PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #94 – Hold the Phone

[phili1]

NIght owl yours is great, I agree with Jerry welcome aboard and this sight is for fun , there is no right and no wrong. JUst lota of imagination and experimentation.

Hi Danny.

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Hey, Mr. Lombardi... hope all is well w/you. djr

[pstewart]

Bill Coughlin, I really really like your treatment. The soft focus look is exactly what this pic calls for! What program and/or filter did you use to get the effect?

Phyllis

[phili1]

Bill You think like me, I love the lighting effect.

Ok Phyliss you didnt like my rice paper effect, so I tried someting different.

A while back I developed an oil painting effect and everyonce in a while I try someting new and here it is.

I used my oiol paing effect thjat lets you paint back your subject. I like it because of the effects you can get, so I painted back her face till it was very sharp, leaving the surrounding areas with large daubs. Then I increased the brush size which will agian increase the daub size on the face, leaving the eyes and mouth sharp. I then used render/lighting/ omni to get the luminous effect. I forgot I also made phone sharp.

[BillC]

Phyllis and Phil - thanks for the comments.
Phyllis - I duplicated the layer, then used NIK Midnight filter (yes, expensive but the set was a gift), then used eraser to bring back the color in the phone.
Regards,
Bill

[katilla]

I think this photo is great to work with reminded me of Rembrant so I went with that look....First I made a layer to look like a drawing/ inverted to neg/ created light sorce/ add texture/ made frame/ combined everything/ adjusted to liking

[retpmikl]

Very nice image, katilla. It gives an other dimension to the original picture.

[phili1]

Katilla I like the way you composed it, has a very dramatic look.

[pstewart]

Phili, I LIKE that look...a lot! It has a real "sixties" feel to it. How did you get that effect? What program/filter?

Katilla, great job with the pic and with framing it as well...reallysuits this picture!

Phyllis

[phili1]

Thanks Phyliss.

I think I sent you my oil painting Art HIstory action. I put ther begining steps into an action and then you paint by hand.
when you use it you can vary the brush size for different effects. the smaller the brush the more detail. One thing I found is that when you view it on the screen, it looks one way but when you print it on canvas paper it looks just like oil. I did a small brush on her face and phone and a larger one on the rest and then used lilghting omni effect.

[katilla]

on org image I created a beam of light,cloned out imperfections,dodged where light hit, burned in more shadows then I did the following..../ org image/layer via copy, name lay1/lay1-invert to neg,blending mode to color dodge, will turn completely white, filter, blur, gaussian,2 pix/create a blank new layer above lay1/stamp a copy of what is visible to this layer -name stamp,lay1,change blending mode to linear burn/highlight lay1,jump a copy of this layer to its own new layer, name lay2/highlight lay2, filter>blur>Gaussian>50 pix .....I then created new layer and added texture and adjusted to taste ,I combined all photos together adjusting blending and opacity,.......Created new layer took that into frame pro and created the frame, back in photoshop i adjusted colors to blend with picture.
If you want to know how I created beam of light just let me know. Thanks for the comments. I also liked the drama it created

[Trimoon]

This link takes you to a large image
The phone.jpg

And this one

[themanda]

It would take days to comment on each individual photo, but I do love all of them. So many different renditions of such a lovely photo to begin with.

I wanted to battle all of those artifiacts to see if I could get a decent sketch out of this. I don't know if I succeeded or not...

[katilla]

wow! that is excellant

[Trimoon]

I did a
Watercolor

[retpmikl]

Superb work, Steve. Lucky I have a fast connection though. But it was worthed. I appreciate your coming back.

[Bill M]

I like the way the pencil sketch brings out her eyes and gives an innocence to the scene.

[TwinbNJ]

Themanda --- very nice, I like the look and feel and what you did.

Bill M. --- Welcome, the pencil is soft and looks great.

[pstewart]

Bill, good job on b/w soft sketch.

Amanda, great idea and nicely done sketch. But isn’t her left hand backwards?

DwDraw, your picture failed to upload. Please try it again so we can see it.

Trimoon, nice watercolor. I toured your web page today and am so impressed with your photography and your watercolors that I am just in awe of your talent.

Phyllis

[dwdraw]

First of all, I want to say that this fourm is fun and a great place for learning different ways to do a photo. All the entries look great, I enjoy them very much.

The one that I am sending was worked over in Photoshop 7 lighting filter and then passed thru LucisArt's, Winslow filter.

Thanks for your time.

DW

[dwdraw]

Hi again,

If my photo seems too small, let me know and I will post it larger.

Thanks again for your time.

DW

[TwinANJ]

DWDraw very nice but as you said it is small and you can not see the detail. I for one would like to see it larger.

Jean

[dwdraw]

Thanks for your interest. I re-sized it to a larger size.

DW

[TwinANJ]

dwdraw Much better I can see everything! You did a very good job.

Jean

[phili1]

Trimon, yes its a great water color.

Thermanda, awsome job with the hands.

Bill M nice pencil sketch

I tried this on my own and failed so I used an action, adds an old framing effect to it.

[Cheryl H]

Don--thanks for digging this one up. The rich earth tones are wonderful.

I do believe I've found something that is pretty consistant for portraits. This is the same set of steps on used on the Kelly challenge. I did lighten the image before I started.

Each number represents a layer starting from the bottom and working my way up. I make a duplicate layer from the background for each. I did change the default brush on one or two of these--it was the one where the brush looks like an outline

1. Watercolor--damp translucent
2. Watercolor--spotty brush on rough paper (luminosity 67%)
3. watercolor--soft daubs on fine paper (soft light 47%)
4. pencil sketch --detailed color (screen 40%)
5. paint--smudges on soft paper (soft light 58%)
6. paint--fine brush hairs (darken 65%) remove emboss effect before applying
7. stylize--find edges (soft light 37%)
8. gaussian blur soft sketch (soft light 52%)
9. pattern fill layer in soft light at 75% to add a light texture.

[catia]

Cheryl,

I can see why Danny called you the "Impressionist Queen." Nice rendition.

The first thing I thought of when I saw this photo was old photo. So here is an old photo. This one was done in PS7. First I boosted the brightness and contrast and then ran the Ancient Photo action.

Catia

[catia]

And here is one obtained using PSP8. First, I cropped the photo a little tighter and then ran the one step photo correction. Then ran the Old Photo Album script (set for 100 years).

Catia

[ronlcox]

Here's my take. I embossed the image to sharpen it and then coverted to duotone. It took me longer to do the frame than anything else.

[cazubi]

I wanted to practice using the Sargent brushes in Painter, and I thought this image would be a good one for a painting.

Cathy

[palms1]

Cathy
You were right, a good image for a good painting don't, think you need to much practice though
Palms