I believe this was taken in France.

Have fun.

~Danny~

Decided to go for a chalk drawing look with my new Impressionist plug-in.

Increased file size to 84cm wide (2381px)

Copy Background Layer
Impressionist > Heavy Embossed
Layer Mode: Normal

Copy background Layer again and move to top of stack
Impressionist > Chalk Sketch: Half Finished
Layer Mode: Multiply

New layer
Alt + Merge Visible
Layer Mode: Normal
Image > Adjustments > Shadows/Hightlights
Shadows: 50%
Highlights: 0%
Reduced Hue&Sat to -20 (reduced the red an extra -10)

Lots of filters and blurs. PS only.
kiska

Decided to go for a chalk drawing look with my new Impressionist plug-in.

Increased file size to 84cm wide (2381px)

Copy Background Layer
Impressionist > Heavy Embossed
Layer Mode: Normal

Copy background Layer again and move to top of stack
Impressionist > Chalk Sketch: Half Finished
Layer Mode: Multiply

New layer
Alt + Merge Visible
Layer Mode: Normal
Image > Adjustments > Shadows/Hightlights
Shadows: 50%
Highlights: 0%
Reduced Hue&Sat to -20 (reduced the red an extra -10)

Looks like you are a duck taking to water with Impressionist, Mal. Well done artistically and terrific detail.

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kiska:

You've been on a creative roll, lately. Glad to see you're having so much fun!

~Danny~

Must be having a rush of enthusiasm :knockedou Here's a pen and ink wash, most of the steps can be found at http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=10263013. Main difference is I didn't use Colorize on the Hue&Sat layer, and on the final merged layer I decreased the opacity to 65% to let a little more of the color from the layer below come through.

very nice stuff, Mal and kiska!!! :nod: :bow:


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3 layers (copies of background)

bottom - Impressionist->Watercolor->Splatter 33,100,140
middle - Impressionist->Pencil Sketch->Detailed Mono 66,100,90, blend-multiply
top - Gaussian blur 5.0, blend-Overlay

I really like that, Just Checking. Especially the crop!
kiska

I really like that, Just Checking. Especially the crop!
kiska

wow... thanks a lot! :blush:

What a great image with strong colors and lines.

Duplicated background
Duplicated image: threshold 128: copy and paste into Original.
Move threshold layer below Duplicate Background. Double click on Duplicate Background layer to bring up Blend Options. In Blend If move inside shadow arrow for This Layer to the extreme right.
Ran Watercolor action then went to History palette and deleted bottom half of the steps.
Ended up with some interesting "round" windows.

Cheers
Dave

...Ended up with some interesting "round" windows.
that ended up pretty neat! maybe you should turn the sky into some orange color, that would look pretty "munch-istic" ;)

Interesting interpretations so far.

I've been playing with Flora's tutorial on "blend if". I had not thought to use any of those things on this image at first but since it was on my mind... what the heck.

Duped the layer and desaturated then played with the "blend if" sliders in all colors and gray 'til I liked the look. Then ran:

Filter> artistic> fresco

It looked pretty good so I started playing with opacities. Used restrained oval selection tool and deleted the interior. Duped bg again below that and ran:

Filter> distort> spherize [about 20%]

Worked on a layer above the punched out one with white airbrush to simulate a little reflection from the sun.

Selected sphere again and went to cutout layer... added layer mask. This takes out the previous fresco effect. Airbrushed with white with various opacities in spots I wanted the effect to come back.

MAUDLIN COMMENT// I have learned so much from all you people. Everyone around has a spirit of fun and adventure. The sharing of techniques to those of us just learning is like no place I have seen before. //END MAUDLIN COMMENT

Thanks

:classic: ...Kent

Wonderful image -- makes me want to be there!

Variety of renditions -- lovely effects, creative ideas -- Mal, Kiska, JustChecking, Duv, Punch -- it's fun to see each person's emphasis. Punch -- like your use of Spherize.


Lighting effects, color layers, adding channels for different effects -- didn't keep track - just had fun playing till I got something I liked...

CJ, I like how the pink came out in your image. Soft and gentle.

I went quick and dirty. Buzz, VP watercolor, then VP oil, with PSP8 lighting effect. Trying to capture an after the rain feeling.

Amy Hutton

PhotoShop and Impressionist that's all I know... 1:30 am

Larger Image (http://upload.pbase.com/image/33909278.jpg)

I really like that, Just Checking. Especially the crop!
kiska

BIG ditto here, JC. I, too, like that combination -- a LOT.

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This combination is based on a suggestion from Harry Ellerton, who once again inspires me:

* Layer 1 (top): Stroke Frame
* 2: (Soft light) Filled with 50% gray and applied a custom texture via the texturizer filter
* 3: Hue/Sat adustment layer. Sat = 45
* 4: (Darken, 50%) Copy of Background + Blur > Smart Blur > Edges only (30, 100. Low). Added a hide all layer mask and airbrushed white here and there to bring in line detail.
* 5: Merged layers 6, 7 and applied Unsharp Mask (150, 1.0) to give it some personality.
* 6: (Darken) Copy of Background + Impressionist > Charcoal > Default (Background = Image)
* 7: (Normal) Copy of Background + Artistic > Dry Brush (8. 4, 1)
* Background

~Danny~

Nice work everyone

ok this is my contribution

Created this using the technique from Russel Brown's Tips and Techniques, found here (http://www.russellbrown.com/body.html).

I could not get the JS script to download properly but wrote a small one to do the rotation of the image which produces this effect. Rotates 22.5 degrees 120+ times.

Christine

Sometimes I like to run a single action or filter multiple times. Here I ran a Gothic Glow action 4 times.
Then I saw Christine's excellent B/W and had to overlay in Luminosity at 50%. Hope you don't mind Christine.

Cheers
Dave

Terrrific photo to work with and have enjoyed viewing all the quality submissions, well done everyone :bow:

In PSP8.01
Auto contrast etc - duped this layer
2nd layer.....
Buzzed slightly
AIM/USM filter
Paint Alchemy/Oil Tip/Oil Canvas Detail
Blend mode - Overlay 100%
Lost colour from sky so selected and
increased hue/sat, decreased lightness.
Paintbrushed some green back into the ocean
and grass on cliffs.
PSP - USM slightly
Merged all and added a texture.


Have a good day!

:) Greetings from Staithes :)

Weather is here :rainbow: , wish you were beautiful :dizzy: .........

Everybody has done such lovely work :thumbsup: on ths photo.
Seemed I had to do something completely different! :rolleyes:
Just thought is was going to be easier :devious: .
After I cut up and pasted the images and the frame, had to go back and give each bit a different color cast so they looked like they were different pictures:confused:.

First a watercolor effect with median, sketch, enhanced saturation etc. Thereafter final effect was achieved by modifying an impressionist paint filter.

This was a fun thread to read through--there was a lot of variety and all of it was great. I didn't think I'd be able to pick a favorite until I got to Neve's--something about it really appealed to me. Ro--that was really creative. It was a great effect for this image.

I started with my impressionist short strokes action (ch twiggy on the lower layer and ch scratchy strokes at 65 and darken on the upper layer).
Then duplicate the original and put on top. On this layer I ran a modified buzz gloss stack (reduced all to 6-8 except remove at around 100). Then ran impressionist (ch vague sketchy with reduced brush size). Set that layer to linear burn at 65.

Byro - I like your rendition heaps! Jaykita - great result, bold and colourful, plenty red, white and blue which seems appropriate :wink: CherH - terrific result - I was intrigued by "Buzz GLOSS Stack" and wondering what that is...I have Buzz Simplifier?!

Cheers

Thanks Neve. The gloss layer stack is in buzz pro. You click the button that says load stack and choose "gloss layer." Inside buzz it's (with my mods) gaussiam blur at 6, simplfier one with remove at 100, edges mono, spread black at 6, and gaussain blur again at 6. I usually add brightness and contrast at 40 each inside buzz, then do a brightness and contrast adjustment in PS at around 20 each.

CherylH - Many thanks for all the information. Maybe I should treat myself to BuzzPro?! Off to check it out................

Cheers

Another amazing thread from the not to distant past. Really stellar work here folks! I'll give a special :bigthmb: to AHutton for creativity above & beyond with the sunburst effect. Just spectacular.

I used this as an excuse to play with Painter some more. WetOils10 cloner, 1st cropping the image. It's hard to write a "how I did it" for Painter, so I'll try this description + thumbnails:

1st pass: Tracingpaper ON. Using the default brush, made strokes over the main image elements. Longer strokes for large areas, very small ones for things like windows, trying not to overlap strokes. I used a much larger brush (~30) for the sky.

2nd pass: Tracingpaper OFF. Again using the default brush, added more strokes to fill in the gaps from the 1st pass. Used some extra strokes on the hill to get some sense of 3D.

Final pass: Changed brush size to 3. Made small strokes to add detail, delineate objects / regions, fill in final gaps, etc. Added some more strokes to further build 3D effect in the mountains and add some texture to greenery in spots. Switched Tracingpaper on & off a lot to find where detail was lacking or where I'd smeared some detail out accidently. Opened in Elements2 where I increased contrast with Levels and added a texture layer (sandstone) and a signature.

-Mark

:bigthmb: :bigthmb: :bigthmb: Marvellous Mark, you nailed that detail perfectly in the final image. Did you enjoy doing this....? You'll be addicted in no time. Glad you're on board to learn Painter along with Janet and I.

^ and me !!!! ( dont forget me Neve, i'm learning too :( )

Mark, that is helluva nice job there, and if i had not seen the original i would have swore that was painted freeform.

You really should concentrate on nailing that technique....the results are stunning !

Thanks Neve and Axel. :blush: I really enjoy Painter. It makes for a great fantasy that I'm actually painting. The software gets 99% of the credit for generating all the detail, however. I just have to learn which brush(es) to use and how to tame the tablet stylus. To "nail" this technique as you recommend, Axel, I plan to concentrate on just learning the WetOils10 cloner I used here. (A wonderful brush, I think.) Once I get proficient at laying down brushstrokes and learning the software more as I practice, I'll branch out to other brush families. We'll see if I have the patience to do this or not. :ditsy:

Great to have you all "growing up" with me on Painter. Hope to see some more of your Painter work soon.

-Mark

I enjoyed this one before, thought I'd try it again.
Burned whole image at 28%
Filters Unlimited: Broken Glass
Filters Unlimited: Rainbow
Filters Unlimited: Paper Texture
pOpArTiST adjusted.
Burned image again at 28%.

Cheers
Dave

I'm pretty sure I'm going to be left behind in the Painter race track. So far all I've managed is to go through the entire brush library one stroke at a time. Back to the painter canvas for me. This is SO much fun!

Janet

....and Axle :wavey: :bigthmb:

Great result Duv!

There are so many great interpretations in this thread ! Here's my humble effort. I wanted it to look like like a watercolour and I think I did pretty well. I concentrating on just using PSCS's own filters to learn more about how to use them, mainly smart blur and the art history brush. Added my own texture and liked it so much I framed it :D

Welcome Pam, it's always great to see a new face :wink:

I'd be proud of this result too, super result and love the frame.

...I wanted it to look like like a watercolour and I think I did pretty well...liked it so much I framed it :D I think you did terrific, myself and can see why you were deservedly pleased with the results.

Bravo.

Thanks !! This really is very addictive and LOTS of fun !

Neve - I can't take credit for the frame, it's one from PSP, there are some great ones and saves having to make them myself !

Yes Pam...I recognised the frame, been using PSP for years and the frames that came bundled with PSP8 were welcomed. :nod:

Reminds me of a beautiful place in Whitby UK my first date with my boyfriend...:)

Ok i looked along here and saw all the different types of pictures, and decided to explore photoshop alittle more...

Came across this...

Adobe curves give it a fuller color
then go into Adobe Filter to Texture and then to Patchwork

Then in psp i added a needle and cotton tube and then added shadow.

Something different!

I was going in one direction then completely changed my mind great village photo

Ok as i was "managing attachments" i noticed that the file name was Staithes which is by Whitby, now Danny says he believes the village is in France anybody out there have any answer as to which it is ? confused

Palms

Wanted to try this; I really don't know what I'm doing other than just "playing" right now. :)

Wanted to try this; I really don't know what I'm doing other than just "playing" right now. :)


Is there any other way ? :D great colours

Palms

:happy: Thanks Palms! There's so much to learn and it "sticks" better if I'm having fun learning. I really, really liked your rendition and was trying to duplicate what you had done but, ended up somewhere else :confused: .

:happy: Thanks Palms! There's so much to learn and it "sticks" better if I'm having fun learning. I really, really liked your rendition and was trying to duplicate what you had done but, ended up somewhere else :confused: .


That's another common one going somewhere else, but you are right having fun is the best way to learn, next problem is remembering how you done it

if you are interested i used the technique in this tutorial

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-art-resources/16784-tutorial-link-watercolor-creativepro-photoshop.html

( dont worry about all the fiddly bits yet get the gist and then come back to the rest, again its more fun when you are getting results )

Palms

Great Photo for a pen and ink with wash.

I first did this using my line art sketcher method and tweaked that. Then made the result a pattern and painted back with the pattern stamp brushes. This kind of look is rather radical for me, but I'm coming to like the loose splotchiness (is that a word) that I can achieve with various brushstrokes and textrue.

Do we have to count the buildings?....Now that's what I call togetherness. Reminds me of the houses in Japan.

Steve C.

if you are interested i used the technique in this tutorial
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-art-resources/16784-tutorial-link-watercolor-creativepro-photoshop.html
Palms

That was a terrific tutorial! I was able to achieve pretty similar results as the end sample in the tutorial. And then I felt like I was getting to be a "big shot" :lmao: and I tried the technique on the fishing village. Ugh! Not quite what I wanted, but, better than my first try. Anyway, thanks again for heading me toward the tutorial, I will be playing with that for quite a while now :)

Great Photo for a pen and ink with wash.

.. but I'm coming to like the loose splotchiness (is that a word) that I can achieve with various brushstrokes and textrue.

I like the splotchiness too, Swampy; and if it wasn't a word yet, now it's a technique! ;)

Good shot there lcramer53 it does work better or should i say differently on different images, i found that some colours work better than others, but there is a lot of scope there with different brushes and tweaking of colours, and ( i havent tried it yet) but maybe a different filter to smartblur , welcome to the world of "what iff's"

Swampy that looks really good, you are mastering the stamp tool

Steve, i bet the postman or milkman's round is over quick ! ! !

Palms

Swampy, I like your splotches, too.

I've been playing for the last few days with the same WC tute Palms used. I tried it here, with some added tweaks.

Smart blur, glowing edges, destaturation, different brushes, watercolor pattern, etc.

Nice find Palms, and some really nice pictures here.
Thought I'd go for colourful with art history.

Peter

Impressionist in Photoshop

Nice find Palms, and some really nice pictures here.
Thought I'd go for colourful with art history.

Peter

Peter, you say you used Art History. How do you control the brush regarding "tight, curly, long, dab etc." to keep the brush from slinging pait all over the place? I can achieve results similar to yours using the Pattern Stamp or painting from a history state, but I can't control the Art History brushes. They just wiggle and jiggle all over the place even with minimum settings in the AHB tools.

variations of what was posted earlier.

Excellent job, guys!!!
Here's mine, done with my pattern stamp tool technique.
Sylvia

...and my GertrudisPro

I have done a experiment using the water colour tut i mentioned above and here is the out come, just changed the smartblur filter for

sprayed strokes
cutout &
coloured pencil

used a brush at 40% opacity on them all and gave them all a hue/saturation boost
hope it is of some interest

Palms

Had to make a stab at this nice image with the art history brush
Alan

Peter, you say you used Art History. How do you control the brush regarding "tight, curly, long, dab etc." to keep the brush from slinging pait all over the place? I can achieve results similar to yours using the Pattern Stamp or painting from a history state, but I can't control the Art History brushes. They just wiggle and jiggle all over the place even with minimum settings in the AHB tools.


Ohhhh good question.
Well for this one I used Trimoons watercolour brush, this is excellent and works very well. I started by increasing the size of the brush, so as to cover the area more quickly. Then reduced the brush size in stages, each size to a new layer. For the finer lines I got down to a 2 pixel brush. I think I ended up with about 5 or six paint layers doing this. By doing this, the over splash, (for want of the correct term), seems to get minimised at every reduction in brush size. Just for luck I used USM on each layer getting stronger to the larger brush size. I then Alt merged visible and run bas relief to give some depth, though usually have to fade this back a little (blend mode to overlay or hard light).

Hope his helps.
you will have to give me some pointers on pattern stamping, not tried it yet.


Peter

Even though my results from the tutorial didn't quite mimic Palms version (which is what I was trying to achieve), I was curious about all the talk regarding the ahb, so I tried to merge some of the steps from the watercolor tut along with the suggestions for the ahb.
I am amazed! I think that I am going to have a love affair with the ahb now! It is so COOL...even though I don't understand how it works. Anyway, here's my attempt with combining the two techniques, :classic: ...sort of.

Another go from me inspired by Palms

Peter