When my son saw this picture he said, "Dad: This boat looks lonely. There's no one in it."

Insights of the young and innocent!

Happy creating.
~Danny~

Tried the new chalkaholic plugin on this one - another new toy to play with.

Removed edges with a rough brush and added black frame to finish.

Christine

Tried the new chalkaholic plugin on this one - another new toy to play with.

Removed edges with a rough brush and added black frame to finish.

Christine

Hey, that turned out very nice, Christine. Did you use the free version or is this "Pro"?

Used the Pro version - when I saw the price was so low I bought it anyway.

I really like this plugin has lots of potential especially when used with others like sketcher.

Christine

All kinds of things and such.

Here's one from me. Used Danny's "art-leroy like" action (found in "colorful couple" thread), and went a few steps further.
Thanks, Danny.

jakita... glad you liked the action.

- - - - - - -

I combined the output of a couple Mike Finn actions on mine...
* Bottom layers - via "Slap Dash". I experimented with the output of the action until I got something I liked.
* Top layer was created by applying "Watercolor" to a separate copy of the original image. After flattening, I copied the WC layer on top of the Slap Dash layers and set the layer blend mode to Exclusion. I then used the Move tool to shift this layer down/right a little. Finally I used the Free Tansform tool (ctrl + A to select all, followed by ctrl + T for Free Transform) to stretch the edges of the layer so they covered the entire image.

Mike's actions are available here...
http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~mikefinn/action.html

~Danny~

Another version:
smudge, rough pastel, sponge filters
fade 80%
dup, flip hor., vivid color mode, low opacity
flatten
dup
underpainting

Danny:
Very nice image to work with:
1. adjusted the image with a polarizer filter.
2. Added blue to sky and gaussen blurred it.
3. Buzzed on layer at simple 174
4. CS Poster filter on another layer
5. Masked #4 to add dark highlights and #1 layer to add white highlights
6. Used the canvas texture
Thanks
Bob

Impressionist filter - Chalk (modified).

Wanted to simplify as much as possible.

Corel Painter 8: Surface Contro: Apply Lighting: To background
PS: TLR Saturation Mask: altered to suite
Watercolor action: reduced effect
Curves Adjustment to lighten foreground
Impressionist: Default Chalk, set to Image, Brush 25: Ran 3 times
Effects: Stroke: 8 pixel: Hard Light

Chccrs
Dave

re: Watercolor action...


Nice results, Dave. Is the action one you can .zip and post or point to the source?

Hi Danny

I had to trace back as there was no credit attached to the action. It is one of Mike Finn's free actions which I use alot. Click here (http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~mikefinn/action.html).

One of the things I really like to do is run his actions then reduce some of the history to get different effects.

Cheers
Dave

Here's another version. Lovely photo.

Quite frankly David, I haven't seen anything that you have done so far that isn't first rate. Please keep them coming. But without a description, it's almost pointless

Cheers
Dave

Duv
Thank you. I posted the picture in the early hours last night after 2 or 3 hours work and didn't have the energy to record procedure. I have also just now lost a fairly full account of the remembered process when I tried to preview my post and got an error message. Grrrr!! So this second attempt is going to be shorter.

I don't work to a plan so I can't offer a template approach; but this is what I did, though not necessarily in exactly this order -

1. Looked hard at the photo and decided what do on composition. Lovely scene but too much foliage and distracting background. Needs simplyifying and focus. A lot of Wacom hand painting will be needed.
2. Duplicated background layer
3. Lifted brightness with Curves
4. Buzzed to simplify
5. Blurred and rebuzzed selected background
6. Painted into picture to lose some river detail and left hand foliage - simplifying to suggest shallow water and a hint of a sandy bank on the left.
7. Applied Impressionist Sumi-E Translucent strokes on White, low opacity.
8. Sharpened
9. Applied Watercolor filter at low opacity
10. Duplicated original photo on new layer and buzzed to create a line drawing. Reduced opacity and Levelled to get to about 2B pencil and erased some to reduce uniformity of the line.
11. Decided I wanted to get the picture to sit better on the paper so I'd create a new colored ground for the painting. After trial and error with various colors (using a new layer, filled, and Muliply) I arrived at the combat green color now predominating.
12. Added some painted in detail like reeds and trailing rope and clear rollock on the far boat.

That's about it. Hope this is of interest.

David

Sorry. Me again. This one's better I think.

I am really not sure on this one perhaps you could give me your verdict

Hit / miss / work on it ! ! ! !

Palms

P.S. super work David C

This can't hold a candle to some of the earlier contributions - most notably (the other) David C's superb effort.

And Palms, yours is a hit.

I tweaked, sharpened and buzzed it in CS2, applied some more simplification with the AAA simplifier, then ran Impressionist/DJR muckup on a dupe layer which I pasted into Twisted Brush as a base layer. Then painted over top of that with loose oil brushes and added some canvas texture. Then back to CS2 for a light emboss.

I took another stab at it - this one's a little less...something...and a little more...something else. I think I like this one better.

I like this earthy palette....

Improved contrast.
Replaced the blue on the boat with red.
Loaded red channel.
Impressionist-> Sumi-e->Dry strokes on Pitted Stone
Loaded green channel
Impressionist-> Sumi-e->Dry strokes on Pitted Stone
Fade to lower opacity
Keep green channel loaded
Impressionist-> Natural->Gauze Underlay
Fade to Overlay
Added a contour layer with find edges and darkened (messed about with this layer somewhat)
added some texture

Great photo. Had to try ahb on this one.
Alan

Palms - is a hit, dc - the second one is a hit.
Alan, very nice!

How about this one?

Hi iv had a quick play with this photo,
see what you think..... :classic:


its a nice pick buy the way



Geoff.

Another one - AHB

I finally decided to try AHB.

Dc i think both of them look fine
Glikster very nice with a interesting workflow
Alcar your ahb gives a nice soft feel
Alex i like both of them
Geoff very subtley done
Pavel welcome to the club you took your time getting to the ahb did you enjoy using it ?

Palms

Nice shot. Like the lightning and reflections.

Steve C.

Pavel welcome to the club you took your time getting to the ahb did you enjoy using it ?
Palms

I've seen great work done with AHB. Me, I'm not sure if I have enough patience to use it... :)

Pavel, if that's your first try with the AHB, you should be proud. Nice work.

another of the 'new technique'. this involves doing some pre-adjustments, then blurring and adding blend modes to the blur. i do this a couple times with various blend modes depending on the image. often there is a usm in there, again, depending on if i wish to leave any blurring or not. it's a nice technique with lots of options one can choose.

alexmeta,
your second rendition is very painterly - I specially like the vivid-yellow-accents :happy:
I think, they are very postimpressionistic, very Gauguin-like.
How did you do it ?

alexmeta,
your second rendition is very painterly - I specially like the vivid-yellow-accents :happy:
I think, they are very postimpressionistic, very Gauguin-like.
How did you do it ?
Thank you, Barbara.
There was Stipple Brushes from Natural Brushes set of PS.

here again one simulation of Buzz, colors are not bad but still I am not satisfied with
this result..
it means, I will try again..

I used Gimp :happy: on Linux

The colors you have acheived Barbara, are wonderful ,IMHO. Green recedes and is a bit cool, but the scene is perfectly suited to that feel. The stark patch of blue in the center boat is very magnetic visually.

Do try again, if you must, but this effort is exemplary and I would be most satisfied with the result.

I am really not sure on this one perhaps you could give me your verdict

Hit / miss / work on it ! ! ! !

Palms

P.S. super work David C

Well a hit with me, nice find.

Heres my do at it.

Peter

Well a hit with me, nice find.

Peter

Thank you Peter, I like yours was it a touch of lucis ?

Palms

Thank you Peter, I like yours was it a touch of lucis ?

Palms

I'm saying nothing you might call me paranoid, it's not me it's all the others.

Yeah just a little Lucis for the details, plus Redfield's base relief and a few other things.

Peter

(just can't keep my big mouth shut can I?)