Impressionist plugin: Examples using your own pictures

[patriciakay]

Hi Palms,

Thanks for the link i have already got them...they are good...i think...i didnt get your mail as i am not the only Patricia here so you need to put the full title...sorry...

Flaming pear do lots of free plugins heres the link...www.flamingpear.com

Think they are worth a try...do you want me to tell you what i have then we can compare????

Worked in Brum in the late 60 s, bet its changed a lot since then...

Kind regards Patricia Kay

[palms1]

Hi PatriciaKay (whoops) yes let me know what you have got then we can compare ( probably better to do it through the pm system so as not to hijack the thread to much ! ! ! ! ! ! )
And boy has Birmingham changed I have lived here all my life and i don't know the city anymore especially the Bullring area, but hey that's progress so they say ! ! !

Palms

[patriciakay]

Hi Palms...will PM to you tomorrow as its time to hit the sack..

Goodnight....Patricia Kay

[patriciakay]

Hi,
Thought it time to send to this impressionist thread as its such a good one and i fear my chatting with palms had stopped it.....sorry....

Here is my photo of a rose..

i used chunky strokes
brush at 42percent
coverage 62percent
heaviness 100 percent
plus i sharpened in photo shop

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL!!!!

Patricia Kay

[MargaretM]

This is a photo I took of the botanical gardens in our area in Florida. First increased the saturation.Did PS ink outlines,blended as color dodge and 59% opacity. Then, on initial image used impressionist pointilist small daubs and moved layer above the ink layer. Added a mask and painted back the "inked" details of the grass. Then finished with a impressionist water color spatter, faded quite a bit. This is the first time I've used impressionist and certainly enjoyed playing with it.
MargaretM
PS - I am really excited about my new setup. I now have two monitors and love this. Keep the original picture on one and the "work in progress" on the other. I highly recommend this!

[dkcoats]

Wish I'd seen this thread before - it's a treasure trove.
I took this photo of my younger daughter a looong time ago (she's 19 now ). A while back I colorized it just for laughs. Thought I'd try to "impressionize" it.

Cat's favs watercolor soft & loose
General: brush 100, coverage 100, pressure 147
Brush: fing1a (set to family); smudge 2; pressure 147
Size: #:4; min 4%, max 12%, way more small
Color H2, S4, B3
I used a paper texture, forget exactly which one
I duplicated the Impressionist layer, gauss blurred it, set opacity to 65, hard light.
Photoshop find edges, blurred a bit
That's about it, I think

dc

[MargaretM]

Here's another picture of the botanical gardens. For the most part I did the same thing as with the first.
Love yours DK - she is a cutie.
MargaretM

[Chance_1]

Steve Conway, I like your rendition of Cedar Key and The Grand Canyon with Impressionist Filter.

Do you remember how to did them ? They look quite painterly.

[dkcoats]

Originally Posted by MargaretM

Here's another picture of the botanical gardens. For the most part I did the same thing as with the first.
Love yours DK - she is a cutie.
MargaretM

Thanks, MargaretM. She's quite a person these days, well on her way to running the world, I think. (She has your name, btw, but goes by Maggie.)

dc

[lkroll]

Straight application of my Van Gogh Impressionist preset. Check this link for additional info and the preset.

This is a picture of my sister's dog Suzy by the way.

[lkroll]

Some more examples of my sewing preset for Impressionist. Hope you all have some fun with it. Don't forget to play with the pressure settings too. I said it before and I will say it again, Impressionist is just too much.

[stuart]

I am new to this forum and have been experimenting with the plug-in. Is there a way to remove the black or colorless "flecks" for lack of a better term, that often litter otherwise excellent Impressionist renditions ?
These can be seen on a number of the examples shown here.
Are there settings to prevent these areas- especially the black "soot-like" stuff
that gets spread all over ?
Thank you.

Stuart

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by stuart

I am new to this forum and have been experimenting with the plug-in. Is there a way to remove the black or colorless "flecks" for lack of a better term, that often litter otherwise excellent Impressionist renditions ?
These can be seen on a number of the examples shown here.

Are there settings to prevent these areas- especially the black "soot-like" stuff that gets spread all over ?

Thank you.

Stuart

First of all, welcome to the forum, Stuart, and thanks for posting your question. When we get to the solution/suggestions, many will benefit down the road.

The results you describe could be due to a number of factors. Without an example to view, it's hard to be sure. If you could post a couple of the Styles that you're having problems with, for example,

Charcoal > Default or

Conte > Faithful,

that would help narrow things down considerably.

If you could also upload an example image or two with these undesirable characteristics, that would be even better. See the threads below my sig if you need assistance in this regard.

~Danny~

How to upload attachments
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/image-help/7933-attaching-files-images-threads-posts.html

Resizing images to 100KB or less
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-retouching/4398-resizing-images-retouchpro.html

[stuart]

Danny,
Thank you so much for the reply. I am in my office now so that I cannot post
a pic. However, I have linked to one that you posted ( a man walking into a building.) In this case, it is white "flecks" , almost like snow. Other filters in the plug in give black flecks, like soot.
My guess is that the creator thought it was artistic. I will try the 2 filters you have mentioned. However, many of the otherwise fine filters in the plug -in are,
in my opinion, difficult to use due to this problem.
Can you remove the white flecks from your posted pic by changing the settings ?
Stuart

Here is the link

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...chmentid=12412

[dkcoats]

Stuart,

That looks to me as though the coverage was less than 100% and the background was set to something other than "image."

dc

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by stuart

Danny,
Thank you so much for the reply. I am in my office now so that I cannot post
a pic. However, I have linked to one that you posted ( a man walking into a building.) In this case, it is white "flecks" , almost like snow. Other filters in the plug in give black flecks, like soot.
My guess is that the creator thought it was artistic. I will try the 2 filters you have mentioned. However, many of the otherwise fine filters in the plug -in are,
in my opinion, difficult to use due to this problem.
Can you remove the white flecks from your posted pic by changing the settings ?
Stuart

Here is the link

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...chmentid=12412

Pic worth 1K words sometimes. Ya done good.

I'd say DC pretty much nailed it...

If the "Coverage" setting is < 100%, Impressionist will leave random areas of an image "untouched" by the selected effect, just as a traditional artist might not paint every square inch of a canvas. So this is a feature, not a bug!

The option selected in the Background dropdown menu tells Impressionist what to do with these unrendered areas. If Foreground or Background, or Custom Color is in effect and your image editing program's FG/BG color at the moment is black, that would account for black flecks. A Custom Color setting of black would get the same results.

As DC suggested a Background setting of "Image" might be what you're looking for -or- try setting the Coverage to 100%.

~Danny~

[stuart]

Thank you all for the reply. Using "Image Color" solves the problem. The plugin is now tremendously useful.


Stuart

[ydelle]

This is a new pic I have been working on and I need some feed back. You can be honest. I don't know if it is too busy or not some people like it and some don't (they don't tell me why).
This was done with three layers original on botton steve's watercolor middle and al's water 3 on the top with lightening ans sm on all three layers.

[Janet Petty]

I love the colors and the technique/style you have achieved. IMHO, the picture lacks a center of focus or a flow that directs the eye thus giving it a busy type feel.

Don't quit. And share the technique. It works really well.

Janet

[palms1]

Ydelle i both like it and don't like it and i would be hard pushed to explain why i dont like it but Janet has hit the nail on the head.

Palms

[Diane]

I would like to try al's watercolor set but can't find it. Can someone post it or post the url for it? thanks in advance.
Diane

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Diane

I would like to try al's watercolor set but can't find it. Can someone post it or post the url for it? thanks in advance.
Diane

Hi Diane:
You will find the ones I believe you're looking for attached to the last post (as of the moment) of this thread:

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-art-resources/8328-impressionist-plugin-custom-styles-member-posted.html

~Danny~

[ydelle]

I have worked on this so long that I can't find the center of focus in it. I don't know what to cut out of the picture since it was a photograph of mine taken last year and i have worked on it off and on for months.
If any one can help I would be greatful

[Janet Petty]

Not much for helping find a focal point I know. But I liked this crop more than some of the others I played with. Does this help?

Janet

[ydelle]

Thank you Janet - I just don't know it is hard for me to loose anything but I must.
Can anyone else come up with another idea the more the better -It helps an artist grow with the help from people who do such good work as the ones in this group.

[Kraellin]

the problem with the crabapple image is indeed one of focus. everything done to it seems to have the effect of reducing focus. the blur/smear, the ghosting and so on all lead to less focus. this has the overall effect of making the image too busy.

the solution is to cut back on the effect. i did a quick example here and it's by no means meant to represent the best possible rendition; it's just an example. and at the end i ran a light high pass sharpen just for good measure.

there's lots of potential there and i'd love to see the original photo.

craig

[ydelle]

I will try the highpass if I find a good one -which did you use? Your rendition was great, thank you. I came up with this crop because I worked so hard on the leaf I had to keep some of it in. Let me know what you all think. I always put about a 1-2 inch border around my work.
ydelle

[ydelle]

I found the high pass in photoshop7 -here is my new version.

[Kraellin]

ydelle,

thank you

i dont use photoshop, so the high pass sharpen is from paint shop pro 10.

i see you chose the small block. there were two basic blocks in your image, the long, vertical, rectangular one on the left side and the square one in the upper right. it's still pretty busy, all those pinks running into each other, but certainly better. if you could isolate just one main flower where the petals on it didnt run into any of the others, i think this might help.

craig

[ydelle]

I came up with two paintings instead of one -thank you.
the rectangle on is my second I have to see what it looks like printed because it looks fuzzy but it could be my eyes at this point.