Taken during evening's "sweetlight". The water was like glass.

Enjoy painting this one folks.

Janet

Oh, Janet! Nice shots!

Okay, I learned something new (for me) today. I actually "painted" this in Painter, but found a new easy way to do so without relying on cloning!

1. In Photoshop - color correct, and Swampy's Line art as black and white with setting about 6, then buzzed. Saved as Tiff.
2. In Painter - Generated a color set from the original JPEG, closed that then opened the above TIFF, but did not set it for cloning. On a new layer above the black/white Tiff, with this layer set to "colorize", I grabbed an impasto brush and colors from the generated color set and just started painting! A whole new experience for me! Dab, dab, dab changing colors etc. Loved the way the paint picked up the underlying b/w luminacity for detail (cabin railing etc). Saved as a PSD.
3. Back to the original PSfile , opened the saved Painter file and copied over just the painted layer.

I know you experienced Painter users are probably yawning by now. But this opens up doors for me since I have no native artistic talent and rely heavily on an underlying photo as a "map". Trust me, I can't draw a straight line using graph paper and a ruler, but this was so much fun. :-)

Swampy, that is gorgeous.

Painter and I have a long-standing love/hate relationship most likely based on a combination of user ineptitude and the fact that I just can't seem to get the brushes to load properly. You have given me new inspiration.

Keep up the good work.

Janet

Had to do another. Same basic method, but with digital watercolor brush.

Janet, I know exactly what you mean about the love-hate relationship with painter. The interface is soooo confusing and there are so many things you can do to change the effect of a brush. I get a brush fixed just right then next time forget what I did.

Janet, wonderful photos!!

Swampy, beautiful work!!

Paling by comparison is my attempt at a pastel rendering.




Alan

Nice, Alan. The diagonal is the perfect touch.

Hey Janet, those are some great pictures.

Is that your property? One of my dreams is to have a place like that.


Okay, I learned something new (for me) today. I actually "painted" this in Painter, but found a new easy way to do so without relying on cloning!

Wow, Swampy! That's really nice!

It has quite an appeal.

Well done,

Michael

Thanks Michael. It's "Painter Progress". LOL

Hey Janet, those are some great pictures.

Is that your property? One of my dreams is to have a place like that.


Michael

Thank you Michael. I wish it was my property...500 acres of beautiful land, lake, forest, and cows. But no. Sadly. It isn't. I was up there with friends.

Janet

I know you experienced Painter users are probably yawning by now.
On the contrary. I, for one, am paying attention and taking notes.
Great idea, welll executed, Swampy. :bigthmb:

Rô

When you mix enough things and filters together (no smudging/painting/erase throughs done), you get this. :)

Ah, the lake! Simplified with Buzz Pro, then went to work freehand with Photoshop brushes, followed with lots of Dodge and Burn.

Marvelous Photomaster. Now I wish I'd spent more than 10 seconds in the post processing. Thank you!!!

Janet

dee dee, like both of yours, but especially that first one!

and thanks for the gorgeous pictures :)

i had a go also. i liked the vertically oriented one but didnt like how it was balanced top to bottom so much. so, i took out a portion of the lake, leaving the reflection intact, to give an 8x10 format. this balanced the sky portion with the lake portion better.

next, i took that image and ran it through a filter forge filter and brought that back to Paint Shop Pro. i overlaid the psp original with the FF one. i had recently watched 'the antique roadshow' and saw a painting by an artist (sorry, dont recall his name now), where he used impasto for much of his paintings but did faces in very fine detail. i liked that look and decided to go for it here with my overlay. thus, the house is in good detail while most of the rest is more impressionist/impasto style. (btw, the painting was estimated at $20,000 to $30,000, iirc).

I really like that, Craig. As a rule, I don't like "mixed" styles, but yours really does work well.!

A watercolor with just filters.

Thumbs up Gerry. You got the look I wanted before my own rendition drifted into different areas.

Janet