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The images here were entered into a competition that Liam Quin ran for the most interesting uses of the pictures on fromoldbooks.org:
Category: Best use of stock. This will be awarded to the image that makes the most unusual, interesting or effective use of stock images from Liam’s “oldbooks” collection at [link] – you can also use other images, either your own or stock, including of course *barefootliam-stock images. Every entry in this category must make prominent use of the "oldbooks" stock.
The competition closed; the entries are reproduced here with permission (it was part of the terms of the competition).
These are copyrighted images, and you must contact the respective aritsts before using them in any way.
Title: Contributed Images
Date: 2004
Total items: 28
copyright by the respective artist or artists and must not be reproduced in any form witout permission, or as marked.
Margam Abbey of Dreams (kailey)
This is for barefootliam’s Oldbooks contest. It’s a picture from his Oldbooks collection of "Remains of the Cloisters of Margam Abbey, Glamorganshire," combined with my own photography. [more...] [$]
A version of Queen Mab from Edgar’s Treasury of Verse, coloured by Liam Quin. You can use this as a stock image as long as you link back here and also send me a copy (or URL) of anything you do with it; I also made the GIMP xcf file available, with all the layers and in a much, much larger size (and no before you ask, I do not expect it to open in PhotoShop). [more...] [$]
A package of seven images containing cherubs, prepared from the scans on fromoldbooks by Liam Quin and released by resugere on deviantArt. They are better images than the versions on this Web site, generally higher resolution and in PNG rather than JPEG, but the file size is larger. THis is only the preview [...] [more...] [$]
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A piece by leonardo picado (leopic): [more...] [$]
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The Emperor Constantine in Painted Glass
I coloured a copy of Flavius Constantine and ran a couple of filters and stuff. [more...] [$]
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