Guidelines? Give 'em a rest!

Since I'm going on vacation and won't be back for a week, let's give providing the detailed steps a vacation, too. As a reward for so many fine writeups so far the how-to detail will be optional for this mini-challenge.

Still, limit your submissions to no more than two (2).

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PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #143 – San Marco

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).

The base image can be downloaded by clicking the link below the legal verbiage.

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There's a lot of detail, but the possibilities look promising.

Danny

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LEGAL VERBIAGE
S. Sibi 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.

Thank you Danny,

I just destoted this picture..
Sphearized.....

thank you...

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vijayan

Vijayan--I like the warm color tone you gave the buildings.

Don--Your action was a winner on this one. Looks great.

I started with the 4th buzz pro tutorial found here http://www.dynamicdesign.biz/gallery/gallery12.htm

Changes made were:
1. On the ink stack, I used 100 for the simplifier and chose brightness and contrast by eye.
2. Used soft light for the blending mode on the chrome layer
3. Used overlay rather than screen on the merged layer
4. Ignored the last 3 steps
5. Added a texture.

Beautiful, Cheryl.
Boy, this is exactly the type of photo I designed my Cobblestone for. I have some kitchen tins that look just like this.

Bill--I really like that cobblestone. I found your directions for it somewhere and played with it on a few of my own photos--it's great!

It sure would be nice if it's part of the new action pack. (Danny--hint, hint-no pressure ;) )

Thanks, Cheryl. Yes, it is already in the set. So begin digging out the Pastel Light 118 brush. I like it best. In fact at one time I had the action load the brush for you, but then realized that everytime I ran the action, it and all the other Natural Brushes 2 got loaded. Had about 15 copies installed!
Best regards, Bill

great colors and I like every admission
cheryl, I should buy the buzz filter. Every admission looks good with it!

I tried a dark version myself, it's almost a pity for the beautiful image!


gina

gina, Beautiful work. very fresh in colour...
Allmost same in vision a submission also attached here with,,
thank you all..

It is Filters , Artistic . palette and knife and dry brush.
and accented edges from Brush strokes..

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vijayan

thanks Don and V

Vijayan you were partly the inspiration for the next one:)

glistening city in the sky :cool:
flaming pear ornament-polar coordinates and spherize.
cloudy sky image and kpt lens flare

I liked everyone's rendition of this one, and especially liked photomauler's, Cheryl's, and Gina's use of color. I'm just a newbie, but had fun playing with this one. I think I played too much though! The file was too large and really had to be cut down in size to send it, so this looks pretty sad. :sad:

Don,


good job. Though you wouldn't think from my submissions I like the muted versions usually very much but I usually can't stop in time myself :D.
So Annadarling I totally know how you feel:). The colors seemed to be allright so you just start again and play some more. It doesn't hurt when you fall here

gina:ditsy:

well, I was once in Venice and I can't keep away from playing with this image. I made two more and I promise I'll stop after those

first

and the second.

bye

A vanGogh done in Painter Classic.

Catia

thanks everyone, this picture sure can take a lot!

Don, I saw in your screenshot you used the warmth, brilliance filter a few times. What exactly does it do to your picture? Does it shift everything to warmer hues or what? I would like to try it mimicked with the built in Photoshop filters


gina

Impressionist, Xero filters (including Pastelize and Radiance), Impressionist, Retinex (may not be in this order). So many blends and smudings later, voila (added cloth texture too). :)

Very nice lkroll, I love the colors and texture. Very nice indeed

Painted version.

Steve

Impressionist
Pattern stamp
Outline

dc

It is so pretty, I wanted to see more. :-)

I increased the canvas size horizontally and transformed a copy of the original to make a reflection on the left side. Makes the whole dock look wider and like there are more people there to greet you when your boat docks! LOL

Very nice lkroll, I love the colors and texture. Very nice indeed


Thanks for the complement Garazon. :)

dee dee,

great idea and great look :)

could you make it about 50% larger though? it's just a bit small. yes, i know...compression, compression, compression and 100k.

craig

I'll Try... how's this?

there ya go. very cool :) great panoramic view!

craig

It was kinda neat that the obscure tall building on the left edge of the original became the focal point of the expanded version. I did the Transform by simply dragging the center right "handle" to the left all the way across the photo and out the other side until the new canvas area was covered then merged that layer down.

dee dee,

i'll have to take your word for it. dont know what the 'transform' tool does exactly, but it sounds a lot like the 'perspective' or 'skew' type tools in Paint Shop Pro.

at any rate, i like the look and thanks for enlarging :)

craig

Hello all. Here's is a watercolor done in Painter with sandy pastel paper. Also used KPT Pyramid Paint in Painter - for the first time. Lost a lot in the resizing, especially in the paper texture. Anyhow, out of time so here it is.
MargaretM

Swampy, that's a very cool panorama, great idea!

Margaret, excellent work! Love the sandy paper especially!

And even with the losses in resizing, which we all understand the reasons and needs to have the limit ;) , it still looks good, they all do!

Lovely, Margeret, Love the choice of matte color. It goes well with the subject. I really wished I had time to play with painter. I've got version 9 loaded on my hard drive, but no time to PLAY!!

Thank you Garazon. :pleased:

First one has some "artistic" blur applied..
Second one...well, I lost track of all the steps, but it started out as a colored pencil sketch. Didn't quite end up that way, though. Oh well...that's the beauty of photo art, I guess!

Thank you Swampy and Garazon.
Swampy - I know what you mean about time to play with Painter. It has been slow going for me as well, and I still don't have a good comfort level with it.
Garazon - I agree about the need for the size restriction. With such a great site, there has to be size limits.
Keep up the good work everyone!
MargaretM

Lots of nice renditions of this lovely pic. I like your panoramic version Swampy :)

Here are two of mine I've been playing around with about 6 different version !! Both of these started life in Deep Paint (the free version) then played around with them in Photoshop.

Larger versions are here:

Watercolour (http://www.pbase.com/pamsav/image/55368779/original)

Inked (http://www.pbase.com/pamsav/image/55368778/original)

Smoothed
Simplified
Added texture

Peter