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Posted on 25/06/07 9:33:27 PM

josephine harvatt
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

Cheers Char!

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Posted on 25/06/07 10:33:50 PM

michael sinclair
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

Michael Sinclair productions present The Chambord Hauntings. Produced by Michael Sinclair, directed by Michael Sinclair, and starring who knows what...!

Click on the pic for bigger and better quality:

Posted on 25/06/07 11:36:41 PM

james
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

Nice one Michael;-
The house has grown a little. Did you create the lightning, if so, any chance of a tutorial? I never can do lightning.

Vibeke,
What book did you read while you were waiting,

Posted on 26/06/07 07:46:44 AM

Deborah Morley
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

Thanks Char. Where have you been, we've missed your great Challenges.

Posted on 26/06/07 11:52:52 AM

Babybiker
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

james wrote:
Nice one Michael;-
The house has grown a little. Did you create the lightning, if so, any chance of a tutorial? I never can do lightning.

There is already a tutorial or discussion on lightning on the forum somewhere (I Just can't remember where atm!).

BB

Edit - Found it here - http://www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com/cgi-bin/simpleforum_pro.cgi?fid=02&topic_id=1161871985

Posted on 26/06/07 4:00:00 PM

james
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

Babybiker,
On following the link, I find that yours truly prompted the tutorial to which yourself and others contributed. The mind is a fickle entity, and mine has a tendency to forget.
Thank you for the prompt, I have been known to blush (rarely).
However, Michael has used lightning to such dynamic effect I cannot help but be intrigued.

Posted on 26/06/07 8:29:38 PM

Meltonian
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

Hello everyone, I'm a newbie to the forum so go easy on me! Here's my effort.

Posted on 26/06/07 8:54:18 PM

james
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

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Meltonian wrote:
Hello everyone, I'm a newbie to the forum so go easy on me! Here's my effort.

And a good effort it is, creepy! Would'nt like to meet those two.
Wellcome to the forum. Hope to see more.

Posted on 26/06/07 9:04:11 PM

dave.cox
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

Don't really have time to come out an play this week, but Wow, there are some really great entries! Great job folks!

Posted on 26/06/07 10:39:25 PM

Wayne
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

Welcome to the forum Meltonian. Nice image, I particularly like the way the rain effect is picked out by the green glow.

Some outstanding work again this week!

Posted on 26/06/07 11:35:17 PM

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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

hi all not been using photoshop too long hope im not embarrasing myself but this is my effort, you all seem so good at this.

Posted on 26/06/07 11:36:26 PM

Terry
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

ok didnt go try again

Posted on 27/06/07 07:10:07 AM

BigVern
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Welcome Terry ... nice effect.

"http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r160/BigVernphoto/Haunted-HouseRev01.gif"

Posted on 27/06/07 10:56:03 AM

Dek_101
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

EEK!

Posted on 27/06/07 11:18:54 AM

josephine harvatt
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

Excellent first entry Terry - very elegant!
Love the torn edges Dek

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Posted on 27/06/07 11:35:33 AM

michael sinclair
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Re: Contest 152: The haunted house

james wrote:
Nice one Michael;-
The house has grown a little. Did you create the lightning, if so, any chance of a tutorial? I never can do lightning

James, I used the Free Demo Alien Sin Xenfex 2 and made a lightning PSD on a new transparent layer which the demo allows you to do; after which you can do anything you like with it such as duplicating, adding, erasing, and brightening.

This week's submission included three pairs of images ( one darker and one lighter) of sky, two images of Chateau, and two images of foreground ghost, so that when the lightning appeared briefly everything was lit up.

Another method is to use an actual photograph of lightning and use that as a backdrop sky.

Here are some you can use for fun and competitoins which don't appear to have names or copyrights.

Don't forget to click on each image for a larger picture

However, if you want cheap, nasty and totally unconvincing lightning then the bog-standard technique of using the "Cloud-difference-rendering" is for you