Thought this might be a fun one. Found this fella roaming around about a half mile from our campsite last august.

I'll post it for now and work on it later. Have Fun!!

cardmnal -- hope you had a telephoto lens. :) I admire bears, but only from a distance.

This one I lightened, then did a polar distort plus palette knife then reversed the distort (a la Manju), reduced the effect with a layer mask, then ran crystallize and reduced the effect with the History brush. Also ran the sketch filter - notepaper and then faded it.

I blurred the background, and then applied a lot of buZZ.

-Jeff

Thought it would make a nice illustration for a children's book. This is an attempt using filter - photocopy and buzz. Not that great, i know :rolleyes:

Thank you Jaykita for the brilliant suggestion. I hope you don't mind. I had the posterization/cutout thing the way I wanted it but not the color pop that you achieved. Forgive me for taking your copy, adding it to my own interpretation and making a unique blend. Children's illustrators lookout. Here we come.

Janet

...oh, a bit of cloning out the rocks in the foreground.

What do ya' think?

Well done everyone, interesting results.

Neat Image/Reduce Noise
Duped Bottom Layer
L2 - Paint Alchemy/Sketch Effect - Mode Dodge 60 - Dupe L2
L3 - Mode - Burn 62% - Dupe L3
L4 - Mode Multiply 28%
Merged all layers.
Aim/USM to sharpen strokes.

Thank you Jaykita for the brilliant suggestion. I hope you don't mind. I had the posterization/cutout thing the way I wanted it but not the color pop that you achieved. Forgive me for taking your copy, adding it to my own interpretation and making a unique blend. Children's illustrators lookout. Here we come.

Janet
Janet, yours is really pretty. I love the way the trees turned out! Beautifully illustrated!

If you dare go down the woods today your get a great bear scare...

Awesome work everyone!!!

How about a pink bear? :dizzy: Just playing with Buzz Pro, then some color enhancements in PSP9.

Wow, great work everybody!! :bigthmb: It seems ther is no limit to the talent and imagination around this forum.

CJ, The bear crossed the trail about 30 feet in front of me. He just kind of looked at me, :eek: snorted and continued on. the entire encounter didn't last 30 seconds.

Their strength is amazing as he turned that fallen tree right over looking for grubs or termites or whatever.

The pic was snapped at about 65 ft. with my Nikon Coolpix 995. I was so excited that I don't know what settings I used. This was the best of three photos I got...none of which came out very well. :angry:

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Oh yea, the image.

Cropped it.
made a colored pencil layer.
ran a layer through illustrator.
curves adjustment layer.

Raniday

I think the pink bear works nicely. I appreciate the simplicity of the monotone/analogous color scheme.

T