Photo Art Mini-Challenges - - PHOTO ART: Mini-Challenge #31 – Yellow-pink Rose - Page 3

VisualEyes · #31 10-02-2002, 08:13 AM

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 · #32 10-02-2002, 10:43 AM

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 · #33 10-02-2002, 04:21 PM

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 · #34 10-02-2002, 04:24 PM

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

Phyllis

pstewart · #35 10-02-2002, 04:27 PM

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

Phyllis

Jakaleena · #36 10-02-2002, 04:39 PM

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 · #37 10-02-2002, 05:26 PM

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 · #38 10-02-2002, 05:58 PM

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 · #39 10-02-2002, 06:22 PM

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 · #40 10-03-2002, 01:08 PM

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 · #41 10-03-2002, 02:10 PM

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 · #42 10-03-2002, 03:33 PM

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 · #43 10-04-2002, 12:20 AM

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 · #44 10-04-2002, 08:05 AM

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 · #45 10-04-2002, 09:04 AM

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