Lancaster, PA farm

[Phyllis Stewart]

Steve, great photo to artify. And nice work on it too.
Skydog, nice drawing look.
Pavel, good crop... nice job.
Kroll, love the color and book illustration look.
Barbara, superb job with Gimp. I can't get it to do anything like that!
Ant, fantastic rainy day, and great definition in grass etc. And the last one is really stunning, with a bad storm coming on!
DC, good idea to "de-suburbanize" it... I did that too. Great job with AHB.

Painted this in Studio Artist. Click link to view larger image:
http://www.pbase.com/image/73324481

[Kraellin]

ant, very nice!

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Phyllis Stewart

Painted this in Studio Artist.

Do you have Painter, too? If so I'd be interested in your thoughts on SA vs. Painter.

Rumor is there will be a Studio Artist for Windows coming out this year.

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On mine I:
* Cropped
* Duplicated the Backround and increased the saturation on the new layer.
* Applied Trimoon's new "James Brown" Impressionist setting to simplify the image. Brush size = 400, Opacity = 100, Pressure 105. See: www.Trimoon.com - downloads
* Saved and closed file, then switched to Painter
* iIn various sizes applied Jeremy Sutton's Big_Wet_Delicious brush (from the CD that accompanies his Painter Creativity book) to smoosh the paint around. Then saved/closed.
* Opened the layered file in Photoshop again.
* Sharpened painted layer.
* Used Hue/Saturation and Selective Color adjustments to mess with colors.
* Duplicated the Background and copied the duplicate to the top of the layer stack.
* Applied Akvis > Sketch followed by Levels to get some nice edge lines. (Photoshop > Blur > Smart Blur > Edge Only followed by Ctrl + I would work, too.) Changed blend mode to Darken and added Layer Mask.
* Painted black on layer mask to suppress or tone down edges.

Whew...

~Danny~

[dkcoats]

Danny, that's a jawdropper. Great work.

Phyllis, I like the way you cropped yours. Not to mention the way you painted it. Nice to see you hereabouts.

[palms1]

Unlike all the great postings here i struggled a bit so just messed around with colour and sharpness

Palms

Well had another go using a tool i have not used before the pattern stamp tool, not sure i understand it so will have to look for a few tutorials

[barbara]

Phyllis,
thanks for your nice comment,

..I can't get it to do anything like that!

but I am sure, you CAN !!

[GerryB]

Here's my attempt.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by GerryB

Here's my attempt.

Welcome back, Gerry.

I see from your profile you graduated from Elements to Photoshop. (congrats... quite a leap). Did you use an action to create this one, or how?

~Danny~

[GerryB]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

Welcome back, Gerry.

I see from your profile you graduated from Elements to Photoshop. (congrats... quite a leap). Did you use an action to create this one, or how?

~Danny~

I duped the background layer, used a smart blur set at 15 and 60. Next i duped the blurred layer, did a smart blur set at 1, 9 and 10, inverted it, desaturated it and set the blending mode to multiply. Then I duped the blurred layer again and moved it to the top of the stack, inverted it and set the blending mode to color dodge. I took a dry brush, set the color to black and the opacity to 30% and painted over the top layer to get to watercolor effect. I painted over the buldings and a few trees to bring them out more. I duped this layer and set the blending mode to multiply to bring out the sky more. Finally, I added a layer mask to this layer and used the gradient tool (black to white) to tone down the lower part of the picture but leave the sky a little darker. The whole thing took about 10 minutes.

I've been working with CS2 for a year and a half now and enjoy it very much. The only new thing is that I graduated from a PC to an iMac Intel last year. I really love my Mac and don't plan to go back to the PC anytime soon, except to solve my wife's problems.

Thanks for the comment and compliment.

[Phyllis Stewart]

Gerry, gorgeous watercolor, and thanks for the method!

Palms, I lovvve that second one, like a crayon drawing!

[GerryB]

Thanks for the compliment, Phyllis. And btw, this was done with CS3 Beta.

[Kraellin]

danny, i like yours. i think you've graduated up a notch in your oils!

[Photomaster]

Thanks for the great photo Frank. Here is my Photoshop version. I ran the cutout filter first and things kind of got out of hand from there. About 80% of the image is hand work. Spent a few hours on this one. By the way, this is what the scene looked like before they cut down the tree.

[Swampy]

These are all so good. Love the tree addtion, Photomaster. It does add depth.

Here's my humble effort.

I don't remember all the steps, but I started by doing a Smart Sharpen to the absolute maximum settings. This really brought out the building features. Artistic filters and various blend modes from there.

[Diane]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

Do you have Painter, too? If so I'd be interested in your thoughts on SA vs. Painter.

Rumor is there will be a Studio Artist for Windows coming out this year.

---------------

On mine I:
* Cropped
* Duplicated the Backround and increased the saturation on the new layer.
* Applied Trimoon's new "James Brown" Impressionist setting to simplify the image. Brush size = 400, Opacity = 100, Pressure 105. See: www.Trimoon.com - downloads
* Saved and closed file, then switched to Painter
* iIn various sizes applied Jeremy Sutton's Big_Wet_Delicious brush (from the CD that accompanies his Painter Creativity book) to smoosh the paint around. Then saved/closed.
* Opened the layered file in Photoshop again.
* Sharpened painted layer.
* Used Hue/Saturation and Selective Color adjustments to mess with colors.
* Duplicated the Background and copied the duplicate to the top of the layer stack.
* Applied Akvis > Sketch followed by Levels to get some nice edge lines. (Photoshop > Blur > Smart Blur > Edge Only followed by Ctrl + I would work, too.) Changed blend mode to Darken and added Layer Mask.
* Painted black on layer mask to suppress or tone down edges.

Whew...

~Danny~

fabulous ! By the way , I couldn't find the James Brown setting at trimoon's.
~Diane