I've been looking for a good looking man to put up here. This one is a man now, at 21, but this was 4 months after he was born at 11.5 pounds and no, not a c-section. Best baby of all 21 I've had, and the last baby I didn't adopt-guess why he was the last.

AmyHutton

Amy:

They sure change in just a few years, don't they? Here's a sort of sketchy look I'm tinkering with with Impressionist. Thanks for posting a fun pic.

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Fluff: If you're monitoring this thread, how are you coming on your pencil sketch method?

~Danny~

Danny. I like how you tinker. Any tidbits of info? Thanks for the pic Amy!

Did some color balancing
Flaming Pear: Mr Contrast then Alt-Layer Mask and painted back background and blanket.
Xero: Soft Mood
PS: Texture: Grain: Speckle: Intensity 6 Contrast 84

Cheers
Dave

Amy--my oldest grew quickly like that too. It didn't feel like he was a baby long enough.

Danny--grayscale sketches are starting to grow on me--you may convert me yet. :)

Duv--I can see I'm going to have to explore xero--I'm seeing interesting results from it.

This is just several impressionist layers blended together and topped with some sketchy layers at low opacity. One of the things I enjoy about impressionist is that blending different layers together gives an image with more detail than any individual layer. (True of any layers, but the impressionist layers blend nicely :) ) The particular presets and blends are recorded in the soft water sketch action. http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8328

CH:

I've been battling with this look for a while and am a long ways from satisfied. I'll know "I'm there" when I see one from you! :)

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Dave:

I've been fiddling with the Pencil Sketch: Detailed Mono style. In essence I've been tweaking/experimenting with these settings: General/Coverage, General/Pressure, Color/Brightness and Contrast, Size/Height and Width.

I'm finding that:
1. When you run the same settings in succession against the same base layer, you get slightly different results each time. This is to be expected because the Placement/Repeatable results setting is off.
2. Blending layers using the Darken blend mode builds up detail.

I'm tying to come up with a set of brushes that vary in detail (by adjusting pressure, stroke density, etc.) and keep more or less the same tone values between them. When I get a few that I think are worthy (and that I can explain), I'll upload them to the .set thread.

~Danny~

my attempt on baby justin :happy:

On one of his cds the tools are brilliant especially the hairbrush.

Be nice if we could upload a bigger file i lose out when i have to resize it again and again.

I did this in photoshop, i hate the tablet and pen, i think what a waste of money i am back to using the mouse.

Did anyone ever attempt the Sargent Brush in painter 8??? Well, i did for the first time on baby Justin's pic and was quite surprised, to say the least! I also used painter's apply surface texture feature on it.

Here is a couple of my attempts at baby Justin
1. a pencil and ink action then a vignette

2. a new easy effect i found, a selection made with the texture on the outside not over the picture ( don't know why fancied something different and quite like it )

palms

Sorry for the huge compression (higher quality version here (http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/8079/justinhutton6gm.jpg)), but I still am not tired of this preset. For the skin/facial areas, I changed the placement setting to Random, otherwise it's the preset that I shared (gives it that shag look). I used the preset on two layers and selectively erased around the child to blend. Some sharpening and voila. :)

Color sketch.

Steve

i dont know, sometimes you just gotta wonder about when is it ok to start babies on new formulas.

i did think it was real nice of those beer bottlers to make a new, handy, convenient 'baby size', though :)

craig

i dont know, sometimes you just gotta wonder about when is it ok to start babies on new formulas.

i did think it was real nice of those beer bottlers to make a new, handy, convenient 'baby size', though :)

craig

...they are almost feed on the bottle from the time they are babes. At least the lad's legal now. LOL

Now Craig that's so strange it's very clever.

You are, however, aware that you've got to be as weird as the rest of us to come up with stuff like this.
8-)

Steve

i dont know, sometimes you just gotta wonder about when is it ok to start babies on new formulas.

i did think it was real nice of those beer bottlers to make a new, handy, convenient 'baby size', though :)

craig

This lad never had a bottle until he was 21. This pic of Justin was taken a couple years ago by my then 11 year old son, who has spina bifida and is mentally handicapped. Can't draw anything but a stick figure, but he can take incredible photographs. You should see what this kid can do with a camera at 13.

Amy

This lad never had a bottle until he was 21. This pix was taken a couple years ago by my then 11 year old son, who has spina bifida and is mentally handicapped. Can't draw anything but a stick figure, but he can take incredible photographs. You should see what this kid can do with a camera at 13.

Amy


An eye for capture is gift for sure Amy. Definitely would like to see more of your young son's work. Post a link to a website if you can. :)

An eye for capture is gift for sure Amy. Definitely would like to see more of your young son's work. Post a link to a website if you can. :)


I second that


Palms

steve,
i take pride in being at least as weird, if not more so, as the rest of you :)

and amy,
Best baby of all 21 I've had, and the last baby I didn't adopt-guess why he was the last. am i reading this correctly, you've had 21 kids? 21?! 21?

craig

Craig, we had three kids the usual way, and went on to adopt 18 more, plus we've fostered a few. Four of our kids live in the ultimate upstairs. Oldest is 36 and the youngest is 12. 9 of them have down syndrome, a couple have spina bifida , a couple have autism and a couple are just deelopmentally delayed. Beautiful, wonderful kids all of them, and we are truly blessed.

Things are pretty slow these days. We only have 9 kids still at home, so I have the time to do my funny artwork. Here's a pic of us the other day. I had to do a slap dash photoshop input of the faces of two of them because they refused to look up! All adopted kids in this pic. 12-21. the amazing photographer is in the back middle.

http://www.bigbluebird.com/family20062small.jpg

Amy

Amy
What a lovely photograph , Glad to have people like you and your partner in this world :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: . and of course the children they look like they are a bundle of laughs and mischief




Palms

amy,

thank you :)

i have a friend whose mother has similar compassions. it takes a BIG heart to have a BIG family :)

craig