[vijayan]

Mal,very interesting one.
an old legend with an immence speed..
very good...

[e.b.west]

Thought I'd try this on the train...I'm not sure I like it though. The steps are the same as the flower on the show & tell forum:

1. duplicate the image and make 3 copies of the BG layer.

Starting from the layer just above the BG:

First layer: Filter>Sketch>Waterpaper

Next layer: Filter>Artistic>Smudge Stick

set those 2 layers to soft light

Top Layer: Filter>artistic>cutout
Set this layer to luminosity and opacity to around 75% to taste.

Levels adjustment layer to taste.

Merge all layers except the BG layer.

Layer mask on the merged layers and paint lightly to bring out a little detail.

E.B.

[vijayan]

g o o d MORNING TRAIN......

Very good submissions so far and Iam with another one. This time also with Filter>Distort>Spherize>Horizontal and adjusted chroma levels in Levels by selecting red,green and blue seperately.
and did edit>transfom>flip horizontal.

E.B, very clever use of filters and a good result also. very nice...

Thank you everybody..


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vijayan

[Toad]

Very nice Vvijan - I like it.

[Bill M]

Based on a question I researched and answered at DPReview, here's an easy technique for a duotone/tritone look ala "Powertones" (also very easy to record as an action):
1. Image mode> greyscale
2. Image mode> duotone
3. Load one of the preloaded duotones or tritones (forget which one I used here)
4. Select all, Copy
5. On the history palette, select yur color original
6. Paste to a new layer
7. Set the blend mode to Hue and adjust opacity if desired.
Bill

[DannyRaphael]

Bill:

Are there rules of thumb for "what colors to select" for a duotone or tritone image? Or do you take canned combinations from somewhere?

Again, great stuff here. You're really keeping me busy "thinking about new possibilities." (a scary thought!)

Danny

[Bill M]

Don't know about any rules, Danny, this is my first day on this technique! I just cycled through loading the canned ones until I found one I liked. But I have played around with some bluegreen ones of my own.

[jeaniesa]

Very nice work Bill!! I really like this effect.

Jeanie

[DannyRaphael]

I really like trains and was trying out a new action on this version (see next post).

[DannyRaphael]

The action...

[vijayan]

Toad , thank you very much.

And Danny, It is very good in texture and in appearence..
really a very beautifullll work....

thank you

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vijayan

[Andrew B.]

This is part of ongoing testing of a new technique that uses a denoised India Ink layer as the luminosity pattern. The variation here used Color blending instead of partial opacity.

1. Duplicate background
2. India Ink
3. Diffuse|Anisotropic
4. Smart Blur
5. Copy background and place on top of stack. Set to Color blending mode.

That's the basic effect. After that I hand-painted on the gray layer to reduce bright spots. Blur tool on some edgy spots. Other minor touch up. Add very light grain.

[lkroll]

Mentioned this before; mentioning it again. Anyway, Dup for 3 layers, used Invert Color Script-fu set to Screen (on top layer) merged down and set to Value and flattened. Repeated the same process, but instead of Screen, I used Dodge and adjusted down the opacity a bit on the top layer before merging down and doing the Value step. Almost looks like a watercolor now, but it still needs additional nuances. I duplicated and added some noise to the top layer before running Flaming Pear's Pixel Trash filter. I then set this layer to Value and adjusted the Opacity a bit. I flattened and ported the result into Photoshop to use Paint Engine's @Wetter2 preset on the sky (and a few select other places). I then ported this result back into GIMP and duplicated the layer and ran DCSpecial's 1969 filter on the top layer, duplicated the result, and set the Top layer to color, and center layer to Value (adjusting Opacity of both layers to taste). Flattened and done. Hope you like the resulting watercolor.

[TwoLaidBack]

I seen talk of some folks using Fantastic Paint Engine with a few different presets like Leroy & Temp 3D I have paint engine but it only came with one preset. Where would I find the others?

Thanks in advance.
TwoLaidBack

[Kraellin]

i'm sorry; this is a bit of a shameless rip-off of the polar express idea, but it was what first came to mind

simple enough to do:

cut out the train and made a new image of it.
reduced the size to fit the mars image
pasted it into the mars image
touched things up a bit to make it look more 'real'
added the smoke on a blank raster layer
cloned an extra car onto the train for better depth

craig