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Hey Guys,
Just wanted to show you something I was messing around with. I use CS5 and can't get pixel bender to work, but I wanted to create an oil painting effect.
I used one of my favorite tanks shown on glassboxdesigns.com, originally from cpfarm.com.


I used a series of filters to create this


And then I went a bit nutty with liquify lol
 
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Cool! What sort of cardinalfish are those?

Now make the most ridiculously obvious photoshopped coral pic you can. :tongue:
 
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Thats really cool!!! I will have to give that a try. Thank
Please do, let me know what you came up with!!
Cool! What sort of cardinalfish are those?
Now make the most ridiculously obvious photoshopped coral pic you can. :tongue:
I think those are reef chromis.
Say hello to my bta;)

Lol...just hit up eBay for photoshopped corals. I bet you can find a plaid gorgonian
"Live like tomorrow already happened. Yesterday is only 3 days ahead. Today will be here soon." And a link to my tanks Links to my tanks (past and present)
Ahaha yup I'm sure of it.
 

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Very neat and I love the finished photo!
 

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Can you share with us what you did for the first rendering of the photo?
 

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Here is something I did with my 135g photo.

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Thanks Rev! Your's looks really cool as well! I will be happy to show what I did. It's a little long but here goes.
For this I am using an image of Mr. Kang's Korean Tank I found off of Reefbuilders, found here. I am also using one of R2R members POTM pics, Acro76's Acro pic
Here are the originals, it's best to start with a high res pic


First I do an image adjustment, moving the "Ahem" Saturation to unnatural levels.


I then apply several filter layers. The first is glass. I have to adjust the distortion and smoothness. With tanks, there is a lot of fine detail, so the distortion can't be too high and the smoothness must be, otherwise things become unrecognizable. With individual pieces like the acro, more liberties can be taken.


Next Layer is the Paint Daubs filter. I like to keep Brush and Sharpness to 1, but play with as necessary.


Last Layer is Brush Stroke. Direction below 50, Length 3 and Sharpness 1


Next I duplicated the background layer, went to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate


Now Change the Blend Mode (right above the Layer 1) from Normal to Overlay


Last Filter is Emboss Layer 1 (135 degrees, 1 and 250%) Change Opacity to 40%



This is the final Product, not awesome but pretty cool lol. I wish I could get CS6 or Pixel Bender to work. I obviously used liquify in Kangs tank (Not thrilled with it at all) and blurred all no essential background to help the focal points pop a bit. I like how that helped on the Acro.

 

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Very cool! It would be neat for someone to do a large image and have it printed!
 

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My rainbow yuma that died on me after a week.. it was magnificent :(

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Mr. Kang knows what's up. :tongue:



The guys below those in the trench. (I wish my tank had a trench LOL)

NVMD, they are blue eyed cardinals.

Where can you find more info on Mr. Kang's Tank? His website is down. Did he ever get a TOTM somewhere?
 
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NVMD, they are blue eyed cardinals.

Where can you find more info on Mr. Kang's Tank? His website is down. Did he ever get a TOTM somewhere?
Those were two different tanks. The first was an 850G tank that can be found at CPfarm.com I believe. Mr kangs tank can be found on reefbuilders. I think every tank needs a trench lol. I have thought of building a green river through one using gsp, and then I remember, GSP sucks lol.
 

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Bump for more pics!
 

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Here's my newly designed paly...I call it...the WizeKrak! LOL

Btw, I did this with Paint.net (that's the name of the program)...so even my photoshop is fake. LOL

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