PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #68 – Artists' Favorite Creation(s) or Something New

[Reason]

Originally Posted by Blacknight

Probably this should go elsewhere, but I thought I'd keep it with David's comments on Terragen because that's what I used to make the basis for this - watercolored in PS7.

that is pretty neat, never thought about terragen that way before.

[Legacy~Art]

Ok my hobby is going to fairs, taking photos or using the customers photos and do then i get commisioned to do these...my boyfriend prints them off for me as i cannot handle the sound of the printer, and we frame them.

include a original photograph of motorbike and also my painting of the motorbike...all done in photoshop...and here is the finished product.

[lkroll]

My brother and sister-in-law invited me to the Montgomery Zoo this past weekend; took a lot of shots of various animals, and, of course, my little almost 2 year old nephew. You all probably will not like this rendering, but I had a joyful time creating it.

[Janet Petty]

I certainly missed this thread several times over when I browsed this forum. Thanks to whomever resurrected it.

A couple of my favorites are posted below.

Janet

[raniday]

Looks like I missed it, too, Ms. Janet. I'm always working on my next favorite piece, but for right now this is it.
When I tried to attach it, I got You have already attached this file in thread : Creative Portraits: Beyonce Knowles
I don't know how to re-attach it, so here's a higher res version:
http://www.pbase.com/catbounds/image/48288859

[Steve Conway]

Here is one I have not posted, done in Lautrec style.

I kinda like it.

Steve

[Alcar]

Steve, that's absolutely terrific. Love to know how you did it.
Alan

[Kraellin]

steve,

i'm also a fan of your latrec's. very nice.

Craig

[cazubi]

Great look Steve. How did you do it?

Cathy

[Steve Conway]

Thanks to Alan, Cathy & Craig for the nice comments.

Basically it's Buzz, blends, and brush strokes. I call it the bible method, "Seek And Ye Shall Find." So I can't give you a step by step method. Usually I don't remember all the steps and each image will call for different manips to get the same result. That's where the "seek" comes in. 8-)

Steve

[Swampy]

I took a PhotoShop class a number of years ago (three days of intensive investigation of the various tools). Somewhere about PS version 5, I think... Anyway we were given this photo in the cloning tool seminar.

The object was to clone out the extraneous wires and correct the building distortion. The difficulty becomes apparent when you have to clone angles, reflective surfaces (windows with vertical curtains and reflections) and small detail areas (wires and shadows across the balcony railings) and various surface textures.

[Kraellin]

you did all that with just cloning? that's pretty impressive!

Craig

[Swampy]

The clean up was all done with the cloning tool. Of course there was no healing brush back then.

The building distortion was corrected with "Transform" and the distort function.

I had a "state of the art" Mac "clamshell" laptop, but fortunately I had taken my Wacom to the seminar. I was sharing a hotel room with a gal from Jacksonville and she only had a trackpad to work with on her PC laptop. She was miserable without her tablet.

[Steve Conway]

Here's "Contemplation" another entry from my "Images Never Posted" file.

Steve C.

[Swampy]

Great shot, Steve. Does the phrase "Wizened old man" apply?

[Steve Conway]

Thanks much.

He's actually 90 years old and a cancer survivor. That would have a tendency to "wizen" one.

Steve

Originally Posted by Swampy

Great shot, Steve. Does the phrase "Wizened old man" apply?

[Swampy]

I'm not 90 (yet), but have done the cancer thing. His face has so much character and his history obviously tells us much.

[Steve Conway]

My father-in-law...and everyone should have such nice in-laws.

Thought you might like to see the original.

Steve

Originally Posted by Swampy

I'm not 90 (yet), but have done the cancer thing. His face has so much character and his history obviously tells us much.