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Lorraine Photo Art #5

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Lorraine Senior Member Registered: September 2001 Location: Flemington, NJ Posts: 219 users gallery	First, I'd like to say that this photo has always been my favorite. I found it in the archives last year and have been using it to practice hand tinting. I'm not at all familiar with Mary Cassatt. I studied her paintings of the woman, the little girl, and the children on the beach to get an idea of her brush stokes and the overall tonality of each painting. I couldn't come close to the brush strokes. I began with level adjustments to Red Channel of 0/1.15/244. Evened out skin tones of face, hand and legs by painting a flesh tones on layers set to screen and multiply blend modes, opacities of 35% and 32%, respectively. Eliminated defects by cloning, smudging and copying/pasting good areas over bad. Resized image to 800 pixels in width. Duplicated background layer, applied Paint Engine "Brush Strokes" filter. Layer set to darken blend mode, opacity of 78%. Made second copy of background layer, applied PS "Accented Edges" filter. Layer set to darken blend mode, opacity of 100%. Added level adjustment layer 0/1.11/2.37 to RGB. Placed third copy of background layer above level adjustment layer. Ran PS "Fresco" filter on that copy. Layer set to lighten blend mode, opacity of 31%. Filter layers were erased in areas where I wanted to have more definition. Flattened layers and saved as a new PSD file. Added color blend mode layers, varying opacities, to new file and painted in reds, greens, blues and golds. Merged layers. Duplicated background layer. Desaturated duplicate layer and applied Paint Engine Brush Stokes filter. Erased portions of duplicate copy around the eyes and mouth to preserve the definition of those areas. Duplicate layer set to overlay blend mode, 62% opacity. Layers merged and saved as final PSD file. Opened third PSD file in Painter Classic and applied surface texture of image luminance, using very low settings. I wanted the look of oil paint, but didn't want too much shine or texture. Reopened file in Photoshop, and used dodge, burn and smudge tools, using "Charcoal" brushes, to accent and highlight areas. Applied Paint Engine "Embossy" filter to image and then selected portions of the background and dress with lasso tool and reapplied Embossy filter to those areas. Applied canvas texture filter to image and slightly desaturated it. Saved as a .jpeg, compression of 60.
	· Date: 7/26/2002 · Views: 8187 · Filesize: 48.7kb, 193.1kb · Dimensions: 800 x 1054 ·
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DJ Dubovsky

Senior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Upper Penninsula of Michigan
Posts: 1,659

7/26/2002 8:23pm

You're right, this is a fantastic photo to begin with. I really love how this came out. Yes the brush strokes seem hard to copy but you difinately have a painted quality to it and I like how the edges seem drawn in. It helps give it that hand painted appearence. Very well done Lorraine.
DJ

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Doug Nelson

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Registered: August 2001
Posts: 6,303

7/27/2002 8:46am

A lovely job. Has a nice ambiance to it. Perhaps a bit monochrome (only in comparison to Cassatt), and contrasty for a painting (particularly the shadow values).

But it does have a marvelous painterly feel to it.

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JBCaffrey

Member

Registered: April 2002
Location: Maryland
Posts: 60

7/27/2002 10:33am

I like the way you have maintained the important details of the original while giving it the look of painting.
A very nice job!

Wanda Schwind
Junior Member

Registered: January 2002
Location: Ohio

7/28/2002 12:15am

Lorraine, how beautiful! Of course I don't expect anything less from you

You are one talented lady, your entries ALWAYS prove that point. Wonderful job!!!!

Wanda

Lorraine

Senior Member

Registered: September 2001
Location: Flemington, NJ
Posts: 219

7/28/2002 10:04am

Hi, Doug, DJ, JB and Wanda.

Thank you all so much for your comments.

This one was not easy. I almost gave up because I had worked it so much without getting the real results that I wanted.
So your comments are truly appreciated.

Lorraine

farron
Junior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Nashville. TN
Posts: 15

7/29/2002 2:36am

Almost gave up! Harumph & Grin...that'll be the day. [wink]

Your purrrfectionism is showing...with wonderful results!!

I like the way you got that slightly outlined feel of a lot of the paintings I saw. Especially the watercolor type.

Nice work, lady!!!

_^..^_
Farron

Sharon

Junior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Everett, WA

7/29/2002 11:38pm

Beautiful job. You're becoming a very good digital painter.

Sharon

Lorraine

Senior Member

Registered: September 2001
Location: Flemington, NJ
Posts: 219

7/30/2002 7:01am

Hi Farron and Sharon!!!!

Thanks so much for your compliments. I'm really getting addicted to the photo art.

I do enjoy this category because it's forcing me to read about and study the artists work and styles. I've always been too lazy study art history.

Lorraine

paulette conlan

Senior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: florida
Posts: 175

8/15/2002 3:17pm

Lorraine,
You did a beautiful job. That's exactly what I would like to do with some photos I've taken.Have you every looked at any of Wyeth's works?I think his( the original Wyeth) paintings are similar to Cassatt's.Anyway, again it's beautiful.
Paulette

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