SC4 Picture Competition

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Name of Contestant

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Votes Cast

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Simcoug

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1

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piterdaw1

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0

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Good luck both! 

[vortext]

Simcoug - 1
piterdaw1 - 1

Argh, don't make it so hard. The perspective and clouds are great but the horizon still is too abrupt to sustain the illusion of a landscape dissolving into the distance. So despite being a little lifeless it's the city for me.

[Swordmaster]

Indeed, don't make it so hard Vortext

Simcoug - 2
piterdaw1 - 1


Cheers
Willy

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Simcoug - 3
piterdaw1 - 1

[Mr.Lin]

Simcoug - 3
piterdaw1 - 2

[rooker1]

Bringing the pics over...

piterdaw1


VS

Simcoug

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Name of Contestant

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Simcoug

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4

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piterdaw1

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2

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[vester]

Simcoug - 5
piterdaw1 - 2

[noahclem]

Simcoug - 6
piterdaw1 - 2

[2b2gbi]

Simcoug - 7
piterdaw1 - 2

[Mr.Lin]

Have fun !

[Kergelen]

Simcoug-1
Mr.Lin-0

Too much Photoshop for my taste Mr.Lin.

[weixc812]

Simcoug-1
Mr.Lin-1
Will this symbolized creation lead to a revolotion here?

[Huston_N7]

Something you can't do in SC2013, just an amazing level of creativity. Though the sky and cloud texture doesn't exactly fit with the rest of the image, it's still an amazing effort to make SC4 3d

Simcoug-1
Mr.Lin-2

[RepublicMaster]

Simcoug - 2
Mr.Lin - 2

[sunv123]

Looks almost exactly like Zion in the winter. Very creative work.

Simcoug - 2
Mr.Lin - 3

[APSMS]

Simcoug - 3
Mr. Lin - 3

Both wonderful pictures, but while I can't tell where Mr. Lin's SC4 stops and the photoshopping begins, I can in SimCoug's, and it's reassuring. Plus, I've seen something similar to SimCoug's pic in RL.

[Mr.Lin]

Simcoug - 3
Mr. Lin - 3

Both wonderful pictures, but while I can't tell where Mr. Lin's SC4 stops and the photoshopping begins, I can in SimCoug's, and it's reassuring. Plus, I've seen something similar to SimCoug's pic in RL.

While, I'm not agree with you. The proportion of clouds in my pic are as same in Simcoug's. I just do some photoshopping in the edge of the mountain to make the transition more gentle and comfortable. By that way it can prevent the clouds looks so stiff and unreal,and that is the differ between SimCoug's and mine. I hope you can understand.

[cmdp123789]

Problem is, and as I said before, competition is getting waaaaaay too different with photoshopped images. The whole point of this should be to show off what your ingame city looks like, and not make something that the uploader itself dont see in its game. The real beauty of this competition should be showing pure simcity and compete to one another based on only simcity stuff. Now, to be honest, I rather vote on pure simcity pics than to vote on the ability to photoshop an image

[Mr.Lin]

Problem is, and as I said before, competition is getting waaaaaay too different with photoshopped images. The whole point of this should be to show off what your ingame city looks like, and not make something that the uploader itself dont see in its game. The real beauty of this competition should be showing pure simcity and compete to one another based on only simcity stuff. Now, to be honest, I rather vote on pure simcity pics than to vote on the ability to photoshop an image

What's your mean of the "thumbs down" ? I hope you can respect my works !
In addition, I admit I have done some photoshopping, but I'm not show off my photoshop ability ！That's just your idea ！
As I have said before, I just made the transition more gentle and comfortable.
And I think this is allowed.

[APSMS]

Not to fuel the fire or make this off-topic discussion go on any longer than necessary, but my $0.02 is that photoshopping is perfectly acceptable. This is a competition, after all, and since it is allowed per the rules, if you don't like a picture, you say so with your vote. Mr. Lin, I meant no offense: for me your picture fell into the uncanny valley between realism and game, and I felt uncomfortable with it. It is, however, a gorgeous pic. I simply felt Simcoug's was worth my vote instead.

There are some incredible photoshopped images in the HoF. I believe Weixc812 did one for Brooklyn 1969 a few months ago, and it looks beautiful. Moderation in all things, and again your vote is your primary opinion. If I could photoshop images half as well as I think I can, I'd do it to all of my SC4 image (not that I have that many). Photoshopping might be viewed as a cheat (sometimes I feel that way), but since realism is key (and Real Life is Unrealistic), I think it only enhances the game and competition, rather than detract. A lack of image editing simply means you must play the game better, but I think it is clear that an edited image can only be as good as the source material.

Hopefully this should sum up a bunch of feelings and end the off-topic (and quickly heating) debate. This is quickly going south in a [pseudo] friendly way. Let's stop it here, while the going is good.