Photo-art Mini-challenge #105 – Catarina

[retpmikl]

with Painter 7

[Blacknight]

Emboss, Paint Daubs, an action called Contrast Mask, some curves and hue/sat playing.

[charityk]

Hello Everyone!

Great work.. I especially like Bills. The lighting.. and her eyes.. Wow!

Here is mine. I was just playing with layers and masks. I first made a sketch using the Gausian Blur, and put a crosshatch filter on it. I then duplicated the original layer and ran a watercolor filter on it. I masked that layer and painted in the background. I then created another layer from the original and played with the saturation, masked it out, and painted in her face very lightly.

Added a few highlights.. ANd that was it.

[alex]

I thought she would look good with some fowers on the hair

[alex]

Then run Mike Finn Oil actions on it and
added a brush pattern as it says in this retouchPro tutorial
http://www.retouchpro.com/tutorials/...rt1/index.html

[pstewart]

Alexandra...excellent job placing the flowers in her hair. They look like they were photographed that way.

Mikl, wonderful painting technique!

Phyllis

[singularity]

There are some really great photo edits on here.

Well, here's mine. Paint daubs, sandstone texture, and honestly i cant remember what else i did.
-Michelle

[singularity]

Here's one more i was messing around with. Now i better go on to the next challenge before I make 20 more variations on this.

[herman]

So many beautifull variations!

Her's another attempt. I burned the image with BWorks, added a vignette and a frame in Photoshop.

[themanda]

A lot has been done with this lovely little girl since last I visited!

All are remarkable, but I must say how much I love the flowers in her hair! Excellent job!!

I thought my first entry could use some improvement...

[themanda]

Heeeeeeere sheep!!!

[Anubis]

Another try, and this time, black&white attempt.

[ahutton]

Tried something new for this one. Made two copies. One I did with Xero's lineart in monochrome, the other in VP color pencil, with everything turned to -5 except for focus. Merged them together and I liked the result so much I couldn't bare to reduce it to fit the max upload size. So I put it here: http://www.fractographics.com/catarina.jpg

AmyHutton

[jch71566]

Originally Posted by ahutton

Tried something new for this one. Made two copies. One I did with Xero's lineart in monochrome, the other in VP color pencil, with everything turned to -5 except for focus. Merged them together and I liked the result so much I couldn't bare to reduce it to fit the max upload size. So I put it here: http://www.fractographics.com/catarina.jpg

AmyHutton

Amy,

Very nice! I am wondering about your statement "Merged them together". Did you layer them with the top set to 50% opacity, or what?

Thanks,
Jeff

[ahutton]

Originally Posted by jch71566

Amy,

Very nice! I am wondering about your statement "Merged them together". Did you layer them with the top set to 50% opacity, or what?

Thanks,
Jeff

No, I took the lazy way out. PSP8 allows you to use an ARITHMETIC command which will add or subtract or multiply or average or do a bunch of other stuff when merging 2 images together. A lot less clicking thatn when you use layers.

AmyHutton