This young lady posed for these pictures at her mother's request and kindly gave me permission to post them for you to artify. Enjoy.

Janet

Nice images. Thank you for posing Courtney.

Steve C.

"Beauty and The Beast"

Steve C.

Super painting of beauty and the beast Steve
My first thought was to perhaps use a different vehicle model
!

Palms

a quick attempt at courney's portrait with painter

And another from me

Palms

Super painting of beauty and the beast Steve
My first thought was to perhaps use a different vehicle model
!

Palms

Thanks. I thought the contrast with the beat up old truck was interesting. However the little sports car is what she probably would rather be seen in.

Steve C.

Steve, Palms, and Gilbert, very nice work.

I'm sure she would have liked the sports car better. Her reaction to the old truck was, "Ewww, do I have to?" Hence the reaction on her face. The beauty and beast title is appropriately named.

Steve, Palms, and Gilbert, very nice work.

I'm sure she would have liked the sports car better. Her reaction to the old truck was, "Ewww, do I have to?" Hence the reaction on her face. The beauty and beast title is appropriately named.

Knew she would have liked the sports car better. That old truck, however, is probably worth some money. Looks like an early 1940's model. If refurbished it would bring big bucks. Or selling it to someone who rebuilds vehicles would also be a money maker.

Steve C.

Those kinds of old trucks are all over the Ozarks. One can literally happen on them while just taking a leisurely jaunt in the woods. This particular one is owned by a resort and is used as part of their rustic-type setting.

Janet

And another from me (but no car this time )

Palms

Good stuff there you guys.

Peter

Another from Me.

Peter

And now the last one

Peter

Beautiful model; ugly bus. Did my best to tastefully hide it. lol

Thought I'd have a play too

Thank you palms, Peter, Lyle, and Cassidy. You all have done nice things with the picture. It sure is fun to play, isn't it?

Janet

really like yours, steve.

really like yours, steve.

Hey, thanks Craig.

As for yours, I can't seem to find words...it's got that.....well it has.......ok it's very..........maybe it is sorta.............oh! I know, I think there is.......

Like I said words fail me.

Seriously, the first thing that came to mind was Phantom of The Opera! Don't know if you were going for that or not, but it is very imaginative work anyway.

Steve C.

lol, steve. hey, you guys do such excellent traditional renditions, that that leaves the rest of us going out to the fringes :) you'll have to decide who 'you guys' and 'the rest of us' are, though.

well, i wasnt thinking phantom, but does seem appropriate.

The old fuddy-duddy in me couldn't get past the fuschia hair, so I took a swipe at removing it. A BW version (with a slight touch of sepia tone) was next. Finally the arty version resulted by tinkering with the Impressionist plugin and variations of the custon Jaykita Watercolor style based on the Chalk9.tif brush.

I hope Courtney realizes sooner than later that she's a very attractive young lady w/o the treated hair. Just check out those eyes and pretty smile.

Here is my version.
Danny I love your pastel version. And I thought the pink was so cool I told my husband I wanted to do it, and he just looked at me like I was crazy.
If I only was that young again.

A lovely girl she must well be pleased with all the different versions from her photos........here is another portrait version

I hope Courtney realizes sooner than later that she's a very attractive young lady w/o the treated hair. Just check out those eyes and pretty smile.

AMEN!!! AMEN!!! She is such a pretty young lady.

I'm glad to see this thread revived. And with the exception of Craig (tongue in cheek, foot in mouth here), I'm really liking the results you are all coming up with.

Craig, I like the technique. It is one very hard to master. I know. I've tried. I'm just not liking what it did to her face.

Thanks for playin' folks.

Janet

. And I thought the pink was so cool I told my husband I wanted to do it, and he just looked at me like I was crazy.
If I only was that young again.

Cathy its not like in our youth when you dyed your hair, they use colour extensions that can be took out etc i say go for it i quite fancy blue ones :grin:

Palms

I was experimenting with Painter's autopainting feature. For another interpretation see:

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-art-resources/19237-tutorial-painter-x-smart-strokes-autopainting-john-derry.html#post170648

Craig, I like the technique. It is one very hard to master. I know. I've tried. I'm just not liking what it did to her face.

janet, i perfectly understand. it makes her face look fatter, so not very flattering there. the statement was something other than beauty in this one :)

I've always been facinated with this concept and ran across an article by Ben Willmore in an old (2002) edition of Photoshop User a few days ago that inspired me to experiment using the following layer stack as a place to start:
a. Threshold adjustment layer (renders basic black, white image)
b. Background copy to which Photocopy filter was applied (to restore some of the detail Threshold blows away)
c. Curves adjustment layer set to Color Dodge with inverted mask (paint white on mask to add back 'black' where needed)
d. Curves adjustment layer set to Color Burn with inverted mask (paint white on mask to add 'white' where needed)

...then used four Hue/Sat adjustment layers, each set to 'colorize' to block in one of the colors.

Once the first version was complete, it was duplicated 3 times. The settings in the Hue/Sat adjustment layers set to 'colorize' were changed to get the color changes.

Finally the four pieces were assembled into a final 2x2 image.

Much of the layer building process can be recorded as a Photoshop action, my project for tomorow! :)

Still having some navigation issues, but, for the most part, I like what I see. Some of my Script-fus are causing launch issues with it, and so is one of my favorite GIMP plugins (Texturizer), but I still can use 2.2x, so I'm overall happy. :)