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Nice photos, Neve.

Art History, Texture (High-pass) sharpening, Lighting effects and some tweaking....

Rô

Nice photos, Neve.

Art History, Texture (High-pass) sharpening, Lighting effects and some tweaking....

Rô
wow, that's cool! :thumbsup: looks like layers of wax on canvas, neat effect :hat:

i kinda like how the tigers turned out... the rest is just mess... :blush:

Lovely result Byro and well done JC. I got myself into trouble in Painter. Started out okay cloning with - Oils/Fine Camel 10 (all over tigers). Then some Gouache (not cloned. picked white) to add back the whiskers and other parts of the fur.

Oils/Thick Oil Bristle 10 on the poles and decking. Gouache again for the log under the decking (on a layer which I later lost)??? Then decided to try out the Hose feature (i.e. all the leaves at the front). Added a shadow to them.

Then trouble - every time I go into any of the textures - I suddenly lose the ability to clone (ie. transparency doesn't work anymore). So frustrating and I've no idea how to get back to it. :confused: :confused:

Anyway, finally finished off in Paint Shop Pro, smudging the bg. I prefer a texture added but posting here with the texture you cannot "see" what has been done as per the description.

In PS7 duped the BG and did a Gaussian blur of 25 or so on the new layer. Added a mask and painted the tigers and warf back in. Saved and opened in PSP9. Ran one step photo fix and a watercolor script. Saved and opened in PS7. Cloned out some of the brush strokes I didn't like and added a texture layer. Resized and saved.

Catia

Beautiful Catia!

Cropped image
Adapt.eq
Created vignette
Used virtual painter for bg
Enhanced colors
Contrast adjustment
Sharpened a bit
Simplified
Darkened bg

Excellent Lqqker, I like the overlaps onto the frame.

LQQKER -- Love it!

I liked the stone and wood, so kept them in the crop. Some sharpening/aniso diffusion plus a Find Edges layer with lighting effect to add texture. I love tigers, and they always remind me of copper which I also love, so I surrounded them with a bit of hammered copper.

:bigthmb: What a beauty CJ. Strong colouring as it should be, love the touch of "copper".

Wonderful job, everyone! Neve, thanks for the beautiful image.
I tried to experiment with the stamp filter. Picked out the colors from the image. Finally, linearlight blend with original (g'blurred).