Do you recognize the Author of this Masterpiece?

[Lucile Davis]

New to the digital art world, about a year ago I was awed by the attached image as a SUPERB example, and saved it (from RTP, I think) as a reminder to revisit the web page--foolishly, without any identifying data. Does anyone recognize the artist or artwork? I would like to locate the work online to view more by the same person and see if any information was offered on what software was used and/or how it was done.

I will appreciate anything anyone may be able to tell me. Thanks in advance.

[Lucile Davis]

I thought that I did add the attachment using Manage Attachments in the last post, but perhaps it got swallowed up into the ether. I hope that this one does not. Strangely, this time the preview does not show the attachment. Last time it did.

I even tested the thumbnail last post to see if it opened after it was posted. 'Tis a mystery.

At any rate, I am trying again.

Thank you for letting me know.

[Joeven]

It looks like it was done with Buzz and a edge layer. There's a link in another thread here a couple of days ago to a free Buzz download. Hope that helps.

http://asnailpace.com/blog/buzz-pro-v30/



Joe

[palms]

I'm with you Joe looks like buzz to me

Palms

[Lucile Davis]

Thanks. I have been all over RTP and the web since reading your posts this morning looking for clues on how to do an Edge Layer. Most confusing of all is how to make it transparent so that the BuZZ3 color layer shows through. Can someone explain, or, since this is not the correct forum, direct me to a tutorial or discussion on how to make Edge Layers and how to make them transparent?

[palms]

Lucile which software are you using ? only different answers for different ones

Palms

[palms]

Lucile just looked at your earlier posts and noted that you are using photoshop so here is a quick summary for you,
firstly
Edge layer is also referred to as line art or a sketch layer

a few ways of doing this.
Quickest way is in the filter gallery stylize> find edges
or swampy's tut or the action i made based on swampys tut ( there are many other ways these are just a couple for now)

make sure this part is on a layer over the original (in this case buzzed layer
then change blend mode to soft light or overlay which ever you think suits best lowering opacity if needed

hope this gives you a starting point to go on

Palms

[Joeven]

You can also use Glowing Edges. More control. Copy your layer you want the edges for. Use Glowing Edges to get the effect you want and then desaturate that layer and invert. Use Levels to get a nice clean outline and try different blend modes and opacity. You can blur that layer too. If you want a white outline just invert it again.


Joe

[Fluffbutt]

Hey!! That looks like my piccy!

IF (and is stress "IF" - I'm not trying to pinch it if it's not mine) - it's done in Buzz (on a copied layer with some transparency), with a little extra edge enhancement afterwards (layer, again). The transparency of each layer was played with a lot.

[Lucile Davis]

It is a magnificent work of art. Every time I look at it, I am blown away!

Thank you all for responding to my question. I sincerely appreciate your time and sharing of knowledge. I experimented using the many suggestions but have not succeeded yet.

Indeed, it is the brilliant, pure, clear colors that darken to firm edges (emulating genuine watercolor) in Fluff's exquisite artwork that I hope to achieve.

Fluffbutt, can you tell me what you mean by "transparency" and "edge enhancement?" What tools or filters of the many available do you favor?

[Fluffbutt]

Transparency: The relative "see through-ness" of a layer in photoshop (I tend to use 33% to 66% in the settings for the layer)

By edge enhancement, I meant a number of different ways to sharpen and darken edges only. One I used around that time was the sketch system (it's here on RTP, search for easy sketch), This was made on an upper layer, then soft or hard lighted over the image, again with transparency.

Another way is to do the sketch-thing, then select black, invert and delete everything not-black, gauss blur to soften edges a little, then overlay onto lower layer image.

Tools: Mainly PS itself, and the Impressionist plugin, Buzz to soften colours and smooth them together (not always used, it's a little harsh/strong). Paint Engine is also a good starting point.

I use many layers, testing and discarding, adjusting transparency and overlay type (overlay, soft light, hard light). The base layer is the image, copied up to new layers, buzz'd or Impressionisted, then transparency over each, or over the base layer (sometimes I turn that off (not visible) so it doesn't interfere with the upper layer transparency.

anothe thing to do is when it's all done and looks hot, copy the base layer (original image) right to the very top new layer and make it a color layer in the layer properties - this returns the original images colour values to all the worked on layers, great for flowers and colourful bird pictures.

[Joeven]

This has nothing to do with this thread but just to humour me how did you come up with Fluffbutt as your name here? People think I'm Swedish because I mixed my first name and my last. Just wondering.

Joe Vendramin

[Fluffbutt]

See my avatar? His name is Casey Flufbutt - he's a 9 yr olf Birman, and has the sweetest gentlest nature of any cat I've known.

Casey is is name, Fluffbutt is a nickname because, well you know how cats do the "Talk to the butt" thing when you want them to do something - with him all you see is FLUFF, no butt LOL!! Hence Fluffbutt.

I'm him, online, acting like him and rubbing around nice peoples ankles and Purrring a lot..

[Joeven]

Cool. Your insane.

Joe

[Fluffbutt]

Originally Posted by Joeven

Cool. Your insane.

Joe

Yup, and cat paws typing give a lot of typos.. "is is" what the hell is that? LOL!!

[sergio2263]

Originally Posted by Fluffbutt

See my avatar? His name is Casey Flufbutt - he's a 9 yr olf Birman, and has the sweetest gentlest nature of any cat I've known.

Casey is is name, Fluffbutt is a nickname because, well you know how cats do the "Talk to the butt" thing when you want them to do something - with him all you see is FLUFF, no butt LOL!! Hence Fluffbutt.

I'm him, online, acting like him and rubbing around nice peoples ankles and Purrring a lot..

Like yourself I've used my cat's name for my username Sergio things is it took a long time in this forum before people realised I am a woman by the name of helen which I had to remind them lol I got a lot of stick when i was a newbie it might i've been to do with the name sergio lol. Love the name Fluffbutt.

[Kraellin]

Casey is is name, Fluffbutt is a nickname because, well you know how cats do the "Talk to the butt" thing when you want them to do something - with him all you see is FLUFF, no butt LOL!! Hence Fluffbutt.

it's been a long while since i had my old orange tabby, but i certainly recognize a true cat person when i see one lol... "Talk to the butt"

[gholmes1936]

I just had to put my 20 year old buddy joined at the hip cat to sleep today. Hard it was.

[amica999]

Originally Posted by gholmes1936

I just had to put my 20 year old buddy joined at the hip cat to sleep today. Hard it was.

So sorry to hear that, George, I went through this last october and can imagine how you feel.

[sergio2263]

Originally Posted by gholmes1936

I just had to put my 20 year old buddy joined at the hip cat to sleep today. Hard it was.

I am so sorry to hear that George times do heal, my tabby is 19 years old whilst he is still running around go for his daily walk around the block with me I am in tender hook for any little ailment, cough, quietness I am bracing myself already. Animal do become part of our lives my cat is joined at my hip too.

Take care we are all with you.

helen

[gholmes1936]

Thanx Sergio.

[Janet Petty]

My "baby" just turned 19 and is most definitely showing her age. This cat person will miss her when she is gone; and so will the bully, Fred (the orange tabby), who thinks his mission in life is to make her life miserable.

What would like be like without our beloved cats?

Janet

[lkroll]

Really sad news Gunner. My Dad's cat is over 15 years old now. He doesn't want to go outside anymore (we have a cat door), but my boy does (he's going on 3 years now; dropped in on us one day and decided to stay. lol

[gholmes1936]

Happiness is a purring cat!

[Fluffbutt]

Cats are the supreme beings of Earth, as far as I'm concerned.

(Our cat Sammy, now 9 and 9kg, all muscle - he can jump 15ft to the house roof from a SITTING start! - when he was a youngster he could open turning door knobs with his paws (grip in two and twist))

A dog does things because you're the Alpha Dog, the master.
A cat does things because it wants to.

<Hey!, YOU threw the ball, YOU go get it.. If you wanted it, why did you throw it in the first place, dumb Human.. (walks away ("Talk to the butt"))>

Got a new one last year (got 4 now) a Bengal cross ??? kitten - about midnight she sneaks INTO the bed and curls up against my chest (I sleep on my side). She stays for about 2 hrs until she's toasty warms then leaves. Wonderful feeling!!

[sergio2263]

Originally Posted by Fluffbutt

Cats are the supreme beings of Earth, as far as I'm concerned.

(Our cat Sammy, now 9 and 9kg, all muscle - he can jump 15ft to the house roof from a SITTING start! - when he was a youngster he could open turning door knobs with his paws (grip in two and twist))

A dog does things because you're the Alpha Dog, the master.
A cat does things because it wants to.

<Hey!, YOU threw the ball, YOU go get it.. If you wanted it, why did you throw it in the first place, dumb Human.. (walks away ("Talk to the butt"))>

Got a new one last year (got 4 now) a Bengal cross ??? kitten - about midnight she sneaks INTO the bed and curls up against my chest (I sleep on my side). She stays for about 2 hrs until she's toasty warms then leaves. Wonderful feeling!!

Reading your thread made me smile or LOL I like the ("Talk to the butt") that's what mine does all the times and if looks could kill I would have died by now.

Thanks for making me smile



cheers


helen

[gholmes1936]

Originally Posted by gholmes1936

I just had to put my 20 year old buddy joined at the hip cat to sleep today. Hard it was.

that was in March and I still wake up each mourning thinking of him and all the great times we lived thru together. BUTT, as if that wasn't enough lord, a week later his bedroom in my office buddy, a little gal named Ocho went on to be with him also. Bloody f'ing cancer, I hope she didn't get it from me! No I know she didn't but I understand what she went thru. I made it she didn't. Pancreas, liver, fluids inside her abdominal cavity. She was born in Brooklyn and left to die on the street outside the Brooklyn library. My step-son found her and nursed her back to life. Guess he figured she only had 8 lives left so named her OCHO. She never learned to meow, only growl. We said she had a New York attitude. Totally unfair to her and New Yorkers.

I'm trying to include a small attachment with a picture of her in it.

[gholmes1936]

Here is the picture of Ocho. It didn't attach to the other posting for some reason. It was a very small file size too.

It still will not load, bummer. Have I broken some cardinal rule here? Color me puzzled.

[Fluffbutt]

Upload it to tinypic then post the tiny pic url here - we can go get it from that.

[gholmes1936]

Originally Posted by Fluffbutt

Upload it to tinypic then post the tiny pic url here - we can go get it from that.

Okay let me try it that way. Never used this service before.

http://i43.tinypic.com/2ecq5bm.jpg