I'm amazed I made this

[Smalldude76]

In my communications class at school, we're learning Photoshop 6.0. The person next to me had been giving me pointers on things throughout the semester, so I had a little general knowledge. On I think Wednesday, our teacher asked us to come up with something for November 11 (Remembrance Day) whether it be a poem, image, letter, etc. I chose to do something in Photoshop, and got some good comments about it in class, but what do you think?

Here it lies. (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y125/smalldude76/Nov11.jpg)

For those wondering, the guy is Sir Arthur Currie - the head of the Canadian Corps during World War I. He led several victories using an entirely Canadian army. two notable ones being Vimy Ridge (British+French had been fighting it for 3 years) and Passchendaele(Ypres 3, uphill battle so muddy that people fell in and drowned in it).

[Aimless]

Are you sure this is for November 11th? It's just that plane, those two tower-like objects... it's all very reminiscent of something else.

Okay, okay. I'll try to be constructive.

Do you know what always goes down well? Wartime poetry. A few lines scrawled along the bottom of that image could work a treat. What poem? I have no idea.

Hey, I said I'd try.

[Smalldude76]

Are you sure this is for November 11th? It's just that plane, those two tower-like objects... it's all very reminiscent of something else.

Okay, okay. I'll try to be constructive.

Do you know what always goes down well? Wartime poetry. A few lines scrawled along the bottom of that image could work a treat. What poem? I have no idea.

Hey, I said I'd try.


Now that you mention it, it's quite reminiscent of an incident not too long ago :P. But that was entirely unintentional... The monument is something in France as a landmark with soldier's names written on it. Unless I'm thinking of another monument... I suppose it takes quite a bit of knowledge of WW1... hadn't thought of how indepth it was.

The plane I got under a search for 'Billy Bishop' or 'World War I planes'. Billy was a Canadian pilot that got 72 confirmed plane takedowns(forgot the correct term). Eight behind the Red Baron.

I'd actually thought of doing a poem, but alas I cannot write good poetry - only decipher it. I was going to put a few lines at the bottom, but everything I had thought of was really just along the lines of "We shall not forget", and 'In Flanders Fields' must be done as a whole or the full meaning is not breached. I agree though, it would look better.

[Konfucius]

Looks really good, very nice cut-out's too but I think there's too much transparency (I wouldn't use transparency for the plane at all) and I would increase the contrast a bit too.

Some unimportant thing that came to my mind right now: When I read Sir Arthur Currie I remembered that the boot camp in Starship Troopers is named after him Camp Currie. Sure it's just a Sci-Fi book but still...:)

[Supergrunch]

Personally I think the transparency works well; it gives you the feel that the images in the picture are from the past.

[Offerman]

Personally I think the transparency works well; it gives you the feel that the images in the picture are from the past.

Yea, kind of ghostly.

[JonSt]

Looks great Will, very ghostly with the transparent pics on top.

[Supergrunch]

Actually, looking at it again, I think you should have made the monument look very opaque to contrast with the other pictures, signifying that it is all that remains.

[Smalldude76]

Thanks for the comments :)

I originally had the plane and the 1918 without opacity, but it didn't turn out very well at all. They were too bold and took away from the rest of the image, so I made them more opaque with I think overlay on one layer of each. I also used a gausian blur on the 1918. I also tried to have the towers stand out a little more, but without that green layer over top they looked pretty bad.

again, thanks for the comments :)

[Kurtle Squad]

Are you sure this is for November 11th? It's just that plane, those two tower-like objects... it's all very reminiscent of something else.

Okay, okay. I'll try to be constructive.

Do you know what always goes down well? Wartime poetry. A few lines scrawled along the bottom of that image could work a treat. What poem? I have no idea.

Hey, I said I'd try.

:indeed: Baka


Anyway; I really like it. It looks Great War-ish to me, tis cool :grin: