Creative interpretations: Twede's Cafe

[Swampy]

Ikroll....

Thank you for the bravos...

I used PhotoShop, but you can do it in most of the other programs...

1. Duplicae the background and use your favorite pencil sketch, or sketch method. Levels Adjust to make the blacks pretty dark and lights pretty white.
2. I used a Googled image of old weathered board (lightened slightly with a curves adjusment) under the sketch. Added a subtile "Bark" texture to the wood.
3. Set the sketch blend mode to multiply.
4. Added a dark brown color fill layer above the sketch with blend mode set to Color Dodge and clipped this to the sketch layer (in PhotoShop, ALT/OPTION click on the line between the two layers. The color fill layer becomes "indented" indicating that it is only affecting the layer directly below). The color layer brings in the golden brown colors that make portions of the sketch look only singed and not totally "burned"
5. Added a Alien Skin's Xenofex Burned Wood effect for the edges.

Here's my layer palette...
Swampy

Forgot to add... I lowered the opacity on the sketch layer to 90% so it would better "settle" into the wood.

[Lorraine]

Swampy,

Your work on this is excellent.

Lorraine

[Steve Conway]

Gertrudis Pro, (several paint styles), then played with various blends and opacities to get the final look.

Steve

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

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Steve... It is a nice, folksy little town. North Bend is about 30 miles East of Seattle, home of the 2nd place Seahawks.

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Steve and Palms: Do tell a little about "how" you did your very unique interpretations.

[jch71566]

Wow lots of good work here.

For mine, I firstly removed the annoying power lines and jpg artifacts.

Made a selection of the cafe & sign, and inverted.

Used a rather heavy Carrivagio setting, inverted again, and used a lighter touch.

-Jeff

[Swampy]

For mine, I firstly removed the annoying power lines and jpg artifacts.

Jeff... Power lines are a distraction in most cases. If you're gonna do a nice painterly effect I'd remove them too. In this case, I found they added to the "tackiness" of the old cafe. It's so typical of small town rural "truckstop" scenes. ;-)

Nice job on your rendering

[jch71566]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Jeff... Power lines are a distraction in most cases. If you're gonna do a nice painterly effect I'd remove them too. In this case, I found they added to the "tackiness" of the old cafe. It's so typical of small town rural "truckstop" scenes. ;-)

Nice job on your rendering

Thanks!

For your more linear interpretation, I agree with the choice to leave 'em.

But, as it has been said, variety is the spice of life.

-Jeff

[Steve Conway]

Painted cafe.

Steve

[jch71566]

Nice job, Steve. Care to share how you made it?

Thanks,
Jeff

[Steve Conway]

A combination of Lucis Art and Gertrudis Pro layered.

As for exact settings, since I tried several I can't remember the ones I ended up with.

Thanks for your comments and interest.

Steve

Originally Posted by jch71566

Nice job, Steve. Care to share how you made it?

Thanks,
Jeff

[The Dude]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Ohhh.. Danny... I love a project like this... :-)

How 'bout a wood burned rendition?

Beautiful!!! thanx for the tutorial I am trying it out on different photos.

[Swampy]

You're welcome, Dude. :-)