Creative interpretations: railway bridge

Janet Petty · #16 03-12-2005, 10:36 AM

Wonderful Mark. The effect is one of a big splashy sunset gone wild. Love it.

Janet

DannyRaphael · #17 03-12-2005, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by kiska

Fries with that?

Priceless.

I was so taken with photobobbie's interpretation that can be seen HERE, I endeavored to recreate the effect. To preserve the effort I wrote an action that can be downloaded HERE.

The first attachment shows the image after I resized it and applied Levels and Hue Saturation for color.

2nd attachment: Substituted textire = Canvas

3rd attachment:
After running the action I turned on layer D1 ("Thick lines") and erased some of the lines by painting black on the layer mask. I also did some tweaking of the Hue/Sat adjustment layer.

Thanks, Titia, for sharing a bit of your countryside.

~Danny~

jaykita · #18 03-12-2005, 07:52 PM

Photobobbie's interpretation is truly inspirational!!! Here's mine.

photobobbie · #19 03-12-2005, 11:37 PM

I removed the color, used a neon glow filter, changed the hue, added grain, and then lightning and a frame.

Bobbie

photobobbie · #20 03-12-2005, 11:41 PM

Thanks for your nice comments on my village photo.

Bobbie

Titia · #21 03-16-2005, 06:11 PM

And thank you all for all those beautiful interpretations.
Never knew a bridge could take on so many forms.

Titia

gholmes1936 · #22 05-06-2005, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by jaykita

Photobobbie's interpretation is truly inspirational!!! Here's mine.

Mine too. i did an awful lot of tooling around to arrive at this one, so don't ask how I did it, please!

gholmes1936 · #23 05-07-2005, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by gholmes1936

Mine too. i did an awful lot of tooling around to arrive at this one, so don't ask how I did it, please!

I had to try a second time and I think that I got what I wanted this time......

DannyRaphael · #24 05-07-2005, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by gholmes1936

I had to try a second time and I think that I got what I wanted this time......

Nice tooling on both.

If you repeat this process on another pic, keep track of your steps. They are definitely worth knowing/sharing.

gholmes1936 · #25 05-08-2005, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

Nice tooling on both.

If you repeat this process on another pic, keep track of your steps. They are definitely worth knowing/sharing.

Is there an easy way to keep track of steps, or is it as always, "the best way is the long way?" Write them down?

georgeHOLMES of Texas

DannyRaphael · #26 05-08-2005, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by gholmes1936

Is there an easy way to keep track of steps, or is it as always, "the best way is the long way?" Write them down?

georgeHOLMES of Texas

Something I picked up a few years back that works for me is naming layers as I create them, e.g., Unsharp Mask (200, 1.0, 0) or Dry Brush (3,5,2). As the image takes shape I duplicate the last layer modified and apply another effect. This way when I look at the layer stack from bottom to top I can see the progression of effects applied. Works great if two months from now I want to see how a given result was achieved.

It takes a little discipline to get into the habit of doing it this way, but it sure is a lifesaver if your memory is as bad as mine is.

Physically writing out (or typing) steps is an option, but is limited by not being able to "tie" a writeup with a given image file unless you're a lot more organized than I am.

gholmes1936 · #27 05-08-2005, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

Something I picked up a few years back that works for me is naming layers as I create them, e.g., Unsharp Mask (200, 1.0, 0) or Dry Brush (3,5,2). As the image takes shape I duplicate the last layer modified and apply another effect. This way when I look at the layer stack from bottom to top I can see the progression of effects applied. Works great if two months from now I want to see how a given result was achieved.

It takes a little discipline to get into the habit of doing it this way, but it sure is a lifesaver if your memory is as bad as mine is.

Physically writing out (or typing) steps is an option, but is limited by not being able to "tie" a writeup with a given image file unless you're a lot more organized than I am.

Thanks Danny, what a great tip. My memory is even worse, so this would be a good discipline for me.

PamSav · #28 05-09-2005, 03:06 AM

I thought I'd just jump in with my tip for remembering what I've done in PSCS.

I have the Word Notepad open while I'm working and make notes in that about what I've done and what settings I've used, then when I've finished I copy all the information and paste it into the File Info part of Photoshop. That way the information is always with the image.

raniday · #29 05-10-2005, 08:42 PM

when I've finished I copy all the information and paste it into the File Info part of Photoshop.
Pam, I don't understand what you mean. Maybe you could give a screen shot of where you copy this info?

gholmes1936 · #30 05-11-2005, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by SWEngineer

Great work all. This one joins the more surrealistic versions I suppose. It's another Elements2 random walk documented thanks to the history palette.

BG.
A: Decolor
B: GradientMap Adj layer (violet to orange)
C: MergeVis(A,B). InkOutlines
D: Copy C. DryBrush. PaintEngine. (55% opacity)
E: MergeVisible (C,D). Xero-BadDream. (70% opacity)
F: MergeVisible(C,D,E). Impressionist-Geometric:ChaoticChrome modified. (HardLight, 54%). [ChaoticChrome looks like a great starting point for abstract interpretations. Time to play...]
G: MergeVis(C,D,F - E turned off). Posterize-8.

-Mark

Hey, I really like that effect. Thanks for sharing