[pstewart]

Don, yes, I thought of that same thing. Too bad our challenge pic wasn't the Statue of Liberty. Which would be a good one, btw, Danny... hint hint.

Frank, love the reflection in the river. That walkway does look like it belongs by a river, and you finished it beautifully.

Jeff, I like how your technique looks on the trees...brought out a nice 3-D puffy look!

Danny, yes I did something different in the sketch. I used Trimoon's method, basically, but in the blur/dodge layer step, I did two versions of this procedure then combined them with mixed opacity.

The first was a sharp outline with the normal blur method. For the second, which makes it different, I blurred the top layer using KPT2's gaussian glow, which is a one-step version of something anyone can do with Photoshop: Dupe over original (no inversion) then gaussian blur top layer and set mode to darken and merge.

Problem here is that you already have to set the top layer to color dodge, so how do you also set it to darken? Maybe by fading in edit to darken, while leaving the layer itself in color dodge mode. Don't know if this would give the same result, but seems like it might...

I liked the way the gaussian glow shaded the edges of the building while keeping the edge lines fine. I will use this again for sure. If anyone figures out how to combine the necessary steps above for those who lack KPT2, I'm sure you'll share the info.

Phyllis

[arthill]

wow, lots of interesting stuff. It's kinda cool seeing your own picture interpreted so many way. Love the pencil sketches and the mirrored one. Too many good ones to mention.
Art

[arthill]

I had to contribute something so this is it. Glow Edges.

[omeyas]

Hotel in Valides

[ecurbh]

I went for kind of a parchment-y old-world watercolor-ish feel with this one.

[pstewart]

Ecurb, very nice...like what it did to the trees and the wall especially.

Phyllis

[pstewart]

Playing with Virtual Painter... just love the smooth simplicity of this collage filter!

Phyllis

[collinf]

Sat at work, bored, so I thought I'd have a play . . .

[KenB]

Here is my submission. First I promoted the background to a layer and then duplicated it. Hid the original layer and scaled the duped layer up and then moved it over to the left. Did a hue/saturation adjustment and added noise and then used the multiply layer blend mode, merged and saved.


Ken

[Cheryl H]

I decided to take another try with the dark paint look I've been working on. I just can't seem to find settings that work consistantly though. I'm about ready to give up trying on this look--I just can't figure it out like I want it.

Basically 2 "sets" that I blend together when finished.

First set: Flaming Pear's Mr. Contrast blended with the original (mr c, orig, mr c)

Second set: Flaming Pear's Melancholytron blended with the original. (mel, orig, mel)

Put the second set on top the first set and blended those.

Then made a copy of the result and applied Flaming Pear's Lacquer. Blended those 2 layers together and added texture.

[Cheryl H]

I had to try an impressionist version of this one. Several blended impressionist layers with find edges and a gaussian blur sketch on top. Finished with a light texture.

[gina]

I think all renditions are beautiful
Here's my try

some layers with different glass distortions, two layers with paint engine, wild river and impression, lighting effects and a curves adjusting


nice work from everyone!
I learn a lot from you guys

[gina]

I made a lighter version afterwards

desturate-invert-cutout-hue and saturation

[vijayan]

Chery, the first one is fantastic and it has that fantacy back droop.
Mauler it isenough to scare..
Gina the previous one stands defferent..
This is my Hotel..
A Filter > Stylize>solarize and Other >custom and defferent levels as usual..

thankyuo

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vijayan

[gina]

Hi Vijayan,


very dark and ominous this last picture, nice


gina