Corel Manipulated Photography Competition

Results of the June Competition

The first month of this competition received some great entries.

 

The June Winner of the Corel PSP X software is Tim O'Neill, North Platte, NE, USA

"Light Morning Start", This image was also photographed using a Nikon D100. The lake and the goose were separate images. I cut and pasted the goose into the lake mage. I used Photoshop CS to soften and make a slight glow, then dodged and burned a leading line. I also used curves and levels for contrast and saturation.

 

Judges comments: 'Stunning. Great balance and subtlety. Beautiful'.

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"I Miss You Daddy", This image was photographed at dusk using a Nikon D100. In putting together this image I initially made several different and separate enhancements one for a few elements I wanted to look at. For example for the wall I used lucis to bring out the detail and make it harsher. I then combined each of the elements in layers and using layer masks feathered together the pieces I wanted. In photoshop CS I then removed the color from everything except the boy and dodged and burned forthe final effect. I enhanced the contrast and saturation and fixed perspective.

Runners up were:

Carl B. Wenrich, Temple, PA, USA http://www.cbwViews.com

Judges comments: 'A wonderful piece that is both abstract and somewhat suggestive of representation. Excellent color use'

 

The two images submitted were manipulated in Painter and CS2. The first (BoneToStone.jpg) used two photographs, layered with painted enhancements from IX.5. Layers were resized, blended, and color-changed to complete the image.

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The second, (Resurrection.jpg) is a composite of three photos. The first was used as a background, then reduced in size, and layered three times in different locations over the background. A second photo was layered over the entire image, for color and shape variation. A third photo, smaller and a closeup of sand dunes after the tide receded was layered centrally for texture. Additional manipulations were done in Painter and finished in CS2. This final image has been printed out at 30x40"

 

Peter Ciccariello, Providence, RI, USA http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/

Judges comments: 'Stunning use of selective color. A divine piece and equally worthy of a prize.'

Image title: "The body as vessel"

"The body as vessel" is a digital collage of a number of photographs merged with an underlying structure of forms rendered in Bryce and texture mapped with additional photographs of metallic textures. The body as vessel plays with the similarities and contrasts between organic and man-made forms and inquires about what the space that forms or "vessels contain may be.

 

 

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"The fiction dependent upon all fictions" is a digital collage containing a number of photographs and fragments of text all merged with an underlying structure of geometric forms texture mapped with additional photographs and rendered in Bryce. Postwork is done in Photoshop and Painter. The interplay of image and text creates new forms of ambiguous narrative and at the same time serves as an attempt to objectify textual meanings as associative pictographic symbols.

Judge's comments: 'Lovely abstraction'

 

Carol Muse Skinner, Republic of Panama http://www.pbase.com/carol_muse_skinner/digitalmuse

Judges comments: 'Good use of a number of programs to get exactly the result you want. Nicely balanced image'

Image #2 - Kuna Woman

This picture was taken from a sail boat in Kuna Yala (the San Blas Islands) The woman paddled up to the side of the boat to sell molas.

My workflow is as follows:

I prep the photograph in Photoshop CS2 to increase the saturation and contrast. I use Fo2PIX’s Buzz X to eliminate extraneous detail. Then I take the image into Synthetik Software’s Studio Artist and I paint 20 or more images. Next step is to move the Studio Artist paintings to Corel Painter IX where I clone bits and pieces of the paintings into a master image. Staying in Painter I stop cloning and start painting freehand. Last step is back to Photoshop for final tweaking of color, levels, curves, etc.

 

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Carmen 3:

Carmen is a Kuna Indian (the makers of Panama’s world famous molas.) She is a lovely person and an expert seamstress, I have known her for many years.

My workflow is as follows:

I prep the photograph in Photoshop CS2 to increase the saturation and contrast. I use Fo2PIX’s Buzz X to eliminate extraneous detail. Then I take the image into Synthetik Software’s Studio Artist and I paint 20 or more images. Next step is to move the Studio Artist paintings to Corel Painter IX where I clone bits and pieces of the paintings into a master image. Staying in Painter I stop cloning and start painting freehand. Last step is back to Photoshop for final tweaking of color, levels, curves, etc.

 

Alcina Nolley, St. Lucia, West Indies http;//www.alcinanolley.com

"Fly"
Painted in Painter on a Mac. Used a photo of a fly that was reversed and layered, relayered and treated with reverse out, colorize and pseudocolor compositing methods.

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"Looking Out The Window"
Painted in Painter on a Mac. Used three photographs, layered, relayered and treated with colorize, gel, difference or pseudocolor compositing methods.

Marcia Fasy, Glendale, OR, USA http://www.pbase.com/marcia_fasy

This photo was edited using many layers, imagination and filters. The colors were brightened, saturation increased, framed with layers and drop shadow.

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This photo was taken at high noon and therefore washed out. I manipulated the colors, saturation, sky, brought out the shadowed area of the porch. Then I applied filters to simplify the image and make it look more like a painting. Framed with layers and drop shadow.

Louis R. La Croix, Fountain Valley, CA, USA

This is an image of the mission at Santa Barbara. It was taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5700. Later it was manipulated (cropped/resized/color corrected) in Photoshop 7. Then it was finished in Painter 8.

Janet Lee, Vancouver, B.C. Canada http://www.janetplanet.ca

Title: Song of the Blue Shell
Photo taken with Olympus Camedia 5050 digital camera (conch shell and detail of one of my mixed media paintings). Scanned images are of music score and handwritting. Images were layered in CorelDraw and Corel PhotoPaint using the transparency tool and adding various effects.

Title: Starfish and Clam
Photos taken with Olympus Camedia 5050 digital camera (starfish, clamshell, conch shell, skeleton leaf). Images were layered in CorelDraw and Corel PhotoPaint using the transparency tool and adding various effects.