I thought this might be an interesting pic to "artyfy". It's from my sister who lives now in Stutgart.....Enjoy, John.

Just an experiment from me, after the obligatory smudge (I'll have to give over... :lol:)

Now that's what I call a salad! :happy:

Steve

he-he...........

Great photo Britsdad i did think of smudging this one (not) but have done a Art History version
Glad i dont live in Stutgart dont know what half of the veg are ! let alone cook them :lol:
Palms

Seurat goes to the market!

Steve

great pic.

palms, they are mostly gourds and pumpkins. gourds come in a great variety of colors and shapes.

britsdad, your first one reminded me of those melting Dali images a bit...just a bit. was tempted to go full force with that effect on this image and just melt them all down :)

i think a polar coordinates in the circle style would look cool too.

craig

....my sewing maching out to create this kitchen towel. :)

LK... you should take up sewing!

I. A little more color to BW work here, primarily with three adjustment layers:
* Levels: Contrast fine tuning
* Hue/Sat: Saturation = -100; blend mode changed from Normal to Color
* Hue/Sat: Adjusted settings for individual colors, mostly red, yellow

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II: A little playing around with "Mosaic" Impressionist presets :)

...see this thread to download them:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8328

Playing with ahb plus lots of other things, came out pretty crap really, but I'll post it anyway.....John

Looks ok to me Britsdad

Palms

Just a xero filter. The pic has only 27% quality...
Dan

I had to compress with 13% quality for the one I posted; a miracle that it still looked alright. :mad:

looks to me as if it's all been out in the sun too long :)

craig

You know...I think you're right! Glad it's "Retouch Pro" and not Smell-a-Pro."

Bet that's a Filter Forge fouled food finagle. :dead:

Steve

looks to me as if it's all been out in the sun too long :)

craig

hehehe, yeah, be glad we dont have smell-a-vision :)

and no, this wasnt a fitler forge work in any way. it started with warp mesh and just got worse from there :)

craig

this should be one pastel..

I used Gimp :happy:

No fair copying my techniques...altho I don't necessarily start with warp mesh. Usually it's whatever is handy. :dizzy:

Steve


it started with warp mesh and just got worse from there :)

craig

well, warp mesh is about the fastest way i know of getting to the 'just got worse from there' look :)

craig