PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #46 – English Ladies

[garazon]

Well my New Years resolution of quitting smoking has resulted in me spending way too much time playing with photos..
I even noted all the steps!

duplicated original, blend layer - dodge 20% opacity,
merged down
dulipcated twice
inverted top layer, gaussian blur 71%, soft light blend 50%,
merged
duplicated
duplicated the inverted layer above, greyscaled(xero), color blend 50%
merged these (merged2 in layers image)
virtual photographer plugin, ambience setting, softest effect,
DCNR
my photoart PSP Script PSPscript
added photo edge mask

( hope it's okay to link to the PSP Script, it's mine PSP9 users, right click, save to your restricted scripts folder. )

[Kraellin]

tlb,

perfect! i love it

and thank you

craig

[TwoLaidBack]

Hey Crag,

Glad you like it and hope you know I was just joking around in the earlier post. I really do appreciate the head up on that cause I really did miss that last night.

Gezz I guess I'm going to have to start going to bed a little earlier from now on or at least stop trying to do graphic that late at night.

Again thanks.
TwoLaidBack

[Kraellin]

tlb,

i took no offense from your remark. in fact, even if you had meant it, i wouldnt have

and you're welcome!

as for late night almost dones, been there, done that, got the giant coffee mug to prove it.

craig

[Photomaster]

Played with the image in PS. Applied many adjustment layers, a couple of Xero filters and a lot of independent brush work.

[Chance_1]

Many amazing renditions in this multi-year thread !

TwoLaidBack, I like your dual high key renditions, great job, that smudge job gave a cool effect.
Garazon, cool edges !
Photomaster, like your rendition also, vivid and bright colors.

Here's my water color interpretation !

Chance

[TwoLaidBack]

Originally Posted by Chance_1

TwoLaidBack, I like your dual high key renditions, great job, that smudge job gave a cool effect.

Chance

Chance,
I'm glad you enjoyed the effect. I love this watercolor effect you’ve achieved. I've just received Photoshop Elements 3 and have been looking for a really good watercolor action that will work in elements. Anyone know of one I could find?

TwoLaidBack

[Chance_1]

TLB, thanks for your comments.
Regarding the watercolor tutorials, there are two good one's located right here in this forum.

1. Jaykita's watercolor tutorial in this thread at http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/rp-tutorials/10772-jaykitas-watercolor-technigue.html
2. Tim Shelbourne tutorial in this thread at http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-art-resources/12294-tutorial-link-watercolor-tim-shelbourne-photoshop.html

I am sure there are other tutorials as well, and I am for sure am always on the lookout for watercolor tutorials in particular.
Most of the tutorials are for photoshop, and I do not know enough about Photoshop Elements to know if any of it would work.

Chance

[TwoLaidBack]

Chance_1,

Thank you very much for taking the time to look this up. I had a quick look at it and will go back later today to see what I can do with it. I think I have everything she is using to acheive this. LOL

Ps. You can view one of my latest attempts at a watercolor using PSP here if you'd like.

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...chmentid=28805

Again thanks.
TwoLaidBack

[Kraellin]

tlb,

that's an excellent watercolor! i've never been able to get that result using psp. i can see i'm going to have to re-look at this.

craig

[TwoLaidBack]

WOW thanks Crag,

One of the things I've found is it help if I use the colored sketch script I've recorded to be run before trying to apply the Brush Stroke effect set to watercolor it just give it a smoother finish in the end and makes it look more like a watercolor.

I don't know what version of PSP your using but this script works in v.8 & 9 but don't know about the latest version 10. If you'd like I could send you the colored sketch script off the board I'd just need your e-mail address. The rest that is need to acheive this comes with PSP.

The Brush Stroke set to Watercolor setting I used:
Softness=4,Lenght=15,Bristles=175,Density=16,width=6,angle=311,Opacity=0,color=#000000

TwoLaidBack

[Chance_1]

Here is another great Watercolor tutorial by Shan Canfield, from the book Retouching and Restoring by Katrin Eismann which is for Photoshop and is downloadable;

Unfortunately a direct link is not available, but you can get the information via the following method: Go to http://www.digitalretouch.org and
From there on the left side, scroll down to "Third Edition Photoshop CS2" and here click on "Tutorial Images", then scroll down to Chapter 8
and download "ch8_babyoriginal.jpg" and "ch8_BabyWatercolor.pdf" ... This will enable you to do and follow that watercolor tutorial.

[TwoLaidBack]

Chance_1 I don't know how to thank you.

This is great i'll have to set down tonight and try them all out! LOL Oh my looks like I'm going to be busy tonight....

I just tried the first link you posted and although half way through it I strayed off I got some great results. What it did do was get me on the right track. Hey but that's what it's all about isn't it?

Again Thanks so much.
TwoLaidBack

[Peter S]

I reckon the one one the left is frowning because her bodice is to tight, you can't tell cos shes not facing the camera.

Peter

[dmint]

2nd attempt at a challenge
......Decided to go for a chalk style

Method:

Balanced Highlights & shadows

Colour balanced using levels to remove the green/blue cast

Impressionist chalk default

Line drawing action on the top layer dry brushed to reduce detail blend to multiply

hope this fits in with the theme