PHOTO ART: Mini-Challenge #51- Village in Europe

[twinkissed]

Originally Posted by twinkissed

Sure thing. I'm using PS2. .

I just realized my typo... not the PS2. Geez I've been talking to my kids about their video games too much. But... PSP9. Sometimes, I should just go to bed.

[palms]

Very good twinkissed, i never noticed you probably could of got away with it, now i will have visions of you trying to paint on a playstation

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Adjusted contrast/lightness, enhanced saturation, Buzz simplifier, & Impressionist brush strokes. Another of my Bible manips..."Seek & Ye Shall Find."

Steve

[cazubi]

Wow, beautiful Steve.

Cathy

[Steve Conway]

Thank you Cathy. It is a nice & fun image to work on.

Steve

Originally Posted by cazubi

Wow, beautiful Steve.

Cathy

[twinkissed]

Originally Posted by palms1

Very good twinkissed, i never noticed you probably could of got away with it, now i will have visions of you trying to paint on a playstation

Palms

LOL yeah... funny when I think about it I did technically do my first digital drawings with Mario Paint.


Now being inspired by Pstewart's nighttime approach, here is mine. I added some very light opacity cloud layers by using the fade and then by using the curves on the red channel. Oh and also used a very light pattern fill for a little more texture. I then painted in the lighting, stars, and smoke from the chimneys using a light soft brush.

[Steve Conway]

I love it! Too bad halloween is already passed, that's spooky.

That is really a nice one.

Steve

Originally Posted by thana

hi!
how about some rainy village behind a (little bit creepy) fence?
layers, layers, layers... actually, I think there was 7 of them...
the larger varsion (orriginal ) is here if you'd like to see

[Helena]

I really like that night shot twinkissed. It reminds me of a british Christmas card. Starry nights and no snow!

[twinkissed]

Thanks. I kinda had a Christmas evening in my head when I did it. I finally have my mouse fixed so I could probably do it now but I was going to attempt a cat looking at the lit door but my cat was looking like the blob so decided not to go with that. Ha funny, my mouse was destroying the cat so to speak.

[lkroll]

...your rendering twinkissed. How was that done?

[cazubi]

Very nicely done twinkissed.

Cathy

[Duv]

Maybe this one is kind of Christmasy.

Cheers

Dave

[Chance_1]

Thought I could try my hand on this great selection of the village by Danny. There were about 44 great interpretations and renditions of it. To me those of chiquitita, Trimoon stand out, as I like that style. Also that of lkroll "Thomas Kincaid" style, great job there.

My rendition was done entirely in Painter 9. I was in the past getting tired, of jumping from one software to another, so I am kinda trying to do it all in one software or the other. This is a watercolor rendition !

[Kraellin]

dave,

i love the lights. did you hand draw those in?

Craig

[dkcoats]

I can't be the first genius to come up with this technique...it came to me earlier today and this image looked like a good guinea pig to test it on.

I ran Impressionist>linear brush (in CS2) four times on separate layers. I tweaked a lot of the settings; all four layers were identical except for brush orientation. One had horizontal strokes, one vertical, one 45deg SW-NE, the other SE-NW. I added hide-all layer masks to all 4 layers, then painted them back in with varying opacities where each direction seemed to be appropriate, mixing them in places where there wasn't a clear direction suggested..

As an afterthought I added another layer under the other 4 and buzz-simplified it. Then I lowered the opacity of the top 4 layers a little to let some detail show through.

dc

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by dkcoats

I can't be the first genius to come up with this technique...it came to me earlier today and this image looked like a good guinea pig to test it on.

I ran Impressionist>linear brush (in CS2) four times on separate layers. I tweaked a lot of the settings; all four layers were identical except for brush orientation. One had horizontal strokes, one vertical, one 45deg SW-NE, the other SE-NW. I added hide-all layer masks to all 4 layers, then painted them back in with varying opacities where each direction seemed to be appropriate, mixing them in places where there wasn't a clear direction suggested..

As an afterthought I added another layer under the other 4 and buzz-simplified it. Then I lowered the opacity of the top 4 layers a little to let some detail show through.

dc

This is a terrific technique, dc. Using Layer Masks to selectively apply a layer's content is a powerful tool in anyone's bag of tricks.

Thanks for sharing this golden nugget!

[Kraellin]

i agree with danny and that seems like a very good method for making a nice cross-hatch style.

craig

[palms]

As football was on t.v. tonight thought i would have a try, ( i think this is my first for this thread ?)
Yet again the ahb

Palms

[garazon]

Wow I'm always amazed at the variety and talent on these boards. Fantastic jobs

This one just seemed perfect for a nighttime rendition, but in order to broaden my horizons, I resisted the urge and came up with this, a base layer done in a painted carved wood script, ovelayed with dodge and luminance layers of separate renditions done in some PSP scripts of my own making. finally a top color layer to give it a darker glow, ok so I couldn't resist a little darkness

[Chance_1]

Garazon, that is a great looking rendition, from the painterly edges to the painterly background and foreground. Great job.

[garazon]

Thanks Chance it was one of those few that wind up actually looking like what I had in mind!

[PamSav]

I couldn't resist these pretty Dorset cottages

Larger version: Gold Hill, Dorset, UK

Palms - I like that oily look you got with yours

[palms]

Thank you Pam
i appreciate that coming from someone who's work i admire, I keep practicing and trying different things to get this sort of effect in ps7 (painter out of my pocket money league and my pc's capabilities for now )

Palms

[Peter S]

A little bit of Lucis
Diffuse Ani wotsit or other
Dupe/Overlay the emboss
Add texture
Auto levels.

Peter

[Kraellin]

i like that one, peter. kind of soft and grainy and a different look at the background.

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

i like that one, peter. kind of soft and grainy and a different look at the background.

Thanks Craig.
Ive been messing about trying to get textures right I think this one came out not too bad.

Peter

[sylvia1065]

Lovely picture !!!
Tutorial 5C (Topaz Adjust).
Sylvia

[Kraellin]

nice, sylvia. it's got a sort of fuzzy feel to it. not fuzzy-blurry, but fuzzy fuzzy. i like it

[sylvia1065]

Thank you, Craig

[sponge03]

Nice work Sylvia, do you mainly use photoshop or painter?