PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #46 – English Ladies

[DannyRaphael]

FIRST MINI-CHALLENGE?
See below for "Information and Guidelines."

Here’s another “mini-challenge” to play with in the Photo-based Art category until the next offical challenge is posted here.

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PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge# 46 – English Ladies

Remember the English gent from a couple weeks ago? This is the other image from that set taken this summer at a festival in Tunbridge Wells, UK and submitted by RetouchPRO member Leah.

Obligatory legal mumbo jumbo: Leah retains the U.S. and international copyright © not only for the original image, but for any photo-art versions of it. Unauthorized distribution or use without her permission are prohibited.

Another fun image. Thanks, Leah, for letting me use it.

Good luck and have fun.

~DannyR~

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INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES

Unlike “official challenges” for this forum which can be found here, this one will be self-contained within this thread. It is intended as an opportunity to engage in this artform until the next official challenge is posted.

The rules are more-or-less the same:
* It’s a challenge, not a contest -- intended to provide opportunities to experiment, share methods and/or techniques and, most importantly, have FUN.
* Everyone who participates is a winner.
* There’s no expiration date.

GUIDELINES:
1. Use any method, application(s), style(s) you like:
. * Convert to sketch, grayscale, abstract, watercolor, oil painting, pen-and-ink, Conte crayon, impasto, van Gogh or any style of your choosing
. * Add elements from other images (collage) or replace the background
. * Hand painting? Tracing? Freehand? You bet. Always appreciate entries of this nature.
. * Apply filters from your favorite application(s) or tweak it with 3rd party plug-ins
. * Feeling animated? Something creative, but not too creative, with that strategically placed flower?
. * Any or all of the above

Bottom line:
How you create this masterpiece makes no difference. Whatever floats your boat as long as you follow guideline #4 in the process.

2. When done, reply to this thread and attach your work (don’t forget the 100kb size limit).

Note: Multiple entries OK if you’re so inspired.

3. By all means include some verbiage on how you achieved your masterpiece so others will benefit from your skills and experience. Make it as descriptive as you like. Grammar and spelling will not be graded. Priority given to content, not how it is written.

4. Have fun.

[angue]

Chuck,
It's a natural. I was thinking about that myself.

Here's an "oldworld" oil painting.
Copy the image 3 times
1st layer - Filter>Artistic>Pallette knife -6 , 3 , 2
2nd layer - Filter>Artistic>Dry brush - 10 , 10 , 1
3rd layer- Filter>Blur>Smart blur - 20 20 edge only. Invert , Adjust level to reduce busy lines. I might have put in a gaussian blurr (I can't remember)
Blending mode - soft light on all three
Erased background from original because it is too distracting. I didn't want to leave it white so I put ... New Layer brush style - heavy oil dry edge light gray opacity 25 to 30 and painted in some colors.
Flatenned , Filter, Render> lighting effects>spotlight. texture channel - blue, amount -3

Tony

[pstewart]

Chuck, I love it! How clever of you!

Tony, really nice painting effect!

Phyllis

[DannyRaphael]

CHUCK:

The "eyes" definitely say a lot here. Brilliant concept and execution!

TONY:

Very, very nice result with some basic steps. Thanx for sharing.

~Danny~

[CJ Swartz]

Chuck -- You're a b-a-a-a-d boy! Good work, but a bad boy!

Tony -- Lovely! I've been trying for a similar look with this image and just couldn't make it happen -- next time, I'll have a new "recipe" to try! :

[pstewart]

This painting was done with dustnscratches filter, sharpened with KPT equalize (Wow--worth the cost of KPT6 on its own!), overlaid with a texture from Andromeda techtures, and finished with a slight bit of render-lighting embossing.

You still have a week or so to order this awesome package deal from andromeda.com by the way...4 KPT's plus techtures (along with a pretty useless Dreamsuite2).

Phyllis

[pstewart]

Thought I'd try a sketch. It's more heavy looking than the lovely sketches by Lynda and Trimoon and others, but then I'm not a delicate sort of lady.

To get a b/w version to layer/dodge/blur, I used the green channel, since it had the most detail where I wanted it.

And instead of gaussian blur, I used motion blur. I also overlaid an extreme motion blur of the resulting image then sharpened that a bit to give the strokes a gentle diagonal look.

I painted the mask with a spatter brush over the left lady's hair, the worst part of the pic, to bring out better texture.

Phyllis

[omeyas]

Bit stuck for ideas on this one.

[jerry]

Wow..go away for 4 or 5 days and you guys go crazy with new art to look at..

Danny.. really interesting set of new art challenges..Got to try to dive in.. Thanks

Chuck.. very funny..reminds me of Barcellona in the 70's.

Tony.. Excellent painting effect.. I really like your technique.

Phyllis.. Your painting is great.. But you know that I am partial to your sketch.. It is Really Good..

Frank.. Very interesting mirror effect.. I like what you did with the color treatment..

I Thought I would give this one a try..Thought I would try for an illustration look...Who Knows???

Jerry

[GOLDCOIN]

Beware .....Filters are fun but can be addictive.

Used an overlay 100% on a blend mode layer, applied a couple of filters for the scan lines.
Filter--sketch--halftone. For the color used a gradient.

[omeyas]

I Thought I would give this one a try..Thought I would try for an illustration look...Who Knows???

Jerry

Jerry, I like that, nice effect.
Frank

[pstewart]

Jerry, great job on the illustration!

Goldcoin, that is wildly creative! I see you amplified her bust a bit too...cute!

Phyllis

[GOLDCOIN]

Busted! The devil's return to this thread.

Excellent eye, Phyllis. Was the result of the sphere filter.

[joaco]

Hello everybody:
I have filtered this image in Photoshop with dry brush in the filters:artistic menu. After that I used the levels to lighten it up. Then I opened it in Painter 6 to hand paint it over with the soft charcoal brush to achieve a more natural look
Thank you for such inspiring image.
Joaco

[DannyRaphael]

Joaco:

W E L C O M E ! I haven't had the opportunity to say hello, yet. I'm pleased to meet you.

I see you're one of those people who uses Painter along with Photoshop. Painter is a wonderful program.

You have a nice touch with your images. Hope to see more of them in the future.

~Danny~

[themanda]

I had to take a crack at this one.

I'm really having fun with these oil paintings, so I thought I'd see what else I could use as a texture to mimick brush strokes.

Ran these ladies through several Paint Engine filters, most notably the impression 1 and 2 and soft pastel chalk. A little bit of underpainting and splatter in there as well. I ended up using a daisy as a texture...I liked the long, thin spokes as strokes.

Overlaid the layer a few times in soft light blend mode over a dark green background. I wanted it to feel luminous, but I couldn't quite get the depth I was after without blowing out the contrast.

[Pam]

Themanda -
That's gorgeous! It really looks like an old world painting. The lighting is wonderful. Great job!

Pam

[DannyRaphael]

Very, very nice, Amanda.

I'm going to add a post to the "Paint Engine" thread pointing to your creation. It's one of the best uses of PE I've seen.

Bravo.

~DannyR~

[pstewart]

Chuck, nice impressionistic painting look. I really like your brush stroke style. <snicker>

Amanda, I had no idea Paint Engine could do that! Well...it couldn't have without your creativity and expertise and patience. I have put that one into my keeper file for inspiration...great job!

Phyllis

[themanda]

Wow, everybody! Thanks!!!

Chuck, I really like your impressionist painting. The colors in it are terrific...nice and light and airy.

[pstewart]

Chuck, I love those bold brushstrokes. The pic is a bit too large to see all at once though.

Phyllis

[Cheryl H]

Interesting. When I saw the original I thought of the dark heavy portraits you see sometimes. As I went down the thread I saw a series of wonderful, light renditions.

It took me a lot of doing and undoing to get the final look. I buzzed the original lightly before starting the final round to get rid of noise. I used Flaming Pear's Mr. Contrast with dups of thr original blended in for color. Then started on a new copy with Flaming Pear's Melancholytron again with dups of the original blended in for color. Then I worked on blending copies of the 2 previous experiments together with more copies of the original. After I had a good blend, I went to Flaming Pear's lacquer to give it depth. More blending and finally a texture.

[gina]

Wow Cheryl,


This one is really different ! Thanks for sharing your method
I can find something to do with those filters then
Till now I thought they were often too extreem to be of really good value to me.
Thanks

gina

[Cheryl H]

Gina,

I couldn't agree more! Flaming Pear on it's own is way out there. But I'm finding that it does really nice things when blended with other filters.

If you've got their India Ink filter, you might like this posted by Andrew B. http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/sho...&threadid=6446 I've tried it on a few pics and been very happy with the results.

[tenneysmith]

Hope I am uploading this alright..... This particular image got away from. I used Photoshop paint daubs, kpt noise, xero lithograph and lineart, and ampisoft simplifier. Mostly it was playing with blending and opacity and this rather different image was what came from it all....
Cathy

[catia]

Cathy, You go girl.

Here is a van Gogh done in Painter Classic. First erased some of the background (especially that uhgg shirt ). Then applied Effects, Focus, Soften. Cloned a copy and ran Esoterica Auto Van Gogh.

Catia

[vijayan]

Again upon some beautiful old snaps and sofar everything is fine.
Tenneysmith.very good effects and so colourful.
catia, good result of Van Gogh and very sober also.
thank you...

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vijayan

[vijayan]

And here is my ladies with Filter>poster edges and did levels and curves..
some thing like a kind of old illustration..
thank you everyone....

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vijayan

[vijayan]

Thank you Mauler,and again I thank for your Interests..
But I am with my own limitations and It is not at all to be delivered authenticaly or it is nothing but practice..
I do appreciate everyone in a deserving manner But , normaly I do not go after someone blindly..
One should allways have a mistake, then only it will lead to a discovary..

Ok now my turn, My ladies..
It is Filter>Brush strokes>Crosshatch+Sprayed strokes and many times levels in RGB..
Thank you all
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vijayan

[photofixer]

I believe these two lovely English Ladies have been truly immortalized in all the lovely old world paintings. Lots of good ideas there.

I wanted to try something a bit different....



I used the control+alt+~ thing to select the luminosity, inverted that, and applied some bevel and emboss in a layer style. The rest is just a lot of texturing and contrast.


Sharon