Salty looking guy with a lot of character. Photo by R. Fair.

First I duped the BG.
Then I ran PS: Sketch: Halftone Pattern - 2, 35, Dot.
Faded that to Color Burn.
Loaded Red Channel as selection and ran Impressionist: Ink: Spiderweb Crosshatch.
Faded to Luminosity.
Loaded Green Channel, ran same filter.
Faded to Luminosity.
Loaded Blue Channel... ran same filter.
Faded to Darken.
Loaded Red Channel, ran Impressionist: Colored Line Pen.
Faded to Darken and lowered Opacity.
Loaded Green Channel, ran same filter.
Faded to Darken and lowered Opacity.
Loaded Blue Channel, ran same filter.
Faded to Darken and lowered Opacity.
Ran PS: Noise: Median - 2. Twice.
Added Sandstone Texture via PS: Texture: Texturizer.

That's all folks.

First I duped the BG.
Then I ran PS: Sketch: Halftone Pattern - 2, 35, Dot.
Faded that to Color Burn.
Loaded Red Channel as selection and ran Impressionist: Ink: Spiderweb Crosshatch.
Faded to Luminosity.
Loaded Green Channel, ran same filter.
Faded to Luminosity.
Loaded Blue Channel... ran same filter.
Faded to Darken.
Loaded Red Channel, ran Impressionist: Colored Line Pen.
Faded to Darken and lowered Opacity.
Loaded Green Channel, ran same filter.
Faded to Darken and lowered Opacity.
Loaded Blue Channel, ran same filter.
Faded to Darken and lowered Opacity.
Ran PS: Noise: Median - 2. Twice.
Added Sandstone Texture via PS: Texture: Texturizer.

That's all folks.

You know, you twist channels and apply effects in ways that are SO DIFFERENT than I've ever seen before, glikster. Your refreshing approach has to be opening more eyes than just mine.

Well done.

Thank you for the high praise! Meanwhile, your posts are constantly forming new plateaus for me to try and reach.
I played with making an action based on the channel selections, but I personally don't like using actions, and that stops me from making them. I always need that freedom to stop in the middle of a series of effects and say, "Hold on.... what if I tried...." and then I worry that others might want to do something different.
But then again, it would cut down on documentation time.

though i took a different way (and far from your innovative approach), your idea lead me straight there :)

i converted pic to L*a*b, selected luminosity channel, applied twice Imp->Pencil Sketch->Detailed Mono (decreased contrast to 60, colour jitter to 0, 5, 5), then converted back to RGB and applied Imp->Conte->Contrasty Rough (again, decreased contrast to 60, and brush size to 25%)... i think that the pencil sketch phase was a good "guide" for the conte's brush placement...

:wavey:

This one is based on the Redfield Sketch Master plugin (Ink Sketch setting - layer then desaturated). I added some film grain and painted white here and there on another layer.

Click HERE (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9289) for more info on this plugin.

~Danny~

I thought wow this guy would be interesting and then all i could do was turn it into a pencil drawing, i really need to get some time and do some tutorials soon...

That's a fantastic image! I hope you don't mind if I try that out...
thanks :blush: ... but i'm afraid it's a "one type of image" technique... i already tried it on 3 or 4 other images, and the results didn't turn out that well...

oh, anyways, of course i don't mind if you try that out... :hat:

Inspiring posts, thank you! :bow:

PSP8.01
Auto Contrast Enhancement to Lighten
Copied and pasted image and Split RGB
Added Red Channel to original image as
a new layer.
On the RC layer - Virtual Painter/Collage
Mode/Lum (L) - 50%
Merged both layers and duped twice.
Middle Layer - Virtual Painter/Pastel-Mode Normal - 50%
Top Layer - PSP Slight Watercolour - Normal - 50% Mode
Merged all and added canvas texture.

a lunch-time pencil sketch (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showpost.php?p=73226&postcount=69) quickie....

byRo

Hey, Danny, think I'm going to save this as my "test" image - seems like everything works on this one!! :classic:
- Combined three cutout layers with different settings and a aniso'd outline;
- Combined a high-pass image with a contour sketch.

Luch time's over - gotta work now.

byRo

- Combined three cutout layers with different settings and a aniso'd outline;
- Combined a high-pass image with a contour sketch.
those look mighty good, byRo! :bow:

Neve - very lovely result :nod:

Added some canvas to the top and right side.
Sho
Painted in hair and missing ear.
Changed the bg and added some texture.
Simplified image.
Added some additional color to face.
desaturated eye whites.
Simplified again.
Sandstone texture for frame.
Color adj
Contrast adj.
Hue & sat adj.

Wanted to increase the wear and tear of life on the seas. And perhaps put a little more pain and knowledge in the eyes.

Channel Mixer
A bit of Dodge/Burn
Hightlights/Shadows (CS) to lighten
Antique Stipple Engravingv.2 atn

Cheers

Dave

Everyone's done a great job. I like LQQKER's the most, always liked his work.
Here's mine.

First I duped the BG.
Then I ran PS: Sketch: Halftone Pattern - 2, 35, Dot.
Faded that to Color Burn.
Loaded Red Channel as selection and ran Impressionist: Ink: Spiderweb Crosshatch.
Faded to Luminosity.
Loaded Green Channel, ran same filter.
Faded to Luminosity.
Loaded Blue Channel... ran same filter.
Faded to Darken.
Loaded Red Channel, ran Impressionist: Colored Line Pen.
Faded to Darken and lowered Opacity.
Loaded Green Channel, ran same filter.
Faded to Darken and lowered Opacity.
Loaded Blue Channel, ran same filter.
Faded to Darken and lowered Opacity.
Ran PS: Noise: Median - 2. Twice.
Added Sandstone Texture via PS: Texture: Texturizer.

That's all folks.

glikster, you describe "and ran Impressionist: Ink: Spiderweb". I am using PS7, and there is so much I need to learn. How do I do this, or where do I find it? I really like your work, and I wanted to try it. I am still learning the power of Channels, and what they can do. Your assistance would be great.

Thanks,
Karyn

Well, the first question is do you have the Impressionist plugin for Photoshop?
I believe it works with PS7. PM Danny if you don't already have the plugin. If you do have (or once you get it and install it) I give the name of the setting I use when I leave it at the default setting. When I make customizations to the settings, I usually try to document them.

I would give you a screenshot but my 30 day grace period here at work just ran out.
try http://www.irfanview.com/ - it's screen cap capabilities are quite good... only problems i ever had w/ it were capping from the DirectX surface (but most screen-cap softs have problem w/ it)...

A great subject with great interpretations going on here. I started with my oil painting technique then ran amuk:

1st image: Decolored the Oil. Ran Chalk&Charcoal then Posterize
2nd Image: Decolored the Oil. Copied. Chalk&Charcoal on the Copy. Copied layer set to Difference, 82% Opacity. Merge Down. Levels adjusted. Kind of looks like chalk on a dark chalkboard or dark paper.
3rd Image: Ran Diffuse>Anisotropic on my Oil. Render>3d and pasted onto a shaker. Invented a vaguely sea color background.
4th Image: A Painter8 effort cloning off the original image then darkened with curves and texture added in Elements2.

-Mark

A great subject with great interpretations going on here. I started with my oil painting technique then ran amuk:

1st image: Decolored the Oil. Ran Chalk&Charcoal then Posterize
2nd Image: Decolored the Oil. Copied. Chalk&Charcoal on the Copy. Copied layer set to Difference, 82% Opacity. Merge Down. Levels adjusted. Kind of looks like chalk on a dark chalkboard or dark paper.
3rd Image: Ran Diffuse>Anisotropic on my Oil. Render>3d and pasted onto a shaker. Invented a vaguely sea color background.
4th Image: A Painter8 effort cloning off the original image then darkened with curves and texture added in Elements2.

-Mark

#3 = very creative :)
#4 = very painterly

You were on a creative roll with these!

:bow: Mark - Love No. 4, super result!

Lqqker - excellent result. :happy:

Brushwork in ps7, with a smartblur-findedges layer.

Superb Jaykita :wavey: I couldn't get over the silvery glow to his hair. Well done.

Love this image - like I said before, seems that everything works well onthis one.
Here's a wood carving (does anyone have another method - I didn't find one).

Basically:
- Standard PS wood pattern;
- Applied Distort>Displace using a saved greyscale image;
- Added a High-pass filtered layer with Linear Light 11%

Rô

...Here's a wood carving (does anyone have another method - I didn't find one).
Rô:

Great vision on this. I hadn't even considered this type of effect. I'm not aware of another way to meld the texture with the contours. You pulled it off brilliantly.

Duped BG.
Ran PS: Distort: Glass - 7, 7, Frosted, 100%.
Duped BG.
Ran PS: Blur: Smart Blur: 100, 100, High, Edge Only.
Inverted.
Ran PS: Stylize: Diffuse: Anis.
Inverted.
Set layer blending to Pin Light.
Stamped Visible.
Made new layer filled with black.
Ran PS: Texture: Texturizer - Canvas, 100%, 8, Bottom Left.
Set layer blending to Luminosity and lowered Opacity to 27%.
Duped the Stamped layer and set the layer blending to Lighten.

voila!

Thanks for the tut.
I downloaded a trial of Painter 9 and had no idea how to use it.
Your tut. showed me the clone source thing.
This was fun!!
Now I really, really, really really want a tablet.

Glikster !! Glad you enjoyed it, if you do get a tablet, you will definately benefit from the added sensitivity that it brings.

Great Effort !! Well Done ! I will point out one thing though, always remember that stroke direction if very important, if you stroke in a way that is not natural to the flow of the subject, the eye will catch it, but you have done a worthy effort. I for one am looking forward to seeing more of your painter creations.

Mine was done using the following:

Painter IX
Photoshop

Flat Oil Cloner, this time doubling the size of the image and increasing the resolution to 300 and using a very small brush size to try to capture as much detail as possible. This guy has a lot of character and so i wanted to keep it.

The addition of the hat was something i added as i felt he had a 'Bogart' look about him.

Photoshop was used for the correction of colour, levels and curves and other minor adjustments.

Gklister, great effort and even better to have another newbie on board to learn about painter along with us hopefully! It is fun to try right away because you get the most amazing first result.

Very nice rendition Axle. I'm still trying to find time to make a start on your tut...!

Glikster, VERY NICE for just starting...

Axeuk... have to ask, is this the first version of Painter you've worked in..??

Axeuk... have to ask, is this the first version of Painter you've worked in..??

I have been working in Painter for approx 2 weeks now.....but did a lot of reading on it before hand.

I have used Photoshop for a number of years, so i guess that experience has ported across quite nicely, of course with a little work too.

There are many different things i want to accomplish using this software and when i do, i will sure to write a tutorial on it.

Apologies to the poor fellow who's picture this is...

Had to lighten picture and cut out background
PSP: Clone brush to add ear
Next Layers>Duplicate
Effects>Blur>Gaussian Blur,radius=3
Eraser tool size 1 to 5 to remove from eyes
Adjust layer Opacity to approx 50%
Merge all layers
Duplicate image
New Image>Next Layers>Duplicate
Adjust Color Balance Negative
Image Grey Scale
Image Increase Color Depth=16 Million
Layer Properties Blend Mode = Dodge
Effects>Blur>Gaussian Blur,radius= Range(3 to40)for this I used (4)
Layer Palette Duplicate Background layer
Middle layer - Effect, Edge, Enhance
Top Layer
adjust, Noise Add Noise = Adj to like (30%)
adjust, Blur Motion Blur, Angle=222, Intensity=10
Layer Palette Middle set Blend to Screen
Adjust Opacity of top and middle layers to 80%
Top layer Sharpen More as many times you like (2)
Copy original image and past layer above background and set layer to Screen
Adjust Opacity to achive your needs
Merge all layers

Open image in painter & clone
Using the bristle brush
paint your image using size 15 brush

Open image in painter & clone
Using the bristle brush
paint your image using size 15 brush

Another great interpretation, Jack, and a BIG A+ on the detail.

FYI: To modify an existing post, you can click the Edit button to add/correct/delete text.

Keep 'em coming.

~Danny~

Hello JackK and welcome! Delighted to see such a rare result and many thanks indeed for the PSP and Painter steps taken. :bigthmb:

My take on this gentleman. PSP8 impasto I think, then PM Art Gallery, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, flatten.

Second one I like better. Impressionist on one layer, Paint Flourescent Palette knife at 208. Another layer buzzed at 500, xero linart, merged on average I think.

AmyHutton

Hi ... I essentially darkened the background, used Dry brush and in a quest to get a more natural look to the hair ... I selected the hair from the original amd moved it to the new version and blended it in ... MH

Desaturated image, new blank layer with brown fill layer, layer masks and blends, vp ( a couple of them airbrush, wc, gouache), finished off with impr filter jaykita watercolor B modified (brush size 50, coverage 90, pressure 100)

Hi Judy. I'm struggling to find words to describe how much I like this rendition. It's a great example of digital manipulation as art. That is, this could only come from an ARTIST, regardless of the medium / tools used. Exceptional. :bow:

-Mark

Nothing overtly creative here--just some filters from PS6.

I thought that maybe this man needed to look a bit more like a tough-guy, perhaps for an earlier decade. Hope I succeeded.

Once again, I need to track my steps.......

T

Thank you so much, Mark, for your wonderful comments, though at the risk of sounding cliched, everybody is an artist! I dont fancy myself as being in any way more talented than anyone else. I truly believe we all have the potential to become great(er) artists, but it takes a certain fire from within to make that happen. Maybe i should shut up now. Anyway, you made my day! :bow:

This one was created using the Gimp. I used the Graphite_2 settings for the Gimpressionist plug-in as well as the Van Gogh (LIC) plug-in.

This one was created using the Gimp. I used the Graphite_2 settings for the Gimpressionist plug-in as well as the Van Gogh (LIC) plug-in.
I'm glad you found this part of the site, too. (This is where Lyle posts his handiwork on occasion.) My compliments on this very unique interpretation.

Where did you get these Gimp plugins?

I wanted a drawing look, but didn't want to lose the details in this man's face. So much character there!

Photoshop CS

1. Duplicated the image and took the duplicate from RGB to Grayscale to pure black and white (Bitmapped) with 50% as the cut off point for grays.
2. Took this b/w version back through grayscale to RGB and then selected all the white areas and deleted the white. This left a a very definitive "sketch" for the details in his face.
3. Moved the sketch over to the original RGB document (holding down the shift key so it would center exactly to the origina)l This is the top layer at 100%
4. I then duplicated the Background (original) layer and ran a curves AL, but instead of using the normal curve tool, I opted for the pencil and broke up the midtones and got this wild array of color throughout his face. I set the AL to 28% opacity. I "clipped" the AL to the color copy below it.
5. I then went into the Background copy layer again and used the Liquify tool with a big brush to push the color areas around so they were more random. Also did a pretty strong Gaussian Blur to soften the effect.
6. I added a new layer under the Background copy layer and ran black & white clouds filter and some noise and G Blur to break up the color even more. 100% opacity
7. Set the Background copy layer to 53% opacity to let some of the clouds layer underneath show through.

BTW... I always work on duplicates of the original background layer so I can go back and start from scratch or have the original to add another layer somewhere.

The graphite_2 preset for gimpressionist came from the wingimp site (http://www.wingimp.org/tutorial/) and the vangogh (LIC) plugin is standard with the latest releases. I think the graphite_2 preset is much better than the standard line drawing presents for gimpressionist.

Not art this time, but I just wanted to share with you all a technique that I've been playing around with for a long time. Retinex has been around for a long time; GIMP has a cool plugin called Retinex which implements this algorithm. I duplicated for a total of three layers. I run Retinex on the top layer. I set the layer property to Grain Extract. I merge the top two layers and Invert the resulting layer. I set the new layer property to Overlay (duplicate as needed adjusting Opacity for the top layer to taste) and flatten. :)

Reserve the right to render him later. :ditsy:

Did a Niemanesque rendering using Impresionist Color Tinfoil and Colored Pencil presets. :)

Many great renditions on this image.

Here's mine in Painter 9, using Wet Oils.

Love those craggy lines. Thought I would bring them out a bit.

Steve

Lots of great stuff here. JustChecking's stands out (tried to duplicate it; mine didn't look anything like that :cry: ) & LQQKER's, too, among others. This image pretty much screamed "Paint me!"

Let's see if I have this straight.
Layers, top down:

AHB/darken/100%
DJR01 pencil sketch mono detail d stroke:custom color/darken/12%
DJR01 pencil sketch mono detail d stroke:image/hard light/51
DJR muckup 2M/normal/60
BG copy after shadow/highlight/normal/100

whew

dc

lkroll,
i want to hear more about this retinex thing. nice effect and want to see more of it also.

chance,
great oil look!

steve,
ah, dragan surfaces yet again. very cool :)

craig

lkroll,
i want to hear more about this retinex thing. nice effect and want to see more of it also.

chance,
great oil look!

steve,
ah, dragan surfaces yet again. very cool :)

craig


Here Craig. I did some research a while back and just did a search again. I believe Retinex was a development by NASA to enhance lost details that normally could not be seen. Here's (http://dragon.larc.nasa.gov/retinex/) a link to NASA's explaination. GIMP has a built in plugin by the same name. On it's own, it's nearly useless since the "enhancements" are quite outside the norm. If you combine the results with layer property adjustments though, you get a tool that I have yet seen an equal. You can use it for clarification (fog removal for example), shadow enhancement (as I shown above), and overall image light equalization (flattening; very important concept in digital art since most paintings are usually like this). I believe there are Retinex plugins for photoshop, but the last time I looked, they were not free. Just another plug for GIMP. Again, though I use GIMP a lot because of my personal comfort zone, I can not do everything without a lot of help from PS. I plan to purchase CS2 when I recover a little from Christmas (if you know what I mean). :)

I must have looked at this thread 20 times, there's some great stuff on it.
I'm playing with Painters "sargent brush" I'm afraid the "look" is still a illuding me but I do like the way it puts down "paint".
Anyway here's my quick try.
John

Here's another shot (you will pardon the expression) at this gentleman.

Steve

I must have looked at this thread 20 times, there's some great stuff on it.
I'm playing with Painters "sargent brush" I'm afraid the "look" is still a illuding me but I do like the way it puts down "paint".
Anyway here's my quick try.
JohnNicely done. Really like the strokes. How did you get the canvas effect on the edges?

Thankyou Danny, as for the canvas effect, it's a background layer, I've just been looking for it again to give you the link, but I can't find it. If you want it I will e-mail it to you.
John

Smudging / contrast adj., etc...
Sylvia

Nice works every one!

Attempt to watercolor.

I thought this could look good as a simple honest b\w photo.
channel mixer
curves
photofilter with curves
used lens blur around his face to simulate small depth of field.
added noise.

sylvia, like that smudge, alexmeta, love the water colour, gnarf, very dramatic b/w redition. Love them all.
John

What great interpretations on this thread! Here's one with liquid ink in Painter.
MargaretM

Nice Painter work, Margaret. What brushes?

Great work everyone.
John, like your sargent brush portraits.
Sylvia, great smudge.
Quickly messed the photo in Painter

Pavel

Very well done, Pavel!!!
What brushes did you use?
Sylvia

Swampy wrote Nice Painter work, Margaret. What brushes?
Thanks Swampy. Iused liquid ink brushes of velocity sketcher for smoother details, sparse camel for more textured areas, and sparse camel resist to break thru to the white areas underneath. I like the ability of the liquid ink variety to look 3D - if you double click on the layer name and then increase the amount the look of depth is enhanced. Its easy to overdo, however.
MargaretM

Very well done, Pavel!!!
What brushes did you use?
Sylvia

I usually use many different brushes from different groups, I'm not sure I can remember everything.
Quick clone, revealed everything using soft cloner.
bristle brush cloner
coarse oily blender for hair and bg
round blender brush for face, neck and clothes
used a differnet brush for the beard, probably grainy blender
inspired by John's work tried a sargent brush, looked awful, made two files (one before sargent brush, second after), exported to Photoshop, merged layers with layer mask, added texture

I loved this photo. Here's my version in a Pastel drawing.

Thanks for the details, Pavel!
Wow, great job, Brad!!
Sylvia

Great job Brad, love the background too. However I think I liked his hair "messed up" :D
John

Like I had said way back at the top of this thread, this image is great for testing new things.

This is a "cross-platform" 2D / 3D render - looks promising!

Rô

Oh god Rô, that's incredible, looks like he's lifting his head from a pool of water.
I know I will regret asking this but "how'd you do that?"
John

"how'd you do that?"John

I have a "distance" map of a face generated in Poser - a greyscale image that represents the "height" at each point. i.e. The nose is bright, the ears are dark.
I adjusted this map to fit the fisherman image.
Mixed in a bit of a high-pass layer to get some details (like in the hair).
Painted other bits to the required "height" value , like the cigarette to white.

Rendered in Poser on a flat square prop, with the 2-D image as the diffuse colour and the "height" map as the displacement.

Basically that's it!
Ain't easy, but it's fun. :bigthmb:

Rô

Blimey!!!! just like that. :bow: :lol:

Nice to see this thread resurrected. I think my earlier submission was one of my first on RP, so it's sort of interesting (to me, at least) to see how my approach has changed. These are just two of several attempts I made in Artweaver, with varying levels of success.

dc

One more B/W

brad, very nice. not sure i can believe it entirely after seeing all the others and knowing how 'weathered' he looks :)

Ro, that's brilliant! very nicely done!

Its terrible what that salt air can do to a person.

here's my go at it

Peter

:lol: Love it .....is that Lucis?

No No No
I was trying a different style out and applied the diffuse filter a lot of times (set to aniso something or other) this came out the other end so I saved it.

Peter

I can't believe that I was the last to post any thing in this thread.
I was looking for a suitable picture to try out a plugin from Reindeer Graphics, called Adaptive Equalization. It certainly brings out he details , but it doesn't like smooth areas. I did some other stuff as well but too much to list.

Peter

I can't believe that I was the last to post any thing in this thread.
I was looking for a suitable picture to try out a plugin from Reindeer Graphics, called Adaptive Equalization. It certainly brings out he details , but it doesn't like smooth areas. I did some other stuff as well but too much to list.

Peter

Nice work Peter AE is one of my favorite filters, and it is one you can really mess around those dials with for different looks

Palms

5282052819

just a try


Chris

Nice work Peter AE is one of my favorite filters, and it is one you can really mess around those dials with for different looks

Palms

Thanks Palms.
Well you kept that info to yourself. Your right I quickly found out not to denoise before running it, it makes some interesting patterns if you do.
I try to work on a dupe and mask and blend into the lower layers to get only what I need showing. It works very well on HiRes images especially skin pores, which is what I was trying to bring out here a little.

Peter

Thanks Palms.
Well you kept that info to yourself.
Peter

No not that selfish, i have used/mentioned it before mainly on flowers it works very well on them also, although you are getting some great results from it :thumbsup:

Palms

No not that selfish, i have used/mentioned it before mainly on flowers it works very well on them also, although you are getting some great results from it :thumbsup:

Palms

Don't get me wrong I wasn't making out that you were selfish (though who could blame you). I must search out those posts and see what you've done, (just so I can steal some Ideas:vampire:)

Peter

As i had not attempted this one i thought i would put that right and as Ro says it is a thread for trying things out, I wanted to try out as slightly different way of doing a ahb image
mind you after previewing the post there is something not quite there yet

Palms

*poff*

my first post here ... greetz from hamburg, andreas :)

Welcome aboard, Andrea.

As I said, this is my favourite trying-out-new-things image.

Pen and wash version. :bigthmb: (Painter)

Rô

WOW, beautiful work. And now that you are competent at pen and wash, are you participating in the pen/wash contest for January 2008? You would be superb.

Janet

Yes (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/contests/20153-jan-08-contest-artistic.html#post178329) I am.:bigthmb:

Rô

What a great picture. Not many of us smokers still alive. :pleased:I always like to flip the photo and start from there. Rough B&W.


Joe

ooooooh I love this one!!!!

Just experimenting with CS2 built in filters

Cutout, Impressionist

Alex, I really like your portrait. The use of cutout and impressionist make for an interesting combination.
Alan

This Old Salt has lots of character. Mine was done with the Painter plug-in using two effects, then worked with the color a bit.

Alex, I really like your portrait. The use of cutout and impressionist make for an interesting combination.
Alan

Thank you Alan for your comments.
Cutout is my favorite filter.
Another attempt.

Alex, love your last rendition.

Photoshop, Painter

I have to agree with what others have said. This guy was meant to be in a piece of art. Here's my basic oil take in Painter:

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff204/Xrider_photo/Fisherman.jpg


New to the forum alot of good stuff here, I liked the ole fishermen so I had to give it a try... shadow/highlights,curves,a little lucis and some clouds for the smoke. How do you link the thumbnail to the larger image? Anyway nice thread its cool to see what others have done.

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff204/Xrider_photo/Fisherman.jpg


New to the forum alot of good stuff here, How do you link the thumbnail to the larger image? Anyway nice thread its cool to see what others have done.

Hi and welcome if you go up a couple of threads to OlBaldy's he has the info you need for image posting in his post ( it probably is the hardest thing to do here :)
when you have worked it out repost as yur image is to small to see :)

Palms

Thanks psalms1 let me do this again see if I can get it right....... I also painted on vivid light some dodge & burn.

Thanks psalms1 let me do this again see if I can get it right....... I also painted on vivid light some dodge & burn.

Xrider you got it ! :grin: that is a interesting effect, I like the extra smoke and lit cigarette

Palms

byRo, love yours. all the right details. i'd drop the texture just a tad, though. shows through a bit too much. dont want to detract from the incredible image.