Mallard

[chillin]

The tiles are awesome Mr.lkroll

[palms1]

Oh wow you all have been busy overnight (well mine anyway)

Margeret nice painting and that is quite a subtle texture nice

Alex thank you veryu much for the info and settings will have a play later on and nice second post especialy like the water

Pavel thanks for the work flow very interesting

dc you had no problem with following like the brush strokes very much

Peter what can i say but wow great look love the cutout filter myself but will need lessons from you

Chillin intersting the back part of the duck looks see through like glass !

Ikroll again wow i could see that on the tiling in someones bathroom or swimming pool glad to see you here was a bit woriied hadnt seen you post much lately

Great work everyone

Palms

[lkroll]

Thanks Chillin and Palms. Yes, I've been dealing with very personal issues of late; my dad's also in the hospital now (should have put himself there weeks ago), so I appreciate your concerns Palms, and I appreciate all of you guys prayers.

[Swampy]

Ikroll, You and your family certainly have my prayers. Hugs from afar.

[patriciakay]

Love the Mallard photo Palms...

What a lovely collection of pictures...you have all done such different and imaginative ones...

Lyle...Hope all is well with your Dad...

I used the cutout filter in Photoshop too and framed with an action...

Patricia...

[palms1]

Originally Posted by patriciakay

Love the Mallard photo Palms...

What a lovely collection of pictures...you have all done such different and imaginative ones...

Lyle...Hope all is well with your Dad...

I used the cutout filter in Photoshop too and framed with an action...

Patricia...

It is no good yet another great cutout filter post done i am going to have to sort myself out with it i dont get the same effect you and peter achieve

Palms

[patriciakay]

Thanks Palms....

I dont have any skills with the cutout...i just play around till it looks as i want it to and with the mallard i got lucky!!!!

Patricia...

[Swampy]

I wanted to do this one again with a different approach. Tried a texture map overlaid with a gradient map.

[palms1]

Swampy that is beautiful really like it

Palms

[Swampy]

Thank you, Palms. Sometimes you go back and look at something and see invision something completely different. Easy to do with such a great photo.

[Kraellin]

oh, that's cool, dee dee. i like it too

[alexmeta]

Swampy its fantastic. Realy like it. Bravo.

[Swampy]

Thank you, Craig and Alexmeta.

Texture mapping is one of the first "arty" techniques I learned in Photoshop and probably one of the simplest things to do. It works particularly well with simple graphics such as this Mallard photo

1. Save a copy of the photo to the desktop in PSD format. Call it texture map if you like
2. Select two colors in the foreground/background color wells that will offer good contrast (a light and a dark monochrome of aqua is what I used for my Mallard).
3. Fill a new layer with the light color
4. Filter>Texturizer>Load Texture, and go find your saved Texture Map on the desktop.
5. Tweak the scale (100 % will map the texture to the exact size of the original graphic) and relief to suit your taste and click OK

Here's what's happening. The texture "maps" all tonal values of 51% gray and above to the dark colors and "depresses" those areas. All tonal values of 49% and below are mapped to the light colors which appear as the "raised" areas.

You can go from there. Here is a version (no gradient added) with the blend mode set to luminocity.

[Kraellin]

2. Select two colors in the foreground/background color wells that will offer good contrast (a light and a dark monochrome of aqua is what I used for my Mallard).

so, what do you do with the 2nd color you select?

[Swampy]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

so, what do you do with the 2nd color you select?

You select two colors for the basic monochrome effect (as in my original mapped piece) because you need a dark color for the 51%+ tones to map to and a light color for the 49%- tones to map to. Result is a bias relief effect in monochrome.

The last version that I posted, I just changed the blending mode to luminocity to pull in the underlying color of the original background to add color to the bias relief effect.