Well you guys seem to like flowers.
Here is a Honeysuckle to practice with, found growing wild nearby.


Peter

Beautiful capture Peter. Hope you like this one. Used Flaming Pear's Mr. Contrast and Danny's djroil24 preset for this one. For the glow, I used one of my favorite GIMP tricks; I ran Xero's Pastellize filter on a separate layer and set the layer property to Divide. I also added a few selective smudges too. Here (http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5008/honey4mq.jpg)'s the complete hi-res rendering. Attached is a low-res crop. :)

And to think I spent all of last summer getting rid of a fenceline of this flower!! ;)

Thank you for sharing. By the way, the butterfly is real. It does have transparent wings!

Peter

Great get! Too lovely not to play with! :-)

I was going for drama.

Selected the main flowers and copied to their own layer
Ran an omni lighting filter on them.
Texture on the original background and darkened the highlights

Great stuff

Swampy - coming on good with that Wacom I see

Peter

Thank you, Peter! :happy:

I did get a new Wacom for Christmas. This one has buttons and bells and whistles, but I don't have any of the extra features set up to do anything.

I did get a new Wacom for Christmas. This one has buttons and bells and whistles, but I don't have any of the extra features set up to do anything

Have you downloaded the Pen tools from the Wacom site? the're not bad U know.

Peter

No I haven't, Peter... Thanks for the heads up. I'll check 'em out. :-)

candice,

if you dont post that butterfly in a separate challenge, i will (with due credit of course :) ). when i first saw those transparent wings i thought, dragonfly! and i had to read it several times over and look at it again to be sure it wasnt. it's an excellent picture and worthy of a challenge.

craig

A little Honeysuckle...Gertrudis style.

Steve

Steve, did GP do the saturation, or did you control that? WOW (putting on my sunglasses... LOL)

I ran Paint Shop Pro's "auto-saturation" several times to get the color up a bit. Than applied GP using several of the styles and brushes therein.

Sorry about your eyes. 8-)

Steve

Steve, did GP do the saturation, or did you control that? WOW (putting on my sunglasses... LOL)

Post away, just remember to send it home!! ;)http://photowebs.blogspot.com/2006/03/transparent-butterfly.html (http://)

klassy, the url is invalid and cannot be loaded. :heul: It is such a beautiful butterfly.

Janet

klassy, the url is invalid and cannot be loaded. :heul: It is such a beautiful butterfly.

Janet
copy and paste the url instead of clicking it...
http://photowebs.blogspot.com/2006/03/transparent-butterfly.html

Honeysuckle -chalk on sidewalk. Used mainly Painter and chalk brush - just experimenting and not trying to produce a great work of art.
MargaretM

No effects, just some subjective color treatment.

Margaret... Very nice. Our local highschool does a chalk on sidewalk project every year and the kids come up with some pretty neat stuff. Yours has all the texture necessary. Nice job.

Goose... Makes me wanna reach out and touch them. :-)

Honeysuckle w/ high-contrast
Used almost everything but the kitchen sink on this one.

-Jeff

jch,

i like that a lot! very nicely done!

craig

Lovely flower....hope you like my version...

KPT filter shape shifter and a double border done in pspx...

All your renditions are great....

Patriciakay

Hey everyone... Decided to start contributing after getting my chops up. Actually i've been using Photoshop since 97 but I haven't relaly gotten submersed into photoprocessing until last year when I bot my dslr...

a few selections with Shadow/Highlight adj... tiny bit of LAB tweeks... 99% of pp has been RGB.

Critiques more than welcome.

Nice ..ParkerF1....love the way the main flower stands out...

patriciakay

Nice ..ParkerF1....love the way the main flower stands out...

patriciakay

thank you very much.

patricia,

very intereseting. almost looks glassine.

parker,

welcome to RetouchPRO. nice way to get your feet wet. nicely done. love the depth.

craig

patricia,

very intereseting. almost looks glassine.

parker,

welcome to RetouchPRO. nice way to get your feet wet. nicely done. love the depth.

craig

Very glad to be here... top shelf forum here. I've been on FM for a bit as well. Everyone here really has class and skill... this isnt' exactly "PT" forum :tongue:

THanks for the cheers.


Rob

parker,

sorry, dont know what 'FM' or 'PT' are.

craig

sorry, dont know what 'FM' or 'PT' are.

Me neither - though I think Hormone replacement might help.

I used Gimp and tryed to imitate watercolor :happy:

Nice Barbara - MargaretM

thanks Margaret, for nice word :happy: :happy: