Black And Blue All Over
by Kita

Comment by 3DsArcher:
There is such a dark mood in this photograph. Even the cat looks intense. The blue hair is a real eye catcher.

Black And Blue All Over
by Kita

Comment by arnit:
I'm not sure what the cat is doing there but I really like the effort you put into this. I hope the blue hair is editing :) Good luck.

Black And Blue All Over
by Kita

Comment by GT350:
Nice lighting and expression. IMO, the cat detracts from the shot. It would be more powerful without it.

Black And Blue All Over
by Kita

Comment by charleyangel:
imaginative!!

Lest We Forget
by Kita

Comment by DefyTime:
Good reminder

Lest We Forget
by Kita

Comment by kteach:
Looks like lighting wasn't quite bright enough here for a hand held shot and it got a little blurry. Good shot for a plaque that may have just been put up, otherwise adding a person to the shot might help catch a person's eye and make them want to read the accompanying article.

Steps to championship
by Kita

Comment by loseme:
*Critique Club*

"Steps to championship" is a very good entry into the Complementary Colors challenge. I remember your shot during the voting because I spent some time reading the ribbons.

The over image is a very nice entry. Great choice of the yellow and purple for contrast, I also like your idea of having the ribbons climb it really ties well into the title. I would try to map out your ribbon placement so they are spaced out a little more evenly because you might have filled the space a little more, especially on the lower left hand side. Also I might try other lighting to balance out the shot. The flash is just a little too strong for the shot and takes away and created that funky hazy/shadow on the winning ribbon. Overall good idea. Also good idea to use the border to tie the shot all together.

You defiantly have the ideas and the skills so I always look forward to your entries, keep up the good work.

Lest We Forget
by Kita

Comment by petrakka:
absolutely not. this is a photo of a sign. no people, no emotion, no story, except for words that explicitly say something, which your photo had nothing to do with.

Look who's come to visit?!
by Kita

Comment by Prime_Time:
*Howdy from the Critique Club*

I would like to say first, what a cute image you have here. Since I have a few of these. I really like the perspective view here, looking into something. As I start looking around your shot the red to the right, to me is over powering the cat. My eyes keep wondering over there. So I pulled it up in Photoshop and split it up by drawing lines on it. To see how it played with rules of the third and your cat is close to a power point. If you do not know what a power point is. It is where two line intersect each other. Well I thought, I will crop the red away and by doing so, to me it accomplished two things one it got rid of the red and two putting the cat on a power point. Now I look directly to the cat. You can see the changes here. Please let me know if you don't want my version of your image online, and I'll take it down.

I see where you use levels a lot. A quick tip in levels if you hold down the ( option on a Mac or alt on a PC ) and left click the triangles below the histogram and slide them it will show you black pixels which are on the left and white pixels to the right triangle. I do not mess with the center I use curves for this. Most of the time I just slide them until I barely get white or black pixels. I do see in your notes that you use curves and then levels. There is an easier way, so you don't have to go to levels. In the box next to curves is called a mask (if you don't know) and in this mask you paint back portions of your image you don't want to change. By selecting the brush type you want in the tool pallet and in the paint box, the color black. Now go to the image and paint back what you do not want to change. Also you can change the brush size with these bracket keys. (Smaller brush this key sign [ ). ( Bigger brush this key sign ] ). I hope this helps you out and if you have any questions please feel free to PM and if I can't answer. I will find the answer.

You have a wonderful day and keep up the awesome work, you have lots of potential, to be great.

Mark Thomas Kelsay

Black And Blue All Over
by Kita

Comment by Melly8522:
cccccccoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooollllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love it! 8