My sketch was done using PSP8 & Painter8.. Forgive me for not posting the trail... I finished this before finding this web site..

JackK www.photosketching.com

Hi JackK,

I thought I'd get your singer onto the big stage, so I cut him out used the Render Lighting filter from Left and Right. I created some "Spotlights" in the background by creating a Selection, Feathered about 15 pixels and filling it with a Linear Gradient. I would then contract the Selection and fill that with a white gradient. I added some spotlights pointing straight at the lens using the Lens flare filter and finally I added a bit of Render Lighting on the Background just to seperate the figure.

Hope you like it.

Regards

Con Looymans

Yeah yeah yeah!!!

Singing along with him now.............. :hat:

Con awesome work! gives the atmosphere of a superstar!

Thanks... Gerry is going to get a kick out of it

JackK

Looking around in the old threads for images to try --

Kinda got lost in a number of layer blends and not sure what steps I took...

Pity you are not sure what steps you took C.J. this looks a really interesting result (open it up dont just look at the thumb nail) and what's more I like it

Palms

Man & Guitar.

Steve

cj, steve,

i like both of these. very nice! thank you :)

Craig

Hi Craig...thank YOU.

To me it's still hard to beat the Impressionist style.

Steve

cj, steve,

i like both of these. very nice! thank you :)

Craig

Con, that's really a nice job of swapping backgrounds etc.

Great idea!

Steve

I used a Lucis plaid filter, buzzed another copy of layer, added some lines, and added texture and edge.

Cathy :wavey:

Hi Cazubi,
Love your soft colors!!!
How do you manage to get them??
Excellent work!
Sylvia

lovely, cathy :)

Craig

i thought this gave it a little more depth. i havent played with this for a while; Paint Shop Pro has an effect called 'user defined filter'. it's a sort of make your own filter. psp 10 improved on how this works and now you can see your effects in real time as you make changes, which makes this tool much more valuable. at any rate, i decided to try this tool out on this image. i also added an extra layer of the original so i could do some blending of layers. and, that's what i came up with.

Craig

Another try at this man & his guitar.

Steve

Thanks Craig and Sylvia. I confess...I don't remember exactly what I did on this one. The Lucis and Buzz filters and some Photoshop adjusting is what I remember.

Cathy :wavey: