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PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #84 – Model A Truck

Here’s another “mini-challenge” to play with in the Photo-based Art category until the next major challenge is posted here (http://www.retouchpro.com/challenge/index.html).

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I ran across this image the other day while surfing at DPReview.com. It's a Model A Ford truck (cira 1920s I think) put out to pasture in all places on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Nice place to retire, huh? This treasure was snapped by Kudbegud, one of the local residents.

This rig brought back fond memories for me: My dad used to restore Model-A's when I was a youngin'. He'd buy two or three at a time and munge the parts of many into a single, running car.

One day I had the misfortune of excercising extremely poor judgment by ignoring his directive to "Not play baseball around my cars." My first 'pitch' to my brother promptly crashed through the windshield he'd recently installed after weeks of junkyard surfing, turning antique windshield glass into zillions of little pieces. Dad was not pleased.

The fond memories came weeks later after he found another windshied and finally got that Model-A running. Riding in the "rumble seat" with your brother, laughing your brains out under sunny, not yet polluted Los Angeles skies is a pretty neat way to tool around town.

Enough of that. Let's see you tool around with this pic.

A BIG thanks to Kudbegud, for allowing me to post this golden nugget.

~Danny~

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LEGAL VERBIAGE
Kudbegud retains the U.S. and international copyright © not only for the original image, but also for any photo-art versions of it. Unauthorized distribution or use of this image without permission are prohibited.

This version came about as a result of running two David Rowley based actions, Hayes Island and Cardiff Bay and merging (by layer mask) the results.

In the next few days I'll summarize in detail how I did this in a separate thread.

Cheers...

~DannyR~

Danny, your dad's hobby sounds like a lot of fun. Did you inherit any of his restored vehicles?

On this one I used buzzpro simplifier with an outline overlaid.

Phyllis

Nothin' pretty about abandonment, even it is in Hawaii!

Here I tried to make it look like cobwebs and vines had overtaken the poor old thing. To get the cobweb effect I used KPT6 materializer set to negative numbers, then duped it and overlaid in screen mode to emphasize the webs/vines and also replace the bright colors with dreary neutrals.

Phyllis

I wanted to try and emphasize the car more and the jungle less. Textured oils, copied and blurred and st to overlay (I think). Then some KPT Equalizer to emphasize the car even more.
:wavey:

Phyllis - Both your renditions are beautiful. But "Cobwebs" is incredible, really gorgeous. I especially love the colors, they set the mood here perfectly. In a larger format it must be astounding. Excellent, excellent, excellent!

Blackknight- I can't see your image. Maybe it didn't upload properly, or did you take it away?

Pam

It was there for me just a minute ago when i checked. I heard on the news that we're on a higher terrorist alert now, so maybe it's terrorists...

I just reloaded it - see if you can see it now.
:wavey:

Blacknight - I can see it! It's beautiful. I really like the rich texture you achieved, and the lighting is great. Looks like a dark overcast day just before a storm. Great job.

Pam

1.Filter> Noise> Median (radius 3)
2.Grayscale- using Image> Adjustment> ChannlMixer (Check the Monochrome Box)
3. Using Image> Adjustment> Brightness/Contrast (Adjust to my liking)
4. Paint in new color on new layers, blending mode set at color burn
5. Add texture


Model-A No 1B (http://www.trimoon.com/Model-A_No_1B.jpg)

Model-A No 2B (http://www.trimoon.com/Model-A_No_2B.jpg)

Model-A No 3B (http://www.trimoon.com/Model-A_No_3B.jpg)

PHYLLIS:

Nope...Dad never kept any his rigs. He'd piece them together, then somebody would offer him a ton of $$ and he's start over.

Nice work on yours; especially like the cobweb effect.

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STEVE:

Very impressive results via "Trimoon's Median Texture" method. Did you use an Adobe texture (which one?) or another source?

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PHIL:

Yours turned out great. Just oustanding.

Danny, the outlining in your pic emphasizes the rust and dents on the old car...very effective.

Steve, especially like the first one with the touches of color...very effective on this particular subject.

BK, that texture looks great on the car...really adds to the mood.

Pam, thanks for the nice words. I agree that this picture, my rendition or another, would be great for printing and framing. It's just a great image that speaks to us in different ways. I recall a very similar old truck parked on my grandma's farm as a child.

Phyllis

Each submission here is completly amazing !!! I love this group and hope to someday be as good as you guys :D

Lacto;

Nice paint job, Chuck...how did you do it? What program? As for your attic find, yep, this is just the sort of old photo that would be in the attic! Coincidentally, here is one I found in MY attic...not a photo, but a crayon drawing I made of Grandpa's car when I was a kid.

I used my abstract method then desaturated and inverted it and blended it with darken mode over a buzzpro simplified version of the pic. Then I ran the rough pastels filter. Last I made a brush that looks something like the lines generated by rough pastels and used it to touch up some areas that were indistinct...to outline headlights, for example.

Phyllis

Danny you brought back Madras. NIce touch

Phyliss how did you do the cob webs realistic.

Very nice Blacknight.

Trimon, three in one shot but I really like no three.

Chuck love the painted action.

Well I have been obcessed with challanges, it drove me crazy that I could nort get there faces right. Oh well Hey Phyliss look at my verey last one its not green.

Any way I tried to restore the truck and it looked great, but its not Photo art so I did a Hippie paint job and and acid background. Ha Ha.

Used a blur, distort, noise. Did layers on the headlights and added a lens flare added noise. Layered in the license plate from the original picture. Had a great time with this photo. I love old trucks!

Boy, what a talented bunch. I never thought my old truck pic could be represented in so many wonderfull ways. Now, I have to do some myself....thanks for the great images everyone!!

Took image of restored truck with image from an old IBM typewriter add and combine then flatten.
Use word to make the call out (YES word!) paste into original pic.
with the restored truck and IBM image. do gray scale. Flatten and well --- remembering when!

i ran the hayes island effect on just the truck

now just the jungle got "hayesed"

finally....the total hayes effect with some post levels, saturation, hue and contrast adjustment

So many great reditions of this wonderful ole truck....
This was fun, started with a tutorial from digital-creativity.uk.
Got a bit lost in the middle and finished with an action for the frame.

kudbegud:

Welcome to RetouchPRO (as a member). As you can see the gang is having a blast with your pic. Judging by your interpretations, you'll fit right in here.

Hope you try some of the other mini-challenges, too. No time limit on any of them. Would enjoy seeing more of your creations.

"Aloha."

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NJ Twins:

No fair using the same avitar! Just noticed that. Bet you have a fun time engaging in such pranks. The good news: You're both talented, which is lucky for the rest of us!

Wow, this IS another great thread. So many excellent renditions.

Goldcoin - I really like the distressed look of your version. Very nice. Is that a polaroid rebate I see in there...and if so, where'd you find it?

Pam

Phyllis the cobweb effect is great. I really like the look.

Blacknight the colors and texture on the image look fantastic.

Trimoon – Three in a row! Wow I am partial to no.1 the frame and mat on that image is very nice.

Chuck I think you need to take that truck out of the attic and hang it downstairs! I love the edges and overall color on your image.

OK Phil – the hippie look and acid bg brought back way too many memories for me! Lol -- love the concept

Kudbegud – another 3 in a row, can’t make up my mind which one I like best – the effect on all three is cool. --- COOL, oh no that must be left over from Phil’s image; next I’ll be saying someone’s image is groovy! :eek:

Goldcoin what a great effect on the edges, how’d you do that?

Sorry Danny – Jean and I are planning on separate avatar’s – just have not made a second one yet - lol
;)

Chuck....
Really liked your painted version, did you do that in Photoshop or Painters?


Pam.....

You sure know your filters..... That is "Polor Coordinates" under > distort. But the tutorial, later took it Black & White. I layered back to color and ran an etching action, Antique Stipple Engraving, one of my favorites. Merged that result with all the others.

TwinbNJ
The action is from Adobe's called Z(Burnt Edges) for the frame. Changed the background to black from white.

What a great picture to work on..I am a sucker for old truck and equipment pictures.. All of these entries are so good that I am saving all of them into an old truck file for further review later..

Here is a try at a pen and ink using a variation of Trimoons pencil02 technique..

Thanks
Jerry :D

I had to reduce the size of this 2 times and save it at 0 quality to get it to fit here..Hope it looks like something..

Jerry:

Trimoon's method transcends subjects. Despite the size shuffling hoops lept through, to me it shows just fine.

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On this one I ran the Virtual Painter "Oil Painting" filter against our Maui classic, then applied a technique that can be found here: http://www.developingwebs.net/photoshop/watercolor.php

Great picture and some very good submissions :)

Thought I'd try paint engine, since it is now one of my "new toys".
The possibilities seem endless. Thanks again Danny ;)

more and more great versions....just wonderful. lqqker, i'd like to know more about paint engine.

Just me playing!

Lqqker......

Very nice...Do you remember your settings?

This is my first try at a watercolor in Corel Draw-Paint 7...

Lastly, maybe......

Phili, wow...looks like you took that old car on a “trip!”

Jean, nice job with the crosshatching effect...almost looks like a plaid car now. :)

Jill, very creative and clever...old car reminiscing about the glory days of its youth. My rusty old bones can empathize. :)

Kudbegud, I like what the hayes effect does to the background...simplifies the leaves while bringing out the branches.

Looker, wonderful result with Paint Engine...love what it did to the foliage!

Frank, funny idea and well done! Putt putt vrooooom!

Danny, your combination of VP oil painting and the watercolor technique really turned out great...looks like real watercolors.

Jerry, great job on your pen and ink version.

Goldcoin, looks like Corel has some interesting filters. Anxious to see more!

Phyllis

I didn't keep close track of everythingn I did on this one, but it went something as follows.

Converted it to a grayscale sketch and saved it as another name. Reopened it along with the original and pasted the sketch into the original, as the bottom layer. Used flaming pears atherise filter and then altered the opacity. Flattened and added a new white background layer and erased around the edges. Added some texture and saved.

Ken

Great truck picture. Couldn't resist working on this one.

Great job, everyone. This is a tough league to play ball in.

This was my original thought when I saw the truck pic. This was done with RBS Dream2 action in the Screen mode. I also fixed the front left headlight, which seemed too bright for my pic.

The prior color pic was done with Softpainter Action, with the addition of a skull pic from an earlier photo manipulation challenge.

Love the effect - the "passengers" are the perfect compliment to the image.

Welcome aboard Kudbegud, very nice entry, I found some one whos is more obcessed then me three submissions, wow.

Goldcoin & Jerry as always nice job.

In fact all the entries are great, its amazing all the differnet ways we can see the same picture..

Danny, I like the coloration, I am still working on makeing the sheen for metal, Itried glass but you cant get the distortion out. Trie a couple of programs but no luck and the one program that can do it is $200.

Anyway, I call this one reserection

Phili1 .....

Good to have you back.
What an unusual happening with your entry.... I like the outer effect and the fact that it doesn't blur the actual truck. Different, one does get the feeling of viewing thru an opening of over grown bush.

Wonder if Shan is ever going to return and give us the other two tutorials for the Charcoal effect? gosh, I hope so......

Thanks goldcoin, I am busy at my business busy season.

Hey Danny hows this for shine on the fenders. I tried lighting effects and it did it . Here is your Ford redstored and ready to go.

I hope Shan does as well. She is really talented.

Ken, like the distressed-look texture you added... is perfect with the subject matter.

Bob, I especially like the ghostly glow effect on the b/w version...love how you added the passengers very subtly.

Phili, that exploding bush effect is great...nice framing for any pic, really...must remember that trick. Your metal sheen technique is wonderful! You might consider posting a short tutorial on the settings etc. for doing that. Please?

Phyllis

Move over LeRoy Neiman :)

Andrew..WOW! You've got to explain how you got those awesome colors! Did extreme unsharp mask filter have a hand in it? Did you use a multi-color brush perhaps? Please tell! Did you do this all in Photoshop or use VP?

Phyllis

Hi Phyllis,

It was an accident, at least to begin with. I was working on the truck picture and not sure what to do next. So to relieve the tension I thought I'd amuse myself by loading it into HyperTyle with texture turned off and hitting it with random effects. All of a sudden one popped onto the screen that reminded me of LeRoy Neiman style so I saved it.

Today I took another look and liked it better than what I had before. But is was not quite right. So I used Color Mechanic to shift pinks to the off-whites. Then used Select|Color Range along with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and to move goldenrods to yellows. And another color change that I forget now. That got my colors right but it was too rough. I had to use small doses of median, buzz, and reduce graininess to mellow it, which also ended up adding to a stroke feel.

Anyway, I don't know if this can be replicated. This is an interaction with my rendered version, not the original picture. And who knows if this will even work on a rendered version of a different picture. I just got lucky and then followed up by taking it further.

Andrew

Oh; thought that was a Greatful Dead model A.

Andrew....i like the second a little better. the first is bold and bright but the second is smoother and softer. how were you using hyper tyle? i have it but didnt think to use it.

Hi Kudbegud

>>Andrew....i like the second a little better. the first is bold and bright but the second is smoother and softer.<<

Now that I've been looking at them more, I like the smoother one better too. I guess I was being too critical. I think I might change the windshield, though. Maybe make dark areas so the light areas looks like reflection instead of dirt.

>>how were you using hyper tyle? i have it but didn't think to use it.<<

On this picture, I turned off textures, went to the Adjust menu, and hit the random button again and again. I was just goofing around. I actually bought it last week to apply textures, but haven't found a suitable picture yet.

thanks Andrew...one more tool to play with.

Well, that was odd. I made a change to my second truck picture and tried to replace the previous version. What I got was the new name but the old picture. So I deleted the picture, saved, went into edit again but there was no option to attach a picture.

So I'm posting it here. Not much change, just made the windshield darker.

I don't know what it is about old junkers, falling down barns, and dead trees, but they make great photo.art subjects. The original photo is great and I've enjoyed looking at all the renditions in the thread.

I stayed pretty close to the 4th tutorial on this page. http://www.dynamicdesign.biz/gallery/gallery12.htm except skipped the last 3 steps and used around 100 instead of 3000 in the ink stack.

Nice use of that technique. I especially like the contrast from the way the white on the fenders, hood, and roof play against the dark feel of the rest.

Thanks Andrew. I fell in love with Buzz right away, but since I've found that site with the tutorials, I'm appreciating it even more.

I was going back to some old challenges and found this old truck. I used Studio Artist and Photoshop.

Cathy :)

Another try using Buzz.

Cathy :happy:

Flaming Pear's Mr. Contrast, Impressionist Monochrome pencil, and Little Inkpot's Chalkaholic filters mainly. Also used Photo-Plugins Local Contrast Enhancement with large radius to create this sketch. Created the sepia like tone used Cybia's ColourWorks Mono (yes I spelled it correctly). :)

It looks like an ink sketch. Good job.

Cathy :classic:

nice job, cathy :)

you too, lkroll :)

Craig

Flaming Pear's Mr. Contrast is the bomb. It's the only plugin that I use regularly that cost me some money (all other's that I use are available for free). It's well worth the dough. :)

Here's my contribution to this fine photo. Impressionist with Vinson 4 style.
Alan

A couple of versions of a great ole truck.

Steve

Just had to have a go with this one!

Peter

Nice picture!
Did this one with some layers of Buzz, cutout and Lucisart.
Sylvia

These are great fun and it's wonderful to be able to learn from the more experienced members.
Here's my effort, I used a night filter, and touched some areas with a spooky green, and did some other stuff I've forgotten -sorry but being a newbie much of the time I'm not sure as I'm still just clicking buttons and trying different things.