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| | Photo-Based Art Emulating natural-media painting techniques | 
01-28-2006, 11:49 AM
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| | | Cats I thought today i would try and get some photographs of my cat Winnie awake, Only problem is she is a better model asleep than awake and wouldn't pose for me, i have posted a couple of the photo's incase any one was bored ( as if) and wanted to mess around anything goes except for animal cruelty !
Palms
p.s. Is it better to post photo's warts and all or try and corect colour etc first ?
Personaly i think former, is this right ? | 
01-28-2006, 12:45 PM
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| | | Color correction and sharpening. Just a photo-retouch this time Palms. The yellow/orange cast was killing me.  | 
01-29-2006, 03:48 AM
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| | Thats great Ikroll, As said above i do post photo's warts and all for two reasons, one i find altering them affects some filters and how they work, secondly i am absolutely useless at colour correction and spend hours debating wether they are "Right". So to see one corrected is a cause of great envy.
mind you her white bits arent always that white usually there is some mud in there
Palms | 
01-29-2006, 02:19 PM
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| | | I use to have three tuxedos myself, ... ...so I know what you mean. TJ, for some reason, loved the mud.
Miss them all very much; had to give them up when I went belly up a little over a year ago. Fortunately my sister found good homes for them (all living in the same place on a farm no less).  | 
01-29-2006, 03:40 PM
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| | | Beautiful animal you have there. But, a cat being a creature of the highest indifference where man is concerned, would never lower itself to "pose."
With the cats I have owned, (or was it the other way around), attempting to get one to pose was like trying to push hot butter up a rope. 8-) Asleep, I sneaked many a fun shot.
Here's an interpretation of your picture.
Steve | 
01-30-2006, 06:12 AM
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| | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Steve Conway Beautiful animal you have there. But, a cat being a creature of the highest indifference where man is concerned, would never lower itself to "pose."
With the cats I have owned, (or was it the other way around), attempting to get one to pose was like trying to push hot butter up a rope. 8-) Asleep, I sneaked many a fun shot.
Here's an interpretation of your picture.
Steve | You can always tell a cat owner, by the way they talk about them. Winnie owns us, she has more attitude than either kids had put together, and now she is the only one left at home she RULES ! ! !
Sorry you dont have yours anymore ikroll but maybe in the future , and Steve like your interpretaion a lot was it done in Paint Shop Pro ?
Palms
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01-30-2006, 09:34 AM
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| | Yep! Definitely a cat person here.
The image was done in Paint Shop Pro with Gertrudis plugin.
And thank you.
Steve Quote: |
Originally Posted by palms1 You can always tell a cat owner, by the way they talk about them. Winnie owns us, she has more attitude than either kids had put together, and now she is the only one left at home she RULES ! ! !
Sorry you dont have yours anymore ikroll but maybe in the future , and Steve like your interpretaion a lot was it done in Paint Shop Pro ?
Palms
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01-30-2006, 04:53 PM
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| | Pretty Kitty Steve.
Here's my photo art..Color corrected and then pastels.
~Nancy~
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01-30-2006, 07:05 PM
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| | | I'm in a rage. ArtRage 1.1 that is (just found this link and found out that 2 is released; at $19, it's a steal. Will probably buy it in a few days). I first used Impressionist djroil24 preset, but then I decided to do some extensuations with ArtRage. Haven't played with it in a little while, so I stroked it with my handy dandy mouse and voila. 
Last edited by lkroll : 01-30-2006 at 07:11 PM.
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01-31-2006, 02:48 AM
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| | | Nancy I Like the softness of your picture may i ask how you got the effect
Ikroll again a great piece of work and top marks for using artrage, I will have to give it another try, i have learnt a lot since last trying it disastrously
Palms | 
01-31-2006, 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by palms1 Nancy I Like the softness of your picture may i ask how you got the effect
Palms | Thank you, Palms... I used buzz to simplify the photo and then took it into Painter used blender stump for the background and artist pastels for the kitty. Brought it back to Photoshop and cleaned it up a bit. Put the original on the top layer, masked it and brought back a few details. I actually thought it could used some sharpening, however, I like the softness also, so just left it.
lkroll: I really like that effect...very, very nice. I downloaded the free version for mac to try it out, but it starts up and then just quits.... bummer!
~Nancy~
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02-01-2006, 01:51 PM
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| | | woops forgot to post this one i done of my own cat ! good job she cant read
Palms | 
02-01-2006, 03:20 PM
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| | | Winnie looks almost exactly like our 16 year old named Christy.
I'm such a cat person. No dogs. Just cats.
Janet | 
02-02-2006, 06:17 AM
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| | | [quote=Janet Petty]Winnie looks almost exactly like our 16 year old named Christy.
I'm such a cat person. No dogs. Just cats.
Me to Janet great painting
Palms | 
02-02-2006, 06:38 AM
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| | | Thank you Palms.
Janet |
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