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10-07-2006, 09:58 AM
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| Fall colors, Parry Not trying to compete with Alan (can not compete with those magnificent mountain views anyways) I post a few pictures form my "fall color" series taken in Parry Sound region. Parry sound is a region approx 250 km north of Toronto. This region is essentially a forest, lakes, rivers and a few small towns in between. Beavers modify the landscape by making a damn on every stream they can find flooding the forest and creating artificial lakes with dead trees standing in the water. Pardon my French. Pavel Last edited by pavel123; 10-07-2006 at 01:30 PM.  |
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10-07-2006, 12:01 PM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Very nice shots...here is my "artsy" piece Quote:
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10-07-2006, 01:11 PM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Lovely Autumn Photos Pavel....Thanks for sharing them... Frank....Your artsy piece is very nice...great colors and detail and a perfectly matched frame! Here is my attempt... Photoshop CS2 cut out filter and framed with an action... Patricia...  |
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10-07-2006, 02:04 PM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Looks like a water color to me Pavel...like it and the misty edges... Patricia...  |
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10-07-2006, 02:46 PM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Pavel, beautiful shots! I love your watercolor. Wish I could do as well in Painter! Patricia, Pretty waterfall. Frank, Perfectly framed. Here's one I did with Painter. I used digital inks to smoosh the color aorund, brought that back into painter. Duplicated the original background and desaturated and placed it above the Painter layer. Tweaked blending modes until I got something I liked then merged the two layers. I also made a duplicate grayscale of the original layer (in another file) to use as a bump map distortion to the merged layer. |
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10-07-2006, 04:17 PM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Swampy....These two are really good...you are getting to grips with Painter now...so much to learn in there...doubt I will ever know it all!!! Thank you for your comment... I have done another one...decided to do Niks color solarize and frame with an action in Photoshop CS2... Patricia....  |
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10-07-2006, 05:27 PM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Swampy...Love your watercolors Patricia...Very nice rendering using Niks filter. Matches the mood of the place perfectly. I have quite a few shots of "beaver's lakes" with dead trees...strange feeling. I attach a few more pictures to illustrate my point. Pavel Last edited by pavel123; 10-07-2006 at 05:56 PM. |
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10-07-2006, 05:47 PM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Thanks Pavel...I love Niks color effex...but feel a bit of a cheat as its a quick fix! Here are two for you done in Niks...one BW solarize and the other color...spooky eh? Patricia... |
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10-07-2006, 05:51 PM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Patricia, Wonderful solarization! As Pavel said, you captured the feel so well. I found the dead trees depressing and kind of eerie and couldn't get "into" working on them, but you've reset the mood with that one. And yes, Painter is deep and wide. I think a lot of my "problem" has been achieving an eye for what looks right. I exist in the photo realism world so much (hey, it pays the bills), that it sometimes gets hard to "let it all go"  |
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10-07-2006, 05:55 PM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Thanks Swampy...I have solarized many things including dragon fly and spiders....I really like the effect! Ah yes Painter...for me i think i was trying toooooo hard...now i am relaxing into it and its getting better each day!!! Patricia.... |
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10-07-2006, 10:27 PM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry pavel, parry sound looks like a great place for fall colors  . thanks for sharing your images.Here's a quickie painting done in photoshop. Alan PS. your night rendition with the moon is great...what filter did you use? |
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10-07-2006, 10:40 PM
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| Used Colorspace replacement to saturate the colors. Check this tutorial link. Did a few other things of course.  |
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10-07-2006, 11:14 PM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Thank you very much Craig. Quote:
I'm loving this technique too. Watercoloring is probably my favorite painting style. I've done these in PhotoImpact of course, so I don't know how/if it'll translate into PSP or PS, but here's the basics. 4 duplicate layers of the original. On the bottom layer, I use Cat's Fav 'Watercolor soft and loose' impressionist set, but reset the brush size to about 50%. I may reduce this layer's transparency a bit to retrieve some detail. The next layer is a hefty Gaussian blur, 10-20% radius depending on the image size. Transparency to 50% or more. This effectively 'washes' the underlying impressionist treatment colors. The third layer is PI's colored pen filter set to max, totally desaturated, then crunched to suit with levels for the inked lines. Blend set to 'if darker'. Top layer is simply set to Hue & Saturation blend mode to reintroduce some of the original distinct colors. Generally I then top it off with a 50% grey overlay layer, texturized for the paper surface with greatly reduced transparency. I'd love to hear if someone can imitate this in PSP or PS. |
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10-08-2006, 08:20 AM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry PS. your night rendition with the moon is great...what filter did you use?[/QUOTE] Alan, thank you. I was playing with Nik solarize filter. It sort of converted day scene to night (before and after images attached). I did a few additional manipulatons to get "artsy" look -Buzz simplifier, IMP filter, applied distortion map, added moon, painted white outlines of trees with black). Pavel |
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10-08-2006, 08:30 AM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Quote:
Thank you for sharing your technique. Could you mention there the watercolor IMP set come from. I suppose it was discussed some time earlier on RP. Couldn't find the thread myself. Pavel |
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10-08-2006, 08:32 AM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Pavel...Love your moon pic! Thanks for the details of how you did!!! Swampy...Another nice one...like the texture too! Lonnie...I also like your water color, it glows...and thanks for details...will see if i can do it in Photoshop and let you know!!!! Cardmnal...Lovely soft colors with a nice texture... Lyle....Thats a different one...the brush strokes work well with the leaves and water...will check the tute later...thanks... Patricia.... |
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10-08-2006, 09:33 AM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Quote:
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10-08-2006, 10:07 AM
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10-08-2006, 12:35 PM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Dan...This is nice it has a soft look to it... Kiska...Again great brush strokes...lovely... Patricia... |
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10-08-2006, 02:10 PM
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| Re: Fall colors, Parry Dan, like you picture. Kiska, very nice interpretation. I noticed you cropped the pic to move the fir tree to the side. Now I realized what was bothering me about the image in the first place. With that tree in the middle it looked to symmetrical... Pavel |
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