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Rose contest - 1600 points give away*aoao2 and I (=lieveheersbeestje) hold a contest. We give away a total of 1600

What to do?
Edit one of our rose stock photos, what you do with it is up to you!
Rules:

Fav this journal if you want to participate.

Use one of the roses below, you may use more of these rose stocks in one entry, but do not blend other (your) stock images in it.

Adding textures and brushes is allowed. Tip: http://lieveheersbeestje.deviantart.com/gallery/34134252#/d519cs7 / http://fav.me/d4i0be0

Making a vector out of a rose photo is allowed.

Drawing things (with a tablet) on the rose(s) is allowed.

Do not use photoshop actions (like: http://lieveheersbeestje.deviantart.com/gallery/34574995), you have to do the edit yourself.
The roses: (use one of the following stock photos)
=lieveheersbeestje

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*aoao2

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Blue contest, 3000 points give away!New contest, *aoao2 & me ~lieveheersbeestje are holding a contest again.

Contest theme What do you have to do.
Take a photo of something, it must mainly contain the color

blue

Let's say around 80% of your photo has to have a blue color. You don't necessarily have to photograph something that's blue.. you can also edit it in a program, like photoshop. You may choose the subject yourself! Still life, flowers, landscapes.. every photography category is welcome.
Fav this article if you want to participate in this contest, so we know that you are in!
Folder with entries here: http://lieveheersbeestje.deviantart.com/favourites/51282905
More details + summary:

One entry per person

Put in your artist description that it's an entry for this contest.

Contest starts: today 12 aug '12

Contest ends: 12 sep '12

Nature photography contest! CLOSEDWe, the judges, will choose the winners in the following days.

*AljoschaThielen and me, `dragonfly-oli, made up a contest for you!
We chose a theme all photographers can participate in.
Theme: Macro in Nature.
Deadline: March 1, 2013
Rules:

You may submit all pictures that have macro in nature in it now. No date limit!! Submission limit is still 2 deviations maximum.

You need to fave this journal!

"Macro in nature" can be a closeup of a flower, of drops in nature, etc. But NATURE and CLOSEUP has to be involved in it.

You need to send your submission to either `dragonfly-oli or *AljoschaThielen in a note, telling us it is for our contest. You will be added to a folder with other submi

Catch my pageviews!! (850 points giveaway)Catch my pageviews and win POINTS!!

Rules for participation:
1.

this journal and add a comment
2. You must make a poll or a journal about this, so more people can participate!
3. You must be a member or a watcher of :iconColorblast:
4. This is only for my Watchers, You should add me to your watch list if you want to participate
5. You should take a screen shot of my pageviews and post it in a comment on this journal ( do not send me a note because it will not count) the first one with the screen shot will win the points!
6. You may participate 3 times only
7. And please NO cheating

Have fun

!
381, 000 pageviews -

100 Winner: ~PandiBrandi
382, 912 pageviews -

50 Winner: ~Nightmarish-Dream
384, 213 pageviews -

50 Winner: ~ChiccaNeko
386, 211 pageviews -

50 Winner: ~Broken-Wolf13
387, 543 pageviews -

50 Winner: =LiS7x
388, 921 pageviews -

50 Winner: ~Firepoppy
390, 213 pageviews -

Cup contest 2012 | 4196 :points: | winners!Sorry that it took more than a day, but I was hoping for a more clear second and third place. Anyway these are the entries that won!
First place: 2000

+ 3 month PM or 636

.: Smiley Cup :. by *Pure-Poison89

Second place: 1000

Strawberry cup by =So-ghislaine

Third place: 500

Half Empty or Half Full? by *ajnataya

Printscreen: http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3033/cupcontest.jpg
I will give you all your price now <3 Congrats!

And thanks for the people who voted in the poll

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EDIT13jan2013: The cup contest ended yesterday. It was quite hard to decide (believe me

), but I made a decision for the final poll based on:
1. originality, concept
2. technique
Thank you all for your participation

These 10 entries made it to the final.

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Rose contest 1st round + mini contest winnersROSE CONTEST
FINAL ROUND
The polls on ~3ees are closed and 10 entries made it to the final round. *aoao2 & ~lieveheersbeestje will choose the winners themselves. We have to choose between the following entries: (random order)
1.

9. Yours? 10. Yours?
& 2 other entries who didn't made it to the finals, maybe yours is there too, maybe you are first or second? Read it tomorrow in one of our journals, because tomorrow we will announce the winners!

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First the rose contest, the polls of the first round are closed now, the second poll round is in the make. I update this journal entry when the next polls are ready on ~3ees The entries who made it to the next round are: (in random order)
Poll 35,36,37,38,39,40,41&42 are ready.
Go to ~3ees and bring out your vo

120 points giveaway! The winnerHello, sweeties (:
I hope you're having a wonderful weekend

I decided to make one of you smile again by giving one lucky deviant 120 points
All you have to do to participate is:
favorite this journal
and
that's all
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You don't have to visit my gallery nor watch me, but if you do, thank you!
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+ Have a random question?
You can ask me anything here :
[link]
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Have fun and good luck
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+ You can win 5000 points participating in my contest here. It's fun. Check it out below, please:

Thank you everyone who participated (:
The winner is :iconSachi-pon:.
Congrats, and enjoy your points

Easy bokeh tutorial!After writing a surprisingly successful journal entry a few days ago, I've decided I'll be trying to update this as much as possible - thanks for all the support everyone! You're amazing!
There are so many more topics in photography I think people would find very useful. Years ago, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was always so fascinated by the 'bokeh' effect in backgrounds, and often attempted to get the same effect but to no avail. What was I doing wrong? I had a good Canon slr and a kit lens of 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 - shouldn't that be enough? WRONG! I started again from scratch, researched every possible tutorial existed on the web... I realized I was doing all the wrong things!

How to create beautiful Bokeh
1. Large aperture works best, so use a low f-stop number like f1.4, f1.8 or f2.8.
2. The best lens I ever bought was the Canon 50mm f/1.8, creating soft beautiful bokeh light in the background. I remember I only paid around $100 for it, so it reall

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My Photoshop Actions journal

Journal Entry: Mon Jul 16, 2012, 11:11 PM

What are photoshop actions?

Photoshop Actions are the recordings of commands that can be applied to one image or multiple images in photoshop. When you press play, it applies these recorded commands. These recorded commands are edit effects you can create in photoshop, think about changing the colors, adding more contrast or brightness to spice up your pictures! Using a photoshop action save a lot of time for the editing process of your photo.

Version #07 is up! Not only the previews are updated, but the actions as well. Now it's much easier to adjust the action to your picture.
After you applied the action, you can easily set the opacity of each layer or just of the whole coloring. Hope you like this new experience. Have fun! =lieveheersbeestje

30 points every week!

New: every week I choose one artwork that used one of my actions. The artist get 30

In order to participate you just have to post a photo/manipulation this week edited with one of my actions. You may submit as much as you want and participate every week! Every week there will be a new winner.

Put in your description which action you used, somethimes I don't recognize which action it is and I want to know which one you used.
Please

this article so more people can get to know about this. Thank you!

Rules: please read the following rules thoroughly.

The Actions are created with Photoshop CS2 and should be used with Photoshop CS versions only, I don't recommend other programs. These should work properly with photoshop CS to CS5. Click on 'download file' to download these actions, after that you can install it and use it with photoshop.

Credit me if you use an action, this is required. (somewhere in your artists comments) or somewhere in your credits page if you used these actions for an image outside deviantart.

Do not copy, edit, publish, transmit or reproduce in any way.

Click here for my actions folder or download all my free actions here: