CLOSED: 2.0 Advanced Competition 82

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Further explanation of the theme, provided by Nato_777:

Zee Germans are coming! Nato's first match in the current Tournament is Germany Warfare, and he's drawing inspiration from that for us all this week, with the two German luxury juggernauts facing off. Take any BMW or Mercedes around any version of the Nurburgring: multiple cars are allowed, but must all be from either BMW, or Mercedes. He wants to see cars in motion, too!


CARS: Any BMW OR Mercedes-Benz model(s)
LOCATIONS: Any Nurburgring version
PHOTOTRAVEL: No
UNIQUE RESTRICTIONS: See Above


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Please, ensure you read and understand all requirements for this competition. Failure to follow
the rules may result in disqualification. If you have questions, send me a Private Message.
This Thread will answer many possible questions you may have.

  • It is recommended you host your image on ImageShack, Photobucket, or Flickr.
  • Not sure how to post a thumbnail or preview image? Read this sticky!
  • Please use a clickable-preview to full-size, not a separate text link for it;
    it makes poll creation much easier!

  • One entry per user. It must be your own work, and never previously used in a comp.
  • Do not ask other users to choose your entry.
  • Mark your FINAL ENTRY clearly, with red text. On H2H weeks, which side, as well.
  • You may change your entry once. Do it clearly; edit out your previous entry, and
    either post the new one in a new reply, or in place of the original.
  • When submitting, use either a thumbnail or a preview image, linked to the full-sizer.
  • Preview images can not exceed 500 pixels in either direction.
  • A preview image must be representative of the full-size image. Do not add effects to it.
  • Do not post "Honourable Mentions" or outtakes - just your Final Entry, that's all.
  • Winner gets to choose the following week's theme, as well as the Top 15. Every fourth
    week, the poll will be H2H style: entries must choose a "team", leading to two 8-picture,
    4-day polls. The winners from each faces off in a final 48 hour poll.
  • Winners cannot enter in their own theme!
  • The Host may ask for the original image and it must be submitted if so.
    It's recommended to save the original image (preferably in-game) until week's ends.
Failure to follow these rules will result in ignored entries and/or disqualification!

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What you may not do to a photo:
  • Alter the geometry of the car. No stickers, or body modifications not available in game.
  • Add shapes or objects from outside of GT5, signatures excepted.
  • Add lens flares or "artistic" filters to image.
  • Remove items from shot (scenery, other cars).
  • Use more than 1 image (HDR, photo-stitching, multi-exposure).
  • "Creative cropping". The main "image" must be four-sided, with 90-degree, upright corners.
  • Selective car colour changing: masking different parts to create racing stripes or similar.

What you may do to a photo:
  • Crop and/or resize an image.
  • Adjust the level or curve values.
  • Alter the colour tone of the image (gradient maps, photo filters, colour balance, etc).
  • Car body colour change (all stickers/design features must remain, see "Remove Items" rule).
  • Adjust brightness, contrast, exposure, shadow/highlights.
  • Enhance shadows or highlights (dodge and burn tools in Photoshop, for example).
  • Add noise and/or diffuse glow.
  • Add a post-game tilt-shift blur, or apply a motion blur to a stationary Photomode shot.
  • Make use of Layer Blend Modes.
  • Use a Sharpening filter and/or tool.
  • Scale or enlarge rims.
  • Remove or modify license plates.
  • Remove the GT watermark.
  • Add a personal signature.
  • Clean up or fix jaggies, texture pixelation, or colour separation.
  • Add a vignette effect.
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24.06.12
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Final Entry

M Power ... to go reverse.

Another pixlated pic :rolleyes: , If I try to clean this crap with airbrush It will make worse , soo here's another to garbish.
 
Diogo - what are you editing your shots with? Pixellation like that shouldn't be happening matey.

It look odd because the window frames are jaggy, yet the front of the car is blurred... what's going on?

I don't think Flickr is to blame for this... happy to offer tips if you need it buddy. :)
 
Final Entry

Mercedes


Man, this preview image looks bad, like really bad...
The fullsized one doesn't share the same problems though, so go ahead and click it.
 
Diogo - what are you editing your shots with? Pixellation like that shouldn't be happening matey.

It look odd because the window frames are jaggy, yet the front of the car is blurred... what's going on?

I don't think Flickr is to blame for this... happy to offer tips if you need it buddy. :)


I think I wil need tips until I die :dunce:

I use this now - http://www.picmonkey.com/

I don't know why , it makes good pics but on this M5 , just a single edit , no mater how small , bam ! , Pixels :(
 
I feel I stand a chance in 2.0 to atleast make the poll this time .__.
Hmm, Any car with stupid camber like that immediately gets on my nerves.

Final Entry

M Power ... to go reverse.

Another pixlated pic :rolleyes: , If I try to clean this crap with airbrush It will make worse , soo here's another to garbish.
You must be able to do better than that. So many flaws!
 
I think I wil need tips until I die :dunce:

I use this now - http://www.picmonkey.com/

I don't know why , it makes good pics but on this M5 , just a single edit , no mater how small , bam ! , Pixels :(

Perhaps because it appears to be an online thing? Which means it'll lead to amazingly huge and crap compression, hence pixels.

Try using a program on your computer instead. Give GIMP a go. Its legit and its free to download and use as much as you like. :)
 
I can't use it.

1st - It has to be administrator to install it.
2nd - It's hard to understand it :/
 
Aren't you the administrator of the computer you are using? Don't you at least know them?
And any image editing software is hard to understand at first but keep at it. GIMP is a walk in the park compared to photoshop I found when I learnt both...
 
It's my dad :P

I'm going to give it another try.

If I post it on my gallery could you go there and tell me what you think ?

Because I think you can only change 3 times your entry :/
 
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