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Yah, welcome to chop black.

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blade_in_exile wrote:

glennhanna wrote:

Only geniuses come up with good ideas. Sorry for the bad news. If it makes you feel better, I only come up with a good idea once every 15 chops. But even those ideas are not ground breaking or worth remembering.

thanks for the reply but not after a winning idea, although it would be nice, any idea would be fine, i sit here look at the picture and take the following steps

rotate it 90 degrees until its back he right way

then rotate it 90 degrees the other way until its right

zoom in to just one quarter

zoom in on the centre

zoom in on the main feature (if there is one i can see)

colour it

desaturize it

and still no idea comes about what to do with it..

nm will get back into the swing of things

I tried the same method but it sucks! Never done a good chop with it

Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:25 pm   Reply with quote         

blade_in_exile wrote:

glennhanna wrote:

Only geniuses come up with good ideas. Sorry for the bad news. If it makes you feel better, I only come up with a good idea once every 15 chops. But even those ideas are not ground breaking or worth remembering.

thanks for the reply but not after a winning idea, although it would be nice, any idea would be fine, i sit here look at the picture and take the following steps

rotate it 90 degrees until its back he right way

then rotate it 90 degrees the other way until its right

zoom in to just one quarter

zoom in on the centre

zoom in on the main feature (if there is one i can see)

colour it

desaturize it

and still no idea comes about what to do with it..

nm will get back into the swing of things

The real trick is to spin the entire image to odd angles one I use often is 114 degrees then click into distort adjust point A by 37 1/2 deg. then switch to point D and adjust it to 197.75 deg. Point B adjust somewhere between 55 and 90 deg. Point C is the tricky one now it shouldn't go over 36 degrees or it ruins everything else you've done.
Once done the idea should be screaming at you.

Please pay the cashier as you exit.

Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:29 pm   Reply with quote         

Martrex wrote:

blade_in_exile wrote:

glennhanna wrote:

Only geniuses come up with good ideas. Sorry for the bad news. If it makes you feel better, I only come up with a good idea once every 15 chops. But even those ideas are not ground breaking or worth remembering.

thanks for the reply but not after a winning idea, although it would be nice, any idea would be fine, i sit here look at the picture and take the following steps

rotate it 90 degrees until its back he right way

then rotate it 90 degrees the other way until its right

zoom in to just one quarter

zoom in on the centre

zoom in on the main feature (if there is one i can see)

colour it

desaturize it

and still no idea comes about what to do with it..

nm will get back into the swing of things

The real trick is to spin the entire image to odd angles one I use often is 114 degrees then click into distort adjust point A by 37 1/2 deg. then switch to point D and adjust it to 197.75 deg. Point B adjust somewhere between 55 and 90 deg. Point C is the tricky one now it shouldn't go over 36 degrees or it ruins everything else you've done.
Once done the idea should be screaming at you.

Please pay the cashier as you exit.

see i tried that and all i got was a swirling vortex of doom, now don't get me wrong it looks great but i cannot enter a swirling vortex for every contest..............................or can i?

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Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:59 pm   Reply with quote         

I run into this problem a lot and the best solution for me is to type in random words into a Google image search (baby, cat, plane, etc.). I save two or three pictures that catch my eye and then open them up in photoshop. I only allow myself an hour to make a rough picture from these sources. The challenge of trying to fit all of these random images into one picture usually sparks an idea for me. Good luck

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Try to make first thing which comes to your mind when you look at the calendar. Even if it seems the dumbest idea ever or impossible to make That's how I got all my wins so far Not too many of them but always...

Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:42 pm   Reply with quote         

dont forget the final point, throw comp out of window

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blue_lurker wrote:

Dont reinvent the wheel...look around others portfolios and see what has been winning in the past and present.

................. explains a lot of things

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marcoballistic wrote:

dont forget the final point, throw comp out of window

this was my first step, forgot to put it in the list
luckily i have another that i can keep chopping on

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