Rainbow Challenge

[kevq]

Hi
here is my attempt at a rainbow.

Kev.

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8839/rainboww8wn.th.jpg (http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rainboww8wn.jpg)

[karen donnybrook]

Brilliant Kev, how did you make the rainbow?

[Wendy]

Karen ...

A new subscriber Video has been posted ... :)

Wendy

[karen donnybrook]

Thanks Wendy, I am not yet a subscriber. I still have to broach the subject with Michael. I am leading up to it by showing him all the wonderful things in everyone's gallery ;)

[Diana]

Gorgeous rainbow, Kev. Unfortunately I don't get to view the videos as I live out in the boonies where there is no high speed internet connection. Dialup just doesn't do it! Great job with the rainbow.

Diana

[kevq]

Hi,
Nice comments, thank you.

Kev.:)

[MikeH]

Unfortunately I don't get to view the videos as I live out in the boonies

Diana,

Boonies..?

Mike

[MikeH]

Kev,

Nice image and great effect with the rainbow... where was the picture taken?

Mike

[kevq]

Mike,
Glad you like it.
The photo was taken at Lymington (panorama).
Boonies is the equivalent of our "out in the sticks". If I remember my American literature it's short for boondocks?

Kev.:)

[judystowell]

Here's my attempt at Dave Cross' rainbow challenge. Hope I've done this right. (or here is the link to my gallery:
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/gallery/viewgallery.php?id=299[/url]

[NMarti]

Judy
That is quite beautiful. You did a very nice job!

[Wendy]

Hi Judy ...

You did a really nice job on that !! ... Well done :)

Wendy

[Red Sky]

I appreciate the fact that you have viewed my past "Pixcentrals", especially now that I see you are on dial up. I just have assumed most everyone is on a high speed connection so viewing others works is a quick and easy process. I really appreciate your patience for the loading times!

[CarolLHB]

Boonies-way out in the country...just shy of the middle of nowhere:)

[GaryK]

Mike


Boonies... short for boondocks.... way out in the country :)

[NMarti]

Gary
Past the Clampets but not quite to Deliverance. :D

[pvos2]

Here is my contribution to the "rainbow challenge"

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/gallery/view_img.php?id=4076

[kevq]

Hi pvos2,
Really nice work.
Have you thought of changing your identity to something more friendly.
pvso2 makes me think of Star Wars:D

Kev.

[MikeH]

Here goes...

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1pZEyeonx1SQZrJBRRxgtcrqTJOZh81

Mike

[danow]

I'm a newbie ...... hope this is correct.
Here is my attempt at the rainbow.
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/gallery/viewgallery.php?user=337

[kevq]

Mike, Dan,
Both very effective and what wonderful sites.

Kev.

[Wendy]

What a great collection of rainbows :)

Well done


Wendy

[NMarti]

Dan
Very nice - good job on the reflection. Welcome to the forum!

Mike
Very rich colors - very nice.

[Ward Grant]

Gary
Past the Clampets but not quite to Deliverance. :D

That is one of the best descriptions I have ever heard.

[Robyn]

I've been away so I'm a bit late.....but here is my rainbow.

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/5489/rossbridgerainbow5yg.th.jpg (http://img79.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rossbridgerainbow5yg.jpg)

[Wendy]

Robyn ...

That looks good .. its beautiful photographs and the rainbow looks very real :)

Wendy

[daggerd]

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/gallery/view_img.php?id=4116

[RegMidd]

I've enjoyed looking at peoples work with the Rainbows.

The video encourages you to introduce a reflection in the water, but can anyone help a beginner with this.

Is the approach to flip the rainbow 180 degrees and then take down the opacity?

Reg

[CarolLHB]

Hi Reg-welcome to the forum, nice to see new folks jumping right in!

That's what I would do-just make sure the rainbow is on it's own layer so that you can select it, them flip the selection vertical. I sometimes will mess around with transform, depending on light source. Hope this helps:)

[bwolford]

I've been thinking about participating belatedly, but of my 7000+ images 6500 are indoors and most of those out shots are with the sun in or near the background violating Grant's tips... Still searching.

In the mean time you've all done a wonderful job. Keep them coming.

Brice

[bwolford]

I think I found a rainbow in an old picture I took at Christmas time...

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3680/rainbow4zp.jpg

Or not...

Brice

[bwolford]

Then again, I'm not sure how this rainbow made it's way into this distant picture of one of the USA's most notorious prisons...

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1975/rainbow27lr.jpg

I guess a little bit of heaven can be found almost anywhere.


Brice

[kevq]

Brice,
two great shots.

Kev.

[flytyer]

Here is my attempt at a rainbow. Photo taken at Eagle Lake in California.
Sam (flytyer)

[danow]

Thanks for the accolades....

[raffy]

Hi,guys!here is my attempt at a rainbow,with a little added twist (I hope!).

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1388/rainbowwebanimatedsigned0io.gif (http://imageshack.us)

The Original Neon Sign.

Those are great shots,Brice!And all the other entries are wonderful,too-Kev,Judy,pvos2,Robyn,etc(in case I missed one)!

[NMarti]

Alice
Too funny:D ! Great idea though!

[vickiwes]

Here is my very first PSE project. I love the video tutorials! It made it so much easier to follow along even though I haven't learned much about PSE yet. I am new to PET and also to forums in general so hopefully I posted this correctly.

[NMarti]

Vicki
Very nice - you did a great job on your first project. Hope you share more of your work.


Alice - wow - just looked at the "Neon Sign" again and noticed you even have a reflection in the water! Great job!

[raffy]

Thanks,Nancy!That (word deleted) reflection was harder than the rainbow itself-it kept slipping out of place!Finally had to use Krazy glue.

I agree with Nancy re Vicki's rainbow-super cool!
And Sam's is lovely,too.I especially like the sun's rays coming through.

[kayser]

Hi Vicki- Welcome to the forum! Your rainbow picture turned out great! Hope to see more of your work.

[CarolLHB]

Great first project, Vicki!:) Glad you joined in-the rainbow's just the beginning. I'm sure the rest of the videos and tuts will keep you busy for a long time to come...:rolleyes:

[Wendy]

Hi Vicky ...

... and welcome to the forum :)

Nice work on your rainbow ... it looks good :)

Wendy

[Jodi Frye]

sorry for the delay...I tried getting it done sooner...I used a couple of Dave's ideas for this one ;)

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7744/rainbow1lc.th.jpg (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rainbow1lc.jpg)

Photo taken last summer...not 1955 :)

[kayser]

Leave it to you, Jodi, to do something completely different. It's really a striking image.

[Jodi Frye]

Thanks Kayser ! After Dave gave us the tutorial on making an image look old I decided to make an action for it...after I was done with the color version I looked at it and thought 'yawn' so I used the action to change things over a bit :)

[vickiwes]

Thanks everyone for all of the nice compliments! I feel so welcome! I will keep learning and posting new pics. I may even learn to put them into a gallery.

[raffy]

That's a great rainbow,Jodi!It really looks old,and that sets off the rainbow beautifully!

[Pauline]

Jodi what a great idea. It gives it a totally different look. I notice a lot of your work has to do with lighting. Your images always seem to glow. They just have a beautiful peaceful quality to them.

[bwolford]

Great sepia work Jodi. I thought it was an older picture, aging defects and all, until you gave it away... Nice work. You said something about Dave's tips... Was there another thread or did I miss a tut about aging photos?

Brice

[Jodi Frye]

Hey Brice...just look in the tutorial archives..' make a picture look really old' ..part 1 and 2. I changed things over a bit while creating the action but it's pretty much the same effect.

Thanks everyone for your comments :) means alot !

[karen donnybrook]

I have been fiddling around with a rainbow (of sorts). I couldn't do the subscriber tutorial but here is what I came up with:

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2006/rainbow8qp.th.jpg (http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rainbow8qp.jpg)

I used a 'pale colours' gradient and added some rain. Not very happy with it when I look at what has been done after you all did the tutorial. :D

[raffy]

Well.I think you did a great job on it all the same!Actually,yours looks a lot more natural,to me anyway.I especially like the rain-I've seen that happen in real life,and it makes it almost surreal.Makes mine look a bit artificial.Good stuff!

[Jodi Frye]

Karen, it looks quite splendid ! Were you have trouble with the tutorial ?

[Diana]

Diana,

Boonies..?

Mike

Sorry, a little late on the reply.

boon·iespl.n. Slang Rural country or a jungle.

[Shortening and alteration of boondocks.]

In my case, rural country.

Edited & added after reading all the posts: I see there are some who appreciate the meaning of boonies or boondocks. Were kinda far out in the country but I love country living. Actually, we're only about a 20 minute drive to the closest city, Jackson, MI (30,000 pop.) and about 45 minutes to E.Lansing (MSU) and Ann Arbor (U of Mich). But for some reason, affordable broadband connections haven't made it in this direction yet. We have an antenna on a tall tower to get TV reception.

Diana

[Diana]

I appreciate the fact that you have viewed my past "Pixcentrals", especially now that I see you are on dial up. I just have assumed most everyone is on a high speed connection so viewing others works is a quick and easy process. I really appreciate your patience for the loading times!

Well, Steve, your images are well worth the wait. It's been even more challenging this past week getting anywhere online as we were having telephone problems--humming and crackling on the line--which affects our dialup connection. The phone company finally came out and fixed it yesterday, so I'm trying to catch up on the forum. I was missing everyone!:D

Diana

[Diana]

I haven't tried the rainbow tutorial yet, but here's a rainbow photo I took from our side yard a few years ago.

http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/8238/rainbowweb6fg.th.jpg (http://img347.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rainbowweb6fg.jpg)

Diana

[bwolford]

Thanks Jodi. That's what I thought... I haven't been able to spend as much time around here as I want to so I was afraid I missed a new goodie.

I continue to admire your work. I have not idea how you do some of the things you do. You are amazing. Especially for an alien.

Brice

[karen donnybrook]

Alice, thanks for the kind words - I thought it wasn't a bad attempt for 'just fiddling' around!

Jodie, I still haven't subscribed - still working on it (I know it sounds like a cracked record :D ) but I have to had another 1/3 to the US price and it is just not possible right now.

[Jodi Lakey]

Your rainbow looks very nice.

Hi
here is my attempt at a rainbow.

Kev.

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8839/rainboww8wn.th.jpg (http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rainboww8wn.jpg)

[kevq]

Jodi L,
Glad you like it.

Kev.:) :)

[deains]

I bet no one is as late as me on the rainbow challenge, but I have an excuse. I am a 64 yr old retiree! This photo was taken by my daughter in San Francisco & I thought it needed a rainbow. I tried to get my photo uploaded but no luck, would appreciate it if someone would help this old man!
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/6051/img014rainbow4gm.jpg

[kayser]

Hi! I think more than a few of a forum members have you beat on the age:)

I'm assuming you mean uploaded to the thread? Do the save for web option and then you can use either www.pixentral.com (http://www.pixentral.com) or http://www.imageshack.us/
(imageshack gives you a thumbnail view within your post; otherwise they're the same.) Once you've uploaded to either, then copy the url into your post.

Looking forward to seeing your rainbow! enjoyed seeing your latest bird pic, by the way:
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/gallery/view_img.php?id=4751

[deains]

Thanks kayser, it looks like I got the rainbow photo in there. Glad you liked my latest bird pic. I thought I was getting pretty good till I started posting to the PSE user gallery & saw all the other great photos there & made me feel like an ameture! I'll have to go check out your photos. Don deains

[kayser]

Don,

Looks good! There are a lot of great images in the gallery, it's certainly inspirational.

[raffy]

Ok,I give!Where can I find your rainbow picture,Don?I followed Kay's link to your gallery,and saw all the lovely birds (cardinals are my favourite!),but no rainbow!Please advise.(We feed the birdies,too-we've had a family of cardinals and their descendants coimg for almost 40 years now.)

[deains]

It took me awhile to get the link pasted into my message in the forum but I will post it in the gallery too. I have had one pair of cardinals all winter here in OH. I see more in early spring & late fall. Don deains