Tired of painting kitties, kids, flowers and that kind of stuff. Here's one for you that might be fun. You might also get some practice in color correction and fixing blown out areas with no color. :-)

Yet another challenging image... I chose to correct distortion, perspective and tilt, then played with many of the standard filters of PSE5 to get this mood... That was real fun!

Swampy, didn't anyone ever tell you to stay out of those alleys?

Steve C.

nice work folks :thumbsup:

sorry Swampy was in a messing around mood tonight not a serious try and get it right mood ( well at least saying that people might think i would know what to do :grin: )

Palms

I thought about going the grunge watercolor look, but I didn't quite get there. Used Xero's Abstractor and Carivagio filters for the wc converstion for the most part. :)

Looks like everyone is having fun. Go away for an hour and come back and there are 4 great renderings.

LOL, Steve. Even though I'm a country girl, I could live with this alley in my back yard.

I wanted to try this as an oil painting in Painter. This is way out of my "typiclal" painting style, but I wasn't displeased LOL

Shades of Monet's style Swampy. I like the result you achieved.

Janet

Another wonderful image to play with. Many thanks, Swampy. :bigthmb:

As the original is already an "arty" shot, I just tried to enhance it a little further.

Rô

What a beautiful picture, Swampy! Thanks for sharing it with us...
Beautiful versions done so far...
Sylvia

lovely, sylvia :)

i had a go at this also. i used a filter forge filter of my own making. it's sort of a high pass, noise filter...sort of :)

and Ro, i like yours a lot. such a clean look.

ok, so had to do another. i tend to run in spurts. this is from another filter forge filter i did. this one was all about tones and height/relief.

dee dee, love the painterly one. gotta get that program one of these days :)

and like i said, spurts... another filter forge. this one was mostly about curves and dynamic lighting.

another gorgeous image!

My soft watercolor wash.

I discovered that using the Lens Blur filter in Photoshop with the blur setting all the way up including some noise - set that (either fade the effect or having run the filter on a duplicate background layer) to darken leaves you very easily with a watercolor wash feel.

I just played around with impressionist between those two layers to make the details feel more organic.

These are all so good.

Craig, I especially like your last one. You have effectively lit up the alley as though there was a street lamp there out of view. Excellent.

Where do you get all of your great pictures Swampy?

Klautt, some come from unrestricted stock photos such as stock exchange, flikker, etc. Just depends on if the poster has copy righted or not. Some do, some don't. Many of the low res versions have no usage restrictions.

How about "Dali Alley"?

LOL, Lonnie!! Good one.

thanks, dee dee :) filter forge is such a fun program :)

hehe, nice one, lonk :) i think i was in that alley one night after leaving a bar... at least it kinda moved the same way ;)

Some really good stuff here.
Thanks for the pic Swampy nice find.
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The quality really took a hit so here is a link to a higher res version:-
[img=http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/8504/alleyhsm8.th.jpg] (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=alleyhsm8.jpg)


Peter

Wow Lon.... just checked out your Dali Alley.... awesommmmme!!! I love it! I'm trying to figure out how you did it. ;-)

Haven't posted anything for quite a while because I've been away for weeks on holidays... up to Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario. Will share some photos for painting when I get organzied.

Cheers all,
Sherry

Some really good stuff here.
Thanks for the pic Swampy nice find.

Peter

WOW Peter. Simply stunning. You have some amazing tapestry work here.

Janet

Wow, Peter! Nice

nice one, peter :)