5 Minute Art

[NancyJ]

This didnt come out at all as I aspected - theres something strange going on with this image - found some interesting information in the image... very weird.

[palms1]

Thank you Craig and great work everyone, what surprised me is the variety of styles, with the time limit i would of thought that there would be more of the same !

Palms

[Kraellin]

nancy, not sure what the 'strange' is in the image. it's a scan of a negative saved in .tiff and later converted to .jpg for posting here. maybe something odd in the alpha channel? what did you do and what were you expecting? and what was the information you found in the image?

[NancyJ]

The image on the left is what I would expect, the image on the right is what came out - doing the same steps.
What I did:
1. reduce noise max strength
2. autolevels
3. duplicate, invert and set to color dodge
3. gaussian blur the top layer

On the one on the left the original colour come through and the rest is white - this is the expected result
On the right - the colour from the top layer come through and the whole thing is overlayed with a cyan crazypaving kind of thing.

The culprit seems to be the red channel. Noise reduction seems to bring out information in the red channel and autolevels strengthens it (see second attachement)

In the original image its barely noticeable but the red channel is almost completely destroyed - but rebuilding it from approx 20% green restores it.

[Janet Petty]

I had to have another go at this one. Don't ask what I did. It was a mish mash of things until the timer went. If I didn't like what I'd done, then I began again from the beginning (original photo) and did another 5-minute run. I even tried a fancy gradient map, that looked so awful after it was applied that I scrapped the idea entirely.

Great challenge. It has taught me how SLOW I really am.

Janet

[zganie]

this took about 2minutes

[Kraellin]

well, you got me curious, nancy. i went back and looked at the channels in the original. the red channel is completely black. consequently, the .jpg posted here has no other data either. that might explain a few things. i'd be willing to be that i set something wrong during the original scan and that the flower isnt really blue, either. i'd probably have never caught this had you not seen what you did.

[Kraellin]

janet,

now dear, no fair starting over and not posting what you did on the first try you can always do another (actually, it's perfectly fine whatever you want to post. i just wanted to see the 'good' with the 'bad', regardless).

the one you did post looks good. i believe you've enriched it nicely.

zganie, interesting. you've almost achieved a dual tone here.

[johnnieB]

this was just 4 minutes.

dupl; invert; dodge; quick smudge; blur/lower opac; hue/sat.

[Kraellin]

johnnieb, excellent! love the reds there.

[lkroll]

Pretty much straight filter work. The most time consuming part was rough selecting the rose from the background since I wanted to separate the two. I ran GIMP's Mosaic filter on the rose and ran GIMPressionist with my custom mosaic preset on the background. Added the grout (base layer) and invert bumpmap for raised texture. Done. Around 4.5 minutes (phew) mainly due to my old and under powered machine. lol

Here's the high quality full size version.

[Nanls]

Been jamming, so haven't had a lot of time to participate... but 5 minutes; couldn't resist~
~Nancy~

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[Kraellin]

lk, excellent! love your mosaics.

nanls, also excellent! adding in the edging sets the flower off more.

[Drach]

As usual completely done in Artrage..
I don't seem to be very quick so I used up the whole 5 minutes.

Enjoy

[Kraellin]

drach, very nice. i didnt realize artrage was up to version 2 with a free version. you have the freebie or full version?