digitallibra vs. pollux

I challenge you to a Steel Cage Match!

I may be a novice to the cage but not photoshop -- sparing the trash talk until I have earned such privileges, would you be willing to be my first challenge?

Yes! First on board and front row seats! Hopefully pollux accepts. Don't want to lose this spot

Lots of action from the big leader board names mixing with total newbies all of a sudden. Cool!

whatever i'm still going to rip his head off

LOL. Some more tough talk might get him up from his bed. Brace yourself cause it won't be pretty.

he'll want to stay in bed forever once i'm through with him

. . .

haha. yea i know.

i'm just trying to get his attention. the last two people i challenged never showed face.

I Accept your challenge, but you will have to post the first blow!

I just arrived 10minutes ago from Sardinia (wonderful place )
sorry for beeing late, of course I accept !
a few advices that may help you , young padawan :

1 - put a good pillow around your bottom, it's gonna hurt

2 - don't tell your family/friends/girlfriend/children/co-workers that your playin' this game, they may laugh at you for the rest of your life after this ashaming defeat, and you may loose'em all

I'm your man !!!

(shall we find a few funny rules…… or maybe ask the peanuts ?)

Young to the forum I might be, but the only padawanish element in this game is your photoshop skills. forget the pillow, you're gonna need the whole mattress when this battle is over. You might want to book a couple more weeks in Sardinia to recover from what's coming.

You can set the rules or let the gallery, I'm still cloudy as to how that is done. I have a photo illustration that I began last night but it could use a couple touches. If you want I can just throw that out as the first blow and let the you and the peanuts create rules around it, or put out the specs for me to create a new one from scratch...

I leave that in your hands.

Can we pull stock from outside sources for battles (like deviantart.com resources section or sxc.hu) or does it all have to comes from istock solely?

you can do ABSOLUTELY whatever you want,(but I supppose using Istock isnt' bad seen )

for more details HAVE A LOOK



I have to be fairplay : I leave that in your hands

Alright. We'll just get it started with a classic battles of good vs. evil. No real strict rules unless the peanuts want to narrow the scope as we go.


"As he perched the rooftop he could see his first assignment. Down below
on the street the pale light shined from the fading street light and
the occasional car passing through the tired city. The concrete roof
felt cold as ice and his whole body chilled even though there was not a
single gust of wind on the lonely rooftop – not even a friendly breeze.
The sin that he had committed could not possibly have been worth the
cost, he thought, of his new existence as a fallen angel. As he slipped
off the roof without causing a single whisper in the cool night, he
swear he would find his way out of this curse and make things right."

I'm still waiting for an MS-paint only battle...

Spectacular blow. Let's have a brighter look:



Amazing perspective here, and a really smooth compositing style. Lighting is really careful. Is this your first-ever blow in the steelcage?!?!?!

It is very dark. If I tilt my LCD the wrong way it actually looks like a black frame. Is that an artistic decision or an improperly calibrated monitor?

(Edited on 2007-07-29 16:08:32 by EricFerguson)

No, you can even go more old school than that: Mario Paint battles.

thanks eric -- i'm just getting started

more artistic than anything. whenever i would lighten the whole piece it would loose the darkness and made it look more like daylight -- which was not my desired effect. All the stock photos were taken during the day which was part of my problem. althou i won't rule out my monitor being miscalibrated.

... and yes this is my very first blow in the cage.

(Edited on 2007-07-29 16:33:09 by digitallibra)

Spectacular work. Amazing first presence in the cage. Wow.

nice starting blow, I'm diggin this already

Hey great start! Great first image from a cage newbie - welcome digitallibra!

(loved the trash talk )

very odd.... if you look closely...




bring the heat old man!

(Edited on 2007-07-29 18:06:44 by digitallibra)