Yea I bet you were all thinking, heather, heath, hills and kilts weren't you? This is a pic my brother took last year, I thought it would serve well as an "artyfying" piece, and he doesn't mind.....John

Nice photo Britsdad ahb version but want to try something else if it works out will post soon
Palms

Here's an action I found called Sharons coloured sketch, then some edits of my own, ok it's cheating a little, but the way it's done lets you add your own touches. And I like it..... I think I might try a light smudge next.....John
Oh, and palms1, what's ahb? (pardon my ignorance)

Britsdad nice posting and i dont think it is cheating
Ahb = Art history Brush ( next best thing to smudging :lol: )

Palms

Ah-har, in that case I do like the look of your ahb pickie.. :lol: I'll have to have a good look at that, I've had a run thru' a tute for it, but to a beginner like me, it did seem complex.....Anyway I'm too much engrossed with this smudging lark at the mo...nice one .....John :bow:

For those wanting a scenic picture of Scotland, this is one I took a couple of weeks ago when I was on holiday (it always rains when I take my holidays).

Have fun.

Britsdad, nice pic!
My watercolor on canvas attempt...
Regards,
Dan

Really nice version oltenius, :bigthmb: I like that, can you talk me thru' your method? John

Britsdad....Lovely pic....I really like the white washed cottage type houses and narrow streets....
Actions make great pics and i think we all use them sometimes...Nice pic...

Palms...Lovely AHB version...Its a fun brush...

Gary...Great scenic photo...

Oltenius....Nice texture on your lovely watercolor pic....

I also used the AHB...in PhotoshopCS2...after enhancing the photo...

Patricia... :classic:

Nice Patricia......Thanks for the kind words(you're becoming my guardien angel) I'm doing a smudge now but I'm having trouble with the path (trying to do it all with Sarah's hairbrush) it either looks too much or not enough. (damn thing)..maybe leave it tonight and have another go tomorrow. :dizzy: ....John

Oh GOD!!!! I've had enough..lol here it is (may try again tomorrow) do your worst!!! It hasn't turned out as I wanted but i'll post it anyway...John

Patricia, thanks! Your creation is wonderful...

Britsdad, my water color attempt has a classical method... Copy three times the background. Desaturate first copy, increase the light, apply poster edges and set blending mode to overlay. On the second copy set blending mode to multiply and adjust opacity to 60-80%, for the top layer set blending mode to screen, set the interior opacity (fill) to 90-95%. Play on every layer with color balance and selective color, hue and saturation. Finally apply the texture. I hope is helpful for you...
Regards,
Dan

Love the brooding moody pic Gary... wish I could get some of that sodding wet stuff (um, rain I think they call it) over my way. Britsdad, where did you find that action?

britsdad, great photo!

i smudged, and i smudged, and i smudged 'til i couldn't smudge any more, lol.

all really nice versions.

i thought i'd just clean up a little; like a retouch for the street.

craig

Well i thought you were mad trying to smudge this picture too much detail and so i thought i would have a go at it, and yes i can confirm you are barking mad to try it (although you havent done to bad)
first of all ran the action effie basic (download from here http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~mikefinn/action.html it is free but i use it sometimes when i am in a hurry before i smudge it speeds things up and you can see where to smudge (the squiggly lines ) ) then i started to smudge then gave up added a find edge layer and overlayed and reduced opacity

Palms

Photoshop Craig i am going to have to have lessons of you for cleaning up are you as good with housework ?????

This is such a nice quiet scene...almost took a snooze while playing with it.

Steve

Love all the versions you lot have come up with, and yes palms you were right. (bad idea..lol).....
Littlecoo: Try this site for the action, it's about half way down the page http://www.kolbotn-fk.com/artikkel05.htm There's lots of stuff there, and Danny had a hand in the sketch action as well......John.

This is my earlier smudge with a Draganizer action applied, strange this one...John

Craig i am going to have to have lessons of you for cleaning up are you as good with housework ????? housework? we dont talk about that around here ;) if only i could clean the house as easily as i clean an image...hmmm, photoshop for housecleaning...now that i'd pay money for!

love your piece, palms :)

craig

Gary's bit of scotland

Palms

Nice interpretation.

Just as a point of info, the picture is of Loch Lochy (just N of Fort William in the great Glen), taken at about 05.00 am.

very nice photo to play,
amazing how many various green tones in one small lane :happy:

here my watercolor version
I used Gimp :happy:

barbara,

very interesting rendition. i may have to pull the gimp or gimpshop back up one of these days due to your work :)

craig

My attempt using one of 1ClickActions sunset filters

Interesting effect. Bit monotone, but with a little variation has definite possibilities.

I haven't started playing with this picture yet, kinda liked it as it is, but you've given me a few ideas for manipulating it a touch.

Thanks.

thanks Craig for nice comment,
and of course thumbs up :thumbsup: for your Gimp adventure !!
btw lkroll makes very interesting renditions with Gimp , so its not only me :happy:

A little crop and SA gradient clone brush.

kiska,

interesting crop. really changes the perspective.

craig

Dup, ran Color to Alpha on top layer and set this layer property to Screen. Dupped this layer to taste and flattened. Dupped, ran Flaming Pear's Mr. Contrast on Top layer and blended to taste. Flattened and ran GREYCstoration, adjust sat/color and saved (well some cleaning smudges were required). :)

just wanted to put my rendering into my (still empty ;) ) gallery..
and wanted to comment: "original photo copyrighted by Mr. ... "
Britsdad, ask your brother please - how should I declared his copyright ?
I simply don't know.. :(

just wanted to put my rendering into my (still empty ;) ) gallery..
and wanted to comment: "original photo copyrighted by Mr. ... "
Britsdad, ask your brother please - how should I declared his copyright ?
I simply don't know.. :(

Copyright? I don't know as there is any, it's only a holiday snap that I perloined...lol...Use it if you like barbara, with mine and my brothers blessing. (His name is David Plummer, if you want to know, and I think he'll be dead chuffed to see it "in lights" so if you do use it give me the URL to it.)....regards John. :bigthmb:

lot of thanks to you and to David :happy: for that nice permission,
I think, in some days I will be ready ( the day should have 36 hours at least ! maybe then
I will have enough time for hobbies :cool: )
Greetings
Barbara

Very nice photo.

I tried the sequence Dan used for his rendering, then added IPM layer.

Pavel

My apologies, I actually posted the original photo...
Next attampt

Barbara,
Your GIMP works are incredible. Would you know if a WinXP version of GIMP exists? Thank you so much.

Pavel

P.S. I reckon that since I already posted the original photo by mistake, I should at least make a re-touched version.

Hallo Pavel,
thanks for nice comment :happy:

Gimp is a great Open Source project and is free for both : personal and commercial use.
It's native environment is Linux ( so here it works better ).
Of course the Open Source "community" or better say "movement", is not selfish - so
there are downloads for Unix, Mac and Windows users.
Homepage is: www.gimp.org
Install it and enjoy ! :happy:
Barbara

Hallo Pavel,
thanks for nice comment :happy:

Gimp is a great Open Source project and is free for both : personal and commercial use.
It's native environment is Linux ( so here it works better ).
Of course the Open Source "community" or better say "movement", is not selfish - so
there are downloads for Unix, Mac and Windows users.
Homepage is: www.gimp.org
Install it and enjoy ! :happy:
Barbara

Barbara,

Thank you.

Pavel

very nice photo to play,
amazing how many various green tones in one small lane :happy:

here my watercolor version
I used Gimp :happy:

Hi Barbara,

I couldn't help admiring the Gimp watercolor version that you did

I can't tell you how many times I've seen some Gimp results that I liked and when I go searching for www Gimp info about capabilities such as your watercolor result, I find nothing that makes sense to me.

I know each new program takes time to learn, and your result really makes me want to try it - even tho I don't have much excess time.

Could you briefly describe the process and gimp tools that you used.
Was there a plug-in that helped?
I assume that the brushes were the key - how much adjustment did you have to make in their properties?

I'd appreciate any help you can provide

Thanks

Bob Mc

Hallo Bob,
thanks for your nice comments and let's talk about mentioned watercolor imitation
-"I assume that the brushes were the key"- no, not here.
-"Could you briefly describe the process and gimp tools that you used " - of course :happy:

My first steps after cropping were painting to add some color to many parts of the image
(using standard round brushes mostly with opacity reduced to about 30%)
purpose was to close the composition.
Then used Smudge Tool and smudged many details out, to simplify the image.
The last step was Filter-> Blur-> Selective Gaussian Blur.
To find satisfying settings don't be afraid to experiment, in Gimp we have many undo-levels,
so repeating keyboard-shortcut Ctrl Z we can go back so many steps as we need :happy:

I will be glad if I was able to answer your question. I hope you will enjoy Gimp.
Greetings
Barbara

:thumbsup: Great efforts all around.

Couldn't resist having a go since I originate from Scotland - Och Aye!!! Thanks for the use of the great photo. Used Buzz, Lucis Art and Impressionist (i.e. Trimoons WC setting) on this. I spend a lot of time mostly using Painter IX.5 over the past 18 months, so it's nice to do something a whole lot easier for a change.

It's been a while since I posted, we've been up Scotland, will see if there are any pics I've taken that deserve to be posted here. From what I've seen so far none as good as the one here! .......Nice interpritations from all partisipants here, thankyou all.......John