PHOTO ART: Mini-Challenge #55 – Steinhatchee Harbor

[d_kendal]

Hey, thats a really cool manipulation frank! great idea. how did you get the ripples in the water around the hand?

- David

[herman]

Having a great time trying my hand on these oldies!

Evening falls

Three layers. The top layer (execpt the sky) opacity 50%, burned adn adjusted levels. The middle layer with a lensflare, th first layer unchanged.

[GOLDCOIN]

Herman .....

Utterly amazing in the transformation of day to a beautiful sunset.... very captivating!

[herman]

Thank you! It's so inspiring to be around here!

[Cheryl H]

I went on a Virtual Painter kick today and went looking through the old challenges for good candidates. This one worked well.

Bottom to top

A) VP watercolor
B) VP Pointillism—soft light
C) VP Pastel—color
D) VP Oil Painting—Lighten
E) VP Gouache—hue
F) Filter—Stylize—find edges—soft light 50%
K) Soft Sketch layer—Darken
a. Desaturate
b. Duplicate
c. Invert top copy
d. Color Dodge and Gaussian Blur (high 4-8)
e. Merge down and duplicate again
f. Multiply and Gaussian Blur (high 4-8)
G) Original –soft light
H) Pattern fill layer in soft light mode for texture

[lkroll]

Some Retinex, Mr. Contrast, Impressionist, and Paint Engine play. Oh yes, NIK's free Colorfx warmth filter too.

[Kraellin]

lk,

i like that 'mist' sort of effect in the foreground. i also find the fade to black and white interesting.

craig

[Steve Conway]

Used to be a great place to go fishing until they built all the condos along the river.

Anyway here's my stab.

Steve

[Kraellin]

steve,

an interesting effect. dont need the whole work flow, but some idea of how you achieved this?

also, an interesting choice of flow lines, especially in the water? why the contrasting flow lines there? i like the light blue as it tends to follow the flow of the water, but why the horizontal in the dark blue?

craig

[Steve Conway]

Thanks Craig.

A combination thing.....Buzz, Gertrudis, and Impressionist. Used pencil strokes in Impressionist on the top layer and the result is what you see. I just kinda liked the maybe offbeat look.

Steve

Originally Posted by Kraellin

steve,

an interesting effect. dont need the whole work flow, but some idea of how you achieved this?

also, an interesting choice of flow lines, especially in the water? why the contrasting flow lines there? i like the light blue as it tends to follow the flow of the water, but why the horizontal in the dark blue?

craig

[Kraellin]

fair enough

i also see a bit of van gogh here.

craig

[OnAir]

Lens blur, tonal ajustment, applied real paper texture.

[MargaretM]

Here is a Pointillist version, done in Painter with Seurat brush and details with a fine camel. Added very subtle basic paper.
Took me a while to find a comfort zone in Painter, but now I cannot live without it.
Nice work, everyone. Once again great variations.
MargaretM

[Steve Conway]

Sometimes I get a nice Van Gogh effect using Gert. Seems to just happen depending on subject matter and stroke combinations.

Am always stumbling on something new when playing with this plugin.

Steve

Originally Posted by Kraellin

fair enough

i also see a bit of van gogh here.

craig

[Kraellin]

Am always stumbling on something new when playing with this plugin.

amen to that

craig

[palms]

I have been messing around with different way's to use the cutout filter and here's two of them !

Palms

[jaysmummy]

Hi and thank you for these forums and all the different techniques shared here.

I tried to give this photo an oil painted look using a few different layers smart blurred and with different opacities, and then playing with brushes, art strokes filters and lighting effects filters set to texturize. Some layers were tinted slightly yellow with photopaint's smoked glass filter which adds more blur as well.

[palms]

Hi and welcome jaysmummy your first post is good and very interesting, hope to see your work around

Palms

[Swampy]

I've really been busy so about all I had time to do was run "Big Picture" action on this.

[pregan]

I used Gertrudis for this using the following workflow :

1 - Set the saturation slider to 75%
2 - Went over entire image w/large pastel brush
3 - Then went over shoreline w/vincent brush. As I went further into distance I increased the opacity.
4 - Went over boat w/smaller sized vincent brush
5 - Went over boat w/small oil brush w/high opacity to bring out more definition
6 - First half of water I went over w/high opacity medium oil brush

[TwoLaidBack]

Here's my try at this one. Sorry I can't remember all the steps taken to achive this.

TwoLaidBack

[sylvia1065]

Another one.
Sylvia

[Peter S]

It never fails to amaze me, the detail that Lucis can bring out of a picture, I hadn't noticed the big thing in the middle before.

Peter

[sylvia1065]

I hadn't noticed the big thing in the middle before.

Me neither! Well done, Peter!
Sylvia

[gpaul]

Simple use of PaintShop Pro 8 Salt and Pepper Filter with modest desaturation

[MiningArt]

Great versions all around. For mine I used PE after tuning and adjustments.