[Mona]

Moved from Photo Art Forum

Hi All,

I love the effect of this clipart:

http://www.fotosearch.com/photodisc-...tables/ART154/

What program/steps would produce the same results from a photo? Apparently this was created with acrylic, pencil and airbrushing.

Thanks,

Mona

[ferdberfel]

Try Photoshop, and if you have CS or above, go to the filter gallery. Try different effects, then airbrush color and texture.
Jenn

[Swampy]

Mona...

A challenge... :-)

I didn't have the actual "before" apple, but here's what I did to my "after" apple

Duplicate layer
Run Filter - Find Edges - set this blend mode to Darken

Add a 50% gray layer set to Blend Mode of Overlay- Use this layer with a soft airbrush at about 50% opacity painting with black to add details in the stem area and a larger white brush to bring up the highlight.

Hope this gives you some help

[Peter S]

Is that lots of little exit holes from very little worms - UGH bad thought.

[Swampy]

Heee... Peter!

[palomino]

I tried to get the illustration look a couple different ways...I will post the original (from stock exchange) and my 2 tries...if either one is close to what you are looking for post back and I will try to remember how I got there. I love old plant and animal illustrations. I used to buy old yardsale encyclopedias to cut them out for projects (yes, nerdy I know )

-Kate

[palms1]

Palomino I remembered seeing a thread on another forum so went to look and you are doing the same thing.Great look but i never really got the hang of the workflow

Palms

[palomino]

Right-- I knew we discussed something similar on DPReview a while back. I went over there to see if anyone remembered the thread because I had made it into an action back then, so I totally don't remember the steps at all. I make a few deviations from that workflow like skipping the hard light change and adding in a screen white layer blurred on low opacity after the layers are merged. Someone else was discussing something that involved the cutout filter somehow, but I don't think anything ever came of that...I wonder if this technique combined with the smudge type painting technique could yield something even a little closer to what we are looking for. Here is the link I was looking for on the other forum if you need it. It seems like a good jumping off point although it works better on some images than others.
-Kate

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=17997133

[palomino]

also I do remember that workflow being somewhat sticky-- if you know how to attach an action and send it through I would be happy to do that...I am just not sure how it works!
-Kate