PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #39 – Jazz Guitar

[TwoLaidBack]

Crag,

Thanks I was trying for an old world kind of feel to it. Guess I must have come close.

TwoLaidBack

[Kraellin]

tlb,

yup. is good

craig

[OnAir]

Color corrected, note paper filter applyed for the background.

[dkcoats]

Lots of interesting work in this thread.

I ran Dave's Simplifier, put the guitar on its own layer, darkened/warmed the background with a gradient layer in multiply, then merged and ran Impressionist>paint, then Virtual Photographer>saturate, smart blur/edges only to get the outlines, then Impressionist again on a merged copy to put more brushstrokes into it.

dc

[dkcoats]

I guess this comes under the heading of not knowing when to leave well enough alone.

In a nutshell, I took the result of an ink wash action by David Jaseck and basically tortured it until it cried for mercy.

dc

[Chance_1]

A lot of fantastic renditions !

Here is my colorful one done in Painter 9.

Chance

[Kraellin]

on air,

i like that, especially the strings. the overall has a sort of seen under a black light look to it. very nice.

i'm also somewhat surprised that i've never seen a 'black light' plugin/filter or effect anywhere. anyone know of one?

craig

[OnAir]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

on air,

i like that, especially the strings. the overall has a sort of seen under a black light look to it. very nice.

i'm also somewhat surprised that i've never seen a 'black light' plugin/filter or effect anywhere. anyone know of one?

craig

Thank you very much, Kraellin. I haven't seen any 'black light' plugin also. What I did - I put strings on a different layer and applyed blue outside glow effect, same as on text below.

[Kraellin]

on air,

well, it's a cool effect. it also sort of reminds me of the movie 'Tron'.

craig

[TwoLaidBack]

OnAir,

I to like the effect you've gotten on the strings. Like Crag it reminds me of a black light or neon effect.

[Kraellin]

playing with new plugins (new for me). these are some of the medhi plugins, which i think i'm going to like, plus one tubes.

craig

[chiroka]

hi!!!
i'm newcomer here, i hope you like my variant. it was made in photoshop.

[Kraellin]

a couple more.

craig

[jereme]

I just found this forum today. I like these challenges a lot. There are a lot of nice images that come out of them.

Here is my addition?

http://www.jereme.com/clients/challenge39.jpg

[Janet Petty]

Cool music there Jereme. Welcome to RTP. It is a very nice place to hang out, try your hand at a lot of different techniques, learn a lot about digital pictures, and most of all to meet competent and very nice people.

Janet

[Kraellin]

very nice, jereme. and welcome to RP

craig

[Swampy]

I wanted to experiment with selective cross hatching in the shadow areas of this picture. I did not use any masks to paint out the cross hatching in the highlight areas. It's all done with Blend mode and BLENDING OPTIONS (which are located in the "styles" dialog box along with drop shadow, stroke, inner/outer glow etc.) By holding down the ALT/OPTION key you can split the "output if gray" sliders to fine tune what shades of gray in the underlying layer(s) are affected. A very powerful tool, but often overlooked.

PhotoSho CS

1. Duplicate and run Sketch->PhotoCopy filter-blend mode linear burn
2. New layer, fill with white and add noise then the run the cross hatch filter and set this layer blend mode to multiply. Set the BLENDING OPTIONS to 25/193 (white side split)
3. Duplicated the Cross hatch layer for a stronger emphasis.
4. Added a color layer filled with blue and set blend mode to Color.

I liked what I got with this, but wanted to take some of the blue out of the sheet music, so I did a SELECTIVE COLOR adjustment above the b/w photocopy layer and selected the whites. I then pulled all the sliders (except black) to -100%. (minus 100) This took all the blue fringing out of the paper and left it, for the most part pure white except in the shadow areas and around the musical notes.

See the layer stacking order.

[Kraellin]

very nice, dee dee. the crosshatching adds its own texture, so to speak.

craig

[palms]

Swampy great effect, i have tried your workflow out and i am enjoying trying it on different photo's

Palms

[Swampy]

Palms

I haven't tried this with any of the other Sketch stroke filters yet (up to my eyeballs around here and little time to play). If you try something other than cross hatch, I'd love to see the outcome.

Thanks, Craig :-)

I do find that not all illustrations or photos lend themselves to this technique. It seems to work best on photos with a definite subject that has lights and shadows and a very simple background.

The guitar photo was perfect.

[cardmnal]

I jazzed up this little guitar picture (sorry) using filters.

I adjusted, using curves, to blow the brights and shadows out a bit.

Ran that layer through Harry's, Filters>warp>kamikazi

duped that layer and ran through chalkaholic

ran chalkaholic layer through harry's filters>artistic>atmospherizer. set to multiply at 90%

created a hue/saturation layer and decreased the saturation by 40%

easy but fun stuff.

[Steve Conway]

Shades of Gene Autery, (Autry.)

Gene who???

Steve

[Kraellin]

careful there, steve; you're dating yourself....gene autry, tex ritter, roy rodgers and dale evans...black and white tv changed my life

craig

[Steve Conway]

My dad used to tell me that William S. Hart was the best of the coyboy movie stars. At least I can truthfully say I never saw him in a movie. 8-)

Steve

Originally Posted by Kraellin

careful there, steve; you're dating yourself....gene autry, tex ritter, roy rodgers and dale evans...black and white tv changed my life

craig

[MiningArt]

Lots of creative versions. Tried to give some pop, and then finished up using PaintEngine.

[lkroll]

Chalking it tonight.