Photo by C. Beauche. Kind of a different approach to photographing boats, I thought.

Ship ahoy!

~Danny~

My interpretation: http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=10797

Based on the technique Jeff described here:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7197

Danny--that's an interesting effect. I'm not so sure about the sky, but it looks great on the rest of the image.

Working on a new mix. Make 2 dups of the background.

On the bottom layer.

Create this stack in buzz
simplifier 1--100
brightness and contrast around 20 each
simplifier 2--remove 50

on the same layer, impressionist detailed rough texture (custom setting) followed by fantastic machine's paint engine--curved brush. Fade curved brush to 65%

On the upper layer, in buzz, load the sketch 1 stack. Reduce the remove to around 100 and set the brightness and contrast sliders to around 20. I usually also do image--adjustments--brightness and contrast around 20 each after buzz runs. Set the blending mode to overlay and reduce opacity slightly. Optional--run distort--glass around 1 and 4

Cheryl H:
That is really great it looks wonderful so pleasant and relaxing.
Great job.
Bob

Danny, glad you could use my tip.

Cheryl, I like your use of Buzz in combination with Impr.
......
I was debating on whether to post this or not, and now I can't even remember what I did :(

Oh well....

-Jeff

I took the image and ran it through Picture Man's Hand Drawing, Then did another copy of the original and did a Buzz simplifier #2.

Then I used PSP8's image-arithmetic, and averaged the two images for this result. I like it.

AmyHutton

Danny, for some reason, I get an error on yours.

Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster

:bawling:

Nice work everyone.

I cropped and used the blur tool to blur the foreground and background. Cranked up the brightness about +50 and contrast -10. Applied cutout (8,3,3) and Smart Blur (2,20,low,normal). Adjusted hue and saturation to taste and added a canvas texture.

I'm still experimenting with custom Impressionist styles, based on the Pencil Sketch: Detailed Monochrome style.

Several layers were generated using different settings, and blended using layer masks and layer blend modes.

This is the same piccy I worked on in the thread for Imp. user sets, I posted a cropped images there (cos I stuffed the big one by saviing over it LOL!).

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8328&page=2

Danny, I really like what you did. I was going for a similar look, but it kept coming out muddy, like a poorly exposed neg. Here's what i ended up doing.
Dropped a new layer filled with white and dialed down to 20%
Hit diffuse (anistropic)
Hit accent edges
Hit Diffuse (normal)

My attempt. It's linked to another thread where I've posted the set file to do it with.

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=13333

Sorry - I linked the picture, but not the set file.

Main forum here
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?p=70599#post70599
set file near bottom.

Danny:
Thank you for a nice sea side scene to work on.
Bob

Duplicated the background. Darkened with 3 x Multiply. Applied 3 levels of Stylize: Diffuse: Anisotropic
Brush Strokes: Angled Strokes: 18/39/3
Render: Lighting Effects: Omni -25

Cheers
Dave

Yet another great find from the past, This bares quite a lot similarity to a print i bought last year that i had to have a go

Palms

Another watercolor on this outstanding photo. Everything done in PaintEngine.
Alan

Of late I have been messing with converting color images to grayscale and thought this one had possibilities. I applied Levels and a Channel Mixer adjustment layer set to monochrome to get this effect.

Thanks, Palms, for bringing this one back to the top.

Danny, this has a feel of infrared about it. I like it very much. Good job.

Janet

Here is my watercolor attempt on this nice pic.
Dan

So this is my first crack at these forum thingies, not sure of rules of engagement, if explainations are required, so I'll be brief if you'll be kind.

I pumped up the colour using the channel mixer, blending in overlay or multiply modes, not sure which now, reduced opacity slightly. Then did a little diffuse glow with gaussian blurs and such like. I was planning to leave it there but it started to remind me of the paintings my mother did when I was a child, so I used Dave's Simplifier Action, and played around with the blend modes in the luminosity layer and the simplifier layer, to just give it the feeling of a painting.

Critique and feed back most welcome...

Re-painted my watercolor with different settings in paintengine.
Alan

Hope this wasn't the result of one of our recent storms. :cry:

Steve

Storm approaching...safe in port.

Steve

so glad i did find this one again , I like it when some of the older posts come back "to life" it shows how techniques and approaches change, sometimes in a short space of time
Danny very interesting will have to keep a eye out for some more conversions
Alcar nice watercolours, dont think i have ever used paint engine
Dan your watercolour is cool as well, is there a texture there ? if so what one is it ?
BethMarian welcome to retouch great post i see you use one of my favorite actions (dave's simplifier ) look forward to seeing some more from you ( and we are nearly all friendly, well till your second post :lol: just kidding)
steve great as usual, i really like the second one picture that is not the weather
Palms

I know, I know; I hope to get over my lazy mood soon. :)

Dan your watercolour is cool as well, is there a texture there ? if so what one...
Palms

Palms1, thanks!
Yes, is a small sandstone texture over this pic.

Great creations all of you!
Dan

Llroll, your "Floating Acrylic" looks great. How did you do it?
Alan

Llroll, your "Floating Acrylic" looks great. How did you do it?
Alan

Very simple (hence my post subject line name). I use Autotrace (http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/) with the following script: AUTOTRACE -corner-threshold 75 -despeckle-level 16 -despeckle-tightness 1 -output-format ai -output-file c:\temp\d.ai -report-progress %1

I use Mayuradraw (http://www.mayura.com/) to convert the vector to bitmap

Then, in GIMP, I use a Warp Sharp (http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/gimp/warp-sharp.scm) Script-fu to fuse the acrylic pieces a little closer, and then I run bumpmap to give some dimensionality to them.

Finally, I select the white area and to an invert selection and then run Xach Effect Drop Shadow Script-fu deleting the light layer. I adjust the shadow layer to taste and flatten. All of 2 minutes actual work (maybe a little longer, but this method's become quite rote to me). :)

not really sure i can explain this technique. it begins by messing up the image quite a lot and then slowly bringing it back with various tools like airbrush, push, clone and some others. there's a high pass sharpen in there somewhere, some very low density smudging and some very high. lots of different size brushes. it's sort of a huge, gross smudge that's brought back to a finer one.

craig

Result looks good; that's all that matters. :)

lk, if i can learn to pronounce that, i will :)

thanks :)

craig

...a similar technique, so I have put some thought into a name for it. :lmao:

hehehe :)

craig

Thank you Palms. The image just seemed to have enough and not too much detail to really make a nice piece of artwork.

Steve

so glad i did find this one again , I like it when some of the older posts come back "to life" it shows how techniques and approaches change, sometimes in a short space of time
steve great as usual, i really like the second one picture that is not the weather
Palms

Palms...well done in finding this thread again...lovely painting of the boats.....

Alcar....Great watercolor effect from paint Engine and i like the second one even more...

Danny....Love your black and white ...it suits the photo really well...

Dan....Great painting and texture...very nice...

Beth...Fabulous bright colors and a good detailed explanation of how it was done...

Lyle....Really like that flat acrylic look...Your painting reminds me of summer holidays when i was a child...

Craig....Nice smooth feeling to your picture, it also reminds me of seaside holidays when i was a child...maybe its the lovely colors...
Patricia.... :happy:

I used PainterIX and then Flaming pears Aetherize plugin to umph the color....

Patricia.... :happy:

Dan....Great painting and texture...very nice...
Patricia.... :happy:

Patricia, thank you!
Lovely painting with Painter IX. Very nice colors.

Dan :wavey:

Thanks Dan.....

Patricia... :happy:

patricia,

thanks :)

i actually wasnt too pleased with mine. reminded me too much of a paint by numbers work ;)

like your painter one.

craig

Craig...glad you liked my painter one! I do like yours its a good photo to paint smooth if you know what i mean...thinking about the reminders of childhood i had some smooth painted pictures on my bedroom walls around the age of 7..

Patricia........ :)

So this is my first crack at these forum thingies, not sure of rules of engagement, if explainations are required, so I'll be brief if you'll be kind.

I pumped up the colour using the channel mixer, blending in overlay or multiply modes, not sure which now, reduced opacity slightly. Then did a little diffuse glow with gaussian blurs and such like. I was planning to leave it there but it started to remind me of the paintings my mother did when I was a child, so I used Dave's Simplifier Action, and played around with the blend modes in the luminosity layer and the simplifier layer, to just give it the feeling of a painting.

Critique and feed back most welcome...A belated welcome, Beth. Glad you lept into the pool.

By "first time at these forum thingies," do you mean this was your first shot at doing an arty manipulation or uploading your artwork? Regardless, I like how yours turned out.

re: rules of engagement
Ya did just fine here, too. While the "how to" details aren't a hard requirement, providing them is encouraged and appreciated, especially by the newbies and/or lurkers who are just getting into this sport.

I hope we'll be seeing more of your creativity in the future.

~Danny~

Lyle, I am really impressed - this "floating acrylic" looks great !
(sometimes less means more :happy: )

I hoped to make a colour pencils drawing, the result is not exactly what
I wanted, but I think this can be a good direction..

I used Gimp :happy:

patricia,

well, i still think it looks like a paint by the numbers :)

craig

To barbara: that almost looks like a crayon sketch; very nice. In response to your comment, that's why it's sometimes called simplication. The art is to remove as much detail as possible and yet still dicypher what it is. :lmao:

To Craig: man that's too much. You have too much time on your hands. lol

lk, :)

craig

Barbara...Like your sketch look....there are so many different sketch looks and its quite difficult to find the one that is just pefect for us...i keep playing with that look too and feel i have a way to go before i find the perfect one for me... :dizzy:

Craig....What can i say...paint with numbers it is now...new career eh????? :pleased:


Patricia.... :grin:

Pat, thanks :happy:
that's truth what you said about the wide variety of possible sketch looks,
my small problem is to find way to make sketch look a less "computerly"..
it means more unstraight lines, I think..

Lyle,
thanks for nice comment :happy:
and believe me - you are not the laziest one, for sure :happy:
( I always save output from autotrace as pdf - and open directly in Gimp
so am I lazier ? :lmao: )

I tried this and, at first, GIMP was trying to do so by asking various parameters, but then it gave an error. I'll have to check further in how to set up GIMP for PDF/EPS files (I read somewhere that it was based on Ghostscript that I also have installed). I was able to copy the image from clipboard after opening the PDF file and it actually is better then Mayura. Thanks a heap for the info Barbara. :)

edit:

I got it to work thanks to the link below. :)

http://gug.sunsite.dk/forum/search.php?query=open+pdf

patricia, :)

craig

Hats off to everybody who's posted here so far. Nice stuff.
Mine's an Impressionist>chalk attempt.
dc

Really nice DC ...the color and texture are great...

Patricia... :pleased:

patricia,

here's a thought, it might make an interesting challenge to actually put up a sort of paint by numbers pic as a challenge. take one of your poppys, for instance, and desaturate it or use a 'find all edges' and post it that way and let folks color it as they see fit. might be interesting.

craig

Originally tried to make a sketch. Ended up with a combination of sprayed strokes and spatter layers plus some of the B&W sketches.

Pavel

OK, I'll give this a go again. A watercolor feel. PSP9, Salt and pepper filter very stron, VP gouache, VP airbrush, and desaturating and playing with color levels.

Amy

amy, i like that. the sandy, earthy tones are great. like the sky treatment also. been a while since i played with the salt and pepper filter. will have to look at it again soon.

craig

This one has been around for awhile. Thought I might have another go at it.

Steve

My attempt using 1click's watercolor action

My attempt using 1click's watercolor action

Nice picture.
Do you have a link to the action?

Thanks a lot.
Pavel

I used the big pointilist cloner in Deep Paint, then smudged a duplicate layer and set it to soft light in Paint Shop Pro 9. I also boosted the colors a little bit.

This picture cries out for oils with its saturated colours, but I thought I would go the other way and try a Lith/Comicbook effect.

Paint Shop Pro X

Pictureman's 'hand drawing' layer over faded original.
All layers flattened.
Then used Imageskill's 'Image Repainter' plugin to change the palette to one from the original photo. Fade set to 70 to lighten the heavy shadows.

Great work from all on this pic.
Regards to all,
Mitch.

Another boat rendering. Done on painter.

looks like the tide came in. new filter forge filter :)

craig

very cool Craig this one is great

Palms

thanks palms :)

that filter is somewhat a copy of the 'flood' filter, though not quite as precise as the flood filter in that regard. but it's got some other features that make up for it. i'm going to upload it pretty soon if anyone wants it for their FF.

craig

Well I almost missed the boat/s with this one.
Consider that rectified.

Peter

Larger version

[img=http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/1048/beachedboatshnt0.th.jpg] (http://img244.imageshack.us/my.php?image=beachedboatshnt0.jpg)

a bit of cross processing with a deep brow filter and monochrome noise

zganie

Danny, I really like what you did. I was going for a similar look, but it kept coming out muddy, like a poorly exposed neg. Here's what i ended up doing.
Dropped a new layer filled with white and dialed down to 20%
Hit diffuse (anistropic)
Hit accent edges
Hit Diffuse (normal)

Rob, nice effect. It looks like what is used for creating faux-miniature images. Excellent job!

Nice works, guys.
PSCS+Impressionist