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Category: DDG Challenges
Spektrel Effect Challenge
It’s time for our latest style challenge. Adapt the styles any way you like and use them for dreaming. Anyone in the Deep Dreamers FB group is welcome to use the images built especially for this challenge using the Spektrel effect on pixabay images.
Source Challenge: Architecture Reflections
Choose your favorite architectural source image and make it into a reflections dream!
Autumn Leaves Challenge
Summer is coming to an end. It’s a time for the trees to show their colours and help us create some stunning dreams Choose your favorites from among these Pixabay photos
Source Challenge: Old Family Photographs
Here’s a new source challenge for you. Take your time finding material for this challenge. As you know, our challenges never have a closing date! Simply scan an old or even historical family photograph and make it into a dream. Alternatively, if you don’t have, or don’t want to use, a personal photograph, use public domain material. Here are some useful sites for historical family photographs: Wikimedia Commons, category historical images of people; Library of […]
Bead Challenge
It’s time for our latest style challenge. Adapt the styles any way you like and use them for dreaming. Anyone in the Deep Dreamers FB group is welcome to use the images built especially for this challenge. Full resolution images can be found here
Summer Source Challenge Part 2
Summer, summer everywhere and not a drop to drink… Choose your favorites from among these Unsplash and Pixabay photos, make Summer Source Challenge Part 2 dreams, and post your best work below!
Background vs Foreground, Bird Source Challenge
This #DDGchallenge is an exercise in differentiating background from foreground while using style transfer. All of these birds have distinctly different colors and lighting in their backgrounds. Find or create a style image with matching lighting/shading/colors that capitalize on the distinction. This can be done as simply as searching through potential styles for the right colors. Here are some places to browse: https://unsplash.com/t/textures-patterns https://pixabay.com/illustrations/search/art/ Or by finding two (or more) different styles that appropriately match the foreground […]
Fractal Flower Challenge
Flowers are everywhere at the moment so I thought I’d add a few more. Adapt the styles/sources any way you like and use them for dreaming. Anyone in the Deep Dreamers FB group is welcome to use the images cultivated especially for this challenge. Full resolution images can be found here
Summer Source Challenge
All images are copyright free.
Grid Challenge
To pay homage to one of DDG’s great styles I have developed some challenge images along the same lines. Adapt the styles any way you like and use them for dreaming. Anyone in the Deep Dreamers FB group is welcome to use the images built especially for this challenge. Full resolution images can be found here
Fractal Mountain Style Challenge
#DDGChallenge This time we go into the fractal mountains for our style challenge! Adapt the styles any way you like and use them for dreaming. Anyone in the Deep Dreamers FB group is welcome to use the images built especially for this challenge. Full resolution images can be found here
60’s psychedelia style challenge
It’s time to go back to the 60’s for a psychedelia style challenge! Anyone in the Deep Dreamers FB group is welcome to use the images built especially for this challenge. Go wild – adapt the styles any way you like and use for dreaming. Post your best dreams in this thread.
Horse Challenge
Horse Challenge We haven’t run a challenge in a while. Hope you like horses as much as we do! Post your best dreams in the thread below.
Cartoon Flower Style
It’s time for a cartoon flower source/style challenge! Anyone in the Deep Dreamers FB group is welcome to use the images created especially for this challenge. Adapt the images any way you like and use for dreaming. The images are photos run through the Befunky.com cartoon art effect, have a go its fun
Fabric Challenge
It’s time for a fabric style challenge! Anyone in the Deep Dreamers FB group is welcome to use the images chosen especially for this challenge. Go wild – adapt the styles any way you like and use for dreaming. Post your best dreams in this thread. Next, let these images inspire you to go through your wardrobes to take a closeup snapshot of an item of clothing hanging at the back that was in fashion […]
Rings and Things Challenge
Rings and Things Style Challenge Use the images as a style for your dream . Anyone in the Deep Dreamers FB group is welcome to use these images, they were created especially for this challenge.
Wooden Style #DDGchallenge
Use these public domain photos as style images for your dreams!
Valentines Challenge
For all those in love, here is our Valentine’s Day Challenge. Use the images as a style or a source for your dream Valentine’s Day card to the one you love. I created these images especially for this challenge. Anyone in this group is welcome to use these images!
Chinese Year of the Pig #DDGchallenge
It’s time for another DDG challenge. Here are some public domain images of pigs for your dreams to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Pig starting on February 5, 2019!
Brick Deep Style #DDGchallenge
Use these public domain bricks as style images for your dreams!
New Years 2019 Style (or Source) Challenge
Use these public domain images as styles for your New Year dreams! Cheers🥂
Festive Season Source Challenge
Here’s our new Festive Season Source Challenge. Images are original photographs and copyright free. I took the shots this week at a Garden Center in the UK. It’s always worth taking your camera/phone to these places, as they are full of interesting things to dream. Make sure to post your best dreams below!
Fractal Collage Style Challenge
Use any or all of these collages I assembled of fractal images created by myself and Frax as your style images. The collages were made using different mobile apps from my upcoming article comparing and reviewing the best options. These collages are composed of original content, and both the component images and the collages are public domain.
Deep Style Rust Challenge
You’ve all been waiting more or less patiently for the next challenge: Here it is. Now that we have so many new images on Flickr, they deserve to be highlighted. Daniel Zamir has chosen a few rust images for our challenge. Use any or all of the styles below for your dreams, and make sure to post your best results in this thread. Where can you find the images? They’re all the album “cc0 styles […]
Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Source Challenge
Use any or all of these images as your source.
Halloween Deep Source Challenge
Use any or all of these images as your source.
A Fresh Take on Old Paintings
It’s time for a new challenge: Breathe new life into paintings from a past era using one of these images from Wikimedia Commons. Download the images at http://ddg.wiki/A-Fresh-Take-on-Old-Paintings/ and post your best dreams in the thread below.
Balloon Challenge
Use either of these photos as the source image for your dreams.
Urban Decay Source Challenge
Use either version of this photo as the source layer for your dreams.
Marine Life Challenge
Marine life challenge – create a new perspective of coastal wildlife.
Low Res Polygon Source Challenge
Greyscale Dreaming Style Challenge
Greyscale style challenge where it’s all about the texture
Daniel Zamir’s Sci-fi, Space, and Jungle Collage Challenge
Primate Portrait Source Challenge
Fabrics and Paintings Made into Styles
For this style challenge, choose between a multilayer fabric and a multilayer painting.
Fantasy Princess Challenge
Smoky Photo Shoot Source Challenge
Rustic Vegan Pizza Source Challenge
Raccoon Source Challenge
Muad’Dib’s Collage Challenge
Use these collages as deep styles and see what you can come up with! Have fun!
Wolf Source Challenge
Use this image of a wolf as the source, and post your resulting dreams on the Facebook thread.
DDG Style Challenge – Ben Beekman’s New Collages
Landscape Swing Source Challenge
Awesome Guy Source Challenge
Vegan Pete’s Fractal Challenge
Turban Lady Source Challenge
Forest Owl Source Challenge
Landscape Challenge, Yosemite National Park
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