Creative Flair ~ Please help make this special.

Legacy~Art · #1 06-12-2005, 05:35 PM

Please give this your all, this is a couple that on the 30th July have been married 56 years, they are still so very much in love, to see these two together would make you cry and also smile with happiness, they are such a wonderful couple.

I'd like all the painter experts out there to help me create a painted look picture that i can print off and send to USA to give her a surprise for their wedding anniversary.

Now i will be asking you how you did the "said" picture as i want to learn how to do a painted look picture.

Please make it special.

If you can remove the glasses from the table.

Please also use this picture for personal galleries only, thank you.

Elle

Legacy~Art · #2 06-12-2005, 05:51 PM

Here is mine, you will see why i need help...!

Please, please, help

byRo · #3 06-12-2005, 08:23 PM

Hi there, Elle,

Hope you like this one.
Can't explain now - gotta work tomorrow, and it's way past bedtime.

Rô

Legacy~Art · #4 06-13-2005, 02:20 AM

Ro that is lovely and yes when you have time i would love to know what you did to achieve it.

Elle

Neve · #5 06-13-2005, 03:29 AM

Lovely results Elle and Ro, well done. Just a pity this wasn't better quality!
I did some adjustments in Paint Shop Pro first. In Painter, I used Jaykita's WC-A setting(Impressionist Plugin). Acrylics/Captured Bristle on the Background. Blenders/Soft Blender Stump at 12% over most of the image. Really just experimenting with this. Took it back into Paint Shop Pro and did some smudging. Hue/Sat Tool on the ladies lovely blue eyes also the gentleman's but his eyes are not very clear.

Legacy~Art · #6 06-13-2005, 03:41 AM

Aww that is gorgeous too Neve, she does have beautiful eyes doesn't she!

Caitlin · #7 06-13-2005, 03:48 AM

Hi Guys - here I am sneaking into the photo art forums! I'm not going to make any attempt myself - way out of my comfort zone - but I do think the picture would be improved a lot if you could open up the man's eye's a bit.

Steve Conway · #8 06-13-2005, 09:11 AM

Here is another try on this very nice photo.

Steve C.

Legacy~Art · #9 06-13-2005, 10:08 AM

Caitlin its common decency to ask Neve first before changing her picture, its a "said" agreement between the artists all over the net, i have to also say you opened his eyes but then you changed the look of him, he doesn't have wide open eyes, anyhow please ask before you change a picture, would you like it if i changed yours?

Thanks Steve that is a lovely picture.

jaykita · #10 06-14-2005, 07:48 AM

Hey, Elle, You did ask to create a painted look picture. Here's mine, not sure if you like it though. Maybe u could get it printed on watercolor paper.
I did this in painter 8 with a digital wc brush, though i couldnt tell u which one since i'm forever changing their settings.
Wish the happy couple on my behalf!

Legacy~Art · #11 06-14-2005, 12:17 PM

Judy that is wicked!!!

***Love your colours***

Janet Petty · #12 06-14-2005, 03:26 PM

This was a fun snapshot to work on. Thanks Elle.

Sort of a watercolor here. I hope it meets the challenge.

Janet

Caitlin · #13 06-14-2005, 03:56 PM

Elle - take a chill pill! I said in my post I had taken a 'liberty' - and as soon as you replied (with a completely different reply that you have now totally rewritten to be far more harsh for some reason) I removed my post. To be honest I thought you were probably joking, as all you said was 'have you asked Neve'; with a smiley face with a thumbs up, and *smirk*, but I decided to remove my demonstration of the technique anyway.

I was trying to help (What I generally do) - as though I don't have a specilisation in 'photo art', I do have one in photo manipulation which I felt could help in this case. I have no idea why you have taken this attitude, sorry for trying to be helpful! As I removed my attachment as soon as you simply questioned if I had asked Neve first (with a smiley face...), I can't imagine why you felt it necessary to then completely edit your message to say all this? I had responded to your first more reasonable post already.

Legacy~Art · #14 06-14-2005, 05:39 PM

Do you feel better now Caitlin? yes! Good!

Thank you Janet, i am sending all these pictures to Joan going to ask her which one she would like, she will most probably say all of them, which i think i shall add to a cd and send her all of them.

byRo · #15 06-14-2005, 08:40 PM

Hope I'm still in time for a second post, well, actually the same one just cropped and sharpened a bit more.

IOU what I did...
- Adjusted in Photoshop, the luminosity was way to high to show the skin tones;
- Cloned in Painter. Oils, resat low, bleed high;
- Back to Photoshop: Sharpened and embossed (for the strokes) and Render>Lighting for the mood.

Rô