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03/12/2013 11:42:27 PM · #1 |
Hate to rehash this, but I'm still confused by the comments on the other thread.
If I do nothing more then download a free texture and use it unedited as nothing more than a background layer on which I set my picture, have I broken the expert rules? No blending modes, nothing. Literally two layers. One being the dowloaded free texture and the other being entirely my work product.
Thanks for your thoughts. I read the rule to say that's permitted. |
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03/12/2013 11:57:20 PM · #2 |
You can't use it as a "background." As used here, a "texture" is an image applied over your image at a highly-reduced opacity (or otherwise blended-in) so that it looks as though the image was printed onto a textured surface. The texture image itself should not be so "present" as to be a subject itself.
It is a fine, and necessarily subjective line. It is far safer to just shoot your own texture or background during the submission week so that it doesn't matter how you use it.
In the examples in this gallery I have examples of a texture image applied in varying opacities in (relatively crude) 10% increments. It is very hard to make a clear line between when you have an image with a texture applied and when you have a "composite" image.
If you have time before the submission deadline, you can submit a Ticket with before/after versions and an explanation, and get an "informal opinion" (not "pre-validation") of your proposed image from one or more SC members.
Message edited by author 2013-03-13 00:10:40. |
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03/13/2013 12:07:56 AM · #3 |
| That sort of begs the next question which is would if I just wanted to put on a black or white canvas. Do I need to shoot a shot of black piece of paper? |
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03/13/2013 12:12:03 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by Yandrosxx:
That sort of begs the next question which is would if I just wanted to put on a black or white canvas. Do I need to shoot a shot of black piece of paper? |
No. then you are enlarging the Canvas and making a solid-color border, legal even in Basic-editing challenges ... |
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03/13/2013 09:14:34 AM · #5 |
you can create your own background in expert with a gradient fill.
example:
i shot this against a white sheet, masked it out and applied a blue -white gradient fill
Message edited by author 2013-03-13 09:14:57. |
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03/13/2013 10:19:27 PM · #6 |
awwww... i just noticed Falling Apart was Expert Editing... that means my planned entry i've worked on under Advanced Editing is probably going to score poorly.... ;-(
-m
p.s. is anyone else of putting a parenthetical title after the mandatory "Falling Apart" title?
Message edited by author 2013-03-13 22:23:15. |
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