I want to battle YOU!!!!!!!!

[silent.gear]

sup guys...been long since ive done a battle. pretty sure u guys can cream me anytime. havent done any ps or used ps for like 3 months or so. just wanna get my skills back. so anyone wanna battle me?

[esku]

What about a face morphing?

Eyal

[Voetsjoeba]

Ok, 250 lines of AS, by tomorrow, theme: nature.
You wanted to battle me, didn't ya ? :bad::P

[silent.gear]

we can do nature...set up more rules voe...than we get this rolling.

[Voetsjoeba]

Lol nah I was just kidding, I don't have the time for that. I'd love to battle, but I'm way too busy atm. I was just joking around about the title " I want to battle you " so I agreed in you battling me on AS, not design :P

[silent.gear]

wats AS? didnt see that...only thing in my head was the ps battle.

[Voetsjoeba]

Lol, AS == ActionScript :)

[ContinuumXLS]

Look at his footer, then decide if you really want to put yourself through that... :)

[silent.gear]

hahah...id totatly get owned. anyways...anyone wanna battle me?

[Flashmatazz]

I'd like to but I've never done a battle before, so my entry would probably suck...

[mlk]

i'd like to battle !

[silent.gear]

ok mlk, make rules so we can get this on the go.

[mlk]

'k

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Battle Contestants: silentgear vs mlk
Theme: Picturesque oxymorons ! (look at the explanation below)
Rounds: I propose a maximum of 3 each, because I'm not sure I'll have time to do more. Let's not put date restrictions but try to finish it quickly

Other things: this would be better if it wasn't an all around grunge battle, let's diversify the trends a bit !

Okay here's for the explanation. Each contestant chooses a pic and a name/object/thought that is somehow the opposite of the pic. The contestant's task is to twist the image to make it closer to the name/object/thought.

I'll lauch the thing: using this pic: http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=173199
(the hi quality version of course), you have to work on a 'War Machine'

Other things: let's try to keep our picture ressources to sxc...

[Flashmatazz]

Battle Contestants: silentgear vs mlk

no room for more??

[mrE]

wow this battle sounds hardcore. for sure.
i'd like to join. especially if it's only 3 rounds per person. that's a fairly short battle.

and i love the theme idea. seriously. i think you should give me more examples though so i can understand it more.

do you guys care if I join? have a 3-way?
i won't feel bad if you say no. not a big deal to me. :)

[mrE]

oops i just realized that a third person was the one that asked if they could join. my bad. you can count me out or in- either way. 4 way with me and flashmatazz and you two, or 3 way with flashmatazz and you guys... or just you guys by yerselves. whatever. :) it's all good. i'll watch for sure.

[Flashmatazz]

me too! I'd like to know what will happen to that cute little bunny :P

and if I can join in, let me know.

[mrE]

yeah same here. the theme/idea of the whole thing sounds freakin awesome.

[mrE]

i think you should turn the bunny into a robot. make it a grungy dark wallpaper

[silent.gear]

you guys can go in if mlk is ok with it.

[mrE]

it would be hella tight. \m/ :thumb:

[silent.gear]

so i guess you guys are in...new contestants are flashmatazz and mrE. enough said. a 4 way battle. so why dont you start first mlk since i kinda dont get it, maybe from your first serve ill be able to comprehend from it. line up will be

mlk
silent.gear
flashmatazz
mrE

. so mlk, you start off first.

[mrE]

you know... we could all be working on our first serve all at the same time... as long as we each have our stocks and themes picked out for us. as long as we don't have to incorporate anything from the last person's serve.

so flashmatazz... could you pick out my stock image, and the opposite theme for it or whatever, so i can get started? I'm anxious as crap to make some new designs.

[mrE]

but if you want to do one person at a time, then I have to pick an image and theme for mlk... coz i go before him. soooo....... lemme think for a bit.

[mrE]

mlk, your stock is at:
http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=157653

the thought is "cereal killer" or "stalker" or "criminal"

does this work? it's hard to think of things this way. let me know what's up mlk.

[Flashmatazz]

I thought everyone would pick their own image and theme. Not sure though (-:
Or we could work on the same image per round? So 1st round everyone would have a go at the bunny, second round somebody picks a new image.

[silent.gear]

im so confused...where the hell is mlk??!?!?!

[Flashmatazz]

messing with his bunny I guess :P

[mlk]

waaaaaaait

Fine, let's do it all four of us. We each get to do the image proposed by one of us (which incidentally means four rounds :beam: ). That means that we all start by doing the war machine with the bunny, and then we'll choose one of your images/theme (mrE already has something so I guess we'll use his afterwards..)

I'll start werkin on my bunny today...

g'luck to you all !

[mrE]

i think i understand now.
for everybody's first serve... we're all using the bunny, right?
and then the second serve, everybody uses the same image and theme, right?

that works best, i think. :)

[mlk]

Exactly. I wish I had chosen another rabbit picture because that one is a pain to remove the background from.. ohwell. That'll add a bit of difficulty.

[Flashmatazz]

Good to hear I'm not the only one having some problems extracting the bunny :)

[mrE]

hmmmles... it may take a while for me to get my first image up. sorry. i've got a lot going on.
hope there isn't a time limit or w/e.

[silent.gear]

i wish this was just a regular tennis match where i edit the pic from mlk and so on.

[mrE]

i think the whole theme idea that mlk had is very challenging. maybe too challenging.
not only is it hard to think of opposites for the stock pictures that we choose, but it's generally hard to accomplish creating something using the theme/rules given.

silent.gear, want to start a 2-way with me instead, and let the other two do this thing? we could start our own new rules and thread. I'm up for it if you are, bro.

[Flashmatazz]

backing out are we ;) Anyways, it's up to you what you wanna do.

I already made something, not sure if I should post it already though? I'll probably get b*ttspanked all over the place, but who cares :D as long as I improve on my PS 'skills'....

[mlk]

i'll finish it by tonite probably (well tonite european time :beam: ).. But i haven't worked out something either yet... Let's just do 2 battles and we'll switch opponents for the next (and i won't be choosing pics this time =) )

[Flashmatazz]

Ok, here's mine:

http://www.arjengosman.nl/stuff/war_machine.jpg

Hope you like it. Any constructive criticism is welcome, since I still need to learn a lot about PS.

[El_Thierro]

Hah! I wove it!

Pwetty bunnies! :bu:

[silent.gear]

hey mrE, sure, why not. me and you. ill post another thread.

[mlk]

and here's my serve. not really proud of it. & I used a tad of grunge, which I tried not to include.. ohwell

http://www.mlkdesign.online.fr/files/kirupa/bunny.jpg

[Flashmatazz]

Wow, that's one freaky bunny :P Very nice!

I guess it's up to me now to come up with a pic and a theme.

[mlk]

yes

(and pick something easier to cut out :beam: )

[Flashmatazz]

Ok, here it goes:

Theme:Industrial

Source: http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=177744

[mlk]

eww purdy.. i've already got some ideas... well catch ya tumorrow !

http://www.sxc.hu/pic/m/f/fr/francog/177744_9407.jpg

[Flashmatazz]

k, good luck. can't wait to see what you come up with...
or what I come up with for that matter :)

[mrE]

nice one, mlk.

[Flashmatazz]

I maybe went a little over the top on this one :P

http://www.arjengosman.nl/stuff/industrial.jpg

[esku]

I like it. nice

Eyal

[mlk]

I might come up with a better one but for the sake of the speed of this battle here's my current submission (sorry it's a tad wide :beam: )

http://www.mlkdesign.online.fr/files/kirupa/lady1.jpg

cheers
mlk

[Flashmatazz]

Me likes. Very nice coloration!

[paddy.]

Hey there. Thought I'd drop by and offer some compliments to you guys. The work is awesome. Flashmatazz, I thought you said your entries would suck, they rock! And mlk, The quality of your stuff is excellent as usual. Keep up the good work guys.

I can't wait to see the rest of this battle, if there is more. I love mlk's polarised (opposites) theme idea and I might just have to steal it and change it a little for my next big battle.

[Flashmatazz]

Thanks. I guess I'm doing better than I expected :)

And that means I'm improving on my PS capabilities, and that's exactly why I wanted to get into this battling thing. It's a bit of a pity though that mrE and silent.gear decided not to go through with this.

Anyay mlk, looking forward to the next pic/theme. How many rounds do you want to do?

[mrE]

i'm still watching.
nice images, my homies.

so you love God, Flashmattazz? I do. rock on.
even if you dont... rock on. nice image.

[Flashmatazz]

Nah, I'm more of an atheist really. Just thought the text would fit the image.
And yeah, rock on :P So, where's the next source/theme to work on??

[mlk]

I'm trying to find a good one so it might take time. Plus I'm continuing to work on that last one cause I had a much better project in my mind...

[DariusMonsef]

mlk, Your last one was really nice. I like the whole feel of it.

[mrE]

Nah, I'm more of an atheist really. Just thought the text would fit the image.
And yeah, rock on :P So, where's the next source/theme to work on??

das cool.

[mlk]

Awright: next theme: 'Alive and enjoying it':
http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=148015
http://www.sxc.hu/pic/m/f/fu/fugue/148015_9372.jpg

Say it now if you want to change pic/theme...

[Flashmatazz]

No, I think this could be fun, so I'd like to keep it :hugegrin:

I won't have time tonight or tomorrow however. Maybe Sunday....

Cheers.

[mlk]

np i don't think I'll have time to work on it before that date too =)

[Flashmatazz]

sorry didn't have much time yet. I'm working on something now though, but I'm not satisfied with it yet. Maybe I'll post it tomorrow.

[Flashmatazz]

Not tooo satisfied with this (especially the teeth) but I figured I'd post it anyway now.
http://www.arjengosman.nl/stuff/alive.jpg

mlk, you didn't forget about yours did you? ;)

[Flashmatazz]

Is that a yes?

[mlk]

woops.. i was away for a few days...

I'll post what i will have done as soon as I'll have done it :beam:

[Flashmatazz]

cool :)

[Flashmatazz]

pssttt, mlk, where are you? :D

[mlk]

im hum packing for uni... ! leaving this friday and i got a ****load of work to do...

if you don't mind ill leave the battle aside for two weeks or so

put i promess ill get back to it !

sorry for all that =/

[tim.j]

this is some great work but I was wondering how you guys take off the backround of an image any tips, tutorials would be apreciated

[mlk]

try googling for 'knocking background' or 'removing background' tuts, ive seen a lot of them, and very good

as for this battle, I don't think it'll ever finish; I'm at uni right now and gaaaaawd it sucks, no photoshop, no msn, no aim & all boohoo...

Ill get back on track in a month or so =)