Cool Battle Idea.

[K]

http://graphic-forums.com/showthread.php?t=24822

[Lord Nibbler]

As long as the initial stock is good, I'd be down.

[K]

K. Someone post a stock.

[Xero Gravity]

Nice big hi-res image...

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1182/48...313080617cz.jpg

(Y) or :thumbsdown: ?

[K]

Looks good to me.

[Lord Nibbler]

And me. Assuming we're making up the bands/albums like in the original battle, your first cover is:

Artist name: Nameless Dead

Album name: Torture House

[K]

Cool. Try

Artist Name: Doomsayer

Album: Assassinate God

[K]

I'm not really a grunge graphic guy, but I'm reasonably happy with this.

[alldaws1]

That's awesome Keith. Have you just used the flower from the stock or have you used the rest in the background? It's hard to tell. But still, looks great.

[Lord Nibbler]

Hmm...I struggled with this one.

[K]

Ad: It's just the flower.

Bahaha that's totally sweet. I really like it. Especially the TV bit.

[K]

We going again?

If so, how about

Artist: The Exalted.

Album: No Political Aspirations

[Lord Nibbler]

Artist: The Traffic Cones

Album: Vanishing Act

[alldaws1]

That's great JTE. Perhaps the text would look better on a solid black bar? But anyway, that's really good, nice one.

[K]

Sweet. I'll get to work on it. How many of these do you want to do?

This one should be interesting. The band name sounds Indie to me, maybe pop-punk, you know. Not really sure where I'm going with this, but I'll figure something out.

[K]

This is where I chill, where I relax. Where I chillax.

Hardest part was removing the hands from the instruments.

[CrazyGame27]

Pretty sweet. I'm digging it. How on earth did you get rid of the hands? (Probably wasn't too terribly difficult, I'm a newb. )

[K]

It wasn't too difficult. Just time consuming.

I started off by cutting out the figure, same way you'd cut out anything.

Then cut out the hands, or anything else you'd like to remove.

Then you start repairs. Using the clone stamp tool I recreated the jumper and the base of the guitar. It's a bit blurry, but we can hide that later. I fixed the neck of the guitar, buy copying the bits of the neck that aren't damaged, and used the perspective and warp tools to make it fit.

I then painted in the holes of the arms.

I drew in the strings near the bottom by hand and with the pen tool.

Then I found another guitar picture and cut out the bit that would cover the missing area. I skewed and distorted it so that it was the right direction and perspective. and put it in place.

The last step, which isn't pictured because it's not really a single step, is to mess around with the levels/brightness/contrast/colour saturation and make sure everything looks like one picture and not an amalgamation of several.

The Saxaphonist was the most challenging guy to do, because it was really difficult to fix the bits of the saxaphone that I cut out. Also I had to make the back of his shirt (Because obviously his head was blocking it in the original) Which was interesting.

[probablyoliver]

Needless to say; I'm impressed.

[CrazyGame27]

I've always been fascinated with graphics but never quite got the hang of it. I can't even cut out objects, lol.. but very good, I'm extremely impressed. Can't wait to see the next ones.