PHOTO ART: Mini-Challenge #31 – Yellow-pink Rose

[VisualEyes]

Wanda & Phyllis -
Great ideas on using a clean channel. This is the kind of stuff that makes this site such a pleasure to follow. Thanks!

[Jakaleena]

I've been messing with this on & off for a couple of days now. Not sure what all I did though. More like mindless art therapy for to relieve stress - I just "fiddled" with it and didn't keep track of what I was doing...

You all who are over here in the Art forum are so good at this stuff. All of the images you posted are really beautiful. I really like your watercolor, Trimoon. Couldn't for the life of me get one to look like that though. Oh well...

Anyway, here's what I came up with.

[jerry]

Wanda, I took your suggestion when I got home. I ran Danny's split channel action. There were several channels that could have been used as pencil sketches. There were also several that really had a charcoal look to them. I used cymk mode (yellow channel).

Used selective dodge and burn and applied small noise.

Attached is charcoal rose.

Jerry

[pstewart]

Jerry, I love both of your roses. Nice texture!

Phyllis

[pstewart]

Oooooo, Jak! What a lovely effect! Looks like an antique velvet rose. How did you do that? Pleeeeeeeeeez tell!

Phyllis

[Jakaleena]

I haven't a clue, Phyllis...

I was just playing with it here and there in my spare time for a few days and lost track of everything I did.

I know I made a layer mask and isolated the rose. I applied a lot of filters to it and made it very textured.

I remember cutting out the original rose and pasting it over the very textured version and adjusting the blending mode, contrast, hue & saturation.

And, I applied Paint Engine's glow wind somewhere in there.

There were a lot more things in there too, but I just can't remember what they were...

[Wanda Schwind]

Jerry both of your roses are beautiful The Charcoal Rose really does look like a charcoal drawing. They both would look gorgeous in a frame hanging on anyone's wall Great work!

Wanda

[jerry]

Wanda and Phyllis, thanks for the nice comments. I am learning photo-based art on the fly by studying the things that you folks produce. Thanks for the help..

Jak..your antique rose is really cool..Really like it..

Thanks
Jerry

[KenB]

Here's my submission after days of just tryign different things with this image. First I cut the rose from the original background, added a new layer and filled it with a light yellow, painted some random brush strokes with leaves brush, white color. Activated the rose layer and used a bevel layer style and drop shadow. I think I also dropped the overall opacity of the rose layer. Resurfaced with alien skin splat and vignetted the rose.



Ken

[pstewart]

Art history brush (chalk) on solid peachy-orange layer, played around with blending modes a bit, then finished with rough pastel filter set to add just a bit of texture so the "paper" shows through.

Phyllis

[Wanda Schwind]

KenB, beautiful! I picture your creation in a victorian frame

Phyllis, gorgeous as usual, do you ever do anything half way

It certainly seems the rose is a big hit. Everyone has done such an outstanding job on this one. Love viewing them all. Thanks! And thank you Danny.

Wanda

[DannyRaphael]

This has turned into one of those special, positively an incredible threads. You guys and gals are just awesome.

Gotta confess that I struggle sometimes while engaged in the process of (hopefully) coming up with "interesting" base images, never knowing if a particular mini-challenge is going to "get any responses."

Guess maybe a single rose once in awhile might not be a bad idea! I'll queue one up down the road.

Again, thanks to everyone who takes the time and effort to not only post an image (or two or three), but to comment as well. Doing so makes these little endeavors fun, interesting and educational. Participation in whatever form it takes is always greatly appreciated.

~Danny~

[pstewart]

Just playing around with the pic and found that inverted 'find edges' blended over the rose in soft light mode resulted in these colors, which reminded me of old slipcovers, so I added some fabric texture to finish the look.

Note: I have edited this with correct filter and mode types.

Phyllis

[Wanda Schwind]

Phyllis, beautiful Makes you want to reach out and touch it!! It reminds me of slipcovers too. Thank you for sharing how you did this. This is REALLY wonderful I'm waiting for another entry

Wanda

[JBCaffrey]

This is the result of trying out the techniques in Antonio Geuvara's excellent Water Color Tutorial. If you haven't tried it, it's very much worth the effort.

After arriving at a "painterly" effect I decided the image needed more punch so I added an Overlay Layer of Find Edges. To add the brush stokes, I created a new layer, added "Bad Brush" from the Paint Engine Plug-in, saved that image as a texture file (psd), deleted the layer to which I had just applied Paint Engine, and then applied the texture file over my image with the texturizer.

I hope that makes sense.

Jim

[pstewart]

Jim, I love your textured watercolor. The effect you achieved is almost like a palette knife painting...reminds me of one my mom had years ago in fact.
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For this attempt I placed the rose over a solid white layer and tried painting on a mask in black, white, gray with textured brushes instead of using the art history brush. I haven't decided which method is easier or better or if there's any difference. Does anyone with more experience in PS painting have opinions on the pros and cons of either?

Anyhow, this looks like a cross between colored pencil and crayon on rough paper. I hope.

Phyllis

[angue]

JBCaffrey - Nice results. Looks like pallete knife painting with loads of heavy pigment.

Phyllis - Great effect as colored pencil rendition. I'm no expert but it works for me. I also like drop shadow.

Tony

[LQQKER]

Hey all,

This is attempt number two, seems I have a lot in common with Forest Gump. My goal with this picture was to give it a soft pastel effect, but not too soft. I started by duplicating the picture and masking out the flower to another layer. I then used the Art history brush in conjunction with some of the art filters in Photoshop 7. Between the flower mask and the background copy I inserted a blank layer and did a pastel gradient, from the bottom left to the top right. I used about a 40% opacity. To brighten up the background as well as the flower I used various Nik filters (sunshine, classical blur, skylight), and painted them in until I got the look I wanted. Some highlights were also painted in on the flower and shadows were enhanced as well. I added a small amount of noise (three maybe) to bring out some additonal detail. After I had the colors right I applied some sharpening with the Nik sharpener to certain areas of the flower (the setting recommended for printing injet), then I applied the same sharpening to the entire picture as a fill to enhance the contrast a bit. I forgot most of what I did, but I think the idea is somewhere in this message.

[pstewart]

Looker, that is excellent. I love the subtle texture, especially along the edges of the petals--gives it a painted look without being too heavy handed.

Phyllis

[dcarr]

Wow this challenge really took off. I love all this art stuff. I keep trying and trying and I know one day I'll make something like this too. I think in too many straight lines. great jobs all.
Debbie

[pstewart]

This is supposed to be part of an old painting, perhaps a fresco on a wall? Anyway the old paint has crazed and cracked and is beginning to peel. After embossing and doing some other things, I used the distort-->displace filter with the crackle.psd texture (which I THINK came with it...dunno since I did add some of my own) to give it the cracked look.

Phyllis

[pjb]

I hope I posted to the right place this time.

1.copied and pasted rose
2. curves on copy
3. pencil 2 filter on copy
4. copied and pasted background
5. pencil 2 filter on background
6. on copies played with opacity

[siodhach]

Phyllis ... that's an interesting effect, it looks like it belongs on a wall ... you might about something like that.


Don

[pstewart]

Wow, PJB, that's a great effect you got with Steve's pencil2 filter! Glad you experimented with it...now we know it can do more than just pencil sketches.

Phyllis

[pstewart]

Chuck, please upload a smaller picture instead of the big one so we can see it. It is so wide that it doesn't fit on the browser window and I can't see it all at once. I look forward to seeing it!

I tried earlier to upload a pic but it didn't open all the way, so I just deleted it and have another one I liked better anyhow. This was made half with distort-->displace filter variations and half with a mask. After adding displacement textures, I painted on a mask of the actual picture with black and white, using a brush that made blotchy strokes, with a white layer underneath, then blended that merged result over the displaced pic to get this "painting."

Phyllis

[LQQKER]

Thank you Phyllis for the comment . . . that's one in a row.

[DannyRaphael]

PHYLLIS:

Sure glad once wasn't enough for you on this mini-challenge. I've enjoyed your various takes, each unique in character. You set a great example of one whose creativity knows no bounds.

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PJB:

One can get some very interesting effects with the Lighting Effects filter -- and you've certainly achieved that here. Nicely done.

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CHUCK:

You obviously put a lot of time and work into this image and were rewarded by a very subtle and pleasing effect. My compliments on your diligence.

~Danny~

[pstewart]

I am still finding new things in PS7, including the shapes menu. One group of shapes is picture frames, so I thought I'd frame the new painting I was working on. I applied bevel-emboss from layer styles to give the frame shape and texture. The picture itself was partly made with a Van Gogh texture I once made for a challenge here. I applied the texture through the distort-->displace filter.

Phyllis

[Digidiva100]

Here's my rose!

Digidiva100

[DannyRaphael]

Digi-D:
I sure like this image. Your subtle changes inpired me to do another.

My encore version is based on an application of Smart Blur + Virtual Painter.