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Title: New Flex Cover
Post by: Emmortal on October 15, 2009, 03:25:33 PM
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Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: io856 on October 15, 2009, 03:35:47 PM
Flex Signs Trainer - 7 figures 12000.0
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Bobby on October 15, 2009, 05:24:25 PM
pretty cool! ripping the previous cover apart
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: kiwiol on October 15, 2009, 06:14:17 PM
Word is that Sami is trying to chase Cutler for next year's trophy


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Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: webcake on October 15, 2009, 06:15:16 PM
Jay Cutler certainly has some muscles.....
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Brutal_1 on October 15, 2009, 06:56:29 PM



Didn't Dexter also make history this year at the O....



is he the first Mr O to go from 1st to 3rd??   ;D
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Chick on October 15, 2009, 07:02:18 PM
No...Bannout went from 1st to 6th in 83/84

Zane- 1st to 3rd in 79/80
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Wiggs on October 15, 2009, 07:07:19 PM
lol.  Heath and Phil owned.  Great Cover.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Chick on October 15, 2009, 07:13:20 PM
lol.  Heath and Phil owned.  Great Cover.

Heath and Phil??

Both of them?
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Game Time on October 15, 2009, 07:15:54 PM
lol
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Emmortal on October 15, 2009, 07:19:00 PM
Heath and Phil??

Both of them?

All 3 of them, yes.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: regmac on October 15, 2009, 07:37:06 PM
(http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5155/big1x.jpg)

(http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/1605/big2h.jpg)
So soon????  The Mr. O coverage usually comes out after Xmas!!!!
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Blockhead on October 15, 2009, 07:54:04 PM
rumor has it the other idea they had besides "HE'S BACK" was "GUESS WHAT-IT'S NOT A N-WORD THIS TIME"
LOL!  LOL!  LOL!


 - Block!
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: 3Dkiller on October 15, 2009, 08:51:23 PM
100% adobe
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: scribbler on October 15, 2009, 08:58:42 PM
100% adobe

not retouched at all actually (except obviously adding the cover images into what we had Jay tearing 2 days after the O)...but I guess you're the expert

everyone on here automatically says Photoshop for everything

hilarious

C
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Emmortal on October 15, 2009, 09:16:11 PM
not retouched at all actually (except obviously adding the cover images into what we had Jay tearing 2 days after the O)...but I guess you're the expert

everyone on here automatically says Photoshop for everything

hilarious

C

So if it wasn't and I quote: "retouched at all" then why is Jay two different hues on both covers?  Obviously it was touched up and saying so is just insulting our intelligence.  Some of us work in the design/commercial/film industry and we can spot a photoshop job with our eyes closed.  Next time don't make such foolish statements unless you feel like bowing down like a bitch to our supreme knowledge and total awesomeness.

Have a wonderful and joyful day, fuckstick.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: dyslexic on October 15, 2009, 09:20:47 PM
Unfuckingbelievable.


For those of us that know a little bit about photography, Photoshop, CAD, etc... and you want us to buy that crap?


Lately all I've been noticing in the mags is a shitload of touchup- I don't care how subtle it is, it's there.


go sell it to someone who buys it "special guest"  ::)
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Bodybuilding Related on October 15, 2009, 09:23:16 PM
I'm gonna buy them both. 
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: kiwiol on October 15, 2009, 09:25:18 PM
While we're at it, I'm calling Photoshop on the half-Phil half-Dex cover as well >:(

I'm gonna buy them both. 

Just make sure the pages don't get sticky, stud
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: dyslexic on October 15, 2009, 09:27:41 PM
While we're at it, I'm calling Photoshop on the half-Phil half-Dex cover as well >:(

Just make sure the pages don't get sticky, stud


Now that is funny.  ;D


Seriously, that was real, no touchup. Just two brothas blended into one by default.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: scribbler on October 15, 2009, 10:53:07 PM
So if it wasn't and I quote: "retouched at all" then why is Jay two different hues on both covers?  Obviously it was touched up and saying so is just insulting our intelligence.  Some of us work in the design/commercial/film industry and we can spot a photoshop job with our eyes closed.  Next time don't make such foolish statements unless you feel like bowing down like a bitch to our supreme knowledge and total awesomeness.

Have a wonderful and joyful day, fuckstick.

Yes the color was adjusted to better contrast with the backgrounds (and the background on the second image was created), but that isn't what people mean by saying photoshopped was it?. Anatomically that is the image of Jay exactly as it was shot.

But I guess since you know so much more about how this cover was put together than I do, there is no point in arguing.

It took exactly one post for someone here to start berating me...good times.

C
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Emmortal on October 15, 2009, 11:07:45 PM
Yes the color was adjusted to better contrast with the backgrounds (and the background on the second image was created), but that isn't what people mean by saying photoshopped was it?. Anatomically that is the image of Jay exactly as it was shot.

But I guess since you know so much more about how this cover was put together than I do, there is no point in arguing.

It took exactly one post for someone here to start berating me...good times.

C

Color, contrast, levels etc all adjusted to give him a more dramatic look bringing out lines and cuts that aren't really there.  There's also some cleanup around the waist which has been modified a bit.  So yea, I'd say it's pretty much summed up you're full of shit.  Every single photo on every magazine cover has been altered in some way, it's the norm these days giving people the impression of a reality that's created by the editor of the magazine and nothing that relates to real life.

Don't whine about someone berating you here, you knew what it was like before signing up so don't play the sympathy card because no one gives a shit.  We call it like we see it and you can't honestly believe you can come here slinging bullshit and not get called on it?
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Wiggs on October 15, 2009, 11:13:33 PM
Heath and Phil??

Both of them?

LOL.  Wow I guess Phil owns my mind. :-X

Dex and Heath
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Mars on October 15, 2009, 11:18:41 PM
Color, contrast, levels etc all adjusted to give him a more dramatic look bringing out lines and cuts that aren't really there.  There's also some cleanup around the waist which has been modified a bit.  So yea, I'd say it's pretty much summed up you're full of shit.  Every single photo on every magazine cover has been altered in some way, it's the norm these days giving people the impression of a reality that's created by the editor of the magazine and nothing that relates to real life.

Don't whine about someone berating you here, you knew what it was like before signing up so don't play the sympathy card because no one gives a shit.  We call it like we see it and you can't honestly believe you can come here slinging bullshit and not get called on it?

exactly, scribbler is obvious an outsider.
they make them looks much more freaky than they really are, doesnt mean always they make the muscles bulkier but fact is they do on most covers.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Mars on October 15, 2009, 11:27:45 PM
Heres what i did with the cover of mr lopez from hardfitness.com but aint got time to finish it.
was a challenge to come with something new.

(http://i33.tinypic.com/287kpdh.jpg)

plz right click open on image. dont take much notice on the magazine layout since its far from ready.

(http://www.hardfitness.com/emagazine/issue57/cover640.jpg)
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Emmortal on October 15, 2009, 11:36:41 PM
Well done Mars, it's already 10x better than the original.  Could use some work with better fonts and your banners are a bit bland, but hey it's a lot better than that shot in a Motel 6 lobby original.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Mars on October 15, 2009, 11:39:08 PM
yeah i know, i also had but one low res image from the woman and you cant really work with that very well.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: saucetradomous on October 15, 2009, 11:44:36 PM
yeah i know, i also had but one low res image from the woman and you cant really work with that very well.

Just zoom it and use up the whole page.. plus use a bolder text, that's too thin.  but yeah, it's already 10x better.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Mars on October 15, 2009, 11:47:17 PM
i know but thats why i already said its far from finished. i just threw some text in. the boob job sucks as well.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Pecs on October 15, 2009, 11:49:07 PM
(http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5155/big1x.jpg)

(http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/1605/big2h.jpg)

its like a cover of some new PC game featuring a new character!!! :o
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: kiwiol on October 16, 2009, 12:52:26 AM
Yes the color was adjusted to better contrast with the backgrounds (and the background on the second image was created), but that isn't what people mean by saying photoshopped was it?. Anatomically that is the image of Jay exactly as it was shot.

But I guess since you know so much more about how this cover was put together than I do, there is no point in arguing.

It took exactly one post for someone here to start berating me...good times.

C

Whoever you are, have a word with your webmaster - a lot of the posted links never connect to the right page and the videos load terribly slow. Maybe it's just that way for people overseas (I live in NZ). I never have a problem with any other site.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: kiwiol on October 16, 2009, 12:53:22 AM
Heres what i did with the cover of mr lopez from hardfitness.com but aint got time to finish it.
was a challenge to come with something new.

You are an artist twice over, Mars
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on October 16, 2009, 01:20:33 AM
Yates with the Flex magazine treatment
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Mars on October 16, 2009, 01:27:35 AM
You are an artist twice over, Mars

Thanks a bunch bro!
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: io856 on October 16, 2009, 01:29:51 AM
Yates with the Flex magazine treatment
wow as if yates wasn't dry enough!
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Chick on October 16, 2009, 05:25:24 AM
exactly, scribbler is obvious an outsider.
they make them looks much more freaky than they really are, doesnt mean always they make the muscles bulkier but fact is they do on most covers.

LOL...yep, he's a real "outsider"

Hey...move that office you're occupying "Scribbler"...or whatever your REAL name is!
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Pollux on October 16, 2009, 05:33:15 AM
Awesome cover!  8)
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: hipolito mejia on October 16, 2009, 06:25:40 AM

That pic is so "Touched' that you dont know if is a drawing or a real pic....

(http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5155/big1x.jpg)


Looks cool though
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Victor VonDoom on October 16, 2009, 07:30:08 AM
(http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5155/big1x.jpg)

(http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/1605/big2h.jpg)

He earned it!  Doom approves.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Ron on October 16, 2009, 09:20:23 AM

I took a few shots of Jay from the Olympia, in which he looked just as good as that cover.  Now, for you experts... you dont need to use Photoshop all the time (although Photoshop is the generic term people use for any coloring, depth adding, features, etc).

You can take a shot that I took, deepen the color, and texture and people will think they photoshopped the muscles.  Come on now.   Not all pictures are like that. 

Cover looks really good.

Jay deserves it. Jay came back from when almost everyone thought he wouldnt. 
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Armstrong on October 16, 2009, 09:28:39 AM
its like a cover of some new PC game featuring a new character!!! :o


Who cares of the cover is "shopped".  Its pretty freakin awesome.  Credit where credit is due.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: affeman on October 16, 2009, 09:36:56 AM
(http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5155/big1x.jpg)

(http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/1605/big2h.jpg)

Who else thinks that cover was already shot BEFORE the Olympia??
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Lift Studios on October 16, 2009, 09:44:39 AM
LMAO! At the conspiracies here. I saw the image of Jay on the computer screen immediately after it was shot in Gold's Gym. It looked exactly like that minus the cover of Phil/Dex and that was straight out of the camera.

Do adjustments get made to photos? Of course there will always be some adjustment but not to the point where it is an entirely different image. It all depends on how you define - "That's photoshopped".

Some one posted a perfect example of what shitty photography - no photo shop and poor layout skills looks like with the Hardfitness "cover".

Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: El Diablo Blanco on October 16, 2009, 09:59:17 AM
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Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Option D on October 16, 2009, 10:16:03 AM
SICKEST COVER EVER
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: DeketheCreep on October 16, 2009, 10:31:12 AM
fookin awesomecover,cant wait to buy it at walmart!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/dekethecreep/Cutler_Venice_282729.jpg)
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Mars on October 16, 2009, 11:41:31 AM
cant wait to read it at walmart
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: LurkerNoMore on October 16, 2009, 11:49:13 AM
I took a few shots of Jay from the Olympia, in which he looked just as good as that cover.  Now, for you experts... you dont need to use Photoshop all the time (although Photoshop is the generic term people use for any coloring, depth adding, features, etc).

You can take a shot that I took, deepen the color, and texture and people will think they photoshopped the muscles.  Come on now.   Not all pictures are like that. 

Cover looks really good.

Jay deserves it. Jay came back from when almost everyone thought he wouldnt. 

They are using a LuciasArts filter on that cover.  I know that 100% for a fact.  They are doing nothing else but completely ripping off Dave Hill's "look" that he uses for his work and clients. 

There is nothing fancy about this.  LuciasArts is a simply a plug in for Photoshop.  There is no talent involved here. 
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: uberman09 on October 16, 2009, 11:56:19 AM
who in their right mind buy these crap packed "magazines" anyway but 100lbs newcommers ?
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Mars on October 16, 2009, 12:02:11 PM
who in their right mind buy these crap packed "magazines" anyway but 100lbs newcommers ?

exactly. after a few years of serious training you come to the point you ask yourself why in the hell you keep on buying that shit, and then you invest that money in good food or maybe a book about training and nutrition instead. truly. someone can tell me why they buy it?
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: jon cole on October 16, 2009, 12:02:34 PM
Why bbing gone so bad ?
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: pellius on October 16, 2009, 12:31:20 PM
who in their right mind buy these crap packed "magazines" anyway but 100lbs newcommers ?

You're such a fuking tool "uber"man09. I don't think you've said one positive thing in your 3 months and 700 posts on this board. I never understand why cock suckers like you are on a bodybuilding board. Go away and try to be uber somewhere else.

It's the greatest cover I've seen since that Arnold 60th birthday addition. I hope that shit flies off the shelves. And I'm sure you'll get your mommy to buy it for you so that you can jerk off to it in your closet with a rope around your neck.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: pellius on October 16, 2009, 12:35:22 PM
Quote from: johnnynoname on October 15, 2009, 03:27:21 PMrumor has it the other idea they had besides "HE'S BACK" was "GUESS WHAT-IT'S NOT A N-WORD THIS TIME"


LOL!  LOL!  LOL!


 - Block!

Who deleted JNN's brilliant commentary?
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: dyslexic on October 16, 2009, 12:58:47 PM
I didn't know the variables of photo enhancement had to be broken down individually and specifically in order for them to be valid applications of enhancements or adjustments.


In my mind, it is what it is.


It would be interesting to see a cover of any magazine that has not had the images altered in some way, shape or form. Most of the ads in the BB magazines these days are somewhat creative... (I guess)= but completely tasteless.


If you started Photoshopping... (oops) "adjusting" Sylvio Samuel into the real Geico lizard that he is, that might be kinda cool. You could have him licking up the supplements he is advertising with his tongue- just like a Chamelion does.


Could a photographer or graphics artist actually get away with posting a raw image in a national publication these days? How could they?


That would be like putting a stock Ford Pinto into a Corvette show...
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: uberman09 on October 16, 2009, 01:22:57 PM
You're such a fuking tool "uber"man09. I don't think you've said one positive thing in your 3 months and 700 posts on this board. I never understand why cock suckers like you are on a bodybuilding board. Go away and try to be uber somewhere else.

It's the greatest cover I've seen since that Arnold 60th birthday addition. I hope that shit flies off the shelves. And I'm sure you'll get your mommy to buy it for you so that you can jerk off to it in your closet with a rope around your neck.


...

how old are you again?     ::)


frigging weirdo.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Mars on October 16, 2009, 01:49:24 PM
You're such a fuking tool "uber"man09. I don't think you've said one positive thing in your 3 months and 700 posts on this board. I never understand why cock suckers like you are on a bodybuilding board. Go away and try to be uber somewhere else.

It's the greatest cover I've seen since that Arnold 60th birthday addition. I hope that shit flies off the shelves. And I'm sure you'll get your mommy to buy it for you so that you can jerk off to it in your closet with a rope around your neck.


you must be 100 lbs.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Mr Nobody on October 16, 2009, 01:51:03 PM
Ron J will be the next cover
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: pellius on October 16, 2009, 03:35:32 PM
...

how old are you again?     ::)


frigging weirdo.


Please die already.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: uberman09 on October 16, 2009, 07:23:26 PM
Please die already.
looks like the old, ugly, sunburned to death homo who reads the bible while injecting steroids has a crush on me.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Emmortal on October 16, 2009, 07:37:17 PM
LMAO! At the conspiracies here. I saw the image of Jay on the computer screen immediately after it was shot in Gold's Gym. It looked exactly like that minus the cover of Phil/Dex and that was straight out of the camera.

Do adjustments get made to photos? Of course there will always be some adjustment but not to the point where it is an entirely different image. It all depends on how you define - "That's photoshopped".

Some one posted a perfect example of what shitty photography - no photo shop and poor layout skills looks like with the Hardfitness "cover".

No one is denying Cutler looked good, but no human being looks like that, it's been heavily filtered, levels, contrast and color all have been altered to some extent as well as some "cleaning up" of certain areas.  You can call that whatever you want, it's Photoshopped and that's the facts son.

Good photographers don't use Photoshop as a crutch to correct their shitty photography.  If you are going for a certain look like the stylized one on this cover, then by all means use it, that's what it was made for that's all I'm sayin.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: karu on October 16, 2009, 07:53:37 PM
The cover of FLEX magazine is fake as its contents.

from the over photoshopped image of Cutler to the claims of "add 16lbs of muscle like Phil Heath, but we won't tell you about his drug regimen"

hope this helps

I took a few shots of Jay from the Olympia, in which he looked just as good as that cover.  Now, for you experts... you dont need to use Photoshop all the time (although Photoshop is the generic term people use for any coloring, depth adding, features, etc).

You can take a shot that I took, deepen the color, and texture and people will think they photoshopped the muscles.  Come on now.   Not all pictures are like that. 

Cover looks really good.

Jay deserves it. Jay came back from when almost everyone thought he wouldnt. 
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: The Showstoppa on October 16, 2009, 07:54:24 PM
The cover of FLEX magazine is fake as its contents.

from the over photoshopped image of Cutler to the claims of "add 16lbs of muscle like Phil Heath, but we won't tell you about his drug regimen"

hope this helps



Bullshit!
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: pellius on October 16, 2009, 08:09:40 PM
looks like the old, ugly, sunburned to death homo who reads the bible while injecting steroids has a crush on me.

Yet, you haven't the courage to post your flawless image for the rest of us to aspire to. My guess is that your fat and pale. Prove me wrong.

BTW fag, I've been meaning to tell you, "You're a fag."
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: kmhphoto on October 16, 2009, 08:14:57 PM
They are using a LuciasArts filter on that cover.  I know that 100% for a fact.  They are doing nothing else but completely ripping off Dave Hill's "look" that he uses for his work and clients. 

There is nothing fancy about this.  LuciasArts is a simply a plug in for Photoshop.  There is no talent involved here. 

So Dave Hill isn't talented?
And although Dave Hill has become well known for that "look" it's certainly not original.

And although LUCISart produces excellent results if you like that sort of thing you would not need it to produce the "look" of Jay on that cover. Lightroom would be fine.

At the end of the day that cover is the result of a great concept executed extremely well.

Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: dyslexic on October 16, 2009, 10:32:57 PM
Hip hip... hoorah.  ::)
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Mars on October 17, 2009, 01:45:30 AM
i really wonder why people still buy flex, its beyond me.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: Mr Nobody on October 17, 2009, 01:47:27 AM
i really wonder why people still buy flex, its beyond me.
;)They are totally lost
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: pellius on October 17, 2009, 02:01:56 AM
i really wonder why people still buy flex, its beyond me.

I don't think anybody really buys it. At least not off the rack. It's too embarrassing unless you mix it with a bunch of other mags like Playboy, Swank, Hustler... so the cashier doesn't think your gay. Most I figure get it in the mail as long as it's in plain brown paper wrap.
Title: Re: New Flex Cover
Post by: #1 Klaus fan on October 17, 2009, 05:45:27 AM
I bought one Flex a couple of years ago, it was the first Arnold special. Flex is as funny as Mad magazine.