PaintCandy Blog: February 2015

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

BeachLife Composite Contest

Beachlife Composite

This week I am completely done with winter! lol So I decided to warm you guys up with a beach theme week. I created this composite images from a beach trip to Savannah we took when shyann was 2 1/2 . So yes I haven't seen the ocean in three years. I took her image and broken it up into layers to work with your composite. I hope you guys share this and enjoy with everyone. I can't wait to see what you guys create this week. This will be a longer weekly composite to give you plenty of time to play around with it. After each contest I will be deleting each composite download to build a composite package for the end of the year. So please download when the contest is open.

Layers Included:

2 water layers

boardwalk layer

2 cloud layers

3 sky layers

beachsand with birds layer

rainbow layer

poles layers

blue haze finisher

Contest Rules:

Not a must but please share photo on Facebook to share this freebie with your peers

Unlimited Submissions for contest

Please post images on the Facebook Timeline not in the comments under photo ad
If you have photography business post like this "BeachLife Composite" I Lilly Photography

Last image should be submitted by Sat Night Mar 7th at 11pm eastern time to be considered for contest

*One winner chosen on Mar 8th

Top Ten will be on the blog

Winner will receive a prize of Paintcandy choosing

Dos:

Change Colors, brightness,contrast,exposure, Dodge, burn, etc.

Duplicate layers
flip image horizontal
move elements around

Watermark images

add people & pets, beach items like umbrella, sand castles, buckets etc.

add sun flares, sun

have fun

liking others images on the FB Fan page

Donts:

Adding new elements (example:adding your own boardwalk)

replacing layers(example:changing the clouds for your own )

Will over 500 downloads each week. I hope to see more people post there renditions this week , even if they are starting out in composites.

Good for Photoshop CS 3+ and Elements 6+ Users

Monday, February 23, 2015

Alicias Dollhouse Winner and Top Ten

"Alicia Dollhouse Winners"

So thankful for everyone that enjoyed and participated in "Alicia's Dollhouse" Composite. You rendered child like images to ghostly encounters. I see the imagination was in over drive this week.
A big thanks for Mrs. Alicia Ulrich for her truly beautiful dollhouse! We appreciate you and welcome you back in the coming months. We hope that you loved her work and is now following her on Facebook for future art works. Alicia had a time consuming event when trying to choose a winner and top ten. She really enjoyed everyone's image.I see a lot of newcomers and we welcome you to our weekly composite contests as well. This community is very helpful and inspire other fellow fans.

Paintcandy has the sweetest members.

Congratulations to the winner and the Top Ten this week.

1st Sandia Mccormick

2nd Tiffany Levron

3rd Kelly Artist

4th Amanda Estep

5th Cathleen Turner Daum

6th Rnita Carneal

7th Susie SSp

8th Manuela Busack

9th Kristal Bonner

10th Melanie Luffman Labrecque‎

Sandia Mccormick please Message me your address for you camera ring

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NEW COMPOSITE CONTEST AVAILABLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Dollhouse Composite Contest

"Alicia's Dollhouse"

Welcome back for a exciting Guest Compositor Week.

I would like to introduce everyone to Alicia Ulrich. We befriended sometime last year and I fell inlove with her amazing fine art composites & her very gentle Spirit. She is offering her own composite for you guys this week. She has worked very hard in creating and designing her own stocks. The complete PSD is of her own.

Alicia's Bio:

Visit and see her beautiful works and like her page

https://www.facebook.com/DigitalArtistAliciaUlrich

Contest Rules:

Not a must but please share photo on Facebook to share this freebie with your peers

Unlimited Submissions for contest

Please post images on the Facebook Timeline not in the comments under photo ad
If you have photography business post like this "Alicia's Dollhouse" I Lilly Photography

Please Credit Alicia with the link

https://www.facebook.com/DigitalArtistAliciaUlrich

Last image should be submitted by Sat Night Feb 14th at 11pm eastern time to be considered for contest

*One winner chosen by Alicia Feb 16th*
Top Ten will be on the blog

Winner will receive a prize of Paintcandy choosing

Dos:

Change Colors, brightness,contrast,exposure, Dodge, burn, etc.

Duplicate layers(examples: you want 2 hutches)
flip image horizontal
move elements around

Watermark images

add people & pets

have fun

liking others images on the FB Fan page

crediting stock owner Alicia on Paintcandy Timeline

and also if you are posting anywhere via internet.

Donts:

Adding new elements (example:adding your own chair or other stock items)

replacing layers(example:changing the stairs for a different one)

Good for Photoshop CS 3+ and Elements 6+ Users

Download includes PSD that contains 12 layers including the background layer

NO DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE AFTER CONTEST

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Secret Place Composite Top Ten

Secret Place Composite Top Ten

This week was insanely hard to create a top ten! This is a great thing to say that everyone that participated surpassed my expectations on their individuality. A very big thanks to everyone that shared their vision with the community. I see everyone growing and nurturing others creative flow. Much love to those that came back and trusted in me to create a safe contest that was fun. A big hello to all the newcomers that have found this community and are willing to show there first time works. I remember how scared I was to show something new I learned and felt connected to but was not greeted in a nice way. So for any one new to composite you will master it in your own special style. You will love your first works as much as the graduated styles. I hope this contest give some creative release and maybe even spark a new passion into what you really want to express in your images. Each week you will notice you will grow strongly close to your images like an emotional attachment. In your images I get to know the artist from the other side a little better each week.