[cardmnal]

This picture is just dying to be tinkered with

On the second version I extracted liz from the picture and put her on a seperate layer. I desaturated the background.
Created an adjustment layer for levels, added gaussian blur.
I merged the Liz back with the background layer.
Loaded the Liz selection (was saved as a channel), inversed and expanded 2 pixels. Ran the chalk and charcoal filter.

[jaykita]

Thank you, cardmnal, I thoroughly enjoyed doing this......
Prepared the original image by increasing saturation and adjusting levels (layer1), then dup, and applying these filters: dark strokes, median, palette knife, (layer2). Pulled L1 above L2, applied layer mask to bring back some detail. Finally added some strokes by hand.

[cardmnal]

Great job Judy!!

You made the bright colors jump out in this one. The frame really adds depth. Beautiful work!!

[keepemcomin]

I loved working with Liz; this is a beautiful picture with a beautiful subject!

This was the first time I've ever used the clone stamp for anything. I erased everything but our lovely Liz. I adjusted Levels, did some other stuff (sorry, lost my train of thought) and eventually did a watercolor filter.

Voila. And don't be surprised if I come back with another one, I really like this picture.

[keepemcomin]

And here she is in a frame...

[cardmnal]

keepemcomin, great image!! It never occured to me how well balanced the photo would be with the room empty except for our subject and the curtains, I really like that.


I didn't much care for my first attempt so here is another.

I made all the photo corrections on adjusrment layers.
duplicated the BG and used pastels on a burlap texture.
Put the original in Paint Shop Pro, sketched it, and pasted the sketch into photoshop.
Placed the sketched layer above the pastels and blended it as a screen.

I built the cheap, plastic looking frame with 2 selections and bevel boss.

[keepemcomin]

I'm not happy with the final result of this, but I might toy around with the idea a little more.

I wondered what Liz might be deep in thought about.

[Gary Richardson]

Had a bit of spare time, and liked the look of this, so had a quick play with it.

Had to really compress it to get within 100K limit, hope it posts OK.

[kiska]

I cropped and blurred bg. Took into painter for strokes and surface texture. Back to Photoshop for tweaking.

[LQQKER]

You caught a very nice expression.

Cropped image.
Sho.
adapt.eq
Xero Clairity
Simplified
Redfield sketchmaster for bg.
Hue & sat adj.
Contrast adj.
Color balance.
Several Nik filters (contrast, skylight, warmth, midnight, etc)
Added shadows and highlights using several different methods (contrast, brightness and color enhancement).
enhanced overall colors.

[Manjumena]

Nice work everybody
Jeykita's water colour> beautiful

My version
History brush+Bacardi vanilla rum into a glass 1/3 filled with ice.
Fill the rest of the glass with Coca-cola
Layer masks+Bacardi vanilla rum into a glass 1/3 filled with ice.
Fill the rest of the glass with Coca-cola
brush strokes>Layer masks+Bacardi vanilla rum into a glass 1/3 filled with ice.
Fill the rest of the glass with Coca-cola
rest cannot remember
Manju

[jaykita]

can't speak now.. rolling on floor....

[raniday]

Another great technique! Do you think Jose Cuervo in tomato juice would get the same effect?

[Manjumena]

I belive so Raniday. But make sure to adjust the hue/sat. in the top layer..
....lol........
Manju

[palms1]

A couple of attempts of mine hope you enjoy

Palms