Scotland

[barbara]

just wanted to put my rendering into my (still empty ) gallery..
and wanted to comment: "original photo copyrighted by Mr. ... "
Britsdad, ask your brother please - how should I declared his copyright ?
I simply don't know..

[Britsdad]

Originally Posted by barbara

just wanted to put my rendering into my (still empty ) gallery..
and wanted to comment: "original photo copyrighted by Mr. ... "
Britsdad, ask your brother please - how should I declared his copyright ?
I simply don't know..

Copyright? I don't know as there is any, it's only a holiday snap that I perloined...lol...Use it if you like barbara, with mine and my brothers blessing. (His name is David Plummer, if you want to know, and I think he'll be dead chuffed to see it "in lights" so if you do use it give me the URL to it.)....regards John.

[barbara]

lot of thanks to you and to David for that nice permission,
I think, in some days I will be ready ( the day should have 36 hours at least ! maybe then
I will have enough time for hobbies )
Greetings
Barbara

[pavel123]

Very nice photo.

I tried the sequence Dan used for his rendering, then added IPM layer.

Pavel

[pavel123]

My apologies, I actually posted the original photo...
Next attampt

[pavel123]

Barbara,
Your GIMP works are incredible. Would you know if a WinXP version of GIMP exists? Thank you so much.

Pavel

P.S. I reckon that since I already posted the original photo by mistake, I should at least make a re-touched version.

[barbara]

Hallo Pavel,
thanks for nice comment

Gimp is a great Open Source project and is free for both : personal and commercial use.
It's native environment is Linux ( so here it works better ).
Of course the Open Source "community" or better say "movement", is not selfish - so
there are downloads for Unix, Mac and Windows users.
Homepage is: www.gimp.org
Install it and enjoy !
Barbara

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by barbara

Hallo Pavel,
thanks for nice comment

Gimp is a great Open Source project and is free for both : personal and commercial use.
It's native environment is Linux ( so here it works better ).
Of course the Open Source "community" or better say "movement", is not selfish - so
there are downloads for Unix, Mac and Windows users.
Homepage is: www.gimp.org
Install it and enjoy !
Barbara

Barbara,

Thank you.

Pavel

[Bob Mc]

Originally Posted by barbara

very nice photo to play,
amazing how many various green tones in one small lane

here my watercolor version
I used Gimp

Hi Barbara,

I couldn't help admiring the Gimp watercolor version that you did

I can't tell you how many times I've seen some Gimp results that I liked and when I go searching for www Gimp info about capabilities such as your watercolor result, I find nothing that makes sense to me.

I know each new program takes time to learn, and your result really makes me want to try it - even tho I don't have much excess time.

Could you briefly describe the process and gimp tools that you used.
Was there a plug-in that helped?
I assume that the brushes were the key - how much adjustment did you have to make in their properties?

I'd appreciate any help you can provide

Thanks

Bob Mc

[barbara]

Hallo Bob,
thanks for your nice comments and let's talk about mentioned watercolor imitation
-"I assume that the brushes were the key"- no, not here.
-"Could you briefly describe the process and gimp tools that you used " - of course

My first steps after cropping were painting to add some color to many parts of the image
(using standard round brushes mostly with opacity reduced to about 30%)
purpose was to close the composition.
Then used Smudge Tool and smudged many details out, to simplify the image.
The last step was Filter-> Blur-> Selective Gaussian Blur.
To find satisfying settings don't be afraid to experiment, in Gimp we have many undo-levels,
so repeating keyboard-shortcut Ctrl Z we can go back so many steps as we need

I will be glad if I was able to answer your question. I hope you will enjoy Gimp.
Greetings
Barbara

[Neve]

Great efforts all around.

Couldn't resist having a go since I originate from Scotland - Och Aye!!! Thanks for the use of the great photo. Used Buzz, Lucis Art and Impressionist (i.e. Trimoons WC setting) on this. I spend a lot of time mostly using Painter IX.5 over the past 18 months, so it's nice to do something a whole lot easier for a change.

[Britsdad]

It's been a while since I posted, we've been up Scotland, will see if there are any pics I've taken that deserve to be posted here. From what I've seen so far none as good as the one here! .......Nice interpritations from all partisipants here, thankyou all.......John