Creative interpretations: Pile of Fruit

[Kraellin]

thanks, PM excellent photo to work with.

craig

[Photomaster]

Almost forgot:

Sylvia, Beautiful work! reminds me of a Norman Rockwell

DKCoats, Super job!! Shades of the Dutch Master works I saw in Amsterdam.

[borderline]

I am working on writing a set of artistic filters and thought I would share some preliminary results. I am curious what you guys/gals think. I have been struggling with trying to figure out what makes a pastel image. I think the influence of the canvas and lack of full coverage (unlike oil painting) is part of it, as well as having slightly different colors. Here are two images. One is supposed to look like an oil painting, the other a pastel drawing... can you tell which is which, and are they convincing? Thanks for your input..

[Swampy]

I'm not an artist, but to me a pastel color is one that has been desaturated, or in the case of paints, white added.

If you are painting in Photoshop and want pastel colors use the Saturation ramp in the color picker (The "S" of the H/S/B buttons). By default, PS defaults to the H ramp.

Below is a very saturated Blue selected from the H ramp. To the right, the same HUE of blue selected from the lower portion of the Saturation (S) ramp.

[dkcoats]

Just to clear up some semantic confusion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastels

There are pastels, and then there are pastels.

And thanks, PM, for the kind words.

dc

[borderline]

Yep, I am trying to simulate the pastel art media... but, I did do a bit of desaturation and brightening in order to convey some of the "pastel" colors typically used in pastel art...

Tom

[Nicky666]

Very nice picture. Just smoothed it a bit by applying a gaussian blur to a multiply overlay (ofcourse had to adjust the lighting after that), and added a border

[Fox54Black]

This picture is perfect for manipulation.
The second picture I made using the Art Media Pastel tool in PSP 9.

[Kraellin]

nicky666,

welcome to RP.

i like that

craig

[lkroll]

Some additional zing too.

[cardmnal]

Applied the simple chalkoholic technique as demonstrated on the Lttle Ink Pot site.

Makes a nice little piece of work for such a simple task.

[Swampy]

Very nice, Cardmnal! It's a great effect!

[patriciakay]

Hello Photomaster...lovely fruit photo...thought i would have a go and used 2 Xero filters...illustrator and clarity and just put a border around it..

Great work everyone, its nice to see all your different interpretations...

Patricia

[Stroker]

Find Edges > Art History
Chaulk and Charcoal
C&C was a bit harsh in highs and low, so I manually Smudged a bit.
One texture in highs/lows, different texture in midtones.
Blending modes and opacity to taste.

[Kraellin]

thought i'd revisit this one. did this in image analyzer with an edge filter, then some hand work back in psp 10.

craig