I recently entered a competition put up by GIMP (the free photo-editing software equivalent to Photoshop). I started using and learning GIMP a few years ago, it’s great fun for anyone who wants to be creative with graphics or photography. In this recent competition we had to create a space scene using paints, photos, or a mixture of both. I used some of my aerial photography combined with some biking pics and added stars etc with paint. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Which one do you prefer?
First submission:
Spacebiker
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Second Submission:
The Sunday ride-out went a bit off-course!
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The Writer in the Woods 
they are both incredible! would you mind zipping to ecuador and giving me a ride to guayaquil? i’m heading to the bus terminal now, and your mode of travel looks like much more fun!
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I’d LOVE to see Ecuador! Should be there in about 15 minutes. Ditch the bus!
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These are really nice. Very imaginative.
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Thanks Colline, I had great fun playing with them.
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The Sunday ride-out went a bit off-course! This is the one for me… it looks like they’re really there. I was reading somewhere that you only have to go 20 miles up from the surface of the planet to reach the edge of outer space!
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Many thanks for you comment Tiramit, it’ll be interesting to see if either of them get a mention in the competition – it closes on the 21st.
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Think I like the second one better, but it’s close! I do like the license plate on the first one 🙂
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Second one, Jude. Whatta imagination flying all over the place on these photo edits. That might be hard to visualize initially.
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I can imagine myself up there – looking for somewhere to stop for coffee!
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I prefer the second one because it has a better composition and the colour profile is more united. It’s fun to play around with photos and software 🙂
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Thanks CG I value your comments! 🙂 I didn’t win the competition but I did quite well on votes.
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these are both great, but the second is my fave as well. winning isn’t everything – i am sure many peeps enjoyed your entries. thanks for sharing them here 🙂
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I actually won third prize! Never did get around to posting the fact. I won an e-book on digital painting. Mostly it was just such great fun creating the pics. 🙂
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