I have signed model releases from the subjects in these pictures. So feel free to artify them. If they are posted to any other sites, please credit me as the copyright owner. Thank you and have fun.

Janet

Original background removed. There was a car in the way. Oops. Enjoy Sir Axel.

:bigthmb: Great Photo's Janet Brilliant timing off to play now been hunting all day trying to find something to artify

Palms

I caught up with these two many years ago on the deck of the Valhalla...

I have signed model releases from the subjects in these pictures. So feel free to artify them. If they are posted to any other sites, please credit me as the copyright owner. Thank you and have fun.

Janet

Arrr, ye lubbers, I be submittin' this yere paintin' and any man Jack who don't like it can walk the bloody plank, he can. Hyarrrr.

(My attempt to do it all with the AHB pretty much stunk so I laid a partly-transparent layer of Impressionist over it. I'm still not that crazy about it. Arrr.)

dc

Almost had as much fun given this rendering a title as the rendering itself :lmao: . A mixture of the following: Flaming Pear's Mr. Contrast, Impressionist with CherylH's Finger Paint 1 preset, Xero's Pastellize set to divide (gave it some glow), GIMP's Photo Copy filter (for the hair only; gave the stands some much needed separation), and some other things (i.e., smudgeing, reverse painting, saturation/color adjustments, etc. ). :)

Forgot to add that I used Eye Candie's Jiggle too. :wavey:

Head of Knights, the Man of Arms is charge to the Kings Castle. :)

Had to have a play.

You all are having way too much fun and I'm glad. Keep exploring folks. These guys need a place to be immortalized. :bigthmb: :bigthmb: :bigthmb:

Janet

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum - except it is Sunday morning and mother's day and I would not want to shock my conservative sons!
Done in Photoshop with paint daubs and a new background.
MargaretM

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum - except it is Sunday morning and mother's day and I would not want to shock my conservative sons!
Done in Photoshop with paint daubs and a new background.
MargaretM

This reminds me of the Captain Morgan (www.rum.com) commercials. :lol:

I'm having almost as much fun artifying these as I did taking them.

I've added one I tried to do in Painter. Sadly, I've been away from Painter too long and most of this was done in Photoshop after the fact.

Janet

Now where's the Rum?
Following your lead, Ikroll I entered Captain Morgans resposible drinking website and found this interesting "recipe" for a Tattoo - using bold spiced black rum and and an energy drink. Sounds quite good and maybe what the energizer bunny drinks.
Pretty cool site.
MargaretM

Following your lead, Ikroll I entered Captain Morgans resposible drinking website and found this interesting "recipe" for a Tattoo - using bold spiced black rum and and an energy drink. Sounds quite good and maybe what the energizer bunny drinks.
Pretty cool site.
MargaretM

Combination of an upper and downer means that the alcohol must be canceled out and you can drink as much as you want; Right? :lol:

Margaret, I like your rendering :happy: it has very nice painterly look.

Gary, your idea is great, I like it :happy:
is a part of your rendering the coast near La Digue ? Those big rockpieces are for sure
from granite, I think there is only one place on earth with islands from granite .. :hat:

Thank you Barbara. A nice picture to work with.
Ikroll - what a wonderful theory - till the next morning.
MargaretM

Nothing funner than editing a pirate picture :classic:
I like your first version Ikroll
Thanks for the great pictures Janet :pleased:

Hi Barbara,

I've no idea where the island in my picture is from, it's just an image I "trawled" off the net and cropped to get the frame I wanted.

Glad you liked the final image, I had loads of fun doing it, and added and subtracted all sorts of things before settling on the final submission.

Had another go at a different photo few more to go ! ! !

Palms

and another

Oh, wow... some really neat renderings here. What fun

I really managed to garbage this one up. :tongue:

Very fun to play around with :)

Yer says ye be lookin for a good used ship? Well I be havin' just the deal for you ....

Hi Verywierd,

Your ship is flying the white ensign (flag of the Royal Navy), is this a ruse to lure unsuspecting souls into a Pirate trap ?

Hi Verywierd,

Your ship is flying the white ensign (flag of the Royal Navy), is this a ruse to lure unsuspecting souls into a Pirate trap ?

The ship is actually a model of the Golden Hind. As a Privateer all who sailed on her were both representatives of the Crown as well as pirates (to the Spanish) :)

The ship is actually a model of the Golden Hind. As a Privateer all who sailed on her were both representatives of the Crown as well as pirates (to the Spanish)
Very weird!
MargaretM

Not really happy, but I need to figure out the sketch. I'll keep playing until I can simulate it. In the meantime, here's what I've come up with. :)

Used Xero's Carravaggio filter along with some additional enhancements (including Impressionist with KentC's Cezanne filte modified for size) to get this illustration. :)

Wonderful shot, Janet. When I saw the first one, I immediately knew what I was going to do:

- Cut him out of the background, and turned him into a sketch.
- Created a "pirate map" background. I started with a great action called "Ray's Parchment 2006", which is available at Adobe's Studio Exchange:

http://tinyurl.com/fmgur

After running the action, I ran another great action, "Parahamsa Linen":

http://tinyurl.com/memf5

Then I used lots of grunge/stain type brushes to add some dirt and age. You can find tons of these brushes online or at Studio Exchange.

I also added a 1626 map of Bermuda and a few nautical/antique designs. All of these were used at varying opacities and blend modes. Finally, I brushed the edge with grunge brushes to give an uneven/burned/torn/aged look.

To finish I placed the pirate on top of the map, put in a drop shadow and tweaked all the colors. Now if only I can learn how to retouch as fast as I've written this description! ; )

Full sized crop for a close-up view:
http://upload.pbase.com/pam_r/image/61392390.jpg

Link to a larger version:
http://upload.pbase.com/pam_r/image/61392430.jpg

Thank you for letting us play!

pam,

excellent! i saw that and immediately thought 'Pirates of the Carribean' with johnny depp. could easily be a movie poster.

craig

Beautiful work Pam. Thumbs up.

Janet

Great photos Janet. Thanks for sharing them.
I gathered some background images and collaged them together using different blending modes. Then I Buzzed it and added some grain texture. Some dodge and burn finished it off.

Cathy :pleased:

Nice, I like this one Cathy :)

very cool, cathy :)

craig

Thanks Fox54Black and Craig. It was a fun one to work on.

Cathy :rainbow:

Something whimsical

hehehe, very cool, frank :)

craig

If you look carefully at a spirit label, you'll find it says "degree" proof, not "percent" proof.

Or the more modern notation is for example (37% vol).

But aside from my incredibly petty nitpicking, I loved your picture Frank, as indeed I enjoyed Cathy's terrific interpretation.

More tries on the pirates.

Steve

A single pirate.

Steve

Two pirates and a tankard.

Steve

OK, last crank of the wheel, (as they say.)

Steve

Really, really interesting technique Steve. I can't decide if it is a cross between stained glass and embossing of some sort. Mind sharing the steps. I'm dying to copy it and add my own touches.

Janet

Captain Morgan didn't quite like the idea of posing...
Fortunately the painter almost finished the work before his tragic death by captain's sword.


Pavel

for comic book series...?

You all are so much more creative with these pictures than I could be. Thank you for sharing and doing. I hope everyone is having a grand ole time with the pirates.

And yes, pavel, they would make a great comic book series. When I took their pictures, they were easily the most unhibited and photo friendly of the whole renaissance fair.

Janet

Nice pics, I'd seen them a while ago but just couldn't work out what to do with them. Just aquired Corel Painter IX, wow amazing program! Here's a first attempt at useing it, (don't know what I'm doing with it yet though!!)....John

Hi all...Thought I'd try another, still trying to get the hang of Painter, I've come to the conclution that you need to make bold strokes with brushes, then blend them in later. (I think!) By the way the pic loses a lot by shrinking it down to 100k........(that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!!)..
John

Hi all...Thought I'd try another, still trying to get the hang of Painter, I've come to the conclution that you need to make bold strokes with brushes, then blend them in later. (I think!) By the way the pic loses a lot by shrinking it down to 100k........(that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!!)..
John

Looks great to me. Can be used to illustrate Walter Scott's novell right away.

Pavel

John.. I agree with Pavel...I think the second one is great...you are doing really well...i am trying to get to grips with it too and enjoying the experience....I tend to do a muck up ...big stokes and then bring details back with a smaller brush and a soft blender...I also like the just add water for portrait photos i find them great for the skin..but we all get into our own style of painting....Today i downloaded a CD of brushes i got with Jeremy Suttons book...Painter IX Creativity...they are brilliant and the book is so helpful and written in an easy to undersatnd way....I need that...
Good luck ..most of all enjoy... :nod:

Patricia....

hello...
I'm a korean.
my name is hanwoo seo.
I don' speak English well.
my first image.


mini homepage (http://www.cyworld.com/shw0)

Hanwoo seo...

I think your painting is beautiful...well done...look forward to seeing more of your work...

Welcome to RetouchPro....

Patricia.... :classic:

Excellent!

Steve

hello...
I'm a korean.
my name is hanwoo seo.
I don' speak English well.
my first image.


mini homepage (http://www.cyworld.com/shw0)

Thankyou Patricia and Pavel, you're too kind.
Hanwoo seo:---welcome, that's a terrific first post! :bow: Wish I could read Korean for your site......John

hello...
I'm a korean.
my name is hanwoo seo.
I don' speak English well.
my first image.


mini homepage (http://www.cyworld.com/shw0)


Your picture does all the talking needed :bigthmb:

Palms

hello...
I'm a korean.
my name is hanwoo seo.
I don' speak English well.
my first image.

Fantastic hanwoo seo! Welcome to RetouchPRO. I can see you are going to push many of us to keep up with you! :-)

hanwoo seo, Welcome to RetouchPRO. Your work is simply stunning. Very, very well done. Even though you don't speak English well, I'm sure I speak for everyone here when I say that details of how you did your work would be appreciated.

Janet

hello...
I'm a korean.
my name is hanwoo seo.
I don' speak English well.
my first image.


mini homepage (http://www.cyworld.com/shw0)

Half Korean myself; welcome to our forum hanwoo. Fantastic illustrative version too I might add. :)

hanwoo seo, welcome to RetouchPRO.

excellent work! A+!

craig

Had to have a go, I'm in need of the practice.


Peter