I was on a mission yesterday to get some pictures of industries and businesses in the south end of the county. There is a HUGE greenhouse operation down there and I caught this shot in macro mode.

Play and have fun..

wow... no takers so far, I guess I'll throw my hat into the ring first then ;)

I'm trying to be more expressive and free form with my art, less clincal and precise and not obsess over going 'over the lines' etc, basically let it all hang out.

Nancy... I just put it up about an hour ago.. LOL

Like this photo Swampy lots of possibilities
Over hear it is called Peace Lily and is grown as a house plant it's botanical name is "Spathiphyllum" ( i will admit to looking it up as not that brainy and the common name will usually do for me ! :lol: )

On this i used the ahb and pastels filter

Palms

Nancy... I just put it up about an hour ago.. LOL
damn these pesky time differences.

Buzzed flower.

Steve

Palms... very nice. The plant is so simple it can hold up to a lot of manipulation. I can almost see brush strokes in yours.

Steve... I like the flower but love the way the background became so varigated in colors!

A by-product of bringing out the edges I guess. There is more color there than I had previously noticed.

Thanks...

Steve

Steve... I like the flower but love the way the background became so varigated in colors!

All very nice effects so far.. pretty watercolor steve


Here is something a little different.
Photoshop and Painter

~Nancy~

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AAh Nancy very very cute

Palms

very cool. nancy :)

i went a bit differently also. the scientific name for this is 'cobrata serpantium royale'.

craig

A quick effort with an Photoshop action

Just trying some fine-art work this time. For those who have not heard about Pseudogrey, just click here (http://r0k.us/graphics/pseudoGrey.html). I used the 16-bit to 8-bit perl script by Alex Wilson for this version of Pseudogrey (I use a lot of variations, but went back to an oldy, for me that is, for this conversion; yes I'm a geek; lol). :)

By the way, the jpeg compression process does cause a lot of tone loss, but I was able to retain over 900 tones anyway (out of a possible 1786 tones). :)

edit:

Found some issues which I fixed. Also increase the number of tones to over 1000. :)

lk,

that's VERY cool!

how do you run or implement that script?

craig

I use Perl2EXE (http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm) (free version; some caveates using the free version since it adds a 2 second delay at the tail end of the conversion, but I'm cheap and can pay this price). I created the executable and created a shortcut to it on my desktop. I drag the raw file (needs to be 16-bit IBM Greyscale RAW) onto the shortcut and it executes. If you download the perl2exe program and install, you can use the compiled program (from the perlscript) here (http://bellsouthpwp.net/l/y/lylejk/pseudogrey.zip). Just place all these files in the same directory as Perl2EXE is located at and create your shortcut from the batch file.

Photoshop: I did do some enhancements prior to the conversion using Bruce's Action blened with the original. :)

lk,

where you are cheap, i am lazy. perl2exe for windows requires an installation of perl on your machine. looks like more complexity with the RAW too. and not quite sure i followed your explanation there for all the installs.

but your image certainly does look good.

craig

Hey Craig,

When I downloaded the program, it installed complete (see attached capture). Didn't take much room. It's been a while since I downloaded this gem, but I don't recall having to download other components. It has the ability to compile perscript itself as I recall. :)

ok, i got perl2exe.
unzipped it to c:\perl2exe .
downloaded you can use the compiled program (from the perlscript) here that part from your post.
unzipped that into the same directory as the perl2exe.
made a shortcut of the pseudo.bat file and put it on the desktop.

opened Paint Shop Pro 10 and the CRW_0312.jpg picture of the flower.
saved as CRW_0312-grey.raw (put it in greyscale first)
copied that file to the desktop.
dragged and dropped the .raw file onto the .bat file.
a dos window opened, said something about where it was working on a temp and a blurb about the full version of perl2exe and closed
not knowing where the finished file would end up, i looked around and found a new file where the old one was. it was named CRW_0312-grey.raw.tmp

so, do i simply now re-name this .tmp file to get rid of the .tmp extension and load it or did i do something wrong here?

craig

ok, i removed the .tmp extension and renamed the file. that seemed to work. however, i think i've goofed somehow on converting the original .jpg into .raw or on loading the finished, transformed .raw into Paint Shop Pro. attached is just one example of what i get when i load this file back into psp.

it's possible that i saved the original file into .raw rgb, interleaved instead of greyscale. i seem to recall something like that. you had said use 16 bit .raw and when i converted to grayscale, that of course is 8 bit. so, i made it grayscale first and then put it back to rgb with all gray tones. how the heck do you get 16 bit grayscale? i can only get 8 bit.

craig

Yes, you delete your old 16-bit Raw file and rename the new file as .raw

I see you figured that part out. Now, when you open this raw, the dimensions have to be identical to the original; the number of channels, however, have to be set to 3 (RGB now, not greyscale). It's also 8-bit now, not 16-bit. Hope this helps Craig. :)

As a side note, the reason I named the resulting file {originalraw}.tmp was if I named the same as the file being operated on, the program crashed. I was too lazy to figure out why, so I did it this way. I then just delete the original raw file and rename the new one without the .tmp extention. :D

Shades of the movie "The Body Snatchers!" Seed pods changing into people.

Nice manip, however. And thanks for your comments on mine.

Steve


All very nice effects so far.. pretty watercolor steve


Here is something a little different.
Photoshop and Painter

~Nancy~

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Awwww... Nancy... Well done :-)

Craig... You crack me up!!! Excellent interpretation... :bow: The "t.v. lines" is kinda neat. No matter how you got there.

Ikroll... I would never have thought there was that much "information" in the background to get all those shades of gray.

Made this using Danny Raphael's impressionist smudge paint presets and using layers and masks. Way funner than actually painting it. :nod:

I figure if you're talking flowers, especially lilies, you're talkin' Brian Davis (http://www.briandavisart.com/.)

I'm not saying I got there. I'm just saying I gave it my best shot.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f131/dkcoats/RP/peacelily.jpg

dc

Layer adjustments, Cutout filter, Impressionist (Danny's djroil24 again), Plastic Wrap, added noise, angled stroke, blended back, and then ported the result into GIMP from additional enhancements including bumpmapping and Xero's Supersmooth blend. My same MO. :nod:

Some very good work here, what a pleasure to work on...

This was done just playing in Photoshop 7

dee dee,

thank you :)

i'm afraid that's pretty much how i got started in all this, photo manip and clowning around with friend's photos and other web stuff. and i always enjoy contributing to someone's smile or laugh :)

we'll just blame/credit the t.v. lines on lkroll for now :)

craig

I used Studio Artist. A "Bleached Edges" Image Operation Preset.

Fox... Very "arty" looking!

DC... The link didn't work for me, but I love you're simplistic rendition. That white really pops off the black

Ikroll... I'm intrigued by the shadows of the flower that your manipulation resulted in.

RL... love your lense flares. Interesting how you reduced the yellow in the bloom yet retained detail.

Phil...You've managed to add excitment and motion to an otherwise serene photo. Well done.

dee dee,

thank you :)

i'm afraid that's pretty much how i got started in all this, photo manip and clowning around with friend's photos and other web stuff. and i always enjoy contributing to someone's smile or laugh :)

we'll just blame/credit the t.v. lines on lkroll for now :)

craig


Yup, just blame Lyle ( :lol: ). I use to get this too; again, just look at the response post above and the scan lines will disappear into a beautiful b/w. :)

Craig, very cool, but very disturbing! I can very well see why Cobra is in the name of this plant (I hate snakes).

Thanks for the nice comments, Craig, Palms, Steve and Swampy, they are always appreciated!
Regards,
~Nancy~
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DC... The link didn't work for me...

Swampy - thanks for the comment.

There was a punctuation error in the link. Should work now.


dc

phil,

i said it before and i'll say it again, i definitely like how you're going in studio artist. that is a cool rendition!

lk,

hehe. i'll get around to trying it again. i think i know what i did wrong :)

thanks, nancy :)

i just went with the first thing that popped into my head. and for whatever reason, the cobra hood was what that flower reminded me of, the shape.

craig

Thanks everyone.

very cool. nancy :)

i went a bit differently also. the scientific name for this is 'cobrata serpantium royale'.

craig

Man I like this one Craig; missed it until I received a reply (via email) of someone else who commented on it. This one's fantastic. :)

thanks, lk :)

simple to do. google a snake. extract it. resize it. paste over the flower. warp brush the snake to make it fit the contours of the flower. lower opacity of snake layer to blend. fun stuff :)

craig