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Photomanip HappeningsHey all,
This is sort-of a spur-of-the moment journal to tell you about some things that are going on around the photomanip community. I will write up the news as soon as I get the time to pull everything together, but there are some things you will want to know about in the interim.
Where is our CV?
I'm here, just working on several things at once.

I have to split time between dA and school (for those of you who don't know, I'm halfway through a Ph.D. program). My dA attention is divided between Photomanipulation month in #projecteducate and Dante's Inferno in #Halloween-HQ. I've really appreciated your DD suggestions.
Get involved!
As a CV, I have gotten to know a lot of people and had an opportunity to appreciate their art, and they continually blow me away! But, there are many other artists out there who I would very much like to know as well. The hard part is finding them.

I would thus encourage everyoPhotomanip Happenings by ^Aeirmid

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Bloody Melancholy Contest (CLOSED):iconmh1plz::iconmh2plz::iconmh3plz::iconmh4plz::iconmh5plz:
First of all, I wanted to remember you that I selected the winning works for the representation of the melancholy side, not for your skills to draw or photomanipulate. So, please, don't feel offended if your beautiful work hadn't be choosen .
I would also tell you that I'm really happy with all these beautiful creations you did ! Many thanks for your participations, I hope you'll try to participate to the next contest .

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1st :iconKatherine-Black:
:iconkawaiistarloveplz: Poor Snow White...! :iconkawaiistarloveplz:

This work is just so incredible ... The first time I've seen it, I could easily feel as if I was in this scene, with Snow White. I was speechless, and really impressed that this work could be such expressive by a minimal way of colorization (Bloody Melancholy Contest (CLOSED) by *Eledhwen-Stock

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REMINDER: Photomanip Tutorial Challenge!Welcome to our official tutorial challenge!
Another tutorial challenge? YES! Keep reading!
Part of "illumination" is learning, expanding our horizons, and helping others learn as well. So, this time we are not going to USE tutorials. Rather, we are going to MAKE them.

What you have to do
Your job is as follows:

Take a critical look at your gallery. What are your strengths as an artist? What are you really good at doing? Are you known for your light and shadow? Color use? "Glow" effects? Do you do skin well? Can you paint really well? Are you a master of masks? What do people compliment you on?

Create a detailed tutorial, with examples, of how you achieve this effect or do this technique. It does not have to involve the creation of a new deviation. You can explain how you did this effect in an old deviation or just with stock without making it a full deviation.

REMINDER: Photomanip Tutorial Challenge! by ^Aeirmid

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Creative Challenge #1What is this?
Helloooo photomanipulators!
After a bit of ado, we are happy to introduce some new challenges that we hope will inspire some more creativity in our community as well as encourage ALL of us (ourselves included) to learn some new skills and expand our repertoire!

For these challenges, we will require the use of one piece of stock that, while lovely and very useful, might typically be considered "overused," and one new skill or technique.
We know there are a lot of challenges out there already, but here are the goals for ours:

To address concerns of "copying" and "lack of creativity" by challenging people to think more creatively about their art,

To help members of our community learn more and expand their skills by challenging them to learn new techniques, and

To maintain the focus of our community on art, growth, and support.

Let's get started!
How does it work?
HCreative Challenge #1 by ^Aeirmid

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Photomanipulation for Beginners
_{an article about what photomanipulation is and what you need to try it - and on the ever so important issue of "where do I get pictures to play with?"}
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Of Copyright & Premades
_{is an article that strives to explain what copyright means, who it protects and that simply putting work into something will not make using something without permission okay.}

Know your Basics - article series:
_{A series of articles that try to explain some basics in art that you may or may not have heard of before but didn't know what to do with them. All of them are written especially for photo- manipulators, but the principles should hold true in any genre.}

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Photomanipulation Tutorials @ =kuschelirmel-stock

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Jasmin
Artist | Hobbyist | Digital Art

Germany

_{Hi there,
I'm Jasmin - I'm an engineer who loves pretty things,
above all butterflies and photomanips*.
I used to be the gallery mod for the photomanipulation category in 2006/07 and from Nov 2010 to April 2012.

* and chocolate of course, I almost forgot chocolate!}

Please Note:

I often don't have much time during the week, so answers to comments and notes will be slow - I do read every single comment and I do try to answer all in a timely fashion, but sometimes it can take a week or two.

I can no longer give DDs! Please send your photomanip suggestions to ^Aeirmid!

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Manip Challenges #005 Winner + some thoughts

Mon Jun 3, 2013, 3:01 PM

Stock Account +
#Photomanipulated +
Get This CSS +

...and the winner is

"In my sight you were just in time" by =StarsColdNight

you will be contacted for your price.

The two runners up:

"Embracing the Sun" by ~naradjou14 | "Regeneration" by *PhoenixalThor

and now for something unpleasant

Some thoughts

This challenge doesn't have much to offer in terms of prices, just some stock and some features. It's supposed to be something to either help you get over artist's block by giving you something to play with or to actually challenge you to do something extraordinary with the stocks given (which are usually chosen in a way to be easily usable).

There is just me choosing the best ten for a poll, just for some extra kicks and so I'm not the only one deciding who gets the stock this time. And there is one little rule: don't ask people to vote for you. Not in a journal, not in a poll, not in notes. It's unfair because some have more watchers than others and will therefore be able to get more support. Even if your watchers only vote for you if they really like your work, it still stands to reason they will like your work more than others because after all they watch you for a reason.

This was the first time I had to disqualify someone for asking for votes (in a journal AND a poll). I believe them when they say they didn't know (despite this rule being clearly stated in the challenge journal and the headline of the voting poll). What I don't understand is why I had to put up with the journal being altered in a way that made me look like an unfair bitch while the deviant was simulatenously whining via note how unfair I was to disqualify them and their flock was commenting on said journal and poll how unfair that was, too, without ever reading our rules or having ever heard about the group I imagine...

I should have warned them, I was told - but how else besides putting the warning in the poll headline? I should have given them an oportunity to explain and do something to correct their mistake - but how do you "undo" a public journal and get the votes undone?

And the joke: the deviant was in the lead the last time I checked before the journal and poll came out. So why on earth ask?! Is it that important to get a few votes more? Do some of you need that for your egos?

I have removed their donations from the challenge journal as I was asked.

I don't know yet if there will be another challenge soon. I don't have much time aside from work and each of the last times I made the effort to do something, someone was there and ready to complain. This time it was the poll, last time it was the apparent sameness of the entries,... I'm tired of this.

Jasmin

^{Stock images & brushes courtesy of ~ChristasVengel-stock, ~RiNymph-Stock, ~dazzle-textures, ~DadiLights, ~MouritsaDA-Stock, ~frozenstocks, ~PilgrimSoul, *joannastar-stock, ~Atenaispd, bittbox & =kuschelirmel-stock.
Design & coding by =kuschelirmel-stock.}Journal Credits

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_{My gallery is copyrighted (c) Jasmin Junger. None of the images may be used without consent. I do license my images for book covers, cd covers and the like - please contact me via e-mail kuschelirmel<at>gmail.com to discuss details. I do not give away my art for free!}

Deviousness Award

A former volunteer with the Artist Relations team, `kuschelirmel has always been a wonderful role model within the community. With a vibrant and eclectic gallery that would make anyone proud, her dedication to providing informative and easy to follow tutorials, journal CSS, and inspirational stock is clearly long overdue for recognition. Join us in congratulating Jasmin in being awarded this month's Deviousness Award.

-awarded August 2008

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~007HoneySingh Jun 8, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Beautiful works...

=dreamswoman Jun 1, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks for the

~VERITAS-ZEEN May 25, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Vielen dank für dein fave! Lg

=FavDA May 20, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

^{Hello Darling
On behalf of the Team and members of the Group, I would like to thank you for joining our little community and to our group
I feel honored for this reason, and I hope that you'll have a good time in our group.

Best Regards Jarek.}