Friday, September 29, 2006

I've won a photoshop contest!

The contest rules were simple: create the nicest, prettiest or funniest photo manipulation in which you blend iBOOD or one of their recent products. The photo has to fit in the theme History. You can submit as many photos as you want.

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I will say a word or two about the three pictures I have submitted. You can always click the picture to enlarge it.

1) the Pergamon

The original:

This impressive talisman is called the Divining Disk of Pergamon. It was discovered in Asia Minor in 1899, and is preserved in a Museum in Berlin. It is 0.12 cm. It formed part of an apparatus used by the magicians of Pergamon for divination and obtaining Oracles in the first half of the third century A.D. of our Era. The inscriptions on the convex side are arranged in concentric-circles and contain a large number of magickal glyphs. Among them are several Greek letters, and a whole circle of Greek vowels. Also, it contains the Egyptian hieroglyph for B, the symbols of the sun and the moon, etc.


My edited version:

I've given the talisman a golden fill colour. Eventually I created the iBood logo with it; pretty simple.

Just some layers and gradient filling got the job done. Most of the effort was put in creating the transparency of the original medaillon.






2) Einstein


The original picture and my edited version next to eachother. Doesn't need much explanation, other than a clone tool, a chalk brush and some smoothening. Some people asked me how I came up with the idea. I don't know. It's probably pure genius. No I'm kidding (no I'm not!).













3) the Ancient Greek ship Armada, on its way to the city of Troy

I can't put the original here without breaking copyright laws, so you can watch the original here.

My version:




Translation:
Faster!! Don't let captain iBood get away !!!






Against all my odds, Einstein won. I really didn't expect this as I found so many other submissions superior to mine.

What did I win? Well, seems like a "multimediaset" with a mouse, keyboard and webcam. I don't need any of those, I was just playing for fun.


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