At 9/15/08 09:13 AM, Scuzzfest wrote: Oh snap sorry guys, been under fire with school work and stuff for the last few weeks, haven't checked around much. I'll actually participate in the ext competition.

Sorry I too have been away unexpectedly, but I've seen some interesting stuff being posted while I was gone. Whirlguy's wallpaper was especially beautiful.

And speaking of this week's competition, since we already did movie posters why don't we roll with Ryuzaki1's idea and go with a music art theme this time 'round.

Photoshop Competition #3: Album Covers
-make an original album art cover for the artist of your choice-

-create a cover based on the artist's musical style, previous album styles or inspired by a particular song. Make a pre-existing album look they way you would have liked it, or create an entirely new album that you would have liked to see made.

-any musical act, any genre.

-try to include the band/music artist's name on the cover and the possible title for your "fantasy" album. Give it a professional look.

-be original

-cash bribes only

To aid anyone who's going to give it a go, here's a link to a place where you can download thousands of fonts to get that perfect look for your album:
http://www.fontstock.net/
If you're already familiar with FontStock.net, then you know what a great resource it is for exotic fonts and scripts for any project you can think of. If you've seen a particular font somewhere, chances are they have it. Again, they're all available for free download and are a cinch to install.

A quick and simple example to give an idea of what to go for in this week's contest:

At 9/15/08 04:11 PM, THEJamoke wrote: Sorry I too have been away unexpectedly, but I've seen some interesting stuff being posted while I was gone. Whirlguy's wallpaper was especially beautiful.

Quick retraction: I meant to say NikeNick's wallpaper. Very nice, sorry for the mix up.

Fucking awesome!
This contest is my favourite so far!

I have a question about the competition, can't I just make something up because I barely listen to any music.
I don't know much about artists and covers, so it'd be really hard for me.

And making up a complete new band is REALLY original, right?

At 9/15/08 04:30 PM, Nikenick wrote: I have a question about the competition, can't I just make something up because I barely listen to any music.
I don't know much about artists and covers, so it'd be really hard for me.

And making up a complete new band is REALLY original, right?

Three words: go for it.

The number one purpose for these friendly little contests is creativity. If you can't decide on a musician/band to do, go ahead and make one up, it's all you. It's your art, have fun with it.

Album cover entry:
It's for Emarosa's "Relativity" album. I really like it's cover already, but I thought it'd be fun to make my on for it.

entry: Photoshop Competition #3: Album Art - Wu-Tang Clan

Found a picture of this old, dilapidated wall that was just screaming for some character, so I went to work on making it look even grimier and giving it a little graffiti and some fresh cracks. The burnt-out door on the second story was aching for art, it was a shame to leave it blank. Anyone who lives in the tri-state area knows what I'm talking about.

Hey guys, could I ask for a huge favor?

I need this font (from TheJamoke's font site):

Spanish Round Bookhand 16th c

for my pic, but I'm on my dad's computer, so I don't have permission to download anything (from windows) and he's being an ass about it.

Could someone just use that to make 2 lines or text?

"Los Lonely Boys"
"Orale"

That's it. I can make the colors and everything, but I need the text as an image format or something, just to work with.

Thanks so much
--Fremen

Contest #3 ENTRY

Thanks to Jamoke for the font.

I'm probably going to redo this.

The idea was to have a darker kind of edge to this cover, like the one from sacred, but I couldn't match the contrast...at all...

Im having a bit of difficulty with PS atm so I wont be able to submit anything untill I re-install, which may be a while. Here's kanye again anyway:

Contest #3 Entry - Rihanna.

I wanted to make up a band myself, but I googled 'girl' and I got Rihanna and the pic was kinda perfect so I decided to make a cover about her.

I still think that this cover is missing something, I might add something later if I can find out what.

Hate by the Delgados is a very cool album in my opinion. However, I think the cover looks amazingly dull, aswel as their videos btw.

I wasn't going for anything evil looking. In fact I wanted it to mix with the optimism of the song, yet reflect the hate, and give it the same feel as the original cover, but make it stand out more.

That's odd, I never forget to include my picture. Oh well.

Redid it (kinda...hehe)

ACTUAL ENTRY CONTEST #3:

Photoshop Competition #3: Album Covers
DOVES - BLACK AND WHITE TOWN.

Very happy with how this came out after removing like 10 people from the town picture and finally finding a family view from behind of them looking up.

Good competition ideas, movie posters next anyone.

MY REAL CONTEST #3 ENTRY.

I think I messed up with the last one, so I made a new one.
I was just playing with this picture and I think the result is pretty good, I made up an artist name and a song name.

Superb entries so far, and the night is still so young.

I've been taking a little time to listen to a song or two by the artists you all have been showcasing,
and I've come to the conclusion that you guys share some fruity fucking taste in music.

So I decided to bring back the Metal.

i use Gimp, close enough?

Meh, didn't turn out how I wanted it to... Ah well, at least I gave it a shot.

At 9/17/08 02:12 PM, Nikenick wrote: MY REAL CONTEST #3 ENTRY.

I think I messed up with the last one, so I made a new one.
I was just playing with this picture and I think the result is pretty good, I made up an artist name and a song name.

DAMN, that is so good!

No way I'm even getting like 5th place...

Does this look OK? Just starting out Photoshop and its for the album competition. I'm gonna be around this forum a lot cause I'm really into Photoshop. Can I join?

I was bored while researching stuff for a Chemistry assignment:

At 9/21/08 02:42 AM, Gu-rrilla wrote: I was bored while researching stuff for a Chemistry assignment:

Pretty cool!

I'm new to Photoshop guys. I've got a general idea on how to do stuff, but how do I get things like custom brushes, and other useful plug-ins?

this is my best one, and the ONLY one i'm posting today... =/

Photobucket.

MAC8-June/July Winner sig

At 9/21/08 02:42 AM, Gu-rrilla wrote: I was bored while researching stuff for a Chemistry assignment:

NICE!!!

All you need to do is blur the tongue a little more and sharpen the edges, which'll give it the same feel (like a bitmap, not vector kind of thing) as the rest of the bust. Great idea though.

At 9/21/08 09:52 AM, Spiff wrote: I'm new to Photoshop guys. I've got a general idea on how to do stuff, but how do I get things like custom brushes, and other useful plug-ins?

Check back about two pages. I posted a couple of links to some free download websites that have plenty of brushes, filters, and action programs that will get you started. I believe on page 6, Heinrich posted a link to another site for add-ons. You can also just type "free adobe photoshop add ons" into any search engine and you should get enough results to keep you busy for a while.

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It's Sunday, so that means this week's competition is at an end. Clap it up for all those who submitted their entries, there was a good show of talent this time 'round. But as you know there can be only three that earn bragging rights.
Or, in this case, 4 since we had a bit of a tie again.

Let's hear it for this week's top spots, those who stood out among the rest. Congrats to all, great job.

At 9/21/08 05:37 PM, THEJamoke wrote: Let's hear it for this week's top spots, those who stood out among the rest. Congrats to all, great job.

Haha, thanks. Was a great competition idea.
I so saved that set of medals. ;-)

At 9/21/08 06:00 PM, Scuzzfest wrote:

Congrats, I like that song too. Sorry I didn't participate, not the best entries for this competition though. I'll enter next week when I'll have my CS3 fully installed :)

Whoah I'm second again? O_o
Awesome! :3
Thanks!