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I feel a "Monet" coming on...

Thanks for posting this one Neve, lovely picture to work on.

I used Photo Brush

Boost colour - default setting
Ink and Watercolour Action

Save file
Open in Painter IX
Clone
Flat Oil Cloner

Christine

Thanks for posting this one Neve, lovely picture to work on.

I used Photo Brush

Boost colour - default setting
Ink and Watercolour Action

Save file
Open in Painter IX
Clone
Flat Oil Cloner

Christine
:bow: :bow: :bow:

Fabulous Christine :bigthmb: - the flat oil works well on this - must remember to try it soon!

Nice one Xaran! (and thanks for the picture, Neve)

Here's an odd combination
A: DarkGray background (Painter8 canvas color)
B: Painter8 ChalkClone
C: cp B. Impressionist-Chalk:RoughTexturedAbstract. modified. Posterize-4. (Normal, 63%)
D: MergeVis(A,B,C). RedField-WaterRipples. (Overlay, 77%)

-Mark

Terrific effort on this Mark, well done!

Art history Brush
Link to a Larger Image (http://www.pbase.com/image/40377549.jpg)

Subtly done and the colours are vibrant Trimoon. :bigthmb:

I couldn't resist your water lilies, Neve. Trimoon, Mark & Christine, all GORGEOUS and painterly!
I did some layering with hue/sat changes, some dry brush, an outline done w/ smart blur set to overlay.

I did apply image, Painter for strokes, Photoshop for masks and tweaking.

Well done Kiska and Raniday....very nice painted brushstrokes indeed! :bigthmb:

Wonderful, colorful renditions, all!
In corel photopaint 10, i added a couple of fill layers, different blends. They have loads of texture fills. Opened in painter, cloned with digital water color brushes. Added some brushstrokes of my own. Blended with original-luminosity blend.

Jaykita, thank you for the bright, cheery colors and fresh take on the water lily. I like the others. They are vibrant and dramatic. Yours, however, is a breath of fresh air. I needed that this morning. :)

Janet

How absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!

Judy - simply gorgeous! :bigthmb: It's a joy to view.

Great photo, Neve! Thanks for sharing it! :)

This is only my 3rd post here, but I have been so inspired I just had to try something on this pic. I don't know why, but I immediately thought "postcard", so here's my version.

Just a simple dry brush, watercolor filter, soft light mode. Several layers with outer glow, etc.

Hope it does the pic some justice!

BTW--Jaykita, your pic is AWESOME!!! Don't have photopaint, but WOW! :bigthmb:

Take care,
Donna

Very nice Donna. I like the feel and execution of your waterlilies. And if I haven't welcomed you before, consider this a big, hearty welcome.

Janet

Hi Donna and welcome! Great result :bigthmb: and glad you enjoyed the photo.

Thanks, Janet & Neve!! :wavey:
Donna

They are all fantastic - but my favourite has to be the soft and subtle colouring of Judie's interpretation - it took my breath away with its beauty !! Something to aspire to !

Apologies - I forgot to summarise the steps I took to produce my interpretation.

Duplicated background ( twice )
On one - Impressionist / pencil / soft textured
Moved two copies of background ABOVE this layer - one with Overlay mode ans one with Multiply mode.

merged these layers

then applied Virtual painter - Illena drawing and adjusted until I was happy !

Hope that helps. I never realised how complex these adjustments are until I had to start thinking about RECORDING them.

Thank you very much, Janet, Neve (hey! welcome back, friend! hope u had a lovely trip!), and Donna, xplorer. I have enjoyed your renditions as well. And a big welcome to you newcomers!

Not sure exactly what this is supposed to be....

Duped original and isolated the flower.
Curves, levels, and selective color adj. layers only on flower.
Linked layers and merged.
Copied flower twice to new layers and did minor adjustments to each.
Gaussian blurred each new flower layer very minimaily ( under 1.0 pixels )
Cropped pic. a little bit.
Created an explosion/glow effect with MythWave action.
Put this in behind/on-top of pic. and changed blend mode to Saturation.

Like I said, not sure what this is supposed to be.....

T

Interesting take on the lilies. I quite like your interpretation.

Janet

Judy - Great to be back viewing so much inspiration again!!! Had a great time, plenty sunbathing, swimming, walking, eating and sleeping! :classic: