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Old 07-16-2003, 03:37 PM
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PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #145 – Chapel through the Trees

Guidelines? Give 'em a rest!

Since I'm going on vacation and won't be back for a week, let's give providing the detailed steps a vacation, too. As a reward for so many fine writeups so far the how-to detail will be optional for this mini-challenge.

Still, limit your submissions to no more than two (2).

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PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #145 – Chapel through the Trees

Here’s another “mini-challenge” to play with in the Photo-based Art category until the next major challenge is posted here.

The base image can be downloaded by clicking the link below the legal verbiage.

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Possible candidate for the new Trimoon CD that's shipping this week!

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Old 07-16-2003, 09:37 PM
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Here's a smart blur/watercolor attempt...

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Old 07-17-2003, 04:04 AM
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Thank yuo Danny, and have a nice veccation...

Pam, Very beautiful picture...Good effect of water colour ..

thank you..

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Old 07-17-2003, 04:09 AM
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Here is my Chapel.

Thank you very much..

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Old 07-17-2003, 09:55 PM
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Photomauler, your use of light and shadow simplified the architectural design of the chapel, and made the photo composition a more evocative work. Very well done!
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Old 07-17-2003, 10:44 PM
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You got a nice light feel with that one.

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Here's a smart blur/watercolor attempt...

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Old 07-18-2003, 03:24 AM
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Now a frosted treeis in frond of the church.

This is also some simple effects of filters.

Filter>Distort>Glass>Frosted - that is all.....

thankyou

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Old 07-19-2003, 08:31 AM
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Pam--I really like the lightness of your version. It gives a soft, airy feel to the image.

Vijayan--I like the effect your first version gave to the leaves in the trees.

Don--Your action worked very well on this one. It would have been really cool if there were a way to add a soft ray of light coming down to the door--kinda like the path to a safe haven.

I used several virtual painter layers with different blending modes, put a find edges layer over that and topped it off with a texture.
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Old 07-27-2003, 05:41 PM
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turned this onto a pencil sketch then added xero lithograph to get more lines and dots. sharpened to bring them out then played with the color balance to bring back some color to the image. Cathy
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Old 07-30-2003, 12:21 PM
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Ran a little action of mine, then smart blur,edges,invert..cahnged to overlay blend added sandstone (I like sandstone)
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Old 07-30-2003, 01:04 PM
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Ok I am new here but I figured i'd just jump on ina nd get my feet wet.. here os my chapel image.
I used the watercolor script in PSP 8
added a lil' noise
and then added the illumination lights effect
http://www.heart-n-soul.net/challenges/brat_chapel.jpg
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Old 07-30-2003, 03:30 PM
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Thanks PM.. yeah ps7 is locked away for now... I have 3 new programs I am working on learning and just am overwhelmed at the moment, besides I think I was born to be a PSP gal
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Old 07-30-2003, 04:45 PM
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Simple painting in Painter Classic.

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Old 12-22-2005, 08:13 PM
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Chapel Watercolor.

Well I tried anyway.
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Old 12-24-2005, 03:26 PM
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Nice one ikroll. Thanks for reviving this thread as well.

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Old 01-06-2006, 01:37 PM
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Why do I keep seeing things moonlit? Oh well if you all get tired of them, make me stop..please!
did add a bit of fog this time,
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Old 01-06-2006, 09:00 PM
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Garazon.. I'm with you. All I could think of was "Chapel In The Moonlight". Now the song is running around in my head!

Duplicated the background layer, set a deep purple color fill overlay layer. Added a curves Adjustment layer with a mask to paint in the lighter areas. Added the moon with a touch of noise in it. Ran a lighting effect. Added another layer filled with the same deep purple with some noise in it and inverted that and set to overlay for some graininess.
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Old 01-07-2006, 10:45 AM
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this was done with the Redfield plugin, lattice composer, the growcut masking and extraction plugin (thanks, dead moroz!), and an impressionist setting of my own design. there were also several blending modes used on different layers.

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Old 01-08-2006, 08:13 AM
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Smoothing....Impressionist...and blends.

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Old 01-10-2006, 04:59 AM
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Color correction, render - fibers for the sky, same filter structure as a selection - for smudge tool. Moon - adjustment layer with screen and outside glove. On the same layer - stars with scaled round brush. Added some grain in the chapel.
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Old 01-10-2006, 06:42 AM
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Great techniques, but my eye tells me that with the moon behind the church, the lighting and shadows do not "fit". Love your sky rendering though.
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Well just a quickie here, ink outline followed by a bit of desaturation and then the sandstone texture filter
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Old 01-10-2006, 08:32 AM
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Great techniques, but my eye tells me that with the moon behind the church, the lighting and shadows do not "fit". Love your sky rendering though.
I'm a little bit confused with the lighting scene rendering. I thought to create a feeling of rising sun in foreground of the chapel, I'd say between an eye of observer and the picture, and hiding moon behind chapel. This I cannot imagine. I would be very thankful for any suggestion
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Old 01-10-2006, 09:29 AM
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Just a simple coloured sketch effect but might alter it later see if i cant knock some of the anisio off

added 2nd attempt less anisotropic and slightly different hue

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Old 01-10-2006, 10:08 AM
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There is no visible light sorce for the front of the church. What I'm saying is the big shadow cast to the right of the church suggests a light sorce from the left (off stage) which is not, obviously, your setting moon which should be casting shadows to the front of the church. The other thing is the light color from the setting moon is white, whereas the light color from a rising sun behind the viewer would probably be shades of salmon to yellow and would affect the entire ambiant lighting.

Like I said, I love the soft technique you used for the sky and the stars are appealing I'm just confused by the lighting/shadow issues.
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I used Dave's Simplifier action (in CS2), then Impressionist>kentc's Cezanne preset with some mods. Selected the sky and other flat parts, copied to new layer, ran Impressionist again with some h/s/b jitter to bust up the flat colors.

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Old 01-10-2006, 03:11 PM
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Thank you wery much. I think you are absolutely right about the light scene interpretation. I'll try to rebuild it, like you suggested, just for myself, otherwise it would become quite boring for everybody
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Old 04-22-2007, 05:08 PM
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Re: PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #145 – Chapel through the Trees

Decided to keep it in daylight and not add the Moon.


Peter

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Old 04-22-2007, 07:19 PM
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Chapel- Razored

Made myself a new tool.

Applied once with a larger radius and again with a small radius.
Ended up with a Pen-and-wash image.

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Re: PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #145 – Chapel throug

Used PE poster2 to simplify and then Impressionist for the paint effect.
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