PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #91 – Vietnamese Lady

BillC · #46 03-05-2003, 02:15 PM

First of all - I changed my name! coughlin47 didn't seem friendly enough for this site....so, now I am BillC.
Wasn't sure what effect I was looking for after viewing all of the other great submissions! I wanted to keep detail in the face and yet have a bit of 'dramatic' lighting.
Bill

GOLDCOIN · #47 03-05-2003, 03:57 PM

BillC ......wOw.... Stunning effect, I like it very much.

pstewart · #48 03-05-2003, 04:02 PM

Bill, that is wonderful! Excellent idea...turned out great! Want to share how you did it? Pretty please?

Phyllis

semara · #49 03-05-2003, 04:47 PM

Yes, that is neat...........I would be interested in knowing as well... Thanks

Sheryl

BillC · #50 03-05-2003, 06:07 PM

GoldCoin, Sheryl, and Phillis - Thank you very much for the kind words - you sure make a 'newbie' feel welcome. I like to 'experiment' a lot in PhotoShop and most of my 'experiments' end up in the trash heap. Sometimes I get lucky and end up acceptable results. On this particular 'experiment' I ended up with quite a few layers with different blend modes. I'll go back and see if I can recreate it, and write down the steps! (really, I'm not being evasive and not wanting to share - its just that I didn't write down the steps!)..after all, these forums are all about sharing! I guess I didn't expect feedback on it!
I know that:
Convert to BW using your favorite method

I painted back some color in the face using history brush (with only about a 10 percent opacity - maybe went over 2 times)

Duplicated the background layer and added a huge gaussian blur (something like a radius of 70)...this layer eventually ended up on the top with a blend mode of Multiply
I also had several other layers with different blend modes.... So - I guess I better go back to the digital darkroom and see if I can recreate the 'experiment'.
Thanks again for the feedback.
Bill C

GOLDCOIN · #51 03-06-2003, 01:19 AM

BillC.....Thanks for what you were able to remember, maybe more later....

What an interesting face...... Wished I could have taken more years away.

GOLDCOIN · #52 03-06-2003, 02:00 AM

Tried this......

phili1 · #53 03-21-2003, 07:57 AM

Bill C I agree with the rest. I love what you did. Hoe did you achevie the lighting, real nice touch.

Goldcin very nice.

Cheryl H · #54 07-28-2003, 12:31 AM

I'm still playing with impressionist.

I've reached the conclusion that it works best with lots of layers. Started with the very blurry water color damp translucent and worked my way up to paint soft fine haired brush. In between I put 4-5 layer with degrees of blurriness that ranged between the top and bottom layers, putting the blurriest ones at the bottom. Blending mode was usually soft light, but I went with whatever was most pleasing as I added each layer. Even though I'm using Impressionist, the general process is to get several layers that range from blurry to semi-detailed and blend them--any plug-in (including native photoshop) could give comparable results.

After getting the impressionist blend. I topped it with find edges, then a gaussian blur sketch, then a photocopy sketch. Experimented with blending modes. Transparency between 30-40.

Added texture.

lkroll · #55 10-29-2005, 10:24 PM

Used Invert Color (only inverts colors; greyscales remain the same; not the same as color invert; i.e., black is still black and white is still white) Script-fu on a duplicate layer set to screen to screen in order to remove midtones. I then used Flaming Pear's Mr. Contrast to give the image that sketch feel (not wanting it to be a sketch though of course; still want it to be photographic). I then used retinex after flattening and duplicating the layer. I set the top layer (the one I ran Retinex on) to Overlay and duplicate this layer a few times till I got the look I want. I then used GIMP's Sample Colorized filter and a Sepia Gradient image to create a Duotone on a separate layer and blended it in with the previous.

Peter S · #56 03-12-2007, 05:08 PM

This Lady looks like she has seen a lot of life.
Used Lucis, Aniso, some blurring, Selective colour, plus a lot of minor stuff.
Frame added using 2 different layer styles.

Peter

palms1 · #57 03-13-2007, 01:48 PM

lovely character face i think i ended up giving her some anti wrinkle paint though

Palms

Swampy · #58 12-29-2007, 01:25 PM

I thought this was worth revisiting.

Mining Art · #59 12-29-2007, 05:33 PM

Just cleaned up the image and changed the background.

Swampy · #60 12-30-2007, 06:41 AM

Ahem, Mining Art, did you clean up too much. Her whole left shoulder is gone!