PMC - Week 148 - Closed

[Nicknamealguem]

Welcome to Week 147 of the GT4 Photo Mode Competition

This competition will run for approximately one week. Please submit your entry by Thursday, the 31th of July, 2008


Week 148 winner: Moglet

Theme: The shape of Porsche


In this week, Moglet wants to see the destictint shape that Porche has in their models.

Cars: RUF only

Tracks: Any

Photo Travel: Yes

Poll Size: 10

Rules

Please ensure you read and understand all requirements for this competition. Failure to follow the rules may result in disqualification.
If you have any questions about how this competition is run, please, send me a private message.

Entry requirements

• You may submit one entry. It must be your own work not previously entered in a competition.
• Please mark your Final Entry clearly.
• You must post your entry either as a thumbnail, or as a preview linked to the full image - see here for instructions.
• Previews should be no larger than 400 pixels along the longest side, be it vertical or horizontal.
• We recommend you use a free image hosting service such as or
• Photos must be taken from a normal version of GT4, do not use any cheats or Game Shark codes to modify the game content.
• Please do not ask other members to choose your entry. Have confidence in your own skills and go with your favourite shot(s).

Image enhancement rules
(what you can and can't do in Photoshop etc.)

• You may adjust brightness, contrast and gamma values.
• You may rotate, crop and resize the image.
• You may add a border and signature to your entry.
• You may NOT adjust levels, hue, saturation, curves or sharpen the image.
• You may NOT use filters, blurs or layers on your entry.
• You may NOT add any elements to the original photo.

Above all, have fun and enjoy yourself!

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[tupacrulez]

giggidy giggidy goo. Porsche time.

 

[Swiss Legend]

word!! gonna be a good one.

 

[AOS-]

what is it with the Specified Range of cars these days?

 

[franz]

final entry



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[tupacrulez]

what is it with the Specified Range of cars these days?

What do you mean by that? It's too specific?

FINAL ENTRY
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[Muzaffar]

Final Entry
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[franz]

Very cool Muzaffar ... kinda like a 9ff trying to break a new top speed record 👍

 

[Moglet]

what is it with the Specified Range of cars these days?

I find it makes a change from the usual one word theme.

 

[Swiss Legend]

awesome shot Muz!

 

[atlop]

Final entry



RUF @ Shibuya

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Great shot Franz! Simple and classic. 👍

 

[franz]

Yours awesome too No way I can figure out it is at Shibuya

 

[Tangled Web]

Wow, this is already full of great shots. I might see what I can come up with.

 

[NTX]

Final Entry

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[Swiss Legend]

FINAL ENTRY
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[tupacrulez]

atlop: How did you get that without toying with the levels? Cranked contrast on a black/white photo?

 

[atlop]

atlop: How did you get that without toying with the levels? Cranked contrast on a black/white photo?

Cranked up contrast and brightness. Actually the photo was not black/white but since paint.net reduces saturation when upping contrast the result with 100% contrast is basically a photo with only black and white dots.

The thing is we have rules about contrast and stuff but there is no clear definition of what contrast is and how it should be adjusted. Also like someone mentioned, adjusting gamma is allowed but few programs have a lever you can pull that says gamma in it. These things matter because whatever way you adjust contrast (and brightness etc) your software needs to do something to hue/saturation/value = colors. And different programs do this differently. There have been a some attempts to start discussion about these things in the past but there really was zero interest. Now that we have so few people left I doubt it would be worth it anymore. But still if someone wants to get into this I'm in, it has always bothered me to know so little about the theories behind all this photo editing and I'll take any opportunity to learn more.

 

[Nicknamealguem]

Cranked up contrast and brightness. Actually the photo was not black/white but since paint.net reduces saturation when upping contrast the result with 100% contrast is basically a photo with only black and white dots.

The thing is we have rules about contrast and stuff but there is no clear definition of what contrast is and how it should be adjusted. Also like someone mentioned, adjusting gamma is allowed but few programs have a lever you can pull that says gamma in it. These things matter because whatever way you adjust contrast (and brightness etc) your software needs to do something to hue/saturation/value = colors. And different programs do this differently. There have been a some attempts to start discussion about these things in the past but there really was zero interest. Now that we have so few people left I doubt it would be worth it anymore. But still if someone wants to get into this I'm in, it has always bothered me to know so little about the theories behind all this photo editing and I'll take any opportunity to learn more.

+1. I always felt intrigued about this things. Say, for example, in this competition Brightness and Contrast adjustments are allowed, but not Levels, and what Levels do, mainly is to adjust the brightness and contrast. I always use Levels in my 2.0 shots, and I find much more easier to use it. The same thing with curves, although I prefer Levels. You can do the same things in both B\C and Levels adjustments.

 

[alexwrc]

Brightness and contrast is a quite generic term. You can modify them in some different ways and the B/C feature is a very basic fearure for casual editting.

Levels and curves have got more precision and also work different.

 

[David48]

Can this be extended just a little?.

 

[Nicknamealguem]

Can this be extended just a little?.

Yeah, no problem. I never close it at the exact day, and seeing that we still only have 6 entries...I can't see why not.

 

[tupacrulez]

EDIT: nevermind. I forgot i got one in already! lol.

 

[David48]

Yeah, no problem. I never close it at the exact day, and seeing that we still only have 6 entries...I can't see why not.

Thanks I'm working on it right now.

EDIT:

Final Entry

Runner up​

 

[Tangled Web]

Final Entry

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[jinjinweiwei]

final entry
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[Nicknamealguem]

Competition Closed​