The oak leaves are blazing this week so I decided to capture some of autumn's splendor. Get your crayons out!

Gorgeous Photo, Photomaster the only thing is I am a bit peeved as i have to log off now for the night, and i will be thinking of what i could do with it tomorrow :eek:

Palms

Good one for testing how far to go with saturation...

Michel B

It always amazes this Florida gal how vivid the fall leaves are. Lovely photo PM.

The oak leaves are blazing this week so I decided to capture some of autumn's splendor. Get your crayons out!

Great, colorful picture for manipulating. T

The leaves here are just now "thinking" about turning...but not the oaks. We never get such brilliant colors in the oaks. Brown, brown, brown. You must have really good soil and just the right mix of weather.

Thanks for sharing.

Janet

Michael, Swampy nice work. Here is an interpretation done in Painter using the Artist's Impressionist brush.

Some sketch/ahb work

Palms

Ohhh, that's really pretty, Palms!

We get some rather nice fall colors in north Florida mainly from our maples. A few other varieties help out too. Nothing like farther north, but pretty colorful nevertheless.

Steve C.

Such a nice picture. Here in Southern Calif our season changes are so subtle that we miss out on the kind of fall weather that some of you get.
I used Lucis filters and Buzz action stacks with this image, and used different overlay modes to get this effect.

Cathy

Cathy, that is so pretty. Soft but nice texture.

Thanks Swampy. I really like all of the different interpretations that have been posted so far.

Cathy

Decided to do another mosaic. Here (http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/5273/leaveses3.jpg)'s the complete rendering. :)

These are such lovely examples of a beautiful, I just couldn't resist painting them.

The examples above mine are wonderful. I could see a lot of them printed and hung as art on a wall in our homes.

Janet

I thought this picture would be a good time to try out a tryptich. I don't know how well it will show up at low res though. I haven't taken the plunge to set up a gallery anywhere yet. Any suggestions?
Shari

Great colors in the middle version, Shari.

Little of this and little of that.
Alan

Something I thought of while wandering trough Photoshop-cs3

Regards

Cathy,
At the time I lived in LA, Johnny Carson used to tell us that it was time for the city landscaping folk to exchange the fake green plastic trees with the fake brown plastic trees. No wonder it was a quick transition.

Here's my mild and wild versions

Regards

Bob Mc

Rendition using AHB.

Gerry the leaves are stupendous!

Janet

Thanks, Janet. This was my first attempt using my brand new Wacom Intuos3 Special Edition 6 x 8 Pen Tablet.

My first creative attempt. I always love what you creative types do and wanted to jump in on the action. No fall leaves here but I remember them well from many years in Pennsylvania. Thanks for the nice picture.
ok, back to work for this 'Creative Wana-Be'..
Doreen

After seeing all these I had to try this one as well.

Peter

Great work everyone. Peter, your work is exceptional. We are fortunate here in Minnesota to have such defined and beautiful seasons.

Peter, you've been texture mapping again. LOL

delightful picture, but someone spilled.

Thanks you Photomaster I really appreciate it.

Swampy go to the head of the class. You should be mod of the Forensics section.:grin:

Peter

Craig, this one of yours brings back a lot of memories of sitting on my aunt's couch during the 50s. The fabric textures were much the same. I spent hours immersed in the patterns and textures while the adults visited. Maybe that's why I ended up a weaver. :)

Janet

I'll be finished in a minute . . .

Lot's of cool interpretations thus far. Thought I would add my recent passion which I call Splat (used GIMPressionist Ballpark preset but changed the brush to one of the Splats) Furry (another GIMPressionist preset that I modded slightly be setting the background to the image itself instead of the defaults) Impasto. Did a few other things too (as I usually always do). :)

This was going to be a simple smudge and texture try, but after using AHB a little it started looking pretty good. THEN IT HAPPENED !!! I started smudging the outside and forgot to check brush and it was a hair brush instead of a soft brush. It was looking interesting so I continued on. You be the judge -- -did I uncover a new technique? Anyway it made a different border around the leaves.

bcarll

janet, glad i could bring back some pleasant memories :) some of my filter forge textures are based on childhood memories.

me, i used to take things apart to see how they worked.

and beth, i love that! very clever!

and lyle, i like that also! it looks like the colors are just going wild and moving from leaf to leaf. very cool :)

Thanks Craig; that was part of the "other things" category (lol). I used AAA Color Blur filter to blend the colors into the transitions; this filter really does this quite well. Also used AAA Fotofix filter for some addition Sat/Focus enhancements. :)

ah, the AAA filters. i just mentioned these in the software forum. they've been upgraded. i used to use these a bit before, but probably more so now. they look better.

Thanks for the heads up Craig. Have to go to 8bf's site to check them out. :)

Nice work Peter. How did you create the texture map, if you don't mind divulging? I've made several attempts but have not been successful.

Nice work Peter. How did you create the texture map, if you don't mind divulging? I've made several attempts but have not been successful.

Thanks Gerry.
I used Swampy's tutorial with a few changes.

http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=267

I applied the texture map direct onto the picture itself and not onto a colour layer. There were some other tweaks of course colour, Levels and so on. I was just playing around a lot until I saw something I liked.

Once again thanks for the ideas Swamplady.

Peter

Thanks for the info, Peter. I've tried it but can't see to get it to work. I increased the contrast and saved the image as a psd file named map. I duped the background image and when I tried to load the map it wouldn't load. Must be something I did wrong somewhere. I'll keep trying, though.

I started again, with a fresh copy of the original picture and voila, it worked! I guess I had a senior moment. Thanks again to both of you, Peter and Swampy, for the info and the link.

Glad to be of help, Gerry.

Glad to be of help, Gerry.

Ditto here Gerry

Peter