[DannyRaphael]

For your creative enjoyment...

Image source: Google images

"Hut 1, hut 2..."

[kiska]

Two or three layers of Studio Artist paint.

[lkroll]

Ran the image into Autotrace (AUTOTRACE -corner-threshold 75 -despeckle-level 16 -despeckle-tightness 1 -output-format ai -output-file c:tempd.ai -report-progress %1) and ported the resulting illustrator file into Photoshop. I then did some additional simplifying using Impressionist Conte Faithful and Paint Engine @Wetter2 presets. I then ported the whole thing in GIMP and rand DCSpecial's 1969 filter set to Saturation (adjusted Opacity down a little) and flattened done. I know I could have done the whole thing in Photoshop, but I like GIMPs precise control of Jpeg quality for the file saving process.

[Janet Petty]

lkroll, that is a different look for you. I'm glad you are branching out some. I like. I like.

Kiska, awesome as always. You have more talent in your little War Eagle fingers than I'll ever have. Good thing I can learn from you.

Janet

[lkroll]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

lkroll, that is a different look for you. I'm glad you are branching out some. I like. I like.

Kiska, awesome as always. You have more talent in your little War Eagle fingers than I'll ever have. Good thing I can learn from you.

Janet

Believe it or not, I started out with Vector simplification before I discovered all those wonderful filters (Paint Engine, Impressionist to name a few). I figured I would try to mix this into the equation and am quite happy with the result. Still a lot of interaction; you know that I try to get the computer to do all the work; still failing though.

I didn't know that Kiska was a War Eagle. I graduated Auburn (EE) in 1992. War Eagle to all.

[Cassidy]

Quite Numerous steps here unfortunately I seem to have closed the psd without saving, so cannot follow through with description

[byRo]

Seemed to have Deep Paint written all over it.
Done with the (modified) water-colour brush and embossing.
Added sharpening effects in Photoshop.

Rô

[dkcoats]

Rotated the canvas to give it more, um, oomph or something.
Couple layers of Impressionist. Don't remember what settings I wound up with.

dc

[kiska]

Awright Ikroll!!!! WAR EAGLE!!!!!!! Janet is one of those ArKANSAS porkers, but a nice 'un.

Thanks Janet!

[dbuckle]

A Studio Artist attempt

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by dkcoats

Couple layers of Impressionist. Don't remember what settings I wound up with. dc

That's unforunate. This is one of the better Impressionist rendered effects that I've seen in quite a while.

If you could attempt to recreate the effect and note/post the details, I'm sure I won't be the only one who is appreciative.

The rotation and edge treatment work well, too.

~Danny~

[Swampy]

Happy New Year to All

I just LOVE football! Thanks for the great photo, Danny!

PhotoShop CS

Masked out the player (Quick Mask Mode), rotated slightly and repositioned to center him better. Duplicated the masked layer and moved the lower copy to the left and applied some motion blur. Duplicated the blur layer and moved slightly left again and set blend mode to Multiply.

Added a background layer under the above three layers and cloned back some background and did a gausian blur on the clone.

[dkcoats]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

That's unforunate. This is one of the better Impressionist rendered effects that I've seen in quite a while.

If you could attempt to recreate the effect and note/post the details, I'm sure I won't be the only one who is appreciative.

The rotation and edge treatment work well, too.

~Danny~

Danny, thanks for the compliment. I mean, gosh. That's high praise coming from you.
I've done my best to recreate what I did.

The bottom layer was Impressionist>Paint>Angled strokes
I used a rounder, sketchier brush rather than the zig-zag thing the default version uses and probably twiddled a couple other things too but alas those changes are lost to the ages. The first attachment shows what the result looked like.

Above that I used a preset I'd saved from an earlier effort. I've attached that preset along with the result. I set the opacity of the top layer to 42%.

I had to clone out some undesirable scallopy-looking parts of the underlying layer, mostly on his right arm at the edge of the jersey sleeve.

The edge treatment was dictated by the rotation of the canvas--it was either that or recreate a whole lot of the background (which wouldn't have been all that hard) plus some of the guy's hand (which would).

Glad you liked it.

david

[Steve Conway]

Nice pic, but orange and blue on the uniform would have made it perfect. 8-)

Steve

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by dkcoats

Danny, thanks for the compliment. I mean, gosh. That's high praise coming from you.
I've done my best to recreate what I did.

The bottom layer was Impressionist>Paint>Angled strokes
I used a rounder, sketchier brush rather than the zig-zag thing the default version uses and probably twiddled a couple other things too but alas those changes are lost to the ages. The first attachment shows what the result looked like.

Above that I used a preset I'd saved from an earlier effort. I've attached that preset along with the result. I set the opacity of the top layer to 42%.

I had to clone out some undesirable scallopy-looking parts of the underlying layer, mostly on his right arm at the edge of the jersey sleeve.

The edge treatment was dictated by the rotation of the canvas--it was either that or recreate a whole lot of the background (which wouldn't have been all that hard) plus some of the guy's hand (which would).

Glad you liked it.

david

Thanks a lot for the reconstruction, info and preset, David. That helps a lot.

You done good.

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Steve: That's a pretty far departure from Buzz, which you've been favoring lately. The "oil painting look" really stands out. I wouldn't mind reading about your details, too.