Hi, I'm smile, a teen from South Asia.
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I'd love to talk about God !
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I'd love to talk about God !
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Hey smileyy, glad to meet you and welcome to CC! Did you check out the Christian Teens Forum, a lot of other teens and young adults have joined recently too. Have fun browsing the Threads, God bless & keep you always
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I am working on a panel... or two. This one currently, which I started this morning:
Psalm 14:1-3; Job 15:16
I have also been working on this one today:
From Ecclesiastes 5:18
Neither have been posted before... heh, I realized with that second one that I don't think I've had such a
smiley-faced woman for a while! She started out as Kristen Bell... after I watched a new series with her in it.
Hi Tabin, thank you for inviting, I would love to see you there..Hey smileyy, glad to meet you and welcome to CC! Did you check out the Christian Teens Forum, a lot of other teens and young adults have joined recently too. Have fun browsing the Threads, God bless & keep you always
I am working on a panel... or two. This one currently, which I started this morning:
Psalm 14:1-3; Job 15:16
I have also been working on this one today:
From Ecclesiastes 5:18
Neither have been posted before... heh, I realized with that second one that I don't think I've had such a
smiley-faced woman for a while! She started out as Kristen Bell... after I watched a new series with her in it.
What's a panel? are you referring to these posters?
If so, they are genuinely creative...
Yes, and thank you... I do call them panels... I design them from pieces I collect to
collage with. For instance, the woman in the first "panel" started out looking like this
I reversed the image (so the figure is facing into the image), erased the background she was on,
put her on a new background, gave her a new face, and gave the new face different eyes and even
changed those so she is looking at the viewer instead of off in another direction... and also made
her clothing a little more modest. The one with Kristen Bell is probably blending three or four
backgrounds together, plus I changed her eyes, and added other elements/ephemera to the image,
including again making her dress more modest. Most elements get majorly altered with density and
colour corrections as well, which is what I do in my profession as a photo finisher, which is where
I learned remedial skills in photoshop. My fave one to show the type of transformation I work on
the original image/figure/face is this one, starting with this face:
To end up here:
No, I am collaging. I collect a lot of these pieces, the faces, figures, and backgrounds, from pixabay, where all manner of photographs and illustrations are made freely available to others for use in personal projects with the caveat of no financial gain. Well, the no financial gain is now assumed because other sites where I used to collect before I discovered pixabay said that. Now some of those sites want you to pay and also give attribution which is not required from the things I collect from pixabay. So much out there now is AI generated. I have been doing this for close to seven years so my collection has really grown, and my style changed, though a lot of what I collected at first is probably mostly useless to me now, especially because I am designing larger than I used to at first, even though it is only 8 x 12 @ 300 ppi. I am trying to go through some of my folders to delete things because of space constraints. That is how I found the wooden bridge I added to the background as it is something I have had on my device's portable HD for many years. I do do a lot of brush work with cloning, smudging, erasing, blending, etc, and as you can see from the one showing a major transformation from start to finish, what I end up with can be quite different from what I started out with.
What kind of work did you do in Photoshop?
Psalm 23
Psalm 23:4-6
Psalm 23:4
Psalm 23:1
Psalm 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.
Showing a variety of my Psalm 23s. The last one shows multiple backgrounds blended, and the figure again
has had a face change and then the eyes on the new face changed also so she is looking at the viewer...
She started out looking like this:
I see, there's a lot to learn hehehe.... Did you try generating your own AI pieces?
7 years feels like a nightmare, it's hard to be consistent .. xD..
Do you have any art piece which you think is the best that you've ever made..
and as much as I've seen your pieces, they're just SOOOO colorful, having vibrant range of views.. what's the reason?
I contribute at my local church, so I manage their logos, event graphics, in general i work everywhere where they need tech assistance..
No, though I did go to one of those generate-your-own-AI-image sites but I think you had to pay or something? Plus I have seen people's early attempts haha it is like some of the really awful stuff I had to look through even six-seven years ago when I would be searching out things to use in my designs. Like really awful LOL. And many of the files were very small, too small for my use now, although not everything was wretched or not sized large enough. I was collecting all kinds of things then, because I would spend a good deal of time constructing the backgrounds and frames etc but then the background mostly gets covered with the text, so...
I run into the same problem when I am looking for public domain faces... so many of them are around 200x300 pixels while I prefer something at least 1,000 pixels high because the panel is 2400 pixels high, and 3600 pixels across @ 300 ppi. I do 300 in case anything is ever going to get printed, as that is optimum. I used to start with a really arty face, something someone had already applied filters to, but even then I would swap out the eyes so there was better detail and so they'd be more real looking. Even this one had real eyes added to it (LOL) Yes, colourful! I used a variety of elements in the background, and always have at least a simple border on my designs.
Psalm 19:14
It would be really difficult to pick a fave (I have done hundreds and hundreds of them by now), but I did spend a long
time constructing the background out of indidual pieces for this one, and was quite pleased with how it turned out.
Isaiah 12:2-3
It has been lovely chatting with you but I must be off to bed!!! Good night
I run into the same problem when I am looking for public domain faces... so many of them are around 200x300 pixels while I prefer something at least 1,000 pixels high because the panel is 2400 pixels high, and 3600 pixels across @ 300 ppi. I do 300 in case anything is ever going to get printed, as that is optimum. I used to start with a really arty face, something someone had already applied filters to, but even then I would swap out the eyes so there was better detail and so they'd be more real looking. Even this one had real eyes added to it (LOL) Yes, colourful! I used a variety of elements in the background, and always have at least a simple border on my designs.
Psalm 19:14
It would be really difficult to pick a fave (I have done hundreds and hundreds of them by now), but I did spend a long
time constructing the background out of indidual pieces for this one, and was quite pleased with how it turned out.
Isaiah 12:2-3
It has been lovely chatting with you but I must be off to bed!!! Good night
