[palms1]

Originally Posted by Joeven

Palms I took your smudging advice from earlier and I also reread that beagle smudging tutorial. I tried it on this lion from www.freedigitalphotos.net. I used only the rough bristle brush at 60% and different sizes. I sharpened using USM with a low amount 25% and high radius 50 to help with the contrast and Smart Sharpen at 100 for the amount and a radius of 0.4. I think this one turned out better. Here's the pic to play with.

Joe

Even though i liked the tiger yes i think this is better still I think you have got it, a word of warning though don't get disappointed if maybe your next image dosnt work that well, that's just the way it is keep practicing and reading, I have been a bit busy lately (what with the holidays etc but we will get round to trying people out )
keep up the good work
Palms

[gholmes1936]

Does anyone know where there is a working link to Lisa's video tutorial on smudging.

[palms1]

At last here is the tiger and lion both done the same basically
raised the resolution to 200, used usm (200 amount, radius 1, threshold zero) this seems to work for me on the animal smudges so will stick with that for now

smudge brush, tm#23 ( getting to like this brush a lot for furry animals ) strength 40, size mainly 30, ( just incase you dont know but the smaller the brush size (as well as strength ) the more detail in the fur, but also the more time and effort spent )
done the background and then
paint daubs 1, 4, then usm again at around 100 amount and 0.3 radius, this does give a sort of grain effect that i like
Finally a bit of colour tweeking like hue/saturation, oh and dropped the resolution back down for posting !

Palms

[palms1]

Originally Posted by gholmes1936

Does anyone know where there is a working link to Lisa's video tutorial on smudging.

unfortunately no, That is why i removed it from the list of links, Sylvia did have it on her site but was asked to remove it

Palms

[mikajomc]

Excellent smudges Palms! I like how you desaturated the tiger background. But I am really loving your lion!! Do you mind sharing how you did that?

[Joeven]

Oh! I like that lion Palms! Is that #23 brush your talking about free? I never saw it on his site. Is there something similar in Photoshop's default brushes?


Joe

[sylvia1065]

Nice job, Palms!!

[mikajomc]

Palms- I have just gone through all my trimoon brushes, and I can't find #23. Can you point us to it?
(On the plus side, this just forced me to organize my brushes. And I found quite a few I had forgotten I had. )

[gholmes1936]

Check out palms1 list of links to all kinds of things including Trimoons brushes.

[mikajomc]

Thanks Gunner. But I have those 2 trimoon brushes.
Maybe it's a typo Palms? In the link the brush is #22.

I'm not kidding when I said I organized all my brushes. I literally went through each and every tool preset I have downloaded. Opened each one, one at a time. Yikes! They were a mess!

[palms1]

Thank you Jordan, Joe, & Sylvia,

I used the same brushes etc for both photo's,

Now for brush #23 a long story but it was with a link of brushes with Lisa's video but the link died well before the video, When i was doing the original link i did email Trimoon to ask for another link or permission to post the brush but i have not received a answer.

I have had a quick study of the #22 and #23 the difference that i can see is that #22 has different settings to #23 but the same shape, so if you open the brush palette and uncheck shape dynamic and other dynamics that should be #23 ( if you dont want to do this every time you use the brush remember to save the brush )
Failing that I need to check on something but it will take me a day or two !

Jordan Tidy brush's wouldn't know where i was, It is one of those jobs i am always going to do but don't

Palms

[mikajomc]

That's an easy fix Palms! Thanks for the tip!

[gholmes1936]

Bad link in old message.

[mikajomc]

Gunner- that is brush #22. But you can modify it to be #23. See Palms post #71 above.

[gholmes1936]

Here is my umpteenth attempt. Not good but the best I have been able to do so far. I will not give up on it.