PHOTO ART: Mini-Challenge #10 - Anything Goes

As a slight departure from the "take this photo and do something with it" model, here's an opportunity for you to showoff a couple of your favorite already completed photo-art images -- preferably ones not already posted in the RetouchPRO Gallery nor previously submitted in other challenges.

Note: It's OK to create and post something new for this thread if you are so inclined.

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Guidelines:
1. Image(s) could have been created using any style, application(s), plugin(s), etc. -- as long as "photo-based art" is the general theme.

2. Reply to this thread and attach your image (don’t forget the 100kb size limit).

Note: Multiple entries OK if you’re so inspired.

3. By all means include some verbiage on how you achieved your masterpiece so others will benefit from your skills and experience. Make it as descriptive as you like. Grammar and spelling will not be graded. Priority given to content, not how it is written.

4. Have fun.

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Remember:
* Everyone who participates is a winner.
* There’s no expiration date.

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OK... Start poking around that hard drive and find a couple good ones to share.

Keep having FUN!

~DannyR~

This is a sketchy rendition of the image used in Retouching Challenge #8 (http://www.retouchpro.com/challenge/retouching/challenge8/index.html), using a different method than on images previously posted.

It's based on a combination of Photoshop's Colored Pencil filter followed by running Paint Engine twice, using the custom 0Wetter2 setting.

A series of winter pictures that I thought conveyed winter in montage mode better than each image did separately. Nothing special except some blend modes and erasing.
:wavey:

sketch, efx_painter, and Deke's Tracing Photograph (that I used on that seashore challenge) used with different blend modes and a little blurring of the background.

To my way of looking at things. I appreciate more what has been done by seeing the original in these challenges, so I am going to post the original here after I post this.

The image is from a collection I have on CD of royalty free images, so I believe it to be fair game.
:wavey:

Original of shellisten
:wavey:

Blacknight, I really love what you did to Shell Listen. Looks like she is covered with sand, and that's exactly how kids at the beach are!

Phyllis

Blacknight.... love both of the images. I really like the window effect on your winter collage, very nice.

Earl

Thanks guys! It's always nice when someone likes something we do, isn't it!
:wavey:

BK,
snowy is just so beautiful. I like the shell one too but snowy just has something that really appeals to me. Great work.

Danny,
very cool :bigthmb:

This was done a few weeks ago for my Photoshop class. The photos were shot in my neighborhood and then cut and pasted into the final image.

very nice Woody. I love the way you used the leaves as wings.

"Don't Cry For the Horses" is a poem about what happens to horses when they die--they go to heaven and become the clouds in the sky according to the poet. One line of the poem (hard to read in this small picture) says "on silver wings they fly, a million white horses against a blue sky."

Well, my daughter has a white horse, and I had a photo of him running across a field, so I made that into a background for this poem, which I print, frame and sell to a dude ranch gift shop, along with a variety of other horsey products.

Here is a reduced version of it (actual 8 x 10). If you can't read the poem, search by title on web. It's really a wonderful poem for anyone who has or has had a horse. I also make these for dogs and cats, with appropriate backgrounds and poems/prayers. They sell well, because everyone who has a pet is affected emotionally by the words and images. And that, after all, is what "art" is all about--evoking a feeling, right?

Phyllis
www.innographx.com

Here's anthor creation of mine from my Photoshop class. I shot the pix using my Canon G1, then put them together with layers.

A very clever idea, to have an item against a close-up of itself! I wonder though if it could be improved by removing the shadow from the blow up to disguise the fact that the light is coming from two directions (from bottom on blow-up and left on guitar). While I like the color and composition a lot, the difference in lighting says "something's wrong here," as also does the angle of the guitar. Would a shadow under the guitar have countered that "it's flat but it CAN'T BE flat!" look? Or maybe rotating the guitar 180 deg might help?

Or is this picture intended to be one of those mind boggling creations like Escher's "Ascending and Descending" drawing of the impossible staircase?

In either case, it got my attention and made me look at it again and again. So I guess that, as a piece of art, it has succeeded in its purpose!

Phyllis :)

Thanks Phyllis. This piece was done in haste for my Photoshop class. I had done something else but it turned out bad and my teacher offered a suggestion about guitars and their beautiful wood. I did 3 different ones but the teacher liked (and kept a copy of) this one. I feel the same things about it as you but who can argue with the teacher? :)

In the Sept. 2002 issue of Popular Photography, page 56, there is an article on how to put another face on Mona Lisa.
Here's mine :)

and this is my Mona Lisa ripoff. It was colorized from a B&W, and put on the BG of the classic. It is about 2 yrs old.

Part II, where you really get the Picture.

Greg, that woman looks vaguely familiar :)

This picture won 2nd Place - October's Best of Category in the Digital Art category at www.digitalphotocontest.com.

In all, this was about three hours of work, compositing parts from six different images and ending up with about twice that many layers. The hands were simply my left hand flip-flopped; the water was a composite of the ocean wave in the original image, a couple of shots of streams, and a couple of shots of water dripping out of my shower faucet.

And then it took me two weeks to come up with the catchy title :) .

Very nice rendition. I like the water work you did.
It looks very real.

Woody
:D

Visual Eyes....

Nice job, I can see why it won a prize. Great concept and implementation.

Earl

Visual Eyes....

Such visual stimulation.....could feel the energy of children & wetness of the water.

Truman, very impressive! And the title is perfect too!

Btw, the link to the contest site doesn't work for me...says there is no site at that address. Problem with my browser, or did you leave out a dash or dot or something?

Phyllis

Phyllis, delete the period at the end of the URL.

Truman, Congrats on your prize! :D Your image is well planned and executed.

Jeanie

Made up of some photos I took in Spain.

OOOOooooooo....Frank that's beautiful. So lacy...so Spanish!

Phyllis

¡Que detalle!
Muchas gracias señora/señorita!
Es usted muy amable.
You're very kind:tongue:
Frank

Truman...

Very, very cool (art-wise, water-wise). Just terrific. Glad you gave this thread a pulse. Congrats on the recognition. Well deserved.

You inspire many, especially me.

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Frank:

Es usted muy bueno. (I hope this says, "You are very good!")

Lovely collage. Like Phyllis said, "So Spanish."

Magnifico!

~Danny~

Thanks everyone for the comments. It was a fun image to create.

just a simple black and white.

craig

African drummer at EPCOT at Disney World.

Steve

Customer needed a colorized version of the well known picture of Chief Osceola. I'm not very good at this sort of thing, but I was happy with this result. The colors had to remain on the "rustic" side to tie in with the finished product (printed brochure).

The before picture was very blah, and the customer's brochure called for more color, but they wanted a "serene scene"

Nice one Swampy!

I'm already washing the salt spray off my car from this one. 8-)

Steve


The before picture was very blah, and the customer's brochure called for more color, but they wanted a "serene scene"

I did this for a friend of mine recently, we've been doing a lot of photography together of late for me to play with.

I have the original here too - I started with it while learning about hair extension, and then it just took off from there :)

Nice Aalyah!

Steve, I really like your drummer man. Excellent work! What did you use to do it?

dee dee,

i like your osceola except for that part coming off his shoulders, the pink. it looks like a bad posterization. maybe a gradient blend or smoothing of some sort? but the rest, especially the face and hair are excellent!

craig

Thanks, Craig.. I'll have to work on that. :-)

dee dee,

ok :)

i also like your serene scene. very nice colors.

craig

Nothing new here for a while, but some really nice images already posted. I am posting three that I did very recently because I was so pleased with how they turned out. To see the original photo I used for each, click the link beneath the Pbase image when it opens. If the photo was one of mine or from sxc, you are welcome to play with it too.

Made from my own photo, smudge painting in PSCS:
http://www.pbase.com/pstewart/image/71424429

Just yesterday... made from a photo by Pat, Painter and PSCS:
http://www.pbase.com/pstewart/image/73084081

Made from a sxc pic by Jason Nelson, Painter and PSCS. I painted in a couple of bluebirds using Painter:
http://www.pbase.com/pstewart/image/70833109

very nice paintings Phyllis particularly like the colours, oh well i had better go and practice some more now ! ! :lol:

Great work by everyone, I have not seen this thread before so of to have a good look through now

Palms

Lovely! Just lovely.

Nice work Phyllis - hard to tell they came from photos. Technically very good and Painterly as well. MargaretM

phyllis, those are definitely a cut above. very lovely!

Nice Aalyah!

Steve, I really like your drummer man. Excellent work! What did you use to do it?

Wow! Just decided to post another one here and came across your note...re the drummer. Been a long time , but I believe it was mostly Gertrudis Pro. Thanks.

Here's another post.

Steve