[vijayan]

gina, thank you very much; and I see your submissions very interestingly. That is good you are keeping always an identity in concept and in creation.

Thank you

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vijayan

[vijayan]

Mauler,
really I am very sorry.
Thanks for the reminder. Actually i do not know how I missed it. usually I do visit the challenge pages and go back to my works, but sometimes I do check PM box also.This was a long delay in between, and for that I am really very very sorry....
Deffinitly you can receive my reply..

thank you

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vijayan

[ahutton]

Looking for images to try out my fake buzz pro filter on. Paint Engine Poster 7, toned down in effect, then colored edges, toned down. Soft focus and texture.

AmyHutton

[angue]

ahutton,
I was intrigued by your experiment to replicate buzz pro. That got me trying a different route. I used Cutout filter and smart blur.

[annadarling]

I liked this peaceful image and wanted to enjoy a few moments after a long week at work. The image has been cropped, weathered, had the lighting adjusted, and run through several filters to bring out the blue/green tones. Thanks for the chance to have some fun!

[philbach]

Phyllis I really liked your pencil sketch. How did you do it?

[Patricia]

The old hotel seemed to call for an "old" treatment.

I wish I could remember all that I did, I just kept playing with it until I had something I liked. I know I adjusted the levels, colors, simplified it with Buzz, ran the artistic-rough pastels and faded it, merged layers, then ran Sheri's sketch action on it, made a copy of the background, moved it to the top, set to luminosity. There were other steps, but this is all I remember. Should have kept notes!

Patricia

[philbach]

Well I really liked it. The end result was very pleasing to me.

[Neve]

Duped bottom layer.
L2 - Flaming Pear/Tachyon/Mode(Soft Light)
Merged and duped layer again.
L2 - AIM/USM
Paint Alchemy/Oil Tipped Sparse/
Layer Blend Mode - Screen
Merged and duped layer again
L2 - Mode Hard Light.
Merged.
Auto Sat/More Colour
Duped Layer
L2 - Mode Multiply 40%
Merged

[Reason]

Originally Posted by pstewart

Chuck, Tony, Jerry, Alan, Danny, all nice sketches and paintings. Jerry, lovely sketch as always. Alan, nice bright painting look. Chuck, I guess that's Virtual Painter...turned out great. Tony, maybe you "don't know what to call it," but I'd call it a moody watercolor. Danny, bold, bright, simple colors all work together...with the help of anisotropic diffuse, of course.

My first attempt at this is not a painting but more of a statement. I have to stop watching the news because the world is just too depressing these days. Why is everyone so anxious to kill everyone who doesn't agree? If there is a god, I don't think he'd be too happy with us these days...might just start to think he made a mistake.

Phyllis

nice image

[Reason]

Originally Posted by omeyas

Hotel in Valides

Wonderful, I love it.

[icewynd]

OK -- I'm up for this.

What I did was duplicated the original and boosted the saturation and contrast and lowered the brightness somewhat.

Then I duplicated this layer and applied Filter>Impressionist>Paint>Fluorescent Palette Knife. I set the blending mode to 'Lighten' and added a layer mask to restore some of the detail to the dome.

I thought that some of the detail needed to be removed from the trees so I duplicated the BG again and applied Filter>Impressionist>Chalk>Detailed Opaque Strokes. Blending was set to 'Luminosity'. Again, I added a layer mask and restored some of the architectural detail to the Hotel and some detail to the street scene.

Thanks to Danny Raphael for introducing me to the Impressionist plug-in and for his instruction in the use of layer masks.

Icewynd

[SWEngineer]

A belated welcome to you, Icewynd. Looks like you have a good eye for Impressionist. Hope to see more.

I found another toy in Painter8: Sponges>GlazingSponge60. Started with some cropping and contrast enhancement. In Painter8, cloned the image with BristleOilsCloner15. Then went to work w/ the GlazingSponge, using several applications of different colors. This ruined the sky, and of course I did this on the original cloned copy. So, I cloned the sky back in on a new layer and lowered the opacity. Finished w/ some texture in Elements2.

-Mark

[Janet Petty]

Icewynd and Mark, your use of the tools is impressive. You both have great paintings. I've never used the fluorescent palette knife. And as I'm just beginning to explore Painter, I'll have a look at that glazing sponge too.

Great job.

Janet

[vijayan]

Icewynd, good painting and an innovative one.. a real color magic...

SW, Great one like a period painting.....Classic one...Big hand !!!

thanks
vijayan