Photo Art Mini-Challenges - - PHOTO ART: Mini-Challenge #20 - Edwin's Birthday Girl - Page 2

Wanda Schwind · #16 09-08-2002, 12:00 AM

Angue, Wow, love the pastel. Just too Coooooool

How long have you been using PS, you seem to handle your tools VERY well. I'm rather new at it, feel like a bull in a china shop

Wanda

pstewart · #17 09-08-2002, 01:03 AM

Angue, your Renoir is AMAZING! What program did you use? How did you paint those wonderful brush strokes. Was it just straight painting in the lines of a sketch version, or some quicker method?

Jim, your "one click" result certainly looks like it took more than a click (or two or three). It's lovely, and I haven't seen that style from a filter method yet.

Wanda, I love your second pic in the oval...makes a perfect frame for her.

Phyllis

platscha@cs.com · #18 09-08-2002, 01:18 AM

Anjue, wonderful, hard to choose which one I like better but guess it is the renoir.
Thank you so much for giving your steps, I for one really appreciate it.

Jim, outstanding, I too am curious which page in the one step wow you were on?
I went to the seminar and have the book, cd and believe me, nothing he demonstrated or in the handouts came close to your example. Would love to know which effect it was you were following, thank you.

angue · #19 09-08-2002, 07:19 AM

My apologies to everyone regarding referencing my second rendition to Mary Ellen Carter. I did not want to mislead anybody. It was late last night (1:00AM my time) and that name stuck in my mind for no apparent reason other than the fact the artist I wanted to mention also had three word name. I should have said
Cicely Mary Baker . The rendition also reminded me of Jesse Willcox Smith .

Then I realized we also have a member named Mary Ellen Carter. Again my apologies especially to Mary Ellen Carter.

Tony

JBCaffrey · #20 09-08-2002, 09:32 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by platscha@cs.com
I too am curious which page in the one step wow you were on?
Would love to know which effect it was you were following, thank you.

The effect from the "One-Click Wow!" book I referenced begins on page 79 (Paint & Clone Presets). I used the Pattern stamp and one of the Wow watercolor brushes.

Before starting with the above technique, I prepared the photo by first extracting the main subject, simplifying it with Smart Blur, and then following the advice in Steve's (Trimoon) post (paragraphs 3, 4, and 5). That post can be found here:

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/sho...&threadid=3785

The particular filter I applied to get some brush strokes was Paint Engine's "Arctic Filter".

Jim

siodhach · #21 09-08-2002, 10:59 AM

Birthday Girl

Duplicate original

Selected Girl, Cake and Background separately and put them in separate layers with Layer > New > Layer Via Copy.

With Girl I selected Filter > Stylize > Find Edges then reduced opacity.

With Cake I selected Filter > Stylize > Trace Contour then reduced opacity.

With Background I selected Filter > Gaussian Blur with a very high radius (about 60). Then I went to Filter > Noise > Add Noise, a good amount. Then went to Filter > Render > Lighting Effects, Style = Default and Light
Type = spotlight.

Changed the direction f the flames of the candles. I felt that if she were blowing the candles out than two of the flames were in the wrong direction. So, I changed that center one and the one on her left by selecting then separately and putting them in separate layers and using Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal and then Rotate until it looked right

Did a little cloning and flattened.

Don

platscha@cs.com · #22 09-08-2002, 11:31 AM

Thanks for the information, will play around with that today if I can get my homework done.

pstewart · #23 09-08-2002, 09:01 PM

Good job, Don. You are so right about the candle flames! Now instead of just puckering up preparing to blow, she is actually blowing! Nice attention to detail!

Phyllis

RedAlert · #24 01-08-2003, 03:54 PM

Hi foks,

I lost track of this mini art challenge.

Probably during the sumer vacation. Suddenly I rembered it after having some discussion with members over at another subject and I found out that Danny had acutally sent me an invitation to join in. I missed this message completely (hooray for hidden features)

Anyway, I just like to compliment you all with your efforts and masterpieces. It's amazing how good the effect look !

If only I had a super high res version of the picture, I could have it printed and framed as these things are jewels.

Super !!!!!!

Edwin

LQQKER · #25 01-09-2003, 06:18 PM

Wanda,

I just seen your post for this challenge. Seems you are really getting a handle on Painter. Very impressive.

LQQKER · #26 01-09-2003, 07:03 PM

Hey all,

I thought I'd get this in before another candle is added.

The only filter I used other than what comes with photoshop is uleads "art texture" filter and flaming pears "hue & cry".

The frames were created with the above filters and various blending options and color blending modes.

pstewart · #27 01-10-2003, 12:44 AM

Looker, excellent rendition...the combination of shimmering textures, the confetti background, the way the confetti spills over the frame....it all works together beautifully.

Edwin, got a new pic of this year's birthday you'd like to share with us?

Phyllis

RedAlert · #28 01-10-2003, 03:32 AM

well her birthday is in july (3rd).

Maybe i´ll send some "problem" pictures of my other daughter who will be 2 in a months time.

I´ll start working on some paint art myself too. It seems like fun to me.

Somebody has some good resources (as I´m more of a retoucher than a painter)

Edwin

DannyRaphael · #29 01-10-2003, 04:06 AM

LQQKER...

Very unique rendition. The frame works very well with the effect and I think compliments the pic.

Did you do the frame with an action or hand craft it?

If the former and it's public domain, how about uploading it? If the latter, how about a mini-tutorial? Tis very slick regardless.

~Danny~

LQQKER · #30 01-13-2003, 11:33 PM

Thank you for your kind words.

No . . .the frame was not an action (I usually don't use actions because I seldom do things the same twice), it's just something that happened for this particular image.

As mentioned, the frame is primarily just the two filters mentioned earlier, using blending modes. I first layed down the Ulead filter then used a color blend mode of "hue and cry" at a ratio of about 50% opacity to give the impression that the colors were part of the frame and background.

The image background is similiar, only I used a few filters to allow the image to have a drape effect (adapt equalize, hue & cry, Sunshine, and midnight to enhance the shadows), I'm not too sure which paint filter was used, possibly a dry brush with about a 60% opacity. A drop shadow was used with layer styles to give the subject a shadow against the drapes.

Cute child.