Team Image Battle

I started a new Image Battle/War on DDR Freak.

Originally, this was the "Round 0" image:



But then it took foooorever for all the War members to respond, adn you know how impatient I am. I have two other Image wars, all in which I just have to wait for my opponent to post his retort image. So, I used the original Round 0 image and made my own Round 0 Image for us to start on:



Along with the original Metropolis image, I used this scary Ringmaster picture that I found on the Google Image Search:



I took out the REDS in the picture and made it black and white.

For the curtains, I used this [also found it on google]:



When I began making this, I knew I wanted some kind of "Ringmaster" circus thing going on, when the viewer "enters" the city of Metropolis, through some kind of curtains with a Ringmaster guiding them on. I was originally thinking of making the curtains red, but then I decided on a "grunge" old fashioned-style. I enlarged the curtains picture that I found, made it a little smoother, and made it black and white. I extracted the ringmaster picture, and made that black and white. I also made the Metropolis picture black and white, and the browness that you see to the left side of the Metropolis picture is the original picture, filtered but has kept the brown color of it.

I used a special brush for the black and tan grunge spots. To enhance my grunge theme, I used this tutorial for grunge that I found on Google. I only used part of what I did from the tutorial. And you see the vertical "old fashion style" lines all over the picture? I made that manually with the brush tool. Yes, MANUALLY. I use filters for everything. The way I learned to Photoshop was by at first, to do everything by myself and try to figure things out. That was before I started using tutorials. I found out my own ways of making things, even if it would take me longer to do than to just click here and there on a filter and be done with the task right away. I find it a lot funner doing things manually sometimes than having a filter do it for me. ^.^