C'mon man.... you've barely altered it, at least try to be original!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/468 ... 1771_b.jpg

Do you want the PSD? I can assure you I put a lot of time and effort into that. It has at least 20 layers... But I guess it was all in vain. Oh well, I still have time to make something better.

Back to the drawing board

Heres my update:

I have never heard of many rules of design but never the "10% photo manipulation rule". I'm not sure if I understand you so could you please clarify your position, first you say there is a significant difference and then you say you think the image is 92% the same? On that note I also wonder how you can come up with a figure as exact as 8%, I thought maybe you just have a good eye for these things but then you say you spotted imperfections that have been removed but you seem to have missed the glaring imperfections such as the black box under the text that cuts into his left arm and the two remnants of the text that has been covered up by the same black box that can be seen directly to the right of the letter E.

The entire composition is the work of someone else, I don't think softening the background, sharpening the character and adding some text really qualifies as an original submission.

I'm sure the artist can come up with something more creative

There is no render. The source also had the black box, that wasn't added by Zhester. The original image is the wallpaper I posted, this has been edited by someone else who sloppily added the black box to remove the text from the original. I think we are drifting away from the point here, can you really say that a little post production done to someone elses composition can be counted as an original submission?

Well you have just stuck your name over someone elses photograph, but it's a nice photo and so my eyes find it worth viewing.



I have the PSD, lots of layers doing not much at all... looks to me like he's seen a tutorial somewhere but doesn't really understand what each layer is for and so just follows the same steps for every image whether needed or not. More than half the layers can be removed with absolutely no change to the final image at all.



Sounds like a sucky forum... 3 years and no original creations? If that's true then you might be right about the lack of talent.

It's okay Kenny, really. I don't want to have a signature that people may think is barely altered, so as I mentioned when I first posted that sig, I will be making another one, full of C4Ds and Fractals and Brushes. You won't even be able to recognise the render!

So I half succeeded in trolling you? Result!

I didn't mean try to assassinate the work but you kept asking the questions to lead us down that path, really my only issue was the lack of originality and I was happy to leave it at that until you felt the need to chip in with your opinions. If pushing people to be more creative is wrong then I am at fault.

Zhester, if you want to create your own fractals and 3D renders then you should check out the pixel bender plugin projects at http://www.subblue.com/projects. Very GPU intensive though but you can get some awesome (and original) results.

Entering on behalf of PurpleAce with the sig he did for me. It is simply perfect