Great shot. I especially like the eyes...

In Photoshop...
* Levels to open up shadows
* Oversharpened considerably

Over to Painter
* Cloning using brushes from the Chalk and Artists Oils groups
* Impressionist > Charcoal > Default

Back to Photoshop
* Smudged a bit
* Sharpened a bit
* Added edge

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If nothing else it IS colorful. :)

Hmm did not come out as i had hoped.

Did a glamour retouch with d/b, healing, hue/sat layer, high pass sharpen, trimoon sketch with color and texture

i treated this more as a photograph than a painting. so, i mostly retouched, re-lit, re-colored and re-everything :)

My painterly attempt

Superb image and some excellent work already. My offering uses the Impressionist Plugin.
Alan

Great portrait study. I used Studio Artist for most of the painting, then back to Photoshop to dodge & burn and saturate. I also added some layers of color in overlay and color modes. I used a Trimoon paper texture and put a water color edge around the picture.

Cathy :)

It took a while but got here in the end :)

Palms

...& my attempt

Thought I would do a mostly smudge this time. Here (http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/3024/rp20deep20in20thoughtwr7.jpg)'s the big version. :)

chillin, i like that. very subtle. makes you reach for it a bit.

lyle, i like the smudge part, but that left arm stands out too much for me.

Here's my version

Screened layers to get the hi-key effect.
Buzzed and Paint Engine bringing back the detail at the eyes after each step.

Karen

some crosshatch filter followed by spatter, different settings for the colors and lightness and some paint with light

saby

I didn't intend this to go this way at first, but I think it looks OK.

Thanks for the pic Danny.

Peter

Larger version
[img=http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/2092/deepthinkerhhvt7.th.jpg] (http://img233.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deepthinkerhhvt7.jpg)

Very nice Peter

Palms