This one needs some color adjustment, but should be fun to paint.

I didn't paint mine at all. I just applied lots of textures and texture mapping.

Great photo for honing some skills Swampy. I had fun tweaking colors, etc. Then I threw all of it out and went for a colorized cartoon. Go figure.

Janet

But you ended up with wonderful colors, Janet. :-)

Here's my attempt, tweaked the colours, done a watercolur type technique then used some embossing

Palms

Nice, Palms. What technique do you use for your embossing? It certainly adds to the over all effect.

Loadsa stuff going on with this one, threw most of it out, kept restarting.

Peter

I can't count the number of times I've started over on a project, Peter. I guess that "getting there" is part of the challenge of doing a nice piece.

Thank you Swampy I used Peter's favorite on this one Redfields bas relief not only for the embossing but for the outline as well ( which is what i use it for most )

Palms

Hi everyone -- this is my first post, I just could not resist playing with this perky little Sydney Harbour Ferry cos yep, you guessed it, I live in Sydney (Australia) :wavey: The pic shows the Fishburn near the fantastic Aquarium at Darling Harbour, an inner part of Sydney Harbour.

Thank you all for your wonderful generosity in sharing your talents and knowledge, I am looking forward to spending many happy hours here and hopefully contributing something useful as well.

Cheers!

Thought I would try Emboss...

copy BG layer, Levels, curves, shadow/highlight, sharpened..
copy layer, Filter>stylize>emboss... set layer luminosity, 75% opacity
new layer from BG copy set on top of layers set at soft light..
Merge all visible, final curves and sharpen, minor crop, save for web..

Nimbus, welcome aboard. Wonderful first post and I look forward to seeing more of your work. :-)

Granny... love the emboss look!

Thank you Swampy, I am going through your tutorials now; trying to learn whatever I can..

You are a very kind and giving person..

Thank you for sharing your time and help.

Thank you, Granny. Glad to be of help and I hope you enjoy! :-)

Nimbus, welcome aboard. Wonderful first post and I look forward to seeing more of your work. :-)



Thank you Swampy ! It's a pleasure and a privilege to be in such talented company.

Here is my modest try using watercolor technique.

Rhasval... That is really, really nice. Love the texture you applied and the soft watercolor is very well done.

Thanks a lot Swampy, like Nimbus said it is a privilige being here in this thread.