[Tennis] davenewt vs. SharkShark

Evening all,

Anyone care for a friendly game of photoshop tennis? If so, here be the rules... I'll keep it fairly open [no fancy themes or anything] seeing as this is my first go at this stuff...

- 450*450 pixels, 72dpi.
- 8 rounds [4 volleys each]
- No time limit. Take it easy, a few days between volleys is ideal.
- No names or round numbers [or prime numbers for that matter, harhar! ] on the images, but other 'decorative' text would be cool if you want to use it.

Not forgetting the golden rule:
- He who has the gold makes the rules!

[sorry!]

I'll give you both a first *and* a second serve... cos I'm nice like that... you choose which one to volley back to me

[these are from a free stock site with no usage restrictions for non-commercial work...]

First Serve:


Second Serve:


Use one (and only one) of the above serves for your first volley. This counts as my first volley [round 1 of 8].

If you'd like to pick up the gauntlet, post here and claim it so a bunch of people don't go rushing off making their volleys all at once... then I'm assuming a Mod can change the topic title, right guys?

Okay, looking forward to it! Let's go!

Dave

Hey Dave, I'll take you up on that challenge! Couple of points to clear up before we take off though.

(1) Are we doing JPG or PDF exchange?

(2) Given that what you posted are source pics, do they really count as your first serve? Usually, the source image doesn't count as a serve. Would u rather have your respone to my serve as your first?

Other than that I will have the first serve up soon! Good luck to us both!

Here is my first. Eye Of The Frog God.

who's pretty eye is that? nice serve!

JPG is cool with me. Did you mean PSD as the alternative? Let's keep it JPG for now (I don't know whether that's making it easier or harder, but hey!)

Okay, I'll work on my return volley which can count as my first... wasn't sure about the whole stock images counting as round 1, but hey, I'm learning

Nice volley btw.... looks like I'll have my work cut out to even come close!

Game on!

Dave

thanks Flavah! I ended up using a stock photo because my eye photos just weren't coming out right

It's all good Dave, this is your first match right? Can't wait to see what you got!!

Well, here's my first volley - *thinks of a name* - In at the Deep End



This'll have to do as I need to eat something! [got home from work, checked emails, thought 'I'll just open Photoshop' and *bang!*... two and a half hours later...]

Please let me know what you think. I may have overdone it on the filters, but I was trying to make the image more dynamic and give the impression of wind rushing past the eyelashes.

The hardest thing I found about this was creating a single picture, rather than a bunch of stacked images which don't sit together properly. You should let me know if I succeeded, as I'm not sure myself

Right, I'm off for some food. Take it easy. Looking forward to the next volley SharkShark!

Cheers
Dave

YES!!! I am faced with a worthy opponent! LOL Great job, I think it came out well. I have a bit of work to do, so look for my return either later tonight or tomorrow!

Nice work you two. Can't wait to see the next round.

Ah Man! The great DM himself is watching ! And me with this sorry excuse for a return . Oh well, I ran out of time! My Return........Edge of the World.

Nice stuff guys. Can't wait for the next one (I love this game, although I'm not so good at it. I always rush my images).

Ooooh, nice one SharkShark!

I have a couple of ideas for my next volley, but it will take a little while coming, as I have a busy weekend ahead (friends over etc). I even tried to sneak in some time on it at work, hoping I could get something done before the weekend, but didn't get very far [for some reason, people were giving me other stuff to do! - can't a guy play with Photoshop at work these days? Hehehe ]

Besides, just throwing something together wouldn't be conducive to a good match, would it?

So take it easy, and I should be back to you early next week with another volley. Hope that's cool with everyone

Cheers,
Dave

No sweat take your time! Look forward a worthy retrun when you get back

Nice match the both of ya! Me wishes me saw it sooner!!! POST THE NEXT VOLLEY!!!

Okay guys, here ye go. Only one leftist



I'll be honest with ye, this was a tough one. When I saw your volley SharkShark, I wondered how on earth I was going to come up with something significantly different and well designed. The first thing I did was duplicate the arm of yer man so I could give him two, to look like he was balancing on *something*. Then I messed with some ideas, none of which were successful, until I started rotating him and noticed it kinda looked like he was soaring through the air.

Is he from a photo involving a skateboard, by any chance?

Anyway, I also ran your verse through babelfish -linkie- from English to Russian, then took the result and ran it back from Russian to English. It chucked out a version which included the line "Only one leftist, must jump from the edge of peace." So I took it and ran with it, finding a nice pic of a dove (representing peace, natch) and blending the two together in a flying/jumping/soaring composition which I guess works quite well.

This was a difficult one. It goes in a completely different direction to my other volley, which threw me somewhat.

Still, that's a good thing, right?

I'm enjoying this! Hope everyone else is too!

Cheers,
Dave