summers here at last hope you like this one ! easy way to photograph the grandkids no worries of where to get them to look ! :lol:

I can't understand position of the kid, probably her face is most interesting like her back side, but I'm waiting, the earth turn around... :happy: I used Levels, Auto color, Paint Daubs, Angled Strokes, embossed layer and texture. Nice photo Palms.

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hi - this is my first "artsy" post - what do you think? i am not too happy with my shadowing. i never tried that before.

my favorite picture of my daughters is their backs to the camera looking out onto the ocean, i take one every summer of them, so i thought this would be a great photo to alter to reflect that pose.

johnnieB

Little person in big hat...

Steve

I extended the canvas and painted in SA,

Oltenius Lovely posting i wanted this pose as i had in mind a painting on a beach etc ( also her parents are a bit dubious about posting a photo of her face on the web, ( i do have permission for this one though ) )

Philbach great one it as if she is wishing for something or not quite got the world at her feet yet ?

Dm Cher lovely of her on the swan one of my favorite birds

JohnnieB for a first artsy it is spot on and similar to what i had in mind for the photo ( want to do a painting with ahb )

Steve love it love it love it how did you do it just incase it can be replicated in Photoshop Please !

Kiska another one i love fabulous work

great work guys hope to see some more, i am unable to play for a day or so ( been called into work ) sob sob

Palms

Palms1, thank you very much for appreciations. Regards.

I tried to go for something loose and wild to contrast with the (seemingly) calm nature of the subject (please help me - I'm turning into my art teacher)
I hope the effect is as painterly as I intended, it may have lost a little something in the compression (had to go down to 25%)

Palms1 thank you for the kind words.

NancyJ I love the effect.

All really great interpretations.

johnnieB

Another try... Deep Paint rules...

What a beautiful photo!!

Oltenius-wonderful job nice texture

Philbach- cool version

Dm_Cher-love the swan!!

Johnnie-looks very realistic even down to the shadow

Steve-wonderful sketch

Kiska-beautiful painting

NancyJ-looks like a smudge great job

pjb - thanks so much and yours is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! if i might ask, how did you do that?

Your welcome Johnnie!! And thank you for your kind comments. I first adjusted the photo levels, took out the background copy this and did lineart filter form xero. Merged this and copied the bottom edge of the flowers from the picture I added and past over the photo.

NancyJ great job it does seem to give a feeling of serenity and please carry on being your art teacher i never had one so i learn from you

Oltenius another great one i havemt got painter so cant play down that road

Pjb great fantastic really like it

Oh well of to worknow

Palms

pjb, you got a 'weener' there!!!!!!!!

pjb, thank you! Your artwork is exceptional!
P.S. palms1, thank you again :blush:

Thank you...and I'm not even going to try to guess what all you did to get what you did. I would be surprised if you remembered half of it. That's outstanding!

Steve

What a beautiful photo!!

Steve-wonderful sketch

Thank you...nice comments indeed.

Mostly Buzz with layering, blends, and painting in a little detail here and there.

Sometimes the technique works well...sometimes it really makes a mess of the colors in an image. This one just seemed to work.

Nice pic, B.T.W. And interestingly different pose.

Steve


Steve love it love it love it how did you do it just incase it can be replicated in Photoshop Please !

great work guys hope to see some more, i am unable to play for a day or so ( been called into work ) sob sob

Palms

I bow to Steve and PJB. Just wonderful, wonderfl renditions! :bow: :bow: :bow:

In my never ending search to find tools that will give me soft chalky looks (or other painterly effects) I ran across Art Rage (http://www.artrage.com) This is a $20 painting program (Both Mac and PC with a dowloadable demo) with basic media tools (pencil, chalk, oil. palette knife, airbrush, etc) that I used for my version of the sun hat.

Now most of you who know me, know I can't draw/paint if my life depended on it. This was all done "by hand" (with help from the Wacom) with the chalk and pencils tools using default settings for opacity etc. Not as elegant as you pros, but I see potential. :-)

Great art work on Palms photo...sunhat....all different with their own personalities..... :bigthmb:

Here is mine....put a few more flowers for you in your garden with help from PSPx...picture tube....Art history brush in Photoshop CS2...filter forge for a soft posterize and finally borders in PSPx...

Patricia..... :pleased:

Swampy :bow: It's superb and one you should be very proud of

Patricia great, see you have started the filter forge road ! Thanks for the extra flowers ( between us i love daisy's in my grass i don't dig them out unless they take over to much )

Palms

Found a little time to play tonight although this is sort of a practice run ! ! ! !

Palms

Hello Palms...Like that one ...its great for a practice run....how did you do it??? I love the little daisies that grow in English lawns...we dont have them here...how sad!!!! :depressed

Patricia... :pleased:

Thanks Patricia, used ahb (trimoons watercolour) then added sponge filter, then merged and saved reopened, new layer and used the history brush at about 30% opacity going over painting a couple of times

Palms

Thanks for the info Palms...have Trimoons water color bush but noot sure what the sponge filter is ...will check it out...It will be fun trying as i really like that painting...

Patricia... :masked:

Not going to repeat my process again (just do a search). Final step was Eye Candy's Jiggle preset again. I attached a smaller size, lower quality version; here's (http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/449/sunhat3em.jpg) the full high quality rendering. Just click and expand to see the details. :)

Nice work everyone. :cool:

Shame it wasn't a mirror. :confused:

Rô

nice "jiggling" Ikroll
Very nice Ro it has endless possibilities like she could be looking at the seaside etc hmmm food for thought and if there was a mirror you would have to have used the clone brush extensively to remove the ice cream and chocolate smears :lol:

Palms

Ro, what a nice idea :happy:

here my small crop,
I used Gimp :happy:

filter forge with a few small adjustments in Paint Shop Pro.

craig

Barbara like the crop craig another winner for ff , also the one posted on the Ray's boat thread is great and almost my favorite

Palms

thanks palms :) i assume you mean the first one i posted in ray's boat.

craig

Oh Craig your head must be full of filter forge usually you can read my mind but this time no ! ! I meant the second one (metallic)

Palms

palms,

yes, i'm afraid i've gotten a bit preoccupied with FF. quite an amazing program and the list of user-made filters is growing by leaps and bounds. but i havent even had much time for those, being knee deep in about 6 different creations of my own. you shld see some of byRo's! quite fascinating. one of the latest comments from one of the developers was, 'you guys are scaring me' :) i think that was in reference to one of Ro's brilliant creations.

ah, the second one. excellent! i like that one too. so, thank you :)

you have FF, right? try my newly uploaded filter, 'Kaleidoscopic Effects 1' and see what you think. i put in a ton of presets to help navigate. that thing can produce, i'm fairly sure, millions of different effects. and if they do what i hope they're going to do in the next version of FF, i'll expand that filter even more.

(i'll work on the mind reading :) )

craig

Coloured a photocopy layer in

Palms

Like the soft subtle effect Palms....

Patricia... :dizzy:

yup, that's a winner, palms :)

craig

A shame that summer has gone.

I've been playing with my torn edges method again.


Peter

A shame that summer has gone.

I've been playing with my torn edges method again.


Peter

I really like that one Peter the pillow looks like it is hovering of the lawn( not really that posh grass )

As for summer going if you look at the date that was the last summer we had

Palms