TM Artistic Endeavors Tutorial

[Trimoon]

This is a new tutorial based on a rendering I do of Robert Mitchum a couple of weeks ago. I posted a PDF file on my blog, this is just temporary until I find a better home for it. The name of the tutorial is TM Artistic Endeavors Tomorrow I will be posting a HTML version and later in the week there will be a video available I hope, I've already made the video, just having trouble finding a place to host it. I did a limited release earlier today of the video as a test and it crashed my server.

Steve

Thank you Danny for your help.

[pavel123]

Steve,

Thank you so much for sharing your methods and techniques. Not sure I will be able to repeat, but I will definitely give it a try.

You posted a rendition "homeless men" at dpreview a week or so ago, chalk and charcoal imitation with brief description of your workflow and a note that tutorial would be forthcoming. Is that the tutorial you were referring to?

Thank you again.

Pavel

[palms]

Thank you again for your kindness is sharing your techniques, I have already had a quick read through, will practice later (looks great by the way )

Thank you

Palms

[oltenius]

Thanks for the tutorial!
I have a question... At the step 13, you said that must apply the impressionist on layer four but at the impressionist>charcoal (image capture), layer three appears!
Am I in the wrong direction?
Best wishes,
Dan

[Trimoon]

Dan
The image that you see in the preview is not important. However, I can see where that would confuse. So I've fixed it. In the image I was basically trying to convey the settings and the overall feel for the Impressionist control panel.

Thank you all and I hope you enjoy.
Steve

[oltenius]

Steve, Thank you for the response, comment and the great tutorial!
Best wishes,
Dan

[DannyRaphael]

Exceptional work (again) Steve. Glad to have be able to contribute.

~Danny~

[patriciakay]

Thank you for sharing your talent with us....I love your tutorials and always look forward to a new one ....now its here and i must practice.....hopefully it will be something like!!!!

Patricia...

[Janet Petty]

Stephen, you are a born teacher. Thank for for all you do.

Janet

[DannyRaphael]

A shot at Robert Mitchum based on Steve's tutorial, which is exceptionally well written.

[patriciakay]

WOW...Danny that is so good...will have to take time out tomorrow and have a go!!!!

Patricia...

[sylvia1065]

Hi Steve,
Thank you so much for sharing this tutorial with us!
I've been trying to reproduce your effect but I'm having a problem at Step 16. If I erase the background of layer 5, all I get is white, since the layer right under that one is pure white. I'm not getting any charcoal at all.
Any suggestion where I'm going wrong?
Thanks again,
Sylvia

[Trimoon]

Sylvia

In step 16. It says to adjust the opacity down to 30% did you do this?

Steve

[Trimoon]

I'm glad everyone's enjoying. I was supposed to have the video ready today, but my neighbors are building a house, they cut my Internet access yesterday. I just got back. I was having some terrible withdrawal.

Danny
I like your version, very well done.

I'd like to see some different images. Using this technique. Today I did a still life, and I think it came out pretty good.

Steve

[sylvia1065]

Oops, Steve, I was on background eraser rather than on eraser, that's why it wasn't working properly. I did your tutorial though and adapted it a bit.
Thanks again, Steve.
Sylvia

[pavel123]

Borrowed original photo from dpreview

[Janet Petty]

I finally got around to trying this new technique. As always, Steve's tutorials are well written and easy to follow. I quite liked the result I got when I expanded it a bit (after erasing too much to begin with). I posted the picture in the "interesting face" thread.

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...ng-face-3.html

[pavel123]

Another photo done using this workflow (with some modifications) is here
(posts 34 and 39)
Steve, thank you again for sharing your technique.

Pavel