Peace...

[Janet Petty]

Rose for your painting/enhancement enjoyment.

We had been shooting indoors all day because it was raining. As soon at the sun peeked out, it hit the roses. This was shot at ISO400 at a 1000th of a second and F16. Usually I shoot flowers at F4 or lower. This was an oops. I think it turned out ok.

I'll be interested to see what everyone comes up with.

Merry Christmas. Enjoy.

Janet

[lkroll]

Well I tried anyway. Had a lot of help with Panos Rainy Day action (free by the way).

[Swampy]

Janet, That's one beautiful rose shot! Sorry I went and messed it all up by smudging it with the liquify filter and adding a find edges. :-)

Merry Christmas, All!

[Janet Petty]

I like the icy feel of yours Lyle. Swampy, please don't apologize. I love the look and your style.

Merry Christmas again.

Janet

[Kraellin]

lovley flower, janet. i'm curious; is that a physical black background or did you put that in with photoshop?

[Janet Petty]

Craig, a little of both. As I adjusted the curves, there were some areas that went totally black and some that were just way to distractingly white to leave that way. So I darkened them.

A black background is easy to do if you shoot with an f-stop of f-16-22 and use a flash. I've done that several times. This time, I forgot to change the ISO when I went outside. The flower turned out great, the background was mottled.

Does that make sense?

Janet

[Steve Conway]

A few brush strokes.

Steve

[Steve Conway]

A few different brush strokes..........

See Palms, I actually worked on this flower twice!

Steve

[Kraellin]

thanks, janet. i kinda thought it was a bit too perfect for a purely physical background

[palms]

Originally Posted by Steve Conway

A few different brush strokes..........

See Palms, I actually worked on this flower twice!

Steve

I have noticed Steve and very nicely done too, and you are ahead of me been a bit slow over the festive period

Happy new year to you and everybody else here at retouch

Janet hope the new year takes notice of your rose's name

Palms

[Janet Petty]

Originally Posted by palms1

Janet hope the new year takes notice of your rose's name Palms

Thanks for all the the contributions so far. I didn't think it would be such a difficult subject for experimentation and that we would have had a few more posts before now.

Palms, I thought the name was especially appropriate considering that I took the picture in Jerusalem, Israel.

Happy, healthy, safe New Year to everyone.

Janet

[palms]

Well i have caught up a bit and here are my two offerings on the first one i used the art history brush,
the second i used swampys texture mapping technique

Palms

[Janet Petty]

WOW Palms. You nailed it with number one. Great job.

Janet

[CharlesBell]

I have been enjoying this thread. Question, why the dark black background?

Why not something greenish?

[chillin]

A Gouache interpretation using Virtual Painter

[Janet Petty]

Originally Posted by CharlesBell

I have been enjoying this thread. Question, why the dark black background?

Why not something greenish?

The original background had very little green in it. After the curves adjustment, there was more dark than light. I just got rid of what little light there was left because it was a distraction. As to the black...I was taught early on by instructors that the black background made the flowers and colors pop. In this case, I agreed. If I knew where the original was (does that say something about my filing system?), I'd post it for comparison.

Janet

Oh, and P.S. With the background the way it is, I expected to have some intrepid souls extract the flower and do funky things with it.

[palms]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

WOW Palms. You nailed it with number one. Great job.

Janet

Thank you Janet number one was a small experiment adjusting the opacity of the ahb layer over the original

Palms

[Peter S]

Well you wanted something done with the background!!!!!!

I went a little wacky with the rest - I got a new toy to play with.

Peter

[Janet Petty]

Cool Peter. You are definitely inventive.

Janet

[Kraellin]

nice, peter. reminds me of my whacky tram pic.

what's the new toy?

[Peter S]

Craig
You gotta guess.
Clue begins with L

Peter

[Kraellin]

you're painting with linguini? how odd!

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

you're painting with linguini? how odd!

Darn it made it too easy for U

[Janet Petty]

I can't leave this rose alone. Here is my second interpretation. Posterize, AHB, Smudge, Impressionist (and masking), more Smudge, Sharpen, Texture. Enjoy.

Janet

[raniday]

Just passing through.........

[byRo]

Originally Posted by raniday

Just passing through.........

Edit: Making a guest appearance..........

Beautiful work, cat - as always

Rô

[Janet Petty]

Thank you Catherine. It is beautiful. I miss seeing you around here. And I LOVE your work. Can I say I know somebody famous???

Janet

[byRo]

Well, it's not as red as it used to be.....

Peace to all in 2007!

Rô

[Janet Petty]

Very nice Ro. I love the colors!!!

HYN to you as well.

Janet

[CharlesBell]

Janet,

I really like you impressionist rose. It is amazing how art like you have made it.

I was wondering what image prcessing program you were using to get "Impressionist". I don't know what AHB is.

Charles