Found a little time to try the camera again, so thought i would post these and see if any one was interested, must admit getting fed up of taking photo's of flowers and cats so must go out next week and see what else i can find ( weather permitting)

use both history brushes on this one

Palms

Not anything new and inventive, just a few brush strokes here and there.

Steve

Color adjustments in every channel and some rotations + border.

I'm not sure if this type of thing is considered photo-art and I apologize if I have misunderstood the concept.

I'm graduating this weekend and saw your very pretty flowers and immediately thought that I would love to have one to wear in my hair (being that you're across the pond I think this would be impossible :P) so I trotted out the ole photoshop to play...

After using masks to composite the flower into a pic of me, I added a shadow, and spent a ton of time trying to make it look realistic. Then I decided to play with various filters/art-history brush (totally making all the time I spent on realism unnecessary, d'oh) and came up with this. Thanks for sharing the great photo. :pleased:

Steve might not be "new and inventive" but very nice

Oltenius weird (please don't be offended ) but attractive

irshgrlkc seems like photo art to me and very inventive ( what we like) and yes i could see it being worn in the hair but your umbrella would get in the way here ! ! ! ! ! !

Palms

Thanks Palms, indeed I'm scare too :dizzy: I hope the next will be more artistic ;)

Palms.. Ya went and did it again! I'm supposed to be working, but I just had to have a go at this pic. Pretty, pretty, pretty!

I agaree with Swampy. I'm supposed to be working and not sitting here with a gorgeous flower and a virtual paintbrush. :)

I'm enjoying the work done on this thread. It gives me lots of ideas.

Janet

Nice, Janet. Like your inside border.

Hi Palms....Lovely photos...new camera is looking good!!! Are your clematis early??? I have a dark blue one but it doesnt flower till August!!!

Palms,Steve,Swampy and Janet...lovely, all the different renditions...

Irshgrlkc...Unusual use of Palms photo....good idea...I like it!

Oltenius....Yours is also unusual but I also like it...Its fun to try different ways with your art!!! The second one I like too!!

I did mine in Photoshop CS2 with the art history brush ( getting to grips with it a bit more now) I then put Flaming Pears Aetherize plugin on it..to change the look a little!!!

Thanks for the pic Palms...

Patricia.... :classic:

:bow:Ok now you have all upset me cause i have been at work and had no time to play ! ! ! ! !

Oltenius i think your first one was artistic, your second one is very good

Swampy what can i say :bow: back ground great flowers great 3d effect great ( give up the job )

Janet another one give up the job :bow: lovely rendition giving me lots of ideas.

Patricia superb work and the colouring is great would not of though to darken ! ! The clematis is a early one my darker ones dont flower till late summer


Palms

Thanks, Craig

PK... stunning!

Thanks Palms and Swampy.....the encouragement is most welcome....

Patricia... :pleased:

Thanks Palms and Patricia. What I have to say!? Sometimes, I am unusual or an usual beginner :blush:

very nice photo, Palms :thumbsup:

I am simply fascinated with those clematis colors :happy:
I used Gimp :happy:

Here is a shadow box...

Found a little time to try the camera again, so thought i would post these and see if any one was interested, must admit getting fed up of taking photo's of flowers and cats so must go out next week and see what else i can find ( weather permitting)

Just a little painting here.....maybe I'll go back and frame it later.

Frank, Nice drape. Do it yourself?

This question reminds me of a story...

Someone once asked Ted Koppel while pointing to his head:
Is that your hair?

And the answer, as the story goes, was:
Absolutely! I paid 500 bucks for it so it is all mine!

So, my answer to your question:
Yes I did push the button that ran Digital Anarchy Backdrop Designer that generated the background. :-)



Frank, Nice drape. Do it yourself?

Frank, a button push, huh? Still a great effect in your overall design no matter how you came about it. (He's so good, I half expected him to say he used a radial blur and a lighting effect) :bow: :bow:

another one of my filter forge filters.

craig

You guys are just great i am so glad i posted these photo's

Barbara i agree with you the colours are intruiging you really are a good advert for gimp

Frank superb,

Cardmnal lovely painting very subtle

Craig love the filter you seem to have got the hang of it ok and getting some great results do you recommend downloading filter forge ?

Palms

Hey Palms,

Thought I would pass on this wc vector simplication to you and all. Attached is a lower quality crop; here's (http://img321.imageshack.us/img321/3214/clematis2yr.jpg) the full high quality rendering. :)

palms,

thanks :)

filter forge is in beta. i signed up and was approved. this was from a post by doug nelson in the software forum. at first you could only get the download by signing up. now, i'm not sure. some seem to have gotten it without signing up. but, if you dont sign up for the beta then the demo is a trial, time limited version which runs out in 30 days.

but, these guys are doing some good things. if you get the demo and submit 3 filters and they are approved, you get the full, registered version for free. i think the beta testers may get a free version also, but not real sure of that. but it is the normal exchange for helping them get a release version.

so, yes, i do recommend it. it's very powerful yet very simple to use and the list of approved filters is growing. by the time of release you're going to be getting a good program with a LOT of already made filters. the developers seem very concientious and responsive. the program is very stable already and the developers seem very dedicated to making this a long term commitment. so, even if you never make a filter yourself, you're going to get a bunch of pre-made ones.

and yes, i am getting the hang of it :) but you shld see what some of the others are doing with this thing. it's really quite amazing! byRo and cameraken have both signed up also and we were told that there are 1200 registered testers now. not sure when they're going to stop taking applications or if they have already.

and just one last note on this. making a filter is as much fun as making an art rendition here on these forums, except when you make a filter you get 50 renditions :)

craig

i like that, lk. nice bright colors.

craig

palms,

here's some more done with filters i made with filter forge:

craig

and here's another i did with filter forge. the exception here is that i brought it back into Paint Shop Pro and did some more work on it, mainly with the canvas texture. it seemed very asian, japanese or chinese to me.

craig

Ikroll great post its like a cross between a watercolour and a cartoon effect very nice

Craig again all i can say is wow great results there, and i do like the last post it is oriental in feel funnily enough not long a go i looked at some chinese paintings and liked the style and thought i would have to have a look down that road !
given the chance tomorrow will have a look at downloading filterforge ( if it is still available) Thanks for all the info

Palms

palms,

i'm in the 'wow' mode also. FF is just blowing me away and this is just the beta. i've been using the 'clematis' image to test my filters and every once in a while i save one out. i have over 20 so far that i've liked well enough to save. and, having just made another filter, there are more to come :)

i also just downloaded a filter off the forums. this one adds over 10,000 lens effects all in the one filter. this thing is what all of us non-coder type folks have been looking for. attached is just one effect.

craig

Another interseting one Craig, Is it my imagination or does the square 3rd from the right (as you look at the screen ) top row look like a watch/clock face ? I might be going cuckoo grandkids have been here for the weekend

Palms

palms,

with that lighter part being the hand(s)? yeah, i can see that :) they remind me of a candy i used to buy as a kid. they were that same square with the rounded corners shape and about a quarter of an inch thick. came in all different colors and flavors :)

craig

Them are the ones Phew glad it wasnt me ( they still make them you know )

Palms

Here is my 5 minute attempt...

Very pretty Brewer...Your first post eh??? Welcome to Retouch...I am sure you will enjoy the forum, always lots of interesting happenings....

Craig...Love your filter forgers...you have been so busy...looks like its a lot of fun... :nod:

Patricia... :grin:

thebrewer,

welcome to RetouchPRO.

very nice :)

patricia,

thank you :)

yup, been spending most of the time i spend in here on FF and their forums. and yes, it is fun, so, here's another :)

craig

Oh Craig

I love that one ...it glows....so thats what you have been up to...thought it was rather quiet in the forum of late!!!!

Look forward to the next!!!!

Patricia.. :wavey:

Kraellin, Patricia,

Thanks for the welcome, lurked a while back, I haven't been back in a while. Hoping to visit more often an learn a few tricks.

Rich

patricia,

thanks :) i like it too.

hehehe, yes, i guess i am a bit of a...noise at times :)

and just for you, a couple more.

craig

Lovely, two more Craig....but i think the glowing one is still my favorite...

Patricia... :classic:

thanks patricia :)

3 more, metallicized.

craig

Just love the metallic look Craig...a question.....are you going to wallpaper one wall with all the lovely clematis you have done????? :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

Patricia.... :devious:

I second that Craig love the metallics

Palms

thanks patricia, palms :)

i was just playing around with a filter and hit on those by accident. one of those little serendipities you find every once in a while.

and patricia, re the wallpaper....sort of ;)

craig

i'm getting a little embarrassed at hijacking this thread with my stuff but not so much that here's two more :) (made with a new filter i'm working on) but this FF really is addictive.

craig

Craig i dont mind the hijack ! I love the second one how would that look with a faded sketch layer over it ? ( see i am encouraging you now )

Palms

Now i am doing a little hijacking Palms...but you have to download filter forge ...i have just had a play for half an hour and its great and highly addictive (right again Craig) Love the comic book one...

Craig ...I like your fist one best...It glows...think you should start a filter forge thread and post a pic and see what we can do with it????? :nod: PLEASE...

Patricia... :pleased:

well good. i really dont want to take over the thread :)

palms,
try it, the faded sketch layer. heck, try any of them. one of the things i always thought might be interesting here on retouch was a derivative thread. someone posts an image and others do a rendition then others do a rendition off the rendition and so on down the line.

patricia,
careful, it's highly addictive! there shld be a warning label on that thing ;) and yes, if you never even make a filter yourself there are some great filters that come with the program and more get uploaded every day. byRo just made one that pretty much blew us all away. i dont know if it's on the download or not, but once you have the program you can download the others through the built-in feature of FF. so, find Ro's 'adaptive tiling' filter and try it out. if you cant get it through the server you can get it off the forums over there.

and thank you both for the kind words and encouragement. i always feel a bit inhibited in posting more than a few pics in a thread. i've already done over 30 versions of 'clematis' and will continue to do more, as it's sort of become my test picture for filter forge. but i certainly wont be posting all of them. folks would get pretty tired of 'craig's filter forged clematis' i would think.

craig

edit: and yes, patricia, i had thought of starting a filter forge thread and may do so. i just have to find an appropriate image. we've also suggested the devs start a gallery on their site for this sort of thing.

A thread would be great Craig....can i help with a photo...what are you looking for??? Just got to congratulate you on your filter at ff, HSL contrast manipulation...it has done wonderful things to my roses!!!! Thanks...

Once again...sorry Palms ...just had to reply to Craig......

Patricia... :)

patricia,

oh good. i'm glad to see someone using it! try Ro's sketch filter and the adaptive tiling one too. i've made some more filters and am working on a new one as well, but the submission line right now tends to get clogged up. they're working on speeding it up. so when that happens i'll be posting some more.

and if you want to start a thread yourself, it might work better. i'm still cleaning up my old photo negatives and dont have a decent enough digital camera to take new ones yet. so, that might work better. not sure how we would do it, though. i wouldnt really want to try to exclude those that dont have FF yet. but it might be fun to have a thread dedicated to it, that instead of the thread being dedicated to one photo, it would be dedicated to one program with many different photos.

craig

Craig tried the added sketch effect it didnt do quite what i expected/wanted but i think it is ok, but while playing around with that came up with another one ! (no ff mentioned :lol: )

Palms

palms,

i like the added definition in the first one. and nice color play in the 2nd :)

craig

Thanks Craig

Palms

ok, three more from a new filter in FF. yes, the middle one is of the clematis picture.

craig

Craig you could go in for fabric design with these, like the third one the best

Palms

palms,

i hadnt thought of that, but i can certainly see it. hmm, burlington beware! :)

craig