Gentlemen, start your engines! - Be Creative

[Swampy]

My nephew is the sports editor for a local paper and takes some fantastic shots of the Sebring 12 Hour auto race. How he captures such clean shots of these fast moving cars is beyond me but I admire his talent. Photo credit to Scott Dressel.

Since the race is coming up in a couple weeks, I thought one of his photos would be a fun "play toy" for folks in the RTP forum. The race starts at 10:00 AM and ends at 10:00 PM and Scott caught this great sunset shot.

Be creative! Enjoy

PS.. My thanks to Peter and Janet for their help with the AHB which I used to do my "playing" with. :-)

[Peter S]

Aggghhhh
We've got competition. I Really like that one Swampy.

Peter

[palms]

Sorry but i am a laydeee (catch phrase from uk comedy show little britain )
I agree with you Swampy great shot and what a great job your nephew has
glad you areenjoying ahb you are coming on very well

Palms

[Swampy]

Oooo, Palms, I really like that! AHB?

Heheheh, Peter. I'm working to catch up with YOU. LOL

[Peter S]

With that car you could catch up with anyone.

One from me as well. Trying to do with less detail, let your brains fill in the gaps.

Peter

[Swampy]

Excellent, Peter. A perfect example of when "less is more".

I'm going to have to fish around for some more AHB brushes. What brushes do you use most often?

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Excellent, Peter. A perfect example of when "less is more".

I'm going to have to fish around for some more AHB brushes. What brushes do you use most often?

Well like yourself I haven't been doing this long and am still searching for new brushes and presets (when I get away from PS and here).
I have been using Trimoons brushsets, and now some that Patricia Kay has been kind enough to send me (if you pm her with you email ad she will send them to you),
have also used some from the Creative Pro site, which are interesting.
You can use almost any brush in PS with varying degrees of success. Just play with the settings in th brush presets for different effects.
You could even make your own brushes up, if you do and they are any good please share.(hint hint from a lazy so and so)
Boy is this getting complicated.

Peter

[dkcoats]

Swampy, Palms, Peter - nice work. And hats off to Scott for the photo. I shot a (much slower) sports car race once, long ago, and I know hard that is.

I motion-blurred the background in PS, then painted it in Twisted Brush.

I can't believe how many versions I did before I settled on one I really don't like all that much.

[Swampy]

DKC-- I really like it. The motion blur is perfect, not too much, just right.

[lkroll]

Used Amphisoft's Shaman filter set to Grain Extract and the Divided the grey out to get the majority of the line art effect. Still pretty much a GIMP variation to Swampy's line-art technique.

[Kraellin]

nice picture, dee dee. and i like your rendition of it, too.

this started with a filter forge filter, sketch and color by andrew b. i took it back into psp and did some selections and motion blurs and moves to get the motion and then some dodge and burn and blends to finish up.

[Kraellin]

peter, dc, lk, i like yours as well.

[palms]

[QUOTE=Peter S]With that car you could catch up with anyone.

One from me as well. Trying to do with less detail, let your brains fill in the gaps.

Peter[/QUOTE

Problem with that is Peter my Brain is full of gaps

Palms

[palms]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Oooo, Palms, I really like that! AHB?

Heheheh, Peter. I'm working to catch up with YOU. LOL

Yes Swampy it is AHB, answering a question you made in a later post try all the different ps brushes and see which you like

Palms

[Swampy]

Ikrol: Very nice. "Divided the gray out".... Could probably do much the same thing in PS by using a Color Range Selection on the neutral grays. Haven't tried it, but your techique does leave a nice black and white sketch.
Craig: Nice motion effect on the car. We've all seen motion applied to a photo, but applying it to a sketched version is kinda cool!
Palms: I really need to dig into the brushs palette and learn more about the controls. I did find a couple that appeal to me and my Preset list is growing. :-)

[lkroll]

But I like Divide out Swampy. lol

Thanks all for the comments. Cool stuff from all of your versions; especially like the motion blur that you did Craig; wish I thought of that.

I just wish that PS would give us three layer properties that GIMP has; Divide, Value, and Subtract (not the same as Difference which GIMP gives that property too). I've found work arounds for Divide (dup, invert color Dodge set to 50% opacity), but not Subtract or Value. For the PS gurus, is there a way to just express the Value properties of a layer onto the stack? Luminosity just doesn't cut it for me for the most part (does have some benifits, but Value is uber more useful to me).

[Swampy]

Originally Posted by lkroll

But I like Divide out Swampy. lol

I just wish that PS would give us three layer properties that GIMP has; Divide, Value, and Subtract (not the same as Difference which GIMP gives that property too). I've found work arounds for Divide (dup, invert color Dodge set to 50% opacity), but not Subtract or Value. For the PS gurus, is there a way to just express the Value properties of a layer onto the stack? Luminosity just doesn't cut it for me for the most part (does have some benifits, but Value is uber more useful to me).

In PS you can select the luminosity for the light values (OPTION+COMMAND+~). Make the same selection and inverse for the shadows. When I need midtones, I use the Color Range and select the midtones. I guess you could also use Color Range to select the highlights and shadows, but it still all requires 3 selections. I don't know of a way to set value properties for a given layer.

[Kraellin]

thanks, dee dee, lk

i selected the car out and put it on a new layer, motion blurred it and copied that twice more to separate layers, then moved each of those two a bit to the left and then did a low opacity erase on bits and pieces to allow the other parts to show through.

[Swampy]

Very effective, Craig. I would never have thought to make those copies and nudge them over a couple pixels. Clever!

[lkroll]

That's what I figured Swampy; lots of work when all I have to do in GIMP is change the layer property to Value. lol

Maybe someone will come up with a plugin that does this transparently to the stupid end user behind my computer monitor. In the meantime, I will use both CS2 and GIMP (still a master of none; ).

[Kraellin]

thanks, dee dee