Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of fun

[Janet Petty]

I have signed model releases from the subjects in these pictures. So feel free to artify them. If they are posted to any other sites, please credit me as the copyright owner. Thank you and have fun.

Janet

[Janet Petty]

Original background removed. There was a car in the way. Oops. Enjoy Sir Axel.

[palms]

Great Photo's Janet Brilliant timing off to play now been hunting all day trying to find something to artify

Palms

[Frank Lopes]

I caught up with these two many years ago on the deck of the Valhalla...

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

I have signed model releases from the subjects in these pictures. So feel free to artify them. If they are posted to any other sites, please credit me as the copyright owner. Thank you and have fun.

Janet

[dkcoats]

Arrr, ye lubbers, I be submittin' this yere paintin' and any man Jack who don't like it can walk the bloody plank, he can. Hyarrrr.

(My attempt to do it all with the AHB pretty much stunk so I laid a partly-transparent layer of Impressionist over it. I'm still not that crazy about it. Arrr.)

dc

[lkroll]

Almost had as much fun given this rendering a title as the rendering itself . A mixture of the following: Flaming Pear's Mr. Contrast, Impressionist with CherylH's Finger Paint 1 preset, Xero's Pastellize set to divide (gave it some glow), GIMP's Photo Copy filter (for the hair only; gave the stands some much needed separation), and some other things (i.e., smudgeing, reverse painting, saturation/color adjustments, etc. ).

Forgot to add that I used Eye Candie's Jiggle too.

[lkroll]

Head of Knights, the Man of Arms is charge to the Kings Castle.

[Gary Richardson]

Had to have a play.

[Janet Petty]

You all are having way too much fun and I'm glad. Keep exploring folks. These guys need a place to be immortalized.

Janet

[MargaretM]

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum - except it is Sunday morning and mother's day and I would not want to shock my conservative sons!
Done in Photoshop with paint daubs and a new background.
MargaretM

[lkroll]

Originally Posted by MargaretM

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum - except it is Sunday morning and mother's day and I would not want to shock my conservative sons!
Done in Photoshop with paint daubs and a new background.
MargaretM

This reminds me of the Captain Morgan commercials.

[Janet Petty]

I'm having almost as much fun artifying these as I did taking them.

I've added one I tried to do in Painter. Sadly, I've been away from Painter too long and most of this was done in Photoshop after the fact.

Janet

[MargaretM]

Now where's the Rum?

Following your lead, Ikroll I entered Captain Morgans resposible drinking website and found this interesting "recipe" for a Tattoo - using bold spiced black rum and and an energy drink. Sounds quite good and maybe what the energizer bunny drinks.
Pretty cool site.
MargaretM

[lkroll]

Originally Posted by MargaretM

Following your lead, Ikroll I entered Captain Morgans resposible drinking website and found this interesting "recipe" for a Tattoo - using bold spiced black rum and and an energy drink. Sounds quite good and maybe what the energizer bunny drinks.
Pretty cool site.
MargaretM

Combination of an upper and downer means that the alcohol must be canceled out and you can drink as much as you want; Right?

[barbara]

Margaret, I like your rendering it has very nice painterly look.

Gary, your idea is great, I like it
is a part of your rendering the coast near La Digue ? Those big rockpieces are for sure
from granite, I think there is only one place on earth with islands from granite ..

[MargaretM]

Thank you Barbara. A nice picture to work with.
Ikroll - what a wonderful theory - till the next morning.
MargaretM

[Fox54Black]

Nothing funner than editing a pirate picture
I like your first version Ikroll
Thanks for the great pictures Janet

[Gary Richardson]

Hi Barbara,

I've no idea where the island in my picture is from, it's just an image I "trawled" off the net and cropped to get the frame I wanted.

Glad you liked the final image, I had loads of fun doing it, and added and subtracted all sorts of things before settling on the final submission.

[palms]

Had another go at a different photo few more to go ! ! !

Palms

and another

[Swampy]

Oh, wow... some really neat renderings here. What fun

I really managed to garbage this one up.

[Naburi]

Very fun to play around with

[Verywierd]

Yer says ye be lookin for a good used ship? Well I be havin' just the deal for you ....

[Gary Richardson]

Hi Verywierd,

Your ship is flying the white ensign (flag of the Royal Navy), is this a ruse to lure unsuspecting souls into a Pirate trap ?

[Verywierd]

Originally Posted by Gary Richardson

Hi Verywierd,

Your ship is flying the white ensign (flag of the Royal Navy), is this a ruse to lure unsuspecting souls into a Pirate trap ?

The ship is actually a model of the Golden Hind. As a Privateer all who sailed on her were both representatives of the Crown as well as pirates (to the Spanish)

[MargaretM]

The ship is actually a model of the Golden Hind. As a Privateer all who sailed on her were both representatives of the Crown as well as pirates (to the Spanish)

Very weird!
MargaretM

[lkroll]

Not really happy, but I need to figure out the sketch. I'll keep playing until I can simulate it. In the meantime, here's what I've come up with.

[lkroll]

Used Xero's Carravaggio filter along with some additional enhancements (including Impressionist with KentC's Cezanne filte modified for size) to get this illustration.

[Pam]

Wonderful shot, Janet. When I saw the first one, I immediately knew what I was going to do:

- Cut him out of the background, and turned him into a sketch.
- Created a "pirate map" background. I started with a great action called "Ray's Parchment 2006", which is available at Adobe's Studio Exchange:

http://tinyurl.com/fmgur

After running the action, I ran another great action, "Parahamsa Linen":

http://tinyurl.com/memf5

Then I used lots of grunge/stain type brushes to add some dirt and age. You can find tons of these brushes online or at Studio Exchange.

I also added a 1626 map of Bermuda and a few nautical/antique designs. All of these were used at varying opacities and blend modes. Finally, I brushed the edge with grunge brushes to give an uneven/burned/torn/aged look.

To finish I placed the pirate on top of the map, put in a drop shadow and tweaked all the colors. Now if only I can learn how to retouch as fast as I've written this description! ; )

Full sized crop for a close-up view:
http://upload.pbase.com/pam_r/image/61392390.jpg

Link to a larger version:
http://upload.pbase.com/pam_r/image/61392430.jpg

Thank you for letting us play!

[Kraellin]

pam,

excellent! i saw that and immediately thought 'Pirates of the Carribean' with johnny depp. could easily be a movie poster.

craig

[Janet Petty]

Beautiful work Pam. Thumbs up.

Janet