Challenge #8 "Monochrome" Results

[kerravonsen]

Here we are!
The results of Challenge #8 "Monochrome" are:

Embodiment of style
First:
by kerravonsen

Second: (a tie)
by thehadster
by kerravonsen

Third: (a tie)
by siluria
by siluria

I Just Like It
First:
by kerravonsen

Second: (a three-way tie)
by thehadster
by siluria
by vilakins

Third: (a six-way tie!!!!)
by siluria
by siluria
by siluria
by vilakins
by kerravonsen
by kerravonsen


Mod's choice
by siluria

Thank you, everyone!

I've also revealed the entries in the challenge entry post.

Now, discuss! Tricks, tips, that sort of thing. Though monochrome was pretty straightforward, wasn't it?

Comments

[kerravonsen]

Thank you all for so overwhelmingly liking my "Hiding in plain sight" icon. Though I must admit the chief goodness of that one was simply finding the image. I was sorting through my image resources, cataloguing the animal pictures, and that lioness figuratively leapt out at me as something perfect to use for the Monochrome challenge, since it was almost all the same colour anyway. What I did was
- duplicate the original, desaturate it, put it in Multiply mode
- use the colour picker to pick one of the lighter shades of beige from the original image, make a new layer, fill it with that colour, and put it in overlay mode
- the text was done in the usual way, one text layer with "HIDING"
and the other with "in plain sight" in different fonts and sizes
- I made a border around "HIDING":
-- alpha to selection for "HIDING", grow by 1 pixel
-- new layer transparent, bucket fill
-- alpha to selection for "HIDING" again
-- cut out the inside of the outline layer
- "HIDING" was in white, and I reduced the opacity to about 50%; I could do that because I'd cut out the inside of the outline layer. I don't usually cut out the inside of outlines, because they're usually hidden by whatever it is that they're outlining (I move the outline layer underneath). But in order to make the text more transparent, I needed to be able to see the background underneath, hence the cutting.
- I used the colour picker to pick one of the darker colours from the image, and used that as the text colour for "in plain sight", for the outline around "HIDING" and for the icon border.

That's about it.

[siluria]

Well done to the winners, there were some fantastic icons to choose from. And thank you very much for the mod's choice! :)

With the leaves, I just had a good stock image that I desaturated and sharpened up a bit, I then had 3 or 4 layers filled with different shades of green which I then turned into burn, color and soft light layers. I just fiddled with the opacity with each until it got to where I was happy with the colouring, nothing uber-technical :)

[kerravonsen]

I keep on forgetting about burn. I think my favourite mode to use in layers is overlay, followed by grain merge. I should branch out a little. 8-)