WAY COOL matt!!! kicks butt!! :) retrocity

Very dark, Nice.

Great font & effects, really nice entry ; )

I may make a less demonic image

Very nice, dark. BTW, you can only send in one submission I read in the offical small print... Are those clouds Photoshop-created or is it some photographic material?

may as well show you, the filter High pass, on a layer set to hard light,.. before I combined a few layers wich had a basic filter of clouds.. and after a few curve changes made it an alpha and put a lighting effet on it.. the whole design is rather simplistic, and "dark"

I never understood that High Pass filter... Must try some things with it... Thanks for clearing the clouds! I am staring at the photo right now, is it a factory, or a building site? In the front it looks like a German village, but in the back it could be a Blade Runner Set. I do sound curious do I? Well, I am.

I thought it was the shuttle taking off?

Now you say so. I saw a lot of trees and stuff, but now my eyes opened...

yeah high pass with a certain input number and set in hard light mode -30 % opacity - almost looks like an unsharp mask.. & yeah it's a launch pic.

unfortunatly it's not the original photo, <- I saved over the original.....btw hoof got any words of wisdom concidering how you banner' came about? or some linkage for some of the free textures, brush's .. urm I may be asking allot eh?.. I know Archives..but grrrr Studdies

I think most of the elements came from www.clipart.com good stuff and a very cheap week, month or year subscription. The brushes are hard to track back, but I used some from vered http://veredgf.fredfarm.com/vbrush/main.html And some others might have been used. There are some free stock photo and texture sites around, I find them by using our friend Google. Like this one: http://www.freeimages.co.uk/galleries.htm Loads of links to them: http://www.3dtotal.com/home2/links/links.asp?cat=texture I do some 3D stuff with Carrara, so I also have the Total Textures CD's that I am using more and more with Photoshop. And I still make a lot of them by hand. Well, with the help of Photoshop ofcourse. I always use a lot of layers, blending modes and blurred version of layers on top of each other. When I am making something texture-rich that is. And manipulating alpha channels (with masks and stuff) to create selections that follow the textures. And the cracks are hand'painted'. I actually used the smear tool on a beveled, grey base, following the textures I stacked on top of it. Nice non-entry by the way!

my research continues.. most exelent! there comes a point where work, hobby , passion, and digital habits must meet. .. greatfull and thankfull

I passed that point... And I am glad I did! So now I earn a living with it.

VERY COOL!!

vote for it , lol