PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #59 – Hotel in Valides

[Swampy]

Love the way the trees came out! Fantastic!

[Kraellin]

thanks dee dee. i'm still working on this process. i'm not real happy yet with the high values...just a bit too bright yet, but it's getting there

lol steve. well, they've got the matterhorn, so why not the rest of the range

craig

[Kraellin]

dk,

i like that too. like swampy said, great trees. i also like that you brought out the gold dome more.

craig

[dkcoats]

Thanks, Swampy & Craig.

I wiped out the outlines in the trees and I'm glad I did - I think that's what made the difference.

David

[GEENIUSPIX]

I'm not use to recording my moves but the best I can remember is this...

I took out the blue sky - I ran the upper part of the building thru a plug in "terazzo" [oldie but a goodie] - a lil motion blurr and a redish gradient thru the sky. Oh The redish part [the sky] was a seperate layer. Which I copied twice I darkened the underlying layer. Then I used the eraser on the top layer and started erasing [like a pok a dot effect]



Yeah yeah that's the ticket

Man I hope I did this right....

[Swampy]

Greeniuspix.. Rome is buring? Great effect in the sky. The only thing I might suggest it to mask out the red gradient in the area of the dome so that the gold dome doesn't pick up the red tint. It kinda looks like the sky color is mixing in with the beautiful gold detailing in the dome.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by GEENIUSPIX

I'm not use to recording my moves but the best I can remember is this...

I hope I did this right....

Greeniuspix... Welcome to the forum and thanks for leaping into the pool. Ya done just fine, here.

Good job on the rememberin', too. I've got Terazzo myself, but it's been quite a while since I've used it.

Keep the artwork coming. I like your creative style.

~Danny~

[lkroll]

Dup, Toadies set to Overlay, Impressionist using CherylH's fine brush. Flatten. Dupped and then CherylH's finger paint 1 with adjuste opacity and some selective erasing. Flatten. Auto Contrast. Done.

[palms]

Some very inspiratioanal work done on this thread missed it last time round so have remedied that !

Made a colour sketch added smart blur and a bit of tweaking

Palms

[sylvia1065]

Hello,
Here is my submission.
By the way, this building is spelled "Hotel des Invalides" and is located in Paris. It used to be kind of a hospital during Napoleon's days, and as never been a hotel as we now know them.
Sylvia

[Swampy]

Very nice, Sylvia!

[klassylady25]

How many remember a song sung by Robert Goulette by the title above? I believe he sang it in Camelot. I could hear it as I worked upon this picture. Thank you so very much for sharing.

[Harry122]

I'll take the challenge! It's a tower, now!

[Kraellin]

klassy,

"i love paris in the springtime.
i love paris in the fall.
i love paris in the winter, when it's drizzling.
i love paris in the summer, when it's sizzling."

yup. i remember. we used to do that in acapella.

craig

[klassylady25]

You're a kick.... that's the song!

[Kraellin]

Originally Posted by klassylady25

You're a kick.... that's the song!

craig

[fets_b]

Actually second but the first one didnt work...hope this one does hope you like the color treatment!!! Dont be shy rock the vote
Stef
hope you get to see the pix this time

[Peter S]

With all the great pictures here, Im not sure mine is up to it, but what the Heck

Smoothed
Lucis
Poster edges
Diffuse
Loads of brush strokes to remove a halo that appeared around the edge of the building
Auto levels

Peter

[palms]

Originally Posted by Peter S

With all the great pictures here, Im not sure mine is up to it, but what the Heck

Peter

I think it just about cuts it Peter
very nice Peter really envy you the lucis still cant justify the price of buying it

Palms

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by palms1

I think it just about cuts it Peter
very nice Peter really envy you the lucis still cant justify the price of buying it

Palms

Thanks Palms.
It was a present so didn't ask price - just very grateful.

Peter

[belhbo]

I'm submitting a pair of images for this challenge. This is the first. I applied 19 effects to the original to "fix" the photo to my taste. This involved the following steps:
1. select the sky as a layer and render in blending mode 'multiply'
2. Rosenman/diffuse glow filter to the sky
3. fill flash (amount=6) to everything but the sky
4. Rosenman/diffuse glow filter to everything
5. Photo Plugins/soft focus filter
6. select sky/inverse then Lighting effects/omni filter
7. Copied image as Layer 1
8. Desaturated L1 by Enhance/remove color
9. Copied L1 by dragging to icon in layer screen to make L2
10. With L2 as active layer, Image/Adjustments/Invert
11. Set L2 blend mode to ‘color dodge’
12. Applied Minimum filter to L2 to taste
13. ‘Merge down’ L2 to L1 taste
14. Adjusted opacity of L1 to Background to taste to add color
15. Photo Plugins/soft focus filter
16. Red Paw/beautifier filter
17. Xero/caravaggio filter to trees to soften them
18. Pog/blurrinator filter to sky
19. Pog/blurrinator filter to trees

[belhbo]

This is my second submission. It takes off from my previous image which involved 19 steps to "fix" the original to my taste. This image is my attempt to give it a 'Van Gogh' look. It involved the following 8 filters:
1. Paint Engine filter/custom brush stroke
2. Paint Daubs
3. IP Process/adaptive equalization
4. Lighting effects/omni
5. Photo Plugins/contrast mask
6. Paint Engine filter/custom brush stroke
7. Rosenman/diffuse glow
8. Little Ink Pot/xpose (to sky) to bring out yellow tones

[Mining Art]

Lots of nice versions, I just played with everything for awhile, went for color and brightness. Combination of built in effects and the Fantastic Machine Paint Engine.

[LdyNghtWng]

Better late than never? I just wanted to try out a new idea and thought I would post =)

Layers in Photoshop

1. New layer
2.Duplicate Background
3.Duplicate Bakground
4. Background

First, I turn off layers 1 and 2 so I can see what I am doing. Layer 3 Find edges, then desaturate, adjust brightness and contrast to get nice line drawing.

Then fill Layer 1 with white. Turn down opacity so I can see layer underneath and used a painterly brush, in this case, 27 pixel spatter brush and added in colour all over the place. Then returned to 100 % opacity and used watercolour filter.

Deleted layer 2.

Then Layer 1 darken and layer 2 overlay to bring in some colour from the original to "fill in the blanks" left by my painting.

Adjusted brightness/contrast to suit, erased a few distracting dark spots by painting over in white, and there it is =)

[mikajomc]

I like the look of your technique. Thanks for giving the details. Welcome to RetouchPro!

[kooo]

Little pencil-like feeling

1) Conversion to b&w
2) Curves
3) Created reflection (actually copied idea from omeyas)
4) Graphite pen filter

[Alcar]

Miss this thread before. Here's an Impressionist Plugin interpretation.
Alan

[dkcoats]

Hotel Invalides redux...

...with Painter this time.

[erinavery]

that was fun... this is my not so serious attempt because i really don't know what i'm doing... but i mostly just played with light and color and added canvas texture to one and lightning to the other...haha

so many really impressive ones here though...i really enjoyed looking at them.

ETA: sorry...you can't see the animation in the 2nd image with that link...maybe this will work
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...1286396924.gif

[palms]

Originally Posted by erinavery

that was fun... this is my not so serious attempt because i really don't know what i'm doing... but i mostly just played with light and color and added canvas texture to one and lightning to the other...haha

so many really impressive ones here though...i really enjoyed looking at them.

ETA: sorry...you can't see the animation in the 2nd image with that link...maybe this will work
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...1286396924.gif

Nice work there erinavery the animation is super well done look forward to seeing some more

Palms