[DannyRaphael]

Hey, Blu:

Welcome.

Glad to see you thought the "list of tutorials" was helpful and that you posted one of your creations, here. Nicely done.

RE: Real-Draw Pro
I've not heard of that program. I'll do a little Google searching to find out more. Thanks for sharing the info on how you did it.

Hope to see more of your works in the future.

~Danny~

[LidoBlu]

Thanks Danny! I'm new to Real-Draw also..working with a trial version at the moment. It has a couple of really nice features and is reasonably prices...around $50 I think.

Thanks to you also Catia! The pic is under 100k but I will try your save for the web tip and see if that somehow makes a difference.

Blu

[LidoBlu]

http://www.mediachance.com/realdraw/index.html

This site will tell you all about Real-Draw and there's a free trial download.

I put this here although it's off topic to save you a search.

Blu

[Punch]

Sorry... I got carried away on the first image, saved it and immediately started work on the second. When I went back to the first I couldn't remember the exact filters I used.

I think I cut out the rose and glass and ran fresco on the background. There were some mild gausian blur on both layers. Then underpainting with a canvas texture.

The second is the one that made me lose track of the steps. I've been working on it off and on for a few days.

First I enlarged the canvas to the right.
I cut out the rose, Rotated, flipped horizontal, free transform to enlarge it a bit. Blurred the droplets.
Filter> spherize, 20%.
Selected slice of the glass on the left, copy, flip horiz, paste.

New layer with mask of glass. Painted out where I wanted the rose to show.

On BG copy cloned the counter.

On new layer I put in some highlights and tried to make it look like the liquid was actually up against the rose. [not to successfully but looked better when blurred]

Filter>grain [low]
Filter>Gausian blur [low]

That's about it but I do have a tip I picked up on a tutorial the other day. When working with layer masks if you want to work on the mask itself you don't need to go to channels to do it. You can do it on the fly by pressing option [alt on PC] and click on the mask icon.

Cheers... Kent

[FrannyMae]

This was a lot of fun! And an lot quicker than the restoration challenges I usually do!

1)Liquify filter, using different brush sizes on different parts of picture
2)Crystalize filter, using setting a setting of 10
3)Duplicate original, use Crosshatch filter at 9,9,1
4)Add layer mask on top layer (Liquifed/Crystallized) and painted back in a few edges and details from crosshatched layer.
5)Smudged with different sized brushes on Liquified/Crystallized layer to make it look like an oil painting.
6)Curves AL to bring up highlights and darken shadows.

Thanks for letting me play!

[jaykita]

For those interested, there are some real nice plug-ins which can be downloaded at http://www.littleinkpot.co.uk/FreePlugins.htm.

Withdrew the earlier image. (What was i thinking?!)
For this one i used the virtual painter plugin. Also isolated the rose, blend-multiply, then used the impression filter on it. Outline sketch, multiply.

[jaykita]

One more from me--Duplicate background --1st layer.
First layer --Desaturate-- using layer mask, bring back color into rose and wine. Lower opacity.
Using desat layer, duplicate into 2nd layer-Find edges-Lighten blend.
layer 3 on top - color blend.
select all-copy merged-adjust levels.

[saby]

done everything

[DannyRaphael]

Hello, saby:

Welcome to the Photo-art forum. This is a very interesting creation. I am glad you posted your artwork.

I hope you post more in the future.

~Danny~

[saby]

Hello Danny!

I'll do my best

Saby

[isanl]

my first time hier...

1. Duplicate image.
2. On duplicated image -- Image>Desaturate.
3. Filter-aristic-rough pastels-blending mode overlay
4. dooge tool
5. duplicate layer - luminosity
6.new adjustment layer - photo filter (cooling filter)

Isa

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by isanl

my first time hier...

1. Duplicate image.
2. On duplicated image -- Image>Desaturate.
3. Filter-aristic-rough pastels-blending mode overlay
4. dodge tool
5. duplicate layer - luminosity
6.new adjustment layer - photo filter (cooling filter)

Isa

Isa...

Welcome. This is a lovely creation. Thank you for including the steps.

I'm glad you found us and hope to see more of your creations in the future.

~Danny~

[Trimoon]

Art History Brush and Texture

A Larger Image

[Janet Petty]

You are an absolute expert at that Art History Brush. And it doesn't hurt that you have artistic talent as well.

[Pam]

Beautiful renditions everyone! On this I did some color and contrast adjustments, cropped and added a bit of texture.