I took this picture about 25 years ago and just now found it in some old boxes in the basement. After scanning it, I thought it might be a good photo art opportunity.

I know after that long some of the colors have faded. It is up to you whether or not you tweak them. Just have fun with it.

Janet

P.S. I haven't been back to where this picture was taken in over 20 years. Since then the area has seen major fires, earthquakes, etc. I would be interested in seeing new pictures of this river in Yellowstone National Park if anyone has them.

Hi Janet

Great picture. The color reminds me of the old cowboy movies I used to watch in Technicolor and Panivision, whatever, those were.

I Auto Colored the pic and applied a plugin filter called Redfield: XP Lattice.

Cheers
Dave

Way cool Duv.

This is a combo of palette knife in Painter and Oil in Art History. It is kind of wild and free and lots of fun to do.

Janet

Dave, where did you find that plug-in? Looks interesting.

Janet, that looks real good. :thumbsup:
Seems that you didn't fix the lack of contrast of the original, so it ended up looking like an old painting. Don't know if you meant it that way - but it came out nice.

No I didn't fix the contrast, etc. I liked the moodiness. Suited my mood today. :lol:

Thanks for the compliment.

Janet

Here you go Roland. http://www.redfieldplugins.com/

Cheers
Dave

Thanks Dave.
There's a lot of interesting stuff there.
Shame I'll still have to wait a few more days to be able to "download".

Rô

Texture, texture...

Used the 10 min Toolkit (http://www.retouchpro.com/resources/fileinfo.php?id=40) to tweak to taste (including Double Size);
Then combined three different texturing effects just to see....
1) Mehdi local equalization (http://www.mehdiplugins.com/english/localequalization.htm);
2) Filter>Other>Custom (1 pixel Laplace);
3) USM
Mixed and blended until I like the outcome.

Thanks, Janet. That was fun,
Rô

Wow--Janet, what a pretty picture! I've never been to Yellowstone, but always wanted to--it looks beautiful.

byRo--LOVE your result!! And thank you for the 10 minute toolkit...I just downloaded it.

Duv--very nice, I love the vivid coloring too. Thanks for the link to the plugins!

Here's my version too...
1-adjust levels, hue & saturation on a dup layer
2-dup of layer in step 1, filter>stylize>find edges, set to soft light
3-dup of layer in step 1, impressionist filter: pencil sketch, soft detailed set to soft light

I just got the impressionist filter but already I love it! There are sooooooo many variations though...I'll probably never get to see them all! LOL

Thanks again Janet for the fun pic!

I tried for a combination of effects on this one and enjoyed the journey from start to finish.

Janet

Everyone's a pleasure to look at, but I esp. like malia01us's.
For mine I used gradient map (light spectrum), paint engine, buzz simp1, and image adjs channel mixer, levels, brightness-contr, and burn and dodge tools. Layer palette included.

Great paintings, everyone. Thanks, Janet, for the beautiful photo!
I did this in painter IX w/ oil and pastel brushes.
Here's a larger image:
http://www.pbase.com/image/43227567

Great paintings, everyone. Thanks, Janet, for the beautiful photo!
I did this in painter IX w/ oil and pastel brushes.
Here's a larger image:
http://www.pbase.com/image/43227567
Good to see you again, Raniday!! You've done a BEAUTIFUL job, very painterly!

[QUOTE=Janet Petty]I took this picture about 25 years ago and just now found it in some old boxes in the basement. After scanning it, I thought it might be a good photo art opportunity.

Hey,
Reminds me of places I've been and wished that I were still. Here is my attempt. All Photoshop CS. No record of what steps, still working on that.

George of Texas :vampire:

My second attempt at this one.
P.S. Oh, Austin, Texas, where I live has an
enormous bat (Mexican Freetail) colony living under the
congress avenue bridge. So I was glad to
see the "Bat" smiley.

[QUOTE=Janet Petty]I took this picture about 25 years ago and just now found it in some old boxes in the basement. After scanning it, I thought it might be a good photo art opportunity.

Hey,
Reminds me of places I've been and wished that I were still. Here is my attempt. All Photoshop CS. No record of what steps, still working on that.

George of Texas :vampire:

My second attempt at this one.
P.S. Oh, Austin, Texas, where I live has an
enormous bat (Mexican Freetail) colony living under the
congress avenue bridge. So I was glad to
see the "Bat" smiley.



OKAY, so here is my third and final for this friday, maybe the week.

It could happen... but it sure would be a great loss. Yellowstone is such a beautiful place.

That's unreal. I love lateral thinking. It's a very scary thought if that Yellowstone super Vulcano blows.

Cat, I love yours. But then I usually do like what you come up with.

GHolmes, great, great, great. Very nice work.

And to the lateral thinker with the lava...same goes. Nice work and very interesting.

If I've left anyone out, forgive me. I'm braindead and :dizzy:

Janet

It could happen... Besides being a great idea, this is very well executed. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Rô

Thanks everyone!

I almost didn't post it. I wasn't sure how well it would be received since it's such a departure from the original. I glad you all liked it. It took forever to find source images whith lava in the right perspective, but when I read the picture was from Yellowstone, that's the first thing I thought of. I really hope it never happens.

What a marvellous photo Janet! Amazing scenery and results! Thank you, I thoroughly enjoyed playing with this one today.

Duped Bottom Layer
L2 - Buzz Simplifier - Duped L2
L3 - Paint Engine (Started with Curve setting and modified)
50% erased everything except the water
Merged layers
Duped BL again
L2 - Impressionist/Conte Faithful 60%
Merged layers.
Dodged the water
AIM USM

Spring River Manip.

Steve

WOW Racc that is amazing!!!

I see some new faces, haha and some old ones too!

Beautiful renditions here!!!

My take is i smart blurred/then used a TM Brush, then sharpened the colour and the picture, added a yellow base, then texture and watermark, nothing special.

Stunning photo Janet whatever it's age

used pwl, and velvia action

Palms

Always the realist ... limited imagination, I guess :)

Wish I had a higher res pic to play with.

Stosh

WOW Stosh! Amazing work. You really popped the picture and brought it to life.

Janet

Another attempt while killing a bit of time

Palms

Very original, Palms.

You're thinking "out-of-the-box" :grin:

Stosh

Another attempt while killing a bit of time

Palms

Nice one.
Don't tell me that was a pile with discarded renditions:)

Nice one.
Don't tell me that was a pile with discarded renditions:)

You got me there both you and stosh :D

Palms