PHOTO ART: Mini-Challenge #01 - Mountain Man

[Jakaleena]

Yes, Etienne! Great job. And welcome to the frey!

I posted a comment earlier about yours, but it must have gotten lost in cyberspace

(hey, wasn't that the name of an old TV show??? )

Anyway, I've been trying to figure out how to turn a photo into a cartoon for ages and can't seem to get it to look like yours does.

Care to share how you did that?

[Ed_L]

Here's mine. I used the image to try Katrin's method of masking the hair. At some point I did modify her course, but I was relatively happy with the outcome.

I pictured the "Mountain Man" as being a fugitive, hiding behind foilage. So I took a shot of my wife's garden, and combined the two. But I don't really remember *exactly* what I did. I used the dry brush to finish up, with brush size 3, detail 8, and texture 2. But I had fun. Thanks Danny. Very cool idea!

Ed

[etienne]

I actually used illustrator to do this one . Don't know if any of you has used it much but it certainly has its place.

I basically just traced the different elements of his face using the pen tool. I ended up with a bunch of different shapes that I color filled and stroked. For the shirt texture I made a 100 px square approximation of MMs' shirt which illustrator allowed me to load up as a swatch. Then it was simply a matter of filling the shape with the swatch.

I've only been using Illustrator for a couple of months but it definitely has it's place. At the moment I'm going through a game of Illustrator tennis w/ a friend who knows his way around the program. The deal his my buddy created a piece which he sent to me in layers. I then took elements that I liked and created my own piece which I "volleyed" back to him. Lots of fun and a good way to learn.

You know I'm thinking you could do something similar here. I've seen it done many times w/ photoshop and its totally cool to see how the intial serve metamorphasize into something completely different.

Whoa got a little OT there heh. But if any one is interested in trying something like this let me know, cuz I'm there.

Cheers,
Etienne

P.S. If anyone is interested in checking out some wicked cool illustrator art, check out http://www.rinzen.com

[Blacknight]

I used two actions from this place somewhere...one was the sketch one and the other was the efx_painter. With that one I used the efx painter image, inversed, and blurred with gaussian blur to suit. The blend modes I played with and don't remember. The original background image I did a lot of hue/sat on. The texture is one OhThatGirl (forgot her name) used and is part of the SPLAT! filter oddities painterly set. Hope that helps.

[DannyRaphael]

Ed:

Your "Mountain Man - Hiding" is inspired! I can almost hear Johnny Rivers playing, "Secret Agent Man" in the background. Appreciate you jumping into the fray for a little frolic and fun.

Herewith is another churning from me to wind this one up for the moment.

Future contributions always welcome!

~DannyR~

[Appoloinus]

Last post was 7-1 so imnot sure if anyone is still reading this thread, buuuuuut here is mu quick 15 mini entry.

this was done in PSP 7.04.

Took the image and median filtered it, fur filtered it, added some noise, copied layer, hot waxed it, and blended luminance at 50%.

The median filter gives the water color look, and the noise with the hotwax gives the canvas texture texture.

[DannyRaphael]

The "mini's" have no expiration either, so though it's been a while since this thread was active your contribution now is fine.

I've got PSP 7.0x and until now hadn't seen a use for the Hot Wax effect. You've inspired me to take another look. Pretty cool.

Glad you've found us and appreciate your contributions.

Keep having fun!

Danny

[Doug Nelson]

Just fiddling while waiting for some files to download.

[etienne]

Looks like somebody got creative with their trowel.

Cool Stuff!
-e

[DannyRaphael]

Very creative, Doug! Given your hectic schedule, glad you choose to spend a few 'on hold' minutes on this one. Please fiddle (or flute or oboe) here anytime!

Give us a few hints on how you did this. I have not a clue about your method...among other things!

~Danny~

[Doug Nelson]

Hmm...as I recall, I duped the layer, applied a huge USM, used that goofy difference filter , flattened, deleted green and blue channels, ran threshold, embossed, ran threshold again, used black for color range selection, ran Dreamsuite's liquid metal filter, put new blank layer under main layer, set main layer to linear light blend mode, used diamond-shaped flesh-to-brown gradient on new layer, then went in and hand-painted a few places.

I like how his shirt came out, best.

[DannyRaphael]

To quote a reviewer on this site for whom I have the highest respect: "YIKES!"

Glad that download was long. What an inspired and creative combination of steps and tools. Without a few crumbs along the path, few could possibly imagine, let alone duplicate it.

OK. That's twice in week I've been shown a "useful" use for the Difference blend mode. Thanks for gracefully opening up that door to new possibilities. I guess I'll have to upgrade it from "Goofy" to "Occasionally Useful."

Perhaps a thread on that subject would be in order... I'll noodle on that and get something going, perhaps today.

~Danny~

[Woody]

I had fun with this one. I chose to keep it
photographic and turn him into a mountainman.
I cut a squirel pic I had for the hat, added a
Colorado background and photographed my
fringed jacket for his toggs.

Woody

[DannyRaphael]

Woody:

It didn't take long at all for you "to catch the spirit." My wife wanted to know if you could clone some hair on my chest like you did for Mountain Man! (I told her you'd be able to in about 30 seconds if you had a pic of me to work with, but we won't go there!)

Welcome to the Sandbox and keep having FUN!

~DannyR~

[BigAl]

First time I've managed find time to visit this particular forum and am amazed at some of the MMs.

Wanda's version looks extraordinarily like BigAl himself (another wild man!).