6fx/dcc-review-repaly-03-25-2020.mp4?dl=0

[viscid seal]

so how is everyone going on with the challenge and the virus lol

[wraith cliff]

Day 5 challenge. I like the dark and broody but I also love the dehazed version

[icy cargo]

Ted B, this command is disabled in this channel

[safe ledge]

tried again . I think this challenge set is far to rushed. spend more time teaching and less time on the front end about "how to get to bechance". The video at about 19:15 is so fast and you really don't give much direction about how to do things. this is the auto blend challenge. can't get it to work. Suggest practicing before going on line live because this was a bit of a train wreck. I will try again tomorrow but I can't get more then one "face change" to work.

[coral stone]

I understand you @safe ledge Jesús has a tutorial on his YouTube channel about this technique. Maybe this can help you 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg4I9VwsUjA

[modern halo]

Challenge 7

[pliant geyser]

Here's my entry for challenge #7 ... Hope ya like it!

[muted coral]

Had a hard time with this challenge. Still not super excited about results, but here it is.

Challenge 7

[eternal mica]

@safe ledge i had trouble also. I think the key to adding faces is to duplicate the origina layer youre working with, then move that duplicate immediatley below the mask layer youre currently working on. Besides that, I think all the steps are same for each face.

[plain sable]

@safe ledge I'm not sure if you watched the video while you working the project, that's what I do, the steps are all there, I stop and start it as I go along back track if I need to. They cram in a lot in these so I find it useful to watch the video as I do the challenge... Yes @eternal mica the steps are the same for each of the faces. And the more you do these challenges the easier it all becomes.

[vague swift]

Whats in The POT?! - Terra Cotta Boy

[raven condor]

Challenge 7 composting 🔥

[uneven glade]

So, I follow the tutorial but I didn't like the results so ... I redesign it. Please let me know any comment or a 👍

[lavish portal]

My Challenge #7

[sullen hollow]

Challenge #7

[unkempt field]

07.Super Hero Composite

[tropic knoll]

Challenge 7. I like how the Adjustment/Levels removes the dark edges of the images. You really pack in the tips! Thank you!

[alpine nexus]

Finally started the challenge! This is the original picture of my dog Yogi Bear

And this is the final picture

[alpine nexus]

Got to finish the second challenge as well! I plan on doing what he said and trying it out with different images - probably not a selfie though - but I wanted to follow along with this one at first.

[bleak fossil]

@muted coral Hah, the face swapping challenges are all so good. I think your results are looking really solid! The blend between the different elements looks really clean. The only thing I think could use some refining is the shadow between the hand and the face to make it a bit more gradual. Nice work on these challenges!

@pliant geyser Oh wow, you got the wings and halo out of flames and everything, really cool! It could be nice to see a bit more contrast in the halo, in the way that the wings have the dark spots and the hot white spots too.Looking good! 😄

@alpine nexus Nice work on the pet image Elly! The value contrast definitely puts a lot more attention on the dog. I think it might help to be a bit more gradual with the darkening layer. It looks a little abrupt on the wall, on the blanket around the bottom of the image frame, and even a bit between the leg and blanket. I like using a large soft round brush to get a fairly gradual transition to keep everything looking natural if that makes sense. Just some thoughts. Really nice job!

@tropic knoll Very cool, I like the sparking effects coming off the fire! The edge of the arm on the right hand side looks a bit crisp against the dark background, I feel like a bit of a glow effect would give it a natural look against the background and make that edge seem a bit softer. Nicely done!

@unkempt field Nice work on Challenge 7! I like how you masked the fire coming out of the mouth too, hah. I also like the way we see some of the texture around the hands as well as the fire, gives it a cool dynamic! This is super minor, but the texture ends in a hard edge around the shoulder area, it could look a bit more natural to soften that up so the fade out is more gradual. Solid work!

@sullen hollow Really nice combination between the fire effect and the skin texture. I like how the skin texture seems to fade out naturally as it gets closer to the head. Well done!

@lavish portal Looking good! I like how the shapes of the flame are breaking away from the arm but you can still see the texture underneath. Nice work on both of these effects!

@uneven glade Ah, very cool, interesting to see this applied to a different image! I like the effect, I think maybe you could increase of contrast of the flame coming off the shoulder a bit by increasing both the brights and darks (either with a masked levels adjustment or dodge and burn) and adding a bit of a warm glow to the water around the flames could really help sell the effect even more. Really nice work on this!

@raven condor Hah, nice to see someone add the flames to the legs too! This is looking good, nice job with the effect. It could be really cool to see the leg flames casting a bit of a warm glow onto the black of the shorts a bit to really sell that lighting effect. Looks good!

@vague swift Really cool idea here! I really like that warm glow you gave him on the chest and arms! It could be nice to see a bit more glow on the legs and right side of the torso a bit too to really sell that the glow is coming from down below. Really nice job on this!

@modern halo I was really curious to see if someone would go a different route with an ice or electricity effect, very cool! Really liking the colors and effect you got with this. The only thing I’d recommend would be to soft the hard line around the neck so it’s a more gradual fade. Might make the whole effect look a bit more natural. Nicely done!

@safe ledge Feel free to tag me or any of the mentors if you’re getting stuck on any challenge or specific step! All the steps for that method should be there in the video. Though personally in that past when I’ve been going over tutorials I’ve found some luck in watching the whole process over once without working myself to try and understand the whole method, then watching a second time and pausing after basically every step to do it myself because sometimes it can be easy to miss a crucial step in these shorter videos. But feel free to post what you were working on or any aspect you may be having issues with and we can do our best to help.

@wraith cliff Really nice work on the Day 5 challenge! I agree, the image can have such a different feel and mood to it depending on which one you go with. The black and white definitely has that drama, but there can be some great color contrast in the colored one too. This looks good! If I had to mention anything I’d say that sharpening up the edges where the cart was could help clean it up a bit. When zoomed in the edge back there looks a bit soft in comparison to the surrounding area, but that’s a fairly minor detail. Looking good!

@eternal mica The effect is looking good Ted! I think it could help if you boosted the overall contrast of the horse and rider to boost both the darks and lights. Usually you want your facial point to be the area of deepest contrast (especially the darks) but it’s the opposite in this image currently. I think boosting the contrast of the horse/rider and even brightening the blue glow around them could really help the whole thing pop. Just some thoughts, really nice job on this!

@lime sage Looking good, always interesting to see these effects applied to different images! The flames are looking really good, well done compositing this together. I think if you wanted to take it a step further adding a bit of a warm glow to some parts of the trees and a little below the ant on the ground could really help fit it into the environment. Nicely done!

[wraith cliff]

@bleak fossil thanks! I'll look again at my details

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[winter tinsel]

Challenge #7 Super Hero Compositing. I created my own Super Hero....Oceanna!

Here's the images I used.

[left abyss]

Challenge 6, oh my goodness, lol

[north galleon]

Day-07 And Here's my final output😜

[ruby panther]

Challenge 7. Went for a super hero movie color scheme.

Starter file.

[river bison]

So cool!

[covert loom]

I'm learning new things. Help me learn all the work

[plain mortar]

Challenge 2020/3/25 Compositing

[covert loom]

Challenge: Seamlessly combine the foreground of one image with the background of another. Use a Curves Adjustment Layer to match colors. March 18, 2020. (Thanks Adobe Cloud, thanks Jesus Ramirz for helping me learn the job

[eternal mica]

@bleak fossil Sam, thanks for the comment and for the tip. I also thought it was too dark and not enough contrast. But it took me so long to get to that point, I just wanted to post it already. 😊 Hers the updated version.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[eternal mica]

Updated thanks to Sam's advice

[young karma]

Challenge 7

[pliant geyser]

@bleak fossil -- thanks for the suggestion! Here's a resubmission with your suggestion and some extra flames at the bottom (due to my fiancé's insistence.. 😜 )

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[true holly]

Made a few adjustment to account of @lethal mural comments from the live stream

[hollow horizon]

This is me compositing challenge

[rose salmon]

Day 6 Challenge 6 - Autoblend - Funny Mashup #✂challenges-feedback. I know it is not one of the best, but have given my best shot. Feedback from experts appreciated 🙂

[ruby panther]

@hollow horizon Wonderful job! Very cool. Take a look at the back right side of the boat. Your mask is showing just above it. Other than that, Awesome!

[rigid bridge]

Kame Hame Ha !

What the community think about ?

[pliant geyser]

@rose salmon -- good idea, but the eyes, brows and lips really overpower the rest of the image. I would suggest using some curve adjustments followed with some dodge and burn in the hair to really make it shine.

[ruby panther]

@hollow horizon This location.

[rose salmon]

@rose salmon -- good idea, but the eyes, brows and lips really overpower the rest of the image. I would suggest using some curve adjustments followed with some dodge and burn in the hair to really make it shine.
@pliant geyser Thanks. Suggestions noted, shall rework and post it again. Appreciated.

[pliant geyser]

@rigid bridge - I like the overall concept. Going to nitpick it a bit. The pattern on the face needs to show highlight and shadows like the rest of the face. I like the glow on the face by his left hand, but it needs to show on the upper eyelid a bit too. Consider maybe a slight colour reflection on his eye? Just my thoughts from the Great White North...

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[alpine nexus]

@bleak fossil thanks for the suggestion! I agree with you actually, so I may go in later tonight and fine-tune it. But I used the camera raw filter that the tutorial showed us so I don't think I can change the type of brush it has. And if I can then I don't know how to. But I'll play with it and see what I can do to fix it up

[young karma]

Here's yesterday's #✂challenges-feedback. Learned a lot doing this!

[woven patrol]

Challenge 7

[buoyant nova]

Challenge 7

[tropic knoll]

Challenge 7 Re-Do. I added the cat and highlighted the fire. Thank you, Sam!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ruby panther

[hollow horizon]

@ruby panther thanks i will work on it

[primal fulcrum]

this is what I started with for #7 - Superhero

What I ended up with. I'm pretty happy with it. I think the blend if and distort are my fave tools right now. Thanks so much for introducing me to blend if. I didn't know how to use it before these daily challenges.

[eternal mica]

@primal fulcrum thats awesome

[vast osprey]

Happy to stop here with two alterations.

[covert loom]

Special Thanks @Jesus Ramirez

[safe ledge]

still stumbling with this challenge but a little better. not that it looks better , just understanding better.

[sterile bane]

@everyone In just 20 minutes (10:30am PT) Join me LIVE on Discord for a design feedback/portfolio review session! Just click on the #mentor-feedback voice channel then hover over my name to join the livestream. If you haven't yet - share your work in #✂challenges-feedback or #💡portfolio-reviews :)

See you in there!

[unkempt field]

Challenge 8...

[viscid seal]

@unkempt field woow i like that

[obtuse topaz]

DCC - day 8 double exposure challenge. I made two versions. One - with blending modes and other one with RGB channels inside of layer style. It was a lot of fun making both of them 😄

[forest hare]

Challenge 8

[true holly]

yo i hear you

[tropic knoll]

Challenge 8. Lots of information packed in. Thank you! The hardest part is selecting the color scheme!

[uneven glade]

@uneven glade Ah, very cool, interesting to see this applied to a different image! I like the effect, I think maybe you could increase of contrast of the flame coming off the shoulder a bit by increasing both the brights and darks (either with a masked levels adjustment or dodge and burn) and adding a bit of a warm glow to the water around the flames could really help sell the effect even more. Really nice work on this!
@bleak fossil Thank you for your comments!! I already fix the flame on her shoulder and I tried to add the warm glow but... it doesn't look natural or what do you think? Do you know any tutorial that I can applied that? Please!! Thank you!

[coral sundial]

Helloo...
just started learning photoshop 3-4 days ago.
started with DCC-1 (july-2018 by kathleen) , a little bit of old- i know - but just started watching from there.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ruby panther

[hybrid glacier]

@dull patio Interesting combination of elements. A bit busy though. I'd love to see the circuit traces be thinner and fewer, and for the X to be on the 45º angles to accent the symmetry. The biohazard symbol could use some space around it as well.

[sterile bane]

Thanks, all!!!!

[hybrid glacier]

Thanks @sterile bane, good stuff as always.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @sterile bane

[rose salmon]

Thanks @Kathleen

[dull patio]

@hybrid glacier thanks, I will keep that in mind.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @hybrid glacier

[eternal mica]

I tried making this into a book cover, but couldnt get that to work. The layers are both added to the group with Jesus' images, but it wouldnt auto save to the book cover. Its an image of Aaron Judge double exposed over Yankee Stadium.

[young karma]

@coral sundial you can post in past-challenge

i´ve tried

[pliant geyser]

Sorry about the repost.. had to make an edit.. Thoughts, anyone?

@eternal mica The title of the book etc is very very hard to read. I would suggest a different font that's not so "wonky"

[light wren]

challenge 8 - I tend to get impatient with technology and overwhelmed, there's so much to learn too but once I settle into it a bit I calm down - I end up enjoying the process and the fact that I'm learning something new each time. I loved the idea of designing a book cover too, it's inspiring for me to be able to see how the design looks on the product...

[coral sundial]

@young karma sorry, I didn't know that. From now on, will be posting old DCC in past challenges.
Thank you

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @median pecan

[modern halo]

Challenge 8

[eternal mica]

Hows this? I still cant get it to come up as the book cover.

[dim brook]

Challenge#8: Double Exposure

[worn yew]

Challenge 8 - Double Exposure

[silver trench]

Day 7

[pliant geyser]

Hows this? I still cant get it to come up as the book cover.
@eternal mica Still super hard to read. Look at the thumbnail showing in your post - can you read it easily? Might I suggest adding a layer under the text with a transparent to white gradient under it? Start it just below the 99 and finish it just above the A in the Aaron. Just a thought is all. When you're editing your file, did you just change the smart object or did you save it as a separate file? They have to stay together in 1 file or else it won't update immediately.

[buoyant nova]

Challenge 8

[cyan terrace]

Challenge 8. Cool technique, thanks Jesus

[mortal hollow]

Challenge 8: many thanks @lethal mural

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @lethal mural

[forest aspen]

Day 7: Super Hero comps - a mix of AdobeStock, PixelSquid, Pixabay, Flypaper Textures and hand drawn clothing. I like the grittiness of Kara, but think Super Gecko has the better costume. What do you think?

[young karma]

Challenge 8, today's live was super easy

[delicate depot]

k

kk

[wet thistle]

Challenge #8

[arctic rover]

Fun challenge

[weak wave]

The Rolling Stones played here.

[rotund pier]

Challenge 8, 🙈

[unreal adder]

Feedback is welcome!

[hasty oracle]

Challenge Day 7_I might be a little behind since I got just a bit carried away with my fiery hero.

[pliant geyser]

Feedback is welcome!
@unreal adder Not bad - the city scene in the dress is subtle - didn't realize what it was until I viewed it full size! That part I really like. Not so sure about the sunset in her hair and face though - her head (from the jawline on up) has a totally different tonality from the rest of her body, which to me, is slightly odd looking. Maybe strengthen that up so it's not quite so ethereal? Take my comments as you will... they're from a super bored, locked down Canadian... 🙃

[plain sable]

Day 8 double exposure

[fair panther]

Hi, my version of challenge #8

[void hornet]

These were my inspiration photos licensed at Adobe Stock.

This is my Book Cover from the inspiration.

[weak wave]

The text, on my current challenge book cover is slightly distorted, how would you fix that?

[river bison]

Nice assignment, did not take too much time tonight (21:45 in the Netherlands). learned enough! thanks!

[eternal mica]

@pliant geyser this is my layer panel as it stands now. What do i need to change in order to get the book cover to load automatically?

[void hornet]

Thank you @brittle slate - I took your advice and reworked the text of the title. I also added a author. 😁

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @brittle slate

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @pliant geyser

[unreal adder]

@pliant geyser I truly appreciate your thoughts! I still playing around with this image to get the best outcome possible! Thanks 👍

[neat carbon]

Here comes my Challenge #8. Please comment on the color I choose & the layout of the cover

[uneven glade]

If I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it well!

[lime sage]

Challenge #8. Double exposure.

[plain sable]

Was working on the letter Y and decided to let it burn for day 7 compositing

[arctic rover]

@eternal mica see the tabs at the top of my screen? If I click on the 'double exposure" I get the full shot with the cover. Next to it is the 'cover' shot and that has all the layers/images for the book cover. Hope that helps.

[vague swift]

@bleak fossil thanks for thoughts and feedback!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[vague swift]

REVISED

[pliant geyser]

@eternal mica Here's a quick set of instructions for you. Took a couple screen shots and added some text in InDesign. I used the "quick and easy" method that Jesus showed in the video stream. I'm guessing at some point you may have done a "Save As" and changed the name of the Smart Object (.PSB), at which point it won't update any more (to my knowledge - if someone cares to correct me please feel free!)

[sage cargo]

😃

[wispy compass]

Day 7 - Compositing

[true holly]

PS DCC #8 Who'd like to read this one?

[oblique anvil]

My Day 4 Layer Style Dance Poster

Here are the original photos

[potent jacinth]

mine

[plain sable]

A few tweaks for Day 7

[timid pasture]

@forest aspen Love your image with the Gecko! I need to let him out to play - it's been too long! 😁

[alpine nexus]

Redid my Yogi image for challenge 1. @bleak fossil you were right, it looks better with a more realistic shadow. I also decreased a little the sharpness of the background because I like that little blur it gives the background and I love the vignetting so I added a little of that as well!

[bleak fossil]

Looks good, nice work with those edits! @alpine nexus

[alpine nexus]

@bleak fossil Thanks!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[quaint badger]

My superhero (or not...?) challenge 😄 What do you guys think?

[mighty relic]

here is the one with the play on words

[eternal mica]

@pliant geyser @arctic rover , you folks are super. I couldnt get back to the project today. I'll focus on it again in the morning. I'll start by rewatching the video and making sure I follow every step. Im thinking I may have missed a "make smart object" step somewhere along the way. And I'll follow your tips also. Again, thanks.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @pliant geyser

[raven condor]

Challenge 8 double exposure first try

Challenge 8 double exposure I have to put my city on... I Love Atlanta

[sullen hollow]

Challenge #8

[plain mortar]

Challenge 2020/3/26 Double Exposure

[bold valley]

Day 8 Like the blend if technique and looking forward to the mock-up tutorial, Jesus.

[lost tangle]

Daily creative Challenge

[left abyss]

Challenge 7, I liked the cracked burning look, didn't want to cover it with flames

[tacit condor]

PSDCC #6 Auto-Blend (playing catch-up)

[bleak fossil]

@plain sable The sort of stylized silhouette and shape of the tree with the realistic textures is a really interesting combination. This looks like it could be an album cover or something, nice work!

@potent jacinth Ooh, I like it. The red with the sort of foggy/bleak grey really communicates the mood. I like how the face is a secondary read too, it took my brain a second to see it as a face after looking at the city. I like how the red kind of streaks near the top too, nice combination of these images!

@oblique anvil Really interesting background effects with this Day 4 design! I like how the background building gets sort of abstracted and blended with the shapes effects. I feel like boosting the contrast and brightness of the dancer and text could really help make this image pop and stand out against the background. Just masking a levels adjustment or something to those elements I think could really easily do the trick. Nice design!

@mighty relic The flame effect is looking great! I really like the deep contrast in the flames between the light and dark elements. The warming of the image is looking nice too. My only minor suggestion would be to maybe mask out the two little flame elements below each hand. It looks almost like they got cut off with a hard edge and seem a bit out of place. Or even just softening their edges up a bit might help. Nice work!

@quaint badger Ooh, loving these different effects and textures you have going on! I think the blue is a pretty cool contrast with the warm colors, but thematically it’s a little confusing to tell what element he seems to be made of. I think it could be cool for an ice or electricity power effect, or even somewhere else on his body (maybe on arm is fire and the other ice? Hah) but becomes hard to tell what he’s made of when put together. Though I like the effect is quite interesting visually, just a thought though. Nice work with the color grading of the image too, I really like how its’s reflecting those more purple/red tones of the arms!

@true holly Ooh, I really like the way you overlaid these images, and the contrasting colors really help the readability of both of them. The white background really lets these colors shine too, really cohesive and professional looking design!

@wispy compass Loving this design! Really nice job combining all these elements. Really interesting shapes and composition overall! It could be nice to see a bit of an orange light cast around her leg area to really fit her into the scene even more. Doesn’t even have to be too bright, a warm tint would even help. Nicely done!

@sage cargo Very cool, I really like that warm color pop with the building, and the face still has a strong value contrast to draw attention. I think a quick change to really make this work well would be to change the bottom text to white. It would read really well and have a nice black/white contrast with the top text. Just an idea. Really nice work 😄

@left abyss Ooh, love this effect, the arm texture is indeed super cool, and the look on her face fits the image well, hah. I like the light it looks like you added on the face as well. It could help to add a bit of dimension to the arm by adding a bit of shadow on the bottom, and maybe a bit of light on the top. I often do this with a multiply and color dodge (or screen) layer with a soft brush on a selected area and then erasing it or masking it off on the glowing cracks. Might help it look a little less flat, kind of how the forearm area seems to have a little shadow on the bottom which gives it some nice dimension. Just a thought, really great work on these effects!

@tacit condor These edits fit together really seamlessly, the whole thing looks really natural. Great job meshing these together!

@lost tangle Great blend between these two images, I like how the images are clear enough to understand what they are but there’s almost a slick abstractness at first which gives it a bit of mystery. The color scheme seems to support this well too. I like it, really nice work!

@bold valley The Day 8 challenge is working really nicely! Really nice blend between the two images, and I like the subtle warm/cool contrast you have in this design. Well done!

@rose sable Honestly this is looking pretty solid to me. I definitely think it helps get the hang of it doing it multiple times to really refine that process and see what works through some trial and error. The main thing I see is the area around the eye on the left side, and bit of that hard line around the brow. I think just overlaying part of the original face on the trouble areas or using a soft brush on the edges of the added elements could help the transition possibly look a bit more soft and natural. But overall this is looking really nice! 👍

@proper cave Ooh, this is a really cool image. It seems like it could be a poster for an apocalyptic movie or something. The double exposure looks great, and that red/blue-green contrast between her face and the city looks great. I feel like the background teal color and her blue jacket seem unfitting to the rest of the image. I kind of imagine her jacket being largely desaturated and the background being a darker sort of neutral blue or blue green to really let the color of the red take center stage. But I suppose it really depends on the mood or feel you’re going for. Great job!

@plain mortar The perspective of the building adds a really interesting element in contrast with the face. Very cool! I kind of wonder if it might help to add a slight darkening gradient to the top of the head/sky to make it contrast against the white background a touch more... though it’s hard to tell if that would be an improved look without seeing it. Just a thought though. The blue gives the whole thing a nice pop of color too, nice work on this double exposure image!

[tacit condor]

PSDCC #7 Compositing - going to have to try another really had fun with this one think the my kid will dig this - also Wolverine

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[lost tangle]

@bleak fossil thank you

[mighty linden]

I could not get it to place on the book. Its likely how I saved the file.

[north galleon]

Day-08 Here is my Double exposure effect book 😉

[hidden pendant]

Finally finished Challenge 7 not 100% happy but a bit over it now. Does anyone know why when I licenced the image after I finished, it didn't update. I thought when you licenced it would automatically update on project. I it because I embedded the image?

[ruby panther]

Mock up.

Challenge 8.

[rose salmon]

Day 8 Challenge 8 - Double Exposure - Book Cover #✂challenges-feedback 😀 Expert feedback always appreciated. Thank you! 😀

[true holly]

Thanks for the comments @bleak fossil! Finding the right image to overlay for this one took way longer than actually doing the work to overlay it.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[rose salmon]

Day 7 Challenge 7 - Compositing - Super Hero #✂challenges-feedback 🙂 Feedback appreciated 🙂

[sudden hawk]

Double Exposure

[oblique anvil]

@bleak fossil Thank you for the input. Here's my revised Day 4 poster. I like the "pop." I used both levels and brightness and contrast. Plus, I enlarged the dancer a bit.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[pliant geyser]

Finally finished Challenge 7 not 100% happy but a bit over it now. Does anyone know why when I licenced the image after I finished, it didn't update. I thought when you licenced it would automatically update on project. I it because I embedded the image?
@hidden pendant Hey Trish - I like the concept overall, but it needs more light sourcing. Her face is in shadow, but should have some light from the fire coming from her hand.. maybe also apply more fire light to her arm, and her hip. The moon is super bright and as such would cast light on her hair. Keep up the good work!

[young karma]

Yesterday's challenge #✂challenges-feedback number 8, of the book cover. What do you think? I'm learning a lot more about smart objects now!

[true holly]

I had one more thing I thought would be cool to try with the whole super hero composite challenge. Just want to share. Super heroes belong in comic books right?!? @lethal mural had a cool video I can across on his youtube page on a quick ways to make a comic book drawings from your photo. You should go check it out.

[compact pecan]

Day 8 - Double Exposure. Better late than never, right? I always try and use different images than the example to make sure I truly understand the concept, but for some reason on this one, I couldn't get a different b&w image to work right. I'll have to keep working at it. But here is my try - I used the example b&w but a different color image.

[primal fulcrum]

@eternal mica to use a template, you have to double click on the smart icon and it will open in a new window or tab. Then when you are done editing in there, you have to save. ctl S or use the menus. Then go back to the main psd file and and you will see your changes.

In the year 2020...
Entire states went into lockdown to try to stop the spread of the disease. All businesses shut down and everyone told to stay in their homes. The quarantine went on for months. We ran out of toilet paper, food and beer. Desperation set in and things were bleak for the people in most stats. However, the states that had legalized Marijuana fared better.

[uncut grove]

Hello everyone. Thank you all for your great works. This is my first time.

[primal fulcrum]

I couldn't get the trick to hide all the extra when I went into camera raw and I didn't get any color changes when using the slider later except the same combinations I originally saw. So I missed something somewhere. I'll have to watch it again and maybe play with this some more.

[uncut grove]

Hello @primal fulcrum Sig, you don't need to hide all the extra. I prefer to keep them for later so you can edit it later (for example move his head or the city photo)

[worn yew]

With a few little changes... Challenge 8

[primal fulcrum]

@uncut grove it doesn't get rid of anything, it just makes it so you don't have to see the whole of every image in the camera raw filter. You have to add a mask and make a smart object of a group somehow and I didn't do it right. When I made a group, I lost the effect altogether.

[bold valley]

@bleak fossil Thanks for the nice comment, Sam.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[wispy compass]

Thanks @bleak fossil ...I should have thought if that...I will work on it!

[young karma]

I put a black en white filter above. I changed nose mouth, eyes and hair. Also the same in color and for fun i used a pig nose

[plain sable]

thanks @bleak fossil

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @bleak fossil

[tacit condor]

PSDCC #9 Patterns...now ont to the double exposure challenge

[crimson lynx]

I tried but could not make the warp correct and Thank You though. Have a wonderful weekend All

[alpine nexus]

Here is my challenge three! I wanted to bring in the blue from the soccer ball into the rest of the picture so I chose that color instead of the red for the radial blur and text. But I do love how the red pops against the black and white background.

[dim brook]

Challenge#9: Thank You @lethal mural I learned a LOT! 😀

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @lethal mural

[light wren]

challenge 6 - I'm literally learning something new everyday, it's all very new for me. This is my first attempt - the good thing is I can keep buiding on what I'm learning, but for now these are tasters for me to ease me into the land of photoshop...

[mighty linden]

I finally got my cover to place into the correct file. Lots of playing with the Blend-if sliders here. The blood on the type is from the face layer below.

[unreal adder]

Any feedback is welcome! 😉

[cyan terrace]

Challenge 9

[worn yew]

Ciao Italy! - Challenge 9

[covert loom]

Your ability to understand is very good. I could learn a lot from you. Thanks @lethal mural I will get more advice if I get feedback from you.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @lethal mural

[buoyant nova]

Challenge 9

[neat carbon]

Here comes my Challenge #9. Thanks for everything

[tacit condor]

PSDCC #8 Double Exposure

[obtuse topaz]

DCC - day 9 patterns on shirt challenge

[proper cave]

After feedback

Before feedback

[cosmic cradle]

Starter image

Challenge #4 Completed

[primal fulcrum]

I do design fabric for garments, so I will be playing around with this to get more practice. But for the challenge, I'm happy with this.

[river bison]

Here you go, thanks to Jesús Ramirez ! 🙏

[hasty oracle]

Day 8_Book Cover. I never did figure out the group and mask and conversion to smart object "experimental" trick, but finally figured that it was not critical to the whole thing. This was a fun challenge, but now I have more questions, like do we not worry about converting
images to 8 bit from 16 bit anymore? It seems like that option disappeared, or am I just forgetting where to find the place where we convert them? Anyway, my cover now, such as it is.

[cosmic cradle]

#Challenge 5 Completed image

[wispy compass]

Day 8 - Double Exposure

[forest aspen]

Day 8 Book: Book Cover. I had a difficult time using both of Jesus's method of doing a double exposure. I did one by skipping 2 channels, but the one I ended up liking the best was one where I finagled 3 images using blend modes and masks to approximate a double exposure. Perhaps I should have used the demo images for better results. The images, other than the book starter, are from Pixabay.

[lapis scaffold]

So I am a bit late here!

It has been a crazy week

[pliant geyser]

Reworked the highlight layer a bit and strengthened areas of the shadows...

[wraith cliff]

Challenge #6. I enjoyed this one more than I thought! ai think I met my own challenge of getting the glasses so she was peering over them, and giving her half of his hair....

[winter tinsel]

Challenge #9 t-shirt mock up. I tried it on a different model.

This is my before...

[true holly]

PS DCC #9 This was a fun first set of challenges. I learned a lot more about Photoshop than I previously know. So fun to participate. Look forward to the next set.

[dire glacier]

Belated Day 6

[fervent violet]

Challenge #8

Belated Challenge 3 & 4 Combo

[sullen hollow]

Last Challenge #9 Thank you , Jesús!

Challenge #9

[dire glacier]

Day 8

[unkempt field]

Day - - Patterns

[raven condor]

Challenge 9 from picture I took yesterday. Thank you so much @lethal mural easy to listen you're a great teacher... I learn so much for 2 weeks.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @lethal mural

[mighty linden]

CHALLENGE #9, I still want to do #7 Compositing

[hidden pendant]

Challenge 8 completed, could play with this all day. Was going to redo a book cover from a previous challenge, but decided to do a new one with an image I had downloaded ages ago. Images from Pixabay & Adobe Stock.

Rendered onto cover.

[north galleon]

Day-09 I tried to make it realistic. if any ideas to make it look more real are welcome.😊

[gilded blaze]

followed directions carefully and hoping it works here as was detailed out. A little way behind due to being ill, but slowly catching back up.

[young karma]

Challenge 9 was fun to do enjoyed it

[young karma]

My new book is out!!!

[young karma]

ALL CHALLENGES DONE!!! 🙌 Better late than never!😅

[ruby panther]

Challenge 9.

[gilded blaze]

the final all together

[ruby panther]

Ready for the next challenge with @jolly quest Here we go! See you Monday.

[raven condor]

Here's my challenge 9 pattern for t-shirt design tell me what u think.👕

[trail field]

this is my super hero

this is my book cover

[mild spruce]

doble expose book cover chalage

[mild spruce]

@hidden pendant lover your work can you tell the process

[compact pecan]

My shot at patterns. Thank you @lethal mural for a really great two week challenge. I learned a lot.

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @lethal mural

[mild spruce]

Any feedback is welcome! 😉
@unreal adder is woderful

[unreal adder]

@mild spruce Thank you!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @mild spruce

[hasty oracle]

Day 9 Challenge, shirt pattern. Very educational once again. Many Thanks @lethal mural for your lessons. I have subscribed to your YouTube so I can continue to learn more. Great series!

[nimble shard]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @lethal mural

[dim jasper]

Challenge #8

[forest aspen]

Day 9: Patterns. The clothing mock-ups are from PixelSquid. Their 3-D models are are so easy to position at almost any angle or tilt, and easy to change, all from a PS plug-in.. The graphic was made using Capture in PS, from a watercolor whale painting from Pixabay. I chose to go bigger with the pattern, and masked out places where I didn't want it to show

[plain sable]

Day 9 Patterns

[fervent violet]

Day 9 Challenge. Pattern from grandson performing bo staff kata.

[wraith cliff]

My Hero...... Sigh.

[gilded blaze]

Dreamland challenge- i am slowly catching up.

[eternal mica]

Jesus thanks fir your classes This has been a wonderful

[eternal mica]

Shirt 2. I started with a picture from my own collection this time.

[mighty linden]

More shirts. I found that you can save and reuse the distortion mesh in the liquify filter after you distort with the warp tool. I wrote an Action to apply the main section automatically, but did the sleeves manually.

[woven patrol]

Challenge 8

[alpine nexus]

Finished challenge four! I personally really like how it came out!

[hidden pendant]

Two patterns completed for Challenge 9. The black one you can't really see much of the folds, but I liked the pattern, even though I made a little boo boo and had to cheat buy changing the colour of the shape. Completed the 2nd as it is a lighter colour. Had a whole heap of patterns, and am going to have another go at rendering a T-shirt design I have done onto a shirt this way.

2nd pattern

[hidden pendant]

Redo of Challenge 7, light added to face, arm and hip and some blue to hair from the moon.

[light wren]

challenge 9 - first attempt eeep one of my favourite challenges, loved playing around with pattern and seeing how it looks on the actual product, it's inspiring...thank you jesús!

[primal fulcrum]

@trail field the book cover challenge was actually to do a double exposure. But your pic looks off kilter. If you double click on the smart layer, it will open up for you in a new window and you just have to place it in there. It will line up automatically. You can watch the replay any time on Youtube. I just go to youtube and search there for Adobe. Click on Adobe CC (the red one) and then click on videos and look for the right one. HTH

[tropic knoll]

Challenge 9. I did it! My Highlights thumbnail was White which showed a white shirt. Once I did a Cmd I to switch to a Black thumbnail, my highlights appeared. The warping is a bit tricky. I'll have to keep working on that. These challenges really work me! Thanks to all who have given me their time. I hope you feel I have listened.

[spiral apex]

#Challenge09!

can you see the swan 🤣

[tropic knoll]

Xuegi_Snow. No, I don't see the swan but I like the design.

[young karma]

same

[cosmic cradle]

#Challenge 6

[light wren]

challenge 7 - well I enjoyed that. didn't think I would as I'm not into superheros but then it's more about learning the techniques and I especially liked adding the sparks. I'm really being challenged with these mini projects, I'm very new to all of it and it feels good to start building my skills. Very grateful for these daily challenges!