Wagon Wheel Mini Challenge

[Swampy]

Here's a fun photo for you to play with. See what you can do in your native paint program. No external filters, just the ones that came with your favorite editing software.

[johnnieB]

swampy, thanks for the great photo to work with.

after i was happy with some filter effects, i experimented with color.

[Swampy]

Great texture, JohnnieB

[patriciakay]

Thanks for the great photo Swampy...

Johnnieb....Like your details and color...

I first did mine with Lucis Art and then adjusted the levels in PhotoshopCS2, used an action for the frame...

Patricia...

[Swampy]

Nice effect, Patricia Kay.. but you fudged and used an external filter.. LOL

[johnnieB]

swampy and patriciakay, thanks for the kind words - patriciakay, i like yours too.

[patriciakay]

Sooooooo sorry Swampy...got my dreamy head on at the moment ...it happens..Good job you mailed to me as i had done a modern art one i was about to post..

So here is one done totally with Photoshop CS2....I used Fresco and accented edges....just a touch in levels...

Patricia...

[Peter S]

Here is one from me using a method discribed by our illustrious leader, DN, for making sketches.

Hope U Like

Peter

[oltenius]

I like this circle
Regards,
Dan

[patriciakay]

Peter...Like your sketch.. looks good in black and white...

Dan.... yours has great colors and detail...

Patricia...

[Swampy]

Here's mine.

Two selections... wheel and wagon with different color overlays clipped to them.

Also duped the wheel and wagon from the original and added texture then put these on the top of the layer stack with Luminacity Blend mode.

[oltenius]

Originally Posted by patriciakay

Peter...Like your sketch.. looks good in black and white...

Dan.... yours has great colors and detail...

Patricia...

Patricia, Thanks! I'm glad you like it.
Best wishes,
Dan

[pavel123]

Great picture. Unfortunately had to destroy what I liked most about it - wood structure. Rendering done in Painter.

Pavel

[lkroll]

...I'll play fair. I used only filters that came with GIMP (not as many as PS, but they are powerful). I first enhanced the piece with Retinex, and then dupped, ran Radial Blur on the base layer and ran Polar Coordinates on the top.

By the way, Patricia cheated (she used Lucas Arts).

Edit: Didn't see Patricia's reprieve. So now I ask forgiveness.

[Swampy]

Okay PatriciaK, your second one does show your dreamy side. :-)

Peter- It does work in black and white. Very nice.

Oltenius - Wow, wonderful texture and color balance!

Pavel-- Yours is so simple and clean looking. Good work in Painter.

Ikroll - That is really wild! You could call it "Wagon in a Vortex" :-)

[oltenius]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Okay PatriciaK, your second one does show your dreamy side. :-)

Peter- It does work in black and white. Very nice.

Oltenius - Wow, wonderful texture and color balance!

Pavel-- Yours is so simple and clean looking. Good work in Painter.

Ikroll - That is really wild! You could call it "Wagon in a Vortex" :-)

Swampy, Thank you very much!
Best wishes,
Dan

[pavel123]

Swampy, Thank you. Pavel

[lkroll]

Thanks Swampy, but no more hand tying; if it weren't for external programs, I wouldn't be able to post here. lol

[alexmeta]

I used Impressionist.

Alex.

[pavel123]

I like your rendering. Just the right combination of simplification, yet keeping theessential details. Impressionist merged with a sketch layer?

Pavel

[leanan`si]

Thank you for such a neat photo swampy

I squished the levels at either end of the scale just a tad, then used 'poster edges' in CS2 and a sandstone texture .. and that was it really.

I loved the rough textures in the photo and wanted to keep those simple.

It's so neat to see the different treatments in these photos.

leanan`si

[Swampy]

Leanan, love the dark rendering. Looks like a rain storm is brewing.

[alexmeta]

Originally Posted by pavel123

I like your rendering. Just the right combination of simplification, yet keeping theessential details. Impressionist merged with a sketch layer?

Pavel

Yes Pavel, you are right - Impressionist merged with a sketch layer.

Regards

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by lkroll

...I'll play fair. I used only filters that came with GIMP (not as many as PS, but they are powerful). I first enhanced the piece with Retinex, and then dupped, ran Radial Blur on the base layer and ran Polar Coordinates on the top.

Boy, oh boy... GIMP filters are powerful.

Pavel

[palms]

Way to go Swampy Great challenge and a great photo (you will have to think up some more for us )
I ran anisotropic twice used usm then duplicated used gaussian blur and hard light blend mode

Palms

hope you are well on the road to recovery now

[pavel123]

Another try. PS CS2. Pavel

[Swampy]

Palms... Oooo that's so nice and smooth. I love the anisotropic filter. It can do some lovely things.

Pavel... Nice mono tone. Did you use a color fill layer over the black and white?

[pavel123]

It was a color gradient layer used for grayscale mapping. Set of actions with a number of pre-set colors can be downloaded from here. I used selenium brown color.

Pavel

[JimJam]

Wow! Some very nice work here not a bad one in the bunch.

[Xaran]

Beautiful work from everyone - heres mine.

Christine