Nov 06 Contest Discussion

[makeovermagic]

Soleah and Doug, your also welcome!

Marsha

[Lorraine]

Originally Posted by soleah

Did you guys make your background from scratch? Or you manipulated some image? It's all well done and fit the art-nouveau style.

Hi soleah -- Mine is a manipulation of several images. The leaves are from an "art nouveau" border found on the internet. Flowers are from two photos of white violets. Used edit/stroke to outline the flowers and leaves. Window is partially an arched window found on the internet and partially drawn in, then outlined. Background hills are from another photo.

Lorraine

[Lorraine]

Originally Posted by Doug Colwell

my bg is our cucumber patch.

Great work

Lorraine

[Swampy]

My border was an EPS file from the Aridi collection.

[T Paul]

Nicely done everyone!

Congratulations go to Cazubi for winning this month's contest!!

Top 5
Cazubi - 40
Lorraine - 36
HannibalVector - 19
PhotoB - 16
Doug Colwell - 15

[Swampy]

Congrats, Caz!! Very well done.

Everybody was a winner in this contest. The entries were all so good!

[Gary Richardson]

Congratulations to everyone for some excellent entries.

Well done Cazubi, an excellent win against very good opposition.

[soleah]

Congratulations Cathy!

And to everyone else, well done!

[Doug Colwell]

Congratulations Cathy and to everyone who entered this month - I liked them all.

[Lorraine]

Congratulations Cathy. You did an outstanding job!!!!

Everyone who entered deserves congratulations on their work as well.

Lorraine

[cazubi]

Thank you everyone. I really enjoyed the challenge of this contest. I had to do some research on this art style as my art history is a bit dim. The hardest part for me was to make the girl look flat and decorative. I am giving some of my steps (that I remember) to show how I made my image.

A: I started with a background that I found on a clip art disk that I had. I altered it and cropped it so that the girl would fit into it.

B: I desaturated the girl, used the levels to bring up detail, used the dodge tool to lighten up the skin and eliminate detail. When I had her "flattened" I made some layers set to color mode and started hand coloring her hair, skin, and tunic.

C: I made a new layer for the outlines and used a very small brush and my Wacom pen and tablet to hand draw the lines. I did not use black, but selected colors from the background motif so that it would look more unified.

D: When I finished the flattening and coloring of the girl, I ran the Buzz Simplifier filter over her. I then set the line layer that was over the Buzz layer to Darken mode for better blending.

To finish I put a layer mask on the background which was the top layer and made it to fit around the girl. I made one last layer of a color sampled from the back ground and set it to multiply, 50% opacity to give the whole image an antique tone.

Kudos to all of the people who entered. Good work everyone.

Cathy

[HannibalVector]

Congratulations Cathy.
Sorry for not voting, I've bin sick!

Originally Posted by soleah

Did you guys make your background from scratch? Or you manipulated some image?

Yes, from scratch, no donor images used.