I found this one out there somewhere and thought "That'll do"

Have fun :dizzy:

Peter

I had fun with this one...

Thought i would have a bit of a change for this one and used neat image and virtual photographer
but who knows might change my mind later and try something else ! ! !

Palms

Another of my "some gonna like it...some ain't" interpretations.

Steve

Good work palms ...like the elimination of distracting elements and the change to the soft cool blue monotone.

Another another nice gal.
MargaretM

PeterS!!! I opened this thread 5 minutes ago and I promise you I just caught my breath,literally! That is absolutely AMAZING! Please Please Please will you reveal your secret? I would LOVE to know how you did that.

STUNNING!!


Dawn

PeterS!!! I opened this thread 5 minutes ago and I promise you I just caught my breath,literally! That is absolutely AMAZING! Please Please Please will you reveal your secret? I would LOVE to know how you did that.

STUNNING!!


Dawn

Dawn till Peter pops in take a look at this thread, i think it will be the same technique, and join in the campaign for him to do us all a tutorial i think this technique is great


http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/turning-portraits-into-digital-sketches-oils-watercolors/15546-bit-character.html

Palms

Dawn no secret really. (just hard work :wink: ).

I use Imagenomic to reduce the noise - set at full noise reduction. I do this several times to really soften the image, any blemishes left I remove with the healing brush,
Imagenomic also adds a little sharpening, I remove any halos with the blur brush opacity set quite high and use maximum hardness, this leets me get right up to the edges without overblurring them.
I use Hue/Sat to tweak the colours as the softening alters them slightly, adjust levels to suit. I have also used NancyJ's painting with light cheat a couple of times to emphasize stuff (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/rp-tutorials/15227-30-second-paint-light-cheat.html?highlight=paint+light)
Then I go over it all again with the blur brush to pick up the small stuff I may have missed.
I did start to write a tutorial on this, but it can be very different for each image, less blurring less Hue/Sat etc. So far there are about 5 or 6 ways to get this effect. It does not work quite so well on complicated patterns in the picture, so I look for plain coloured things, they seem to work better.
It can be done partially with LucisArt if you have it.
Hope this helps, my this is a long post for me, I am usually quite brief.

Peter

Palms nice one, similar to mine I see but is that a duotone?
Steve very different, do I detect heavy LuscisArt stuff there?
Margret very good simplification there, cutout filter used I think or maybe poster edges?

Peter

peter,

thanks for that explanation. i borrowed on it (and subsequently nancyj's tutorial) and altered things just a bit to get mine. it's pretty much the same thing but without any smudging, just digital camera noise removal, hue/sat layer, and nancyj's high pass solution. makes for a nice, soft, better highlighted image. i like it.

peter,

thanks for that explanation. i borrowed on it (and subsequently nancyj's tutorial) and altered things just a bit to get mine. it's pretty much the same thing but without any smudging, just digital camera noise removal, hue/sat layer, and nancyj's high pass solution. makes for a nice, soft, better highlighted image. i like it.

Nice one but:-
You do realise I get commission for every time this method is used now don't you Craig?

Peter

Palms nice one, similar to mine I see but is that a duotone?
Steve very different, do I detect heavy LuscisArt stuff there?
Margret very good simplification there, cutout filter used I think or maybe poster edges?

Peter


Peter at a guess i would say yes it is a duotone, it is the satin steel preset in virtual photographer

Palms

thanks, peter, but only if you share it with nancyj :)

But of course, would I.......................................

Steve very different, do I detect heavy LuscisArt stuff there?
Peter

That's some of it with some auto photo fix and saturation adjustment. Then I just kept playing with various things like Buzz to take away some harshness until I got the look I was relatively satisfied with.

And like everyone else, I am amazed at what you came up with. But I see it's a bit of work too.

Steve

Cool picture, thanks for sharing. :)

I think this is just a great picture, I just had to have another go at it.

Peter

Here is my try.

I am new to the forum and have been working on photoshop for about 6 months and would like suggestions and critiques on my "trys".


thanks

Keiser

Keiser, welcome to the forum.
It's hard to give critiques on something that is supposed to be art representation, in other word anything goes.
I like your high key, I would probably darkened shadows, but that could be a calibration thing.

Well played around with this pic some more.

keiser
I like the second one best, nice and sharp, though maybe a little over sharp.
The high key one, looked better when I pasted it into Photoshop and darkened it with levels, not bad at all then.

Peter

thanks for the input. will work on my "eye" when it comes to viewing. still trying to figure what i need to look for.

Weeeeeeeee!!!

This is GREAT! This is my first try at playing with your pics....good clean fun! And may I say, Peter S, that your work is beautiful. Keep 'em coming!

Tweaked it a little bit........

Weeeeeeeee!!!

This is GREAT! This is my first try at playing with your pics....good clean fun! And may I say, Peter S, that your work is beautiful. Keep 'em coming!

Thank you Yana. I see from your website your into fantasy, this pic fits in there somehow I think.
I prefer the tweaked version.
I look forward to seing more of your work.

Peter

Thanks, Peter!

You'll definitely see more of my work......my website reflects only the illustration end......I'm a high end retoucher in real life. Can't seem to get enough of this creative stuff!!;-)))

Truly,
Yana

Sometimes the UGLIEST curve can produce a really cool result.....what do you think?

Sometimes the UGLIEST curve can produce a really cool result.....what do you think?

There is no such thing as ugly, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so I'm led to believe.
Its getting smoother and lighter.
Your obviously going through a purple phase. Don't get to a black one, everything disappears, black on black not very visible.
Purple - it seems to work though.
I'm going through a grey phase myself, especially my hair.

Peter

Not necessarily a purple phase....it's just what came about after I dropped a bunch of adjustment layers on the original......I really like what it does for the greens and yellos in the eyes......

When I say ugly curve, I mean that the one I used prior looked out of control.....it's a curve I could probably not use in my day job!!

Pattern stamp tool...
Sylvia

painter,overblended and added texture

I just ran into something very odd. I always use Photoshop's "save for web" feature to get photos below 100k for posting. On this one, Photoshop would only take it down to about 350k. My guess is that there is so much detail in the photo that it would have been ruined at lower levels of compressions.

Anyway, I cropped, and cropped and cropped until it would save below 100k. Needless to say, this misses most of the photo. But I think this effect is interesting and fun. The effect is Embroidery from Virtual Painter 5.

This girl was so pretty I didn't want to do much to her. I just did a little photo correction soften the skin using Neat Image applied a glamour filter did a hue/sat/lightness adjustment and added the frame.

Hope ya'll enjoy,
TwoLaidBack

Another one

Impressionist

Another one

ImpressionistAlexmeta, that's a great combination of line and color. How did you do that?

Alexmeta, that's a great combination of line and color. How did you do that?
Hi, Andrew, thank you for your comment.
I don't remember the details: first - more saturation, second unsharp, third - impressionist, and last - in the top layer "line pic" with line burn blending mode.