Here's a photo by C.Roux of someone's grandma for your artistic interpretation. No amount of glamour would ever replace her grace, elegance, wisdom or chocolate chip cookies.

~Danny~

Grandma has had a makeover - cloned out those glasses, added some highlights to the hair (with the dodge tool), and simply changed the color of her lipstick (blank layer with normal paint mode and low opacity, brush color over lips). Here she is now...such a pretty grandma! And oh yes, a new background color - big difference, what?

Here's one of grandma with a watercolor effect (i hope)

Stellar job on the makeover. (#1) Worth every buck she paid for it!

I'd have preferred #2 w/o the texture; the painted version looks quite nice all by itself.

Grandma would be pleased with either. Cookies for you!
~Danny~

Duplicated background twice.

First duplicate xero line art in drawing mode.

Second duplicate xero line art in sketch mode - line thickness 6.
layer mode = multiply, Erased sketch lines over the face.

Followed by Trimoon's water colour effect using a white layer.

Merged layers and texturised.

Christine

Christine, I really like that one. I buzzed her, removed some wrinkles, fixed her lipstick, ran xero porcelain, then toned down the pink skin and did a soft focus.

AmyHutton

Very nice everyone, diverse and pleasant viewing. I extracted her from the bg first and pasted into a new bg image (which had the edges darkened) image. Smudged her hair and applied a PSP8.01 Artistic Brushstroke on a new layer. Slightly erased certain parts I didn't want. Since I'm about to become a grandma for the 5th time :happy: I felt compelled to try this one.

This one was created using two actions (Burled Myrtle (100px) and * Paint-Sketch-07) that accompany Al Ward's Photoshop Productivity Tool Kit book (click here (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8610) for more info.)

If you're into digital frames and edges, some of the results achieved by actions on this CD are beyond awesome.

~Danny~

Oil pastel brush in ps7.

Oil pastel brush in ps7. ...and this one too. Just the right amount of detail.

First what i did with the lovely looking Grandma...I took her to my psp studio and gave her a cup of tea...then we took some shots of glamour and some shots of porcelain (scripts like actions).

Second picture i took Grandma to my Photoshop studio here we had cookies with milk.. :classic: Here I used the new plugin i obtained from Flora (Moderator) in another thread called Neat Image this filtered out any flaws...Not saying Grandma as flaws but the first picture did lol!

Thats all folks...

Oh Grandma had a nice day in the studio your be happy to hear! :wink:

Legacy~

I prefer the first one...but i tried and tried to control the red but just couldn't anyone got any ideas on how i can do so?

I'm afraid I wasn't so nice to poor Grandma, but I did take her for some botox jabs to get rid of her wrinkles !!

Background is one of my own creations, and the rest was lots of playing between Painter and PSCS.

Grandma we do...Don't we Pam?

Painter IX:

Complete image done with various size Camel Oil Cloner in Painter IX.

Finished off with Photoshop for more depth of colour.

There's no such thing as an "average" Grandma.
Layers adjustment layer
fievels gothic glow: Centre of Interest
PS: Filters:Render: 2 O'clock Spotlight/ 50/43 Blue texture/Mountainous

Cheers
Dave

I have just deleted a post I had put up a couple of days ago. Sorry for confusing everyone!? Just tried to repost it after doing some more more work on it but not having much success. Will try again later.

I have just deleted a post I had put up a couple of days ago. Sorry for confusing everyone!? Just tried to repost it after doing some more more work on it but not having much success. Will try again later.

No need to delete a post to replace an image: (once you delete the post, you cannot revive it. I can :) (see above):
* Click "Edit" button
* Click "Manage Attachments"
* Click "Remove" to remove the old one... then replace it with another.

:wavey: Thanks Danny! I knew it'd be simple! I was having one of those :dizzy: moments!

I quite agree Duv and a great result.

Well I bit off more than I could chew with this fine looking lady today. There's so much going on re colours of her skin. Found this extremely difficult to do...this is the result of my 3rd try.

Painter 8.1

Started off cloning...
oils/smeary bristle spray/
69/22/5/100/20 on her hair
then
Soft Cloner/hair - 11.3/10/0.00

New layer
filled skin areas totally with a pale beige colour.

New layer
Cloners/Wet Oil - face, neck, top, necklace and more on hair.

then got in such a muddle I forgot to write anything down after that....

Results from a new sketch action I'm working on. Sorry, it's not quite ready for primetime...yet. *grin*

How does it look so far?

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Results from a new sketch action I'm working on. Sorry, it's not quite ready for primetime...yet. *grin*

How does it look so far?



Very, very good so far. Keep going.

The Norman Rockwell watercolor illustration was my motivation that started me onto doing computer renderings several years ago. Not quite there yet, but I'm getting very close. Hope you like this one. :)

Heres my Try....

Heres my Try....Welcome, Smitcy... Glad you joined in the fun. Looks like you have a knack for this sort of thing.

Which program(s) did you use?

~Danny~

Artistic Portrait...
Graphics #1, having character is a beautiful thing...
Graphics #2, I added Dark Strokes and Underpainting for a touch of glamour...

Nice slidefoot. I like the treatments on both of the entries.

Janet

Janet Petty - Thank you...

I see the world thought the eyes of a 71 year old man, they are a little soft focused... :glasses:

George...

Grandma....a different approach.

And no, I didn't hate my grandmothers. :grin:

Steve C.

Steve its OK I forgive you anyway, I know you don't mean anything by it.

Heres mine done with Art History (for a change)

Peter :clown:

Hi All,
Love all the different approaches especially Ikroll's Rockwell approach:)

Here's my watercolor take on Grandma.

Norman Rockwell had a unique artistic technique. He painted images with a likeness of life. He emphasized the important lines and de-emphasized the distracting lines.

In the early 1990's, I set out to develope a technique that would allow me to convert a photograph into a Norman Rockwell likeness. I wanted to eliminate all manual retouching - no airbrushing, etc. After many failed attempts, I developed my current technique. I am still not completely satisfied and I will keep shooting for my goal.

The original photo is on the left and my technique is on the right.

Steve its OK I forgive you anyway, I know you don't mean anything by it.

Heres mine done with Art History (for a change)

Peter :clown:

My interpretation of an artist named Ivan Albright.

Steve C.

great post slidefoot. I like that technique.

janet

Have never done any of these before, so I thought I would give it a try.

dc