Specially dedicated to the painters in the forum :-)

A much higher res image (867Kb) can be found here (http://www.franklopes.com/public_images/lancaster_large.jpg)

Have fun!

Swampy...look familiar?

That's beautiful country up there, as your photo plainly shows.

Here's one version.

Steve

steve..that is really nice!

Hee Hee, Skydoggie! What blend mode settings did you use?

Frank, thank you for the nice photo.
Photoshot, standard filters.
Attached is a small crop.

Full size here (http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m241/pavel2006/misc/farmF1.jpg)

steve..that is really nice!

Thanks....and thanks for the photo.

Did you get any of the Amish farms?

Steve

Swampy,

I followed your directions..."to the T"...then poped the photo with Lucis (just a little) and then burned the sky around 30% to bring out the blue.

Working on a new edge detect method (White Shimmer, Grain Extract, Neutral Color Divide; requires Unplugged White Shimmer filter which is no longer free) set to Overlay on original and one of the layers set to Darken. Also added Carravagio (Xero filter) to the mix and some Vector simplication (clouds needed it, but just went all over with an Opacity blend). Attached is a full quality crop. Here (http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/6514/lancasterlargece5.jpg)'s the unabridged version. :)

Thanks everyone for the compliments on the pic...
You all are doing, as I expected, incredible work...


Did you get any of the Amish farms?
Steve

Yes, I did ... beautiful country... we had a great time.

Frank, really nice shot :nod:

I used Gimp :happy: on Linux

Welcome back Barbara. You really make GIMP sing. I enjoy seeing your work.

Janet

................slow day

Thanks to Frank for providing the nice photo.

I re-ruralized (or should I say de-suburbanized), cropped, sharpened, simplified and used the AHB in CS2. Texturized in CS, too, but you can't see it through the compression.

dc

really slow day

Steve, great photo to artify. And nice work on it too.
Skydog, nice drawing look.
Pavel, good crop... nice job.
Kroll, love the color and book illustration look.
Barbara, superb job with Gimp. I can't get it to do anything like that!
Ant, fantastic rainy day, and great definition in grass etc. And the last one is really stunning, with a bad storm coming on!
DC, good idea to "de-suburbanize" it... I did that too. Great job with AHB.

Painted this in Studio Artist. Click link to view larger image:
http://www.pbase.com/image/73324481

ant, very nice!

Painted this in Studio Artist. Do you have Painter, too? If so I'd be interested in your thoughts on SA vs. Painter.

Rumor is there will be a Studio Artist for Windows coming out this year. :)

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On mine I:
* Cropped
* Duplicated the Backround and increased the saturation on the new layer.
* Applied Trimoon's new "James Brown" Impressionist setting to simplify the image. Brush size = 400, Opacity = 100, Pressure 105. See: www.Trimoon.com - downloads
* Saved and closed file, then switched to Painter
* iIn various sizes applied Jeremy Sutton's Big_Wet_Delicious brush (from the CD that accompanies his Painter Creativity book) to smoosh the paint around. Then saved/closed.
* Opened the layered file in Photoshop again.
* Sharpened painted layer.
* Used Hue/Saturation and Selective Color adjustments to mess with colors.
* Duplicated the Background and copied the duplicate to the top of the layer stack.
* Applied Akvis > Sketch followed by Levels to get some nice edge lines. (Photoshop > Blur > Smart Blur > Edge Only followed by Ctrl + I would work, too.) Changed blend mode to Darken and added Layer Mask.
* Painted black on layer mask to suppress or tone down edges.

Whew... :)

~Danny~

Danny, that's a jawdropper. Great work.

Phyllis, I like the way you cropped yours. Not to mention the way you painted it. Nice to see you hereabouts.

Unlike all the great postings here i struggled a bit so just messed around with colour and sharpness

Palms

Well had another go using a tool i have not used before the pattern stamp tool, not sure i understand it so will have to look for a few tutorials

Phyllis,
thanks for your nice comment,
..I can't get it to do anything like that!
but I am sure, you CAN !! :nod:

Here's my attempt.

Here's my attempt.Welcome back, Gerry.

I see from your profile you graduated from Elements to Photoshop. (congrats... quite a leap). Did you use an action to create this one, or how?

~Danny~

Welcome back, Gerry.

I see from your profile you graduated from Elements to Photoshop. (congrats... quite a leap). Did you use an action to create this one, or how?

~Danny~
I duped the background layer, used a smart blur set at 15 and 60. Next i duped the blurred layer, did a smart blur set at 1, 9 and 10, inverted it, desaturated it and set the blending mode to multiply. Then I duped the blurred layer again and moved it to the top of the stack, inverted it and set the blending mode to color dodge. I took a dry brush, set the color to black and the opacity to 30% and painted over the top layer to get to watercolor effect. I painted over the buldings and a few trees to bring them out more. I duped this layer and set the blending mode to multiply to bring out the sky more. Finally, I added a layer mask to this layer and used the gradient tool (black to white) to tone down the lower part of the picture but leave the sky a little darker. The whole thing took about 10 minutes.

I've been working with CS2 for a year and a half now and enjoy it very much. The only new thing is that I graduated from a PC to an iMac Intel last year. I really love my Mac and don't plan to go back to the PC anytime soon, except to solve my wife's problems.

Thanks for the comment and compliment.

Gerry, gorgeous watercolor, and thanks for the method!

Palms, I lovvve that second one, like a crayon drawing!

Thanks for the compliment, Phyllis. And btw, this was done with CS3 Beta.

danny, i like yours. i think you've graduated up a notch in your oils!

Thanks for the great photo Frank. Here is my Photoshop version. I ran the cutout filter first and things kind of got out of hand from there. About 80% of the image is hand work. Spent a few hours on this one. By the way, this is what the scene looked like before they cut down the tree.

These are all so good. Love the tree addtion, Photomaster. It does add depth.

Here's my humble effort.

I don't remember all the steps, but I started by doing a Smart Sharpen to the absolute maximum settings. This really brought out the building features. Artistic filters and various blend modes from there.

Do you have Painter, too? If so I'd be interested in your thoughts on SA vs. Painter.

Rumor is there will be a Studio Artist for Windows coming out this year. :)

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On mine I:
* Cropped
* Duplicated the Backround and increased the saturation on the new layer.
* Applied Trimoon's new "James Brown" Impressionist setting to simplify the image. Brush size = 400, Opacity = 100, Pressure 105. See: www.Trimoon.com - downloads
* Saved and closed file, then switched to Painter
* iIn various sizes applied Jeremy Sutton's Big_Wet_Delicious brush (from the CD that accompanies his Painter Creativity book) to smoosh the paint around. Then saved/closed.
* Opened the layered file in Photoshop again.
* Sharpened painted layer.
* Used Hue/Saturation and Selective Color adjustments to mess with colors.
* Duplicated the Background and copied the duplicate to the top of the layer stack.
* Applied Akvis > Sketch followed by Levels to get some nice edge lines. (Photoshop > Blur > Smart Blur > Edge Only followed by Ctrl + I would work, too.) Changed blend mode to Darken and added Layer Mask.
* Painted black on layer mask to suppress or tone down edges.

Whew... :)

~Danny~


fabulous ! By the way , I couldn't find the James Brown setting at trimoon's.
~Diane

I'm sure it did :-)

Thanks for the great photo Frank. Here is my Photoshop version. I ran the cutout filter first and things kind of got out of hand from there. About 80% of the image is hand work. Spent a few hours on this one. By the way, this is what the scene looked like before they cut down the tree.

Thanks, Craig. I should have mentioned that it was Phyllis who inspired the experimenting that led up to this one.

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Gerry: Appreciate the how to info, esp. the setting detail. Enlightening and a very unique method.

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Palms: That "crayon look" is very impressive. When you get things sorted out, do provide some detail. That's a winner.

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This one:
* Applied Swampy's sketch technique, then flattened the image.
* Added a new layer, filled with white and added a hide-all layer mask.
* Using brush Chalk 36, painted white on the layer mask for the sketchy look.
* Flattened.
* Double-clicked on Background to convert it to a regular layer.
* Created a new layer and filled with white.
* Layer > New > Background from Layer
* Turned off (clicked eyeball) on the sketch layer
* Added a Hue/Sat adjustment layer Above the Background. Turne on Colorize setting and fiddled with the settings to get a color I liked.
* Turned on the sketch layer, changed blend mode to Multiply and lowered Opacity a bit.
* Added a new layer above the sketch layer and Edit > Fill > 50% gray.
* Changed blend mode to Overlay
* Applied Texture > Texturizer. (Texture used is a matter of choice.)
* Tweaked Opacity

This approach of using separate layers enables one to easily make changes, e.g., background color, degree or type of texture, lightness/darkness of sketch, etc. without having to redo/undo anything.

~Danny~

Danny, That is Fantastic! A very chalky look that I've never quite been able to achieve! Very believable!

fabulous ! By the way , I couldn't find the James Brown setting at trimoon's.
~DianeSorry 'bout that. Guess he hasn't posted it there, yet.

To keep Impressionist preset info in one place, I posted a download link in this thread (scroll down a few screens):
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-art-tutorials-techniques/8328-impressionist-plugin-custom-styles-member-posted-2.html

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Thanks, Swampy. Could not have done it w/o your tutorial! :)