I found this at www.imageafter.com (free stock images) and thought it was in need of some TLC and was something a little bit different

Paint him, make him like new ? you choose

I dont why it is a Him ! ! ! ! !

Palms

Heres a couple, a painting, and a cut out version.

Palms

Palms nice find there.
I like the Cutout myself.

Peter

Peter- very nice, is that PST?
Palms- I love them both, can't pick a favorite

thought I'd go for something completely different

boy, no classic BMW shld be treated so cruelly. this photo shld have been put in the restoration forum :D

Peter your style is great
Jordan not sure what you would call your technique although i do detect some orton there but it is nice
Craig that is one super shiny chromed bike now with a fixed tyre :bigthmb:


Palms

My try.

Palms, it's not plagiarism, image certain technics.

here is my point of view of what an old style bike picture should look like. A little different, maybe not so artistic but with a different look like.

here is my point of view of what an old style bike picture should look like. A little different, maybe not so artistic but with a different look like.

Hi yes that is different but in a good way i had thought of a sepia at one point, :bigthmb:

Palms

palms, thanks :)

used my 'silver surfer' filter forge filter on the entire picture, then just erased bits to let the background shine through. fixed the wheel rim and tire with warp mesh and warp brush and a bit of airbrush and push :)

...again. :)

nice, lyle :)

oh, and if you havent done so already, go to the salon forum and answer the thread there about your well being.

Nice pic to play with.

Joe

Jordan not sure what you would call your technique although i do detect some orton there but it is nice
Palms
Palms-No clue what orton is, but I was sort of going for a sketch look. LOL, not sure what I got. :)

Vitali- love the texture on your first one
JonathanL- nice job, welcome to RetouchPro
Craig- love the silver look!!
Lyle- very cool, what are you using to get that look?

and last, but not least
Joe-WOW! :knockedou can you tell us how you did that?

All wonderful works
Impressionist+SnapArt

Palms-No clue what orton is, but I was sort of going for a sketch look. LOL, not sure what I got. :)


Jordan here are a couple done in the orton style, tut (postd by another member) here,
http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles0106/dw0106-1.html

another member uses it on her portraits (mainly B&W)and gets some nice results, I tried it on my 8 month old niece and they looked good too

All wonderful works
Impressionist+SnapArt

Including yours Alex :)

Palms

Palms-No clue what orton is, but I was sort of going for a sketch look. LOL, not sure what I got. :)

Vitali- love the texture on your first one
JonathanL- nice job, welcome to RetouchPro
Craig- love the silver look!!
Lyle- very cool, what are you using to get that look?

and last, but not least
Joe-WOW! :knockedou can you tell us how you did that?

Hey Jordan. This is basically what I did.

-Duplicated background layer
-Rotate 90 CW
-Other-Custom-Fade 50%
-Diffuse-Anisotropic-Fade 50%
-Plastic Wrap 4-15-9
-Colored Pencil 4-15-27
-Angled Strokes 52-9-3
-Rotate 90 CCW
-Set Blend to Screen
-Duplicated that layer
-Colored Pencil 4-15-27
-Set the blending mode to Hard Light
-Merged the two layers and set to Pin Light
-Alt+Click mask and painted in strokes

I played with the colors in Lab mode.

That’s basically it.

Joe

Peter- very nice, is that PST?
Palms- I love them both, can't pick a favorite

thought I'd go for something completely different


Thank you. No not PST I've explained basically what I've done in this post:-
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-based-art/20829-creative-interpretations-guest-s-yard.html#post183902
Though different brushes used here.

Peter

Just had a quick go of this one

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Lyle- very cool, what are you using to get that look?
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I started out using 3 Bar Sin gradient for gradient map (GIMP Gradient of course) before running Amphisoft's Xylograph filter for the stippling step. :)

Palms, thank you for the photo.

Link to a larger size:
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m241/pavel2006/misc_paintings/b1bike01.jpg

Craig- love the silver look!!

thanks, jordan :)

Joe, Peter, & Lyle-
thanks for passing on your workflow tips
can't wait to go play!

Kim- very nice
Pavel- love the colors on yours!

ETA-
Palms-thanks for the Orton link. I had never heard of him, but that is sort of what I used. A blurry layer and a sharp one.