[Blacknight]

Thinking of printing out the original of this for my Mom - she loves birds!
Auto levels on original, dupe.
Invert, blend mode to Darken.
Copy original, put on top layer. FP Chroma Solarize, blend mode to Hard Light.
Hue/Sat and sharpen to suit.

[Blacknight]

Same as previous, except ran anisotropic diffuse on it, and then the Sketchy action, copied, reverted, pasted and set blend to multiply.

[JBCaffrey]

Painter 7 was under the Christmas Tree this year. Here's my first posting. I simplified the picture with Buzz Pro before switching to Painter.

Jim

[Snoleoprd]

Hi Everyone,

Boy there has been some great stuff posted. I am slowly learning a lot.

The specifics of the photo are as follows. It was taken at the Los Angeles Arboretum with a Canon D60, with a 400mm lens and a 1.4x extender and with the D60 crop factor works out to a 35mm equiv. of a about 896mm of lens. The other details are ISO 100, 1/200 at f8. The D60 is a fairly new camera for me, I got it at the end of Sept. before that I had an Olympus E-10 and I still have my Nikon CP990, and my film cameras.

The edge in my version was from a freeware edge collection, I downloaded it off the Adobe forum, the disclaimer for the actions say that they can be freely distributed, the web site no longer exists for the author, so here is the zip distribution of the Edge collection action.

Have fun!

Alan

[BigAl]

Using PSP7:
duplicate layer.
applied pencil filter (white) to duplicate layer.
set blend mode to luminance.
decreased opacity of duplicate layer slightly.

[pjb]

put frame on picture
put a lighting effects on birds top layer
put grain filter top layer
put pencil on bottom layer

[phili1]

Everybody's post are great but Alan I really like your touch. /what did you use for the frame.


Anyway I tried a water c9olor for the first time.

Filter water color
recolor to get the effect
curves to l;ighten and add contrast.
Rice paper.

Hope I would get a painted look.

Its getting harder to come up with new quality stuff to keep up with you guys.

[Snoleoprd]

Thanks phili, if you look a couple of messages up you can see the post where I attached the edges action files. They are freeware actions I picked up from the Adobe forum.

Alan

[Trimoon]

I’m still working on a watercolor technique.

[phili1]

I think you are there, really very nice Trimoon.

[Schwartzie]

This is a supurb shot of Waxwings in its own! Heres my art try

[GOLDCOIN]

A Very Happy New Year to all.....

Schwartzie.....just love your watercolors. This one is a bit darker and more colorful.
.....

I just couldn't decide which of these worked the best....

[GOLDCOIN]

And then came this one.....

[Wanda Schwind]

Hello everyone Some really fantastic entries, I can't stop looking at them!!

This is such a beautiful image. My first interpretation...perfect for an Ornithology book. So that's the direction I worked from. The information came from the Encyclopedia Americana, and Usborne Science & Nature Ornithology. Here's my contribution. Thanks for the opportunity. Thanks, Danny for all your hard work!!!!

Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year

Wanda

[Trimoon]

Still at it.