What a life... Taking a little rest by the river.

Happy creating!

~Danny~

My compliments to the photographer. This is a great shot.

Don--I like the texture in the fur. Also, the effect gives good emphasis to the lion.

I'm on an impressionist kick. This time I was playing with textures from the paper choices as well as the emboss effect in the filter. I put a gaussian blur sketch on top to bring back a little detail.

Great photo, at the same time a tough one too!
Nice work on this both Don and Cheryl.

Levels,Blending modes,smudge.

Hi everyone,


Nice kitten here but I agree with svsg, a not so easy photo-art image.

Don : it looks as if the lion sits in the middle of a waterfall. I would have liked a bit more detail in his body though. I had the same problem. The left part became too white with all the consecutive layers. I tried to get back some detail with masking some parts out.

1 = background=off
2 = copy bg + usm + cutout 7-0-3
3 = copy layer 2 / multiply
4 = impressionist-spattery water/ overlay
5 = copy bg-desat-invert-aniso/ color dodge + mask
6 = selective color adjustment layer
7 = copy bg + original to paint details in eyes and paws back in

gina

I forgot to mention your entries Cheryl and Don,

Cheryl good work on the textures. Did you use different textures on different parts of the pic?

svsg : did you use the gimp here? It gives a sort cartoony look.

gina

Gina--nope, the textures came from impressionist and I added a slight emboss on effects. Since the strokes were varied, it gave the effect of varied texture.

Gina, Your version is nice... I used gimp, that is the only program I have. Is the cartoony look good or bad? :D

Nice photo with some nice versions.

Cropped and did an unsharp mask. Did a little Paint Engine and added a pattern layer.

Catia

Hi everyone,

nice render too Catia.

svsg : not necessarily bad or good. It was more my first impression I had of it. I went looking for the gimp for windows but when they start putting warnings on the page like : when the program doesn't work do this or .... I'll wait till they get the bugs out :D
Can you compare it with photoshop or paintshop pro?? If we put a description in we do to get to an image, can you relate that to the gimp or what??

see ya

gina

This is from a watercolor action by Mike Finn. All my contribution was to clean up where colors overlapped and made a new layer and blended it into the old with opacity setting for details.
Thanks
Bob Spencer

Lucis and Redfields Bas Relief faded and blended in.

Peter

Peter, you are really good at finding all the old images that haven't been worked on for years. I think I like your use of the Bas relief and Lucas -- I love the detail retained in the lion and the abstracting of the background. The lion does look like s/he could have been carved in stone (or turned to stone by some wizard mouse). But he could break free from the rock and pounce on the next butterfly that lights on his nose...

Can't afford Alien Skin, so I had to improvise. lol

Beautiful image to work with by the way.

Chris

What a stunning image! Just a watercolour from me...

Peter, you are really good at finding all the old images that haven't been worked on for years. I think I like your use of the Bas relief and Lucas -- I love the detail retained in the lion and the abstracting of the background. The lion does look like s/he could have been carved in stone (or turned to stone by some wizard mouse). But he could break free from the rock and pounce on the next butterfly that lights on his nose...


Thanks CJ. All you have to do is look for them they are all there, somewhere :ditsy: not an easy task though with my eyed :clown:

LK if you can do that , you don't need Alien Skin, thats very very good.

Sweet light very nice painted effect.

Ziaphra, not just a watercolour, I wish I could get as good.

Peter

I've been here a long time and hadn't found this thread. I like the new arrivals very much.

Lyle, your work is getting better all the time.

Peter, very interesting. I like the stony feel to it.

Sweetlight, very, very nice. Two thumbs up.

Ziaphra, such good work as always. You have a nice technique there.

Janet

Thank you Peter and Janet. :)

A very contented lion.

Steve C.

A very contented lion.

Steve C.


Obviously gone for a drink after a good feed.

Peter

Thanks all; Lucis Art's and Alien Skins plugins are still on my wish list for when I win the lottery, but since I don't live in Georgia anymore, it will be a little while before I start buying lottery tickets. :lmao:

Danny, Wonderful photo. :-)

Sketched, a little Dodge and burn, Zig-Zag distort of water, smudging, etc.