PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #40 – English Gentleman

[MargaretM]

Portrait of a Gentleman.
Done in Painter Oils with opaque round oil brush and camel oil cloner for details. Background was painted and blended with a color set generated from the picture. Texture(raw silk) was applied selectively to give a more realistic look.
If anyone knows of good framing plugins (reasonable or free, of course), I would appreciate them passing the info along.
MargaretM

[Kraellin]

there are 'borders' and 'edges' plugins, but never seen a free frame one. fairly easy to make your own and set them to a script or 'save as frame', however. still, i wouldnt mind knowing of a good one too.

craig

[kilcan]

This is my first time participating - I hope I'm doing this right!

First I found a great stock photo that would complement the man in the background. Then I pasted the original photo onto it. Flipped it horizontally. Then changed the original to a layer mask and removed everything but the man.

I cropped the background so the proportions fit properly. Then using the clone tool, I gave him an elbow on the left side.

I reduced the brightness of the man so he fit the lighting in the background.

Merged the two layers and then used a filter (canvas texture) on it. Then I used the cross hatch filter.

I then created a border and filled it with brown. I used texturizer>footprints and then gave it a drop shadow and a bevel to make it look like a frame.

Tada I thought that his pose was the sort you would see in the old paintings like my grandparents have hanging in their home.

[kilcan]

I actually love how it looks before the filters

[Swampy]

Well, I visited Cheers and saw the old boy being interviewed by some college kids......

[oltenius]

Here is my try...

[sarmenhb]

hello morning

[sarmenhb]

while i was masking that captain, he kept smiling at me when the pen touched his cheeks
hmm

[Swampy]

Welcome to all the Newbies! You may be new to the RTP forums, but it is obvious you are all well versed in digital editing! Look forward to more of your stuff!

[Kraellin]

i'm definitely a bad influence on you, dee dee nice.

and kilcan, i like that, both of them. and i think i actually like the unfiltered one more. great background and nicely done!

craig

[Swampy]

i'm definitely a bad influence on you, dee dee nice.

Ahhh, contrare, my dear. You keep me on my toes.

[Frank Lopes]

Jereme, you did a GREAT job!!!!! It is a terrific work!!!

And as such, I hope you don't mind, I took your wonderfull image and "pushed the envelope" a bit. I hope you are ok with my take on it.

Originally Posted by jereme

Here is my try. http://www.jereme.com/clients/challenges/40.jpg

I haven't done one the painting style images for anything before. I used the spatter and dry brush filters and overlaid the two to accomplish the effect I wanted.

The painting wasn't tall enough so I duplicated some of the sky to fill the remaining space. I'm sure the original artist is rolling in his grave.

I think the soldiers are from different time periods, but the themes seem to go together pretty well.

[Verywierd]

Could not resist having a go too

[klassylady25]

Can't you see the family resemblance? LOL

[lkroll]

Originally Posted by Frank Lopes

Jereme, you did a GREAT job!!!!! It is a terrific work!!!

And as such, I hope you don't mind, I took your wonderfull image and "pushed the envelope" a bit. I hope you are ok with my take on it.

Now that's just too cool; an action perhaps, or was this done from a book and you changed perspective of Jereme's rendering? Kudos to both of you.

[pavel123]

Hi, All:

I am new to the forum, this is my first try. I do hope I found a correct way to post messages. Hopefully, the picture is attached.

Pavel

[Janet Petty]

Welcome pavel. It is great to see your first post and you as well. I'm glad you jumped right in and got started.

You will have a lot of good experiences here. There is a lot to learn. And the environment is friendly as well.

Good work.

Janet

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

Welcome pavel. It is great to see your first post and you as well. I'm glad you jumped right in and got started.

You will have a lot of good experiences here. There is a lot to learn. And the environment is friendly as well.

Good work.

Janet

Janet,

Thank you for the welcoming note.

So many talented people, so many trully astonishing works. I do hope to learn

At any rate it will take me forever to get anythere close to the examples I see here, but as Danny stated, rule No one is to have fun...

Best regards.
Pavel

[Frank Lopes]

I had the book... changed the perspective of the rendering.

Originally Posted by lkroll

Now that's just too cool; an action perhaps, or was this done from a book and you changed perspective of Jereme's rendering? Kudos to both of you.

[Peter S]

Smooth, Lucis, blur, sharpen, levels.
For the most part, some minor other stuff as well.

Peter

[Kraellin]

you've gotten some good mileage out of lucis. i like this one.

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

you've gotten some good mileage out of lucis. i like this one.

Thanks Craig

I need the practice on it - hence all the activity lately

Peter

[Janet Petty]

Interesting, I posted to this thread yesterday but it is no longer showing.

Peter, your style is quite unique and works well with this image.

Janet

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

Interesting, I posted to this thread yesterday but it is no longer showing.

Peter, your style is quite unique and works well with this image.

Janet

Thank you Janet, much appreciated.
I obviously did not see you comment yesterday or I would have replied.
I've never been called a "nique" before - this is something new, I may enjoy this.

Peter

[sylvia1065]

What a great picture !
Sylvia

[palms]

Good post to reopen Sylvia great work

one of those everything thrown at it techniques

Palms

[Kraellin]

nice one, sylvia

that has an aged photo look, palms. nice

[Trimoon]

Click here for larger image.
It's been a long time since I did my first version of this. And thought I'd give it a try again, to see if I could still do it. I use the art history brush and the smudge tool, the art history brush to lay the color down the way I wanted it and the smudge tool to smooth it out. Then I added some texture.

Steve

[Kraellin]

nice one, trimoon i had to open the full size to truly get the effect.

[learninlady]

Heres what I have played out. I tried to resize but lost too much info by doing so. Thats why a link to the actual size photo.


http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ngbookpage.gif



HA, this could be another mini-challenge!
Color it!