Pretty Woman

[raniday]

Cassidy, great filmy atmosphere about this one. And Janet, don't stop now! You're on a roll. This one's my favorite of your two, definite keeper.

Well when I saw the thread "Pretty Woman" I just had to grab muh hat and see what it was all about.

I'm glad you did, TLB. The first one's my favorite, but I love the effects on her hair in the second, too.
Ms. Kiska, that's gorgeous. Interesting idea for the eyes.

[Swampy]

TLB... I love your rendering with the text overlay and page curl. Very very well done!

[Nanls]

Thanks Catherine for the fun montage photo art project.
wonderful entries, all of them. Love the page curl TLB.
Here is my montage done with edges (PG6), a little texture and Art history brush.
~Nancy~



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[OnAir]

I distorted the text with polar coordinates (rectangular to polar option), combined it with multiply option with the flower and put it over colorized in three channels girl.

[raniday]

OnAir, I'm not a retouch artist, but that looks like an amazing job of coloring the girl And I like your composition.

Nancy, that's beautiful. I just recently got PGE6. It's HUGE, and I haven't done much with it yet.

[Nanls]

Hi Catherine, thanks for the nice comment. I just recently upgraded from PG4... big difference, and a fun program but slooooooooooooow. Anyway it does have some nice effects if you have the time to play.

On Air...really nice colorization!

~Nancy

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[Kraellin]

on air,

i agree with cat; excellent colorization!

had to do one of my own as well. just too many possibilities here.

craig

[OnAir]

Raniday, Kraellin, Nanls, thank you very much for your appreciation. I had some downtime, so I spent enough time to polish the picture Thanks Catherine, it was very interesting job

[DannyRaphael]

OnAir... let me add my applause. Wonderful job.

TwoLaidBack... I especially like how you used the text in both interpretations.

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This started out by applying Levels to the base layer to bring out the hair highlights. Below this layer I created a new layer and filled it with white.

Back to the BW layer, Stylize > Emboss was applied and the blend mode changed to Hard Light. 20+ layers later, I got this! Photoshop filters Crosshatch, Colored Pencil, Find Edges, Unsharp Mask, Dry Brush and Virtual Painter's Oil Painting were used along the way.

Thanks, Catherine, for posting this yummy trio of pics to play with.

~Danny~

[RL Design]

Great project - could not resist!

OnAir - Fantastic colorizing! Wow at first glance I thought, "Hey, where'd they get the color image!".

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by RL Design

Great project - could not resist!

Glad you didn't resist. Both of these are terrific, Robin.

[raniday]

Nan, I don't find the program to be so slow as mind boggling for all the edge/brush possibilities. I could take a month off from my other toys and delve into it I guess.

Craig, cool idea overlaying just her skin w/ the text. RL, that's so nice and textury, good composition. Did you use PhotoGraphic Edges?

Danny, I've saved your workflow, gotta try it. I really like that look.

[RL Design]

raniday - I am not familliar with PhotoGraphic Edges. The edge on the photo of the girl is one that I purchased online as a graphic.

Thank you everyone for the nice comments!

[raniday]

Here's my attempt. It got pretty abstract, but I was having a good time with colors, using blending modes, and I used the Watercolor filter and textures, all in PS CS.

Here's a larger version:
http://www.pbase.com/catbounds/image/55595546

[Kraellin]

thanks cat

fun images to play with.

yours is a bit more wild than normal, isnt it? somehow the center of the flower reminds me of a dragonfly. very lovely

craig