Beketov

How about we say next Saturday? Gives us a week from today to put something in. @solas @jack?

Literally there is almost 3 TPE worth of stuff to review right now in the GFX section and no one wants this job? @jack and I need reviews on our posts too

Claiming made a bit of a mess in here so I'm bumping everything with only 1 vote. Will retain original posting order.

Claiming made a bit of a mess in here so I'm bumping everything with only 1 vote. Will retain original posting order.

Claiming made a bit of a mess in here so I'm bumping everything with only 1 vote. Will retain original posting order.

Claiming made a bit of a mess in here so I'm bumping everything with only 1 vote. Will retain original posting order.

Claiming made a bit of a mess in here so I'm bumping everything with only 1 vote. Will retain original posting order.

Claiming made a bit of a mess in here so I'm bumping everything with only 1 vote. Will retain original posting order.

Claiming made a bit of a mess in here so I'm bumping everything with only 1 vote. Will retain original posting order.

Claiming made a bit of a mess in here so I'm bumping everything with only 1 vote. Will retain original posting order.

Claiming made a bit of a mess in here so I'm bumping everything with only 1 vote. Will retain original posting order.

Claiming made a bit of a mess in here so I'm bumping everything with only 1 vote. Will retain original posting order.

You're welcome @Frank

Not sure if it will only be useful for photography or if it will have applications for sig makers but google is giving away their Nik Collection which is 7 powerful photography filtering tools for free. I'm away from my main computer so I'm hoping I can just keep the installer and copy it over. Anyway, here's the download link if you want them. Just thought I'd share. Edit: It does seem I misread initially and thought it was today only. It looks like they are just making the collection free in general which is good. If you want it you may want to get it today though, just in case. Especially for PC; I can likely share the mac installer after.

It's been tied for awhile, we could always run a three-way final round and just get people to only vote for one?

Probably one of my worst games of the season and yet it gets me my first win haha

You can turn it off but I forget how. It's why I don't usually have the issue at home but I do at work haha. I think it's in safari preferences.

First off, this colouring is orgasmic. Like actually jizz all over the place level. The depth is perfectly executed, the lighting is subtle but on point and the ripped edge works really well. My biggest complaint (if you can even call it that) is the text but even that I still love; just would like to see it squeezed together a bit more and maybe a tad less bright. Not major complaints if I so so myself; well done.

After starting my career with 11 straight losses I would officially like to announce my retirement since a pine cone on a string could probably keep more pucks out anyway.

I wouldn't call mine masterpieces (although some how I made it this far, I think that's going to end this vote) but I'm completely willing to upload my 4.

As jack said the text could be blended a bit more but I kinda like a strong text on this one, I think it works here. The render effects look absolutely stunning and I really like the overall flow you created by putting the render on that side of the canvas. The BG and stock work overall is very good but my main complaint comes from whatever is going on in the bottom left. Something is over contrasted and oddly shaped down there and it distracts my eyes and throws some of that wonderful flow off. Get rid of that and this is even more amazing.

Render effects look really slick here which is easily the strongest plus going for this ounce that I really like. The cloudy BG is nice but would be good to blend the render into it more as Jack said. Maybe instead of that grey blob on the left it would have worked to have the BG clipped over there. I also agree that a stronger red could help. Lighting is simple but pretty effective. I would drop the kerning on the text a bit and make it overall a bit larger; I think it sorta gets overshadowed by everything as it is now.

Manips can be tricky sometimes, you have to watch out with what effects can and cannot work on them. For example, whatever is giving this a grey haze (looks like something set on screen maybe?) is a no go for this piece; the contrast is thrown way off. Get some curves layers in there to bring some darkness back in. Aside from that, the render is sitting a bit too high in the sig; I'd like to see his face down a bit further. The text is simple but relatively effective. Might help to get some really small text (borderline unreadable) as a way of "underlining" the main text. The face is a bit too sharp which isn't always a major issue but there isn't really a lot going on here so it does make it a bit distracting.

Well there's something different if I've ever seen it. The Barney sperm purple might be a TAD strong as it drowns out everything else a little bit but I can see where you were going with this. The text is bold and strong which is nice, stock work seems on point. Lighting could be a bit stronger to compensate for the colouring. I think overall if you bring the purple down a bit to make everything else come out a bit more it would help but I like the creativity.

Competition is getting fierce for sure. Number 1 is fucking sex in sig form. Also, if everyone is up for it, I think it would be awesome to release the PSD's for every sig from the contest once it ends. What do you think @jack?