This picture is just dying to be tinkered with :lol:

On the second version I extracted liz from the picture and put her on a seperate layer. I desaturated the background.
Created an adjustment layer for levels, added gaussian blur.
I merged the Liz back with the background layer.
Loaded the Liz selection (was saved as a channel), inversed and expanded 2 pixels. Ran the chalk and charcoal filter.

Thank you, cardmnal, I thoroughly enjoyed doing this......
Prepared the original image by increasing saturation and adjusting levels (layer1), then dup, and applying these filters: dark strokes, median, palette knife, (layer2). Pulled L1 above L2, applied layer mask to bring back some detail. Finally added some strokes by hand.

Great job Judy!! :bigthmb:

You made the bright colors jump out in this one. The frame really adds depth. Beautiful work!!

I loved working with Liz; this is a beautiful picture with a beautiful subject!

This was the first time I've ever used the clone stamp for anything. I erased everything but our lovely Liz. I adjusted Levels, did some other stuff (sorry, lost my train of thought) and eventually did a watercolor filter.

Voila. And don't be surprised if I come back with another one, I really like this picture. :)

And here she is in a frame...

keepemcomin, great image!! It never occured to me how well balanced the photo would be with the room empty except for our subject and the curtains, I really like that.


I didn't much care for my first attempt so here is another.

I made all the photo corrections on adjusrment layers.
duplicated the BG and used pastels on a burlap texture.
Put the original in Paint Shop Pro, sketched it, and pasted the sketch into photoshop.
Placed the sketched layer above the pastels and blended it as a screen.

I built the cheap, plastic looking frame with 2 selections and bevel boss.

I'm not happy with the final result of this, but I might toy around with the idea a little more.

I wondered what Liz might be deep in thought about. :)

Had a bit of spare time, and liked the look of this, so had a quick play with it.

Had to really compress it to get within 100K limit, hope it posts OK.

I cropped and blurred bg. Took into painter for strokes and surface texture. Back to Photoshop for tweaking.

You caught a very nice expression.

Cropped image.
Sho.
adapt.eq
Xero Clairity
Simplified
Redfield sketchmaster for bg.
Hue & sat adj.
Contrast adj.
Color balance.
Several Nik filters (contrast, skylight, warmth, midnight, etc)
Added shadows and highlights using several different methods (contrast, brightness and color enhancement).
enhanced overall colors.

Nice work everybody
Jeykita's water colour> beautiful

My version
History brush+Bacardi vanilla rum into a glass 1/3 filled with ice.
Fill the rest of the glass with Coca-cola
Layer masks+Bacardi vanilla rum into a glass 1/3 filled with ice.
Fill the rest of the glass with Coca-cola
brush strokes>Layer masks+Bacardi vanilla rum into a glass 1/3 filled with ice.
Fill the rest of the glass with Coca-cola
rest cannot remember
Manju

can't speak now.. rolling on floor.... :lmao:

Another great technique! Do you think Jose Cuervo in tomato juice would get the same effect? :lmao:

I belive so Raniday. But make sure to adjust the hue/sat. in the top layer..
....lol........
Manju

A couple of attempts of mine hope you enjoy

Palms

She is indeed deep in thought.

Steve C.