Creative Interpretations: Thailand

[Legacy~Art]

Thank you!!!

[winwintoo]

My son just came back from Thailand and I can't resist.



Margaret

[CJ Swartz]

Margaret -- you are breaking an important rule!! Actually TWO rules!!

1. You must use an artistic technique to modify your image when you submit it in this forum. I have done that for you below so that it now meets the requirements, thus preventing Danny from having to give you a virtual drubbing.

2. It is very impolite to eat in front of your friends without offering them some of what you are eating. Now, you may NOT be guilty of this faux pas, since those 'things' in the pan may be more grasshoppers and you may be offering them to us, but I cannot see them well enough to be sure. No, don't bother clearing up that part of the photo -- I don't really want to see more chocolate coated grasshoppers...

[winwintoo]

Thanks CJ, I wouldn't want a drubbing by Danny

I don't think they were chocolate covered, just deep fried!

I envy anyone spry enough to travel to that part of the world - his food pictures are intriguing, but he also got to see a lot of the countyside and it is awesome - of course some of the locals seemed to want to have their pictures taken frequently as well but I guess when you're a group of 20-somethings that is to be expected.

I'm just working some serious meds out of my system, so creativity eludes me presently so can't contribute anything to this thread so I'll leave you to it....

Margaret

[Duv]

Been away for a few days but wanted to say thanks to Cathy and Steve. Great renditions all around! I tend to stick with filters and actions and have yet to develop real painterly techniques like Roland and others. I play a lot with a Cartoon action as well as Mike Finn's pOpArTiSt action. There are a lot of steps in the actions and often I'll use just half the action to get different effects. I found that I was blowing out the left side of the boat with a lot of the effects I tried and ended up restarting from scratch.

BTW Elle, really like your effort, simple with strong edges.

Cheers
Dave

[Steve Conway]

Interested in how you maniped this. That is if you don't mind sharing your technique. 8-)

It's very sharp, but with a smoothed look that I really like.

Steve

Originally Posted by Duv

Cold and rainy in B.C. Wish I was there.

Cheers
Dave

[Neve]

Finally finding time to play with this myself...

[restev]

for BYRO.... nice work...
wanna share a technique?

[Swampy]

You people are just so dang gooooood!

I wanted to see if I could get a water color "look" without using artistic filters in PS. First thing was a crop.

After making a quick mask of the foreground boat, I duplicated the original layer and applied a slight lens blur and some glass distortion to the background areas with an inverted mask applied to this layer.

Duplicated the original again and applied similar distortions to the boat. Added some yellow to the reflection too. At this point it was looking pretty good, but I wanted a "sponge" effect without using the sponge filter so... I made a new layer on top of the stack, rendered some black/white clouds, added some noise and a Distortion-->Wave and a gausian blur then set this layer to Overlay blend mode. It really added to the overall sky and water areas with a more "strokey" smudgy blending without actual brush strokes.

Added the frame with Extenis PhotoFrame.

Thanks for the challenge!

[byRo]

First, congratulations to all , this thread is turning into an art gallery.

Originally Posted by restev

.... nice work...wanna share a technique?

Hi there, restev, welcome to RetouchPRO.

The technique is becoming my standard - so I think it's time to change .

1) Photoshop - generally enhance the image (better contrast, colours etc.);
2) Painter - Cloned with a streaky oily brush;
3) Photoshop - high-pass, emboss and / or lighting effects to emphasize the brush strokes.

Rô

[Cameraken]

My Attempt

Ken

[cazubi]

Great job everyone. What a pleasure to look at all of the beautiful interpretations. I thought I would give it a try.

I used Painter and started with a clone, added paper texture, added glass distortion, and then added more surface texture. Back to PS and did some hue/sat adjustments. The tutorial for this heavy texture/impressionist look was in the Wow Painter IX book.

Cathy

[JustChecking]

Loveable stuff, everyone! ... @Duv - Wooooooo!

at first, some lighting effects, to push the island more back and add feeling of sun on left, then bit of dodging/burning, increased contrast on front ship and mountain, and then a bit of simplifier on the mountain to make it even more rough-like...

cheers

[CJ Swartz]

JustChecking -- haven't seen you around in months -- so glad to see you're back with us!! Nice rendition -- I can FEEL the sun!

[Kraellin]

wasnt going to do this one, but got to wondering why there were no people in the boats or on the beach.....

Craig

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