So you like trucks...

Janet Petty · #1 10-13-2007, 10:48 AM

Here is an old International Harvester truck for your painting pleasure. I wish I'd been able to back up a bit further and face the truck into the picture. On the other hand, the building on the other side of the truck was not the greatest. Nevertheless, enjoy.

Janet

Swampy · #2 10-14-2007, 09:25 AM

What a great truck, Janet! Thanks for the play!

Photoshop and History Brush. I used a bristle style brush. Before setting the history state, I used surface blur to muck up the pixels (on a dupe of the background) also added a little dry brush filter.

After painting with history, I duped the history layer, desaturated the dupe and set for soft light. Merge stamped history and desat layers, added HSB adjustment.

Saved out the desaturated layer as a texture map (copy/past all into a new Photoshop document then save as a PSD file to the desktop). Used the texture map on the stampped layer (Texturizer>Load Texture>map.psd) and set the scale for 100% and tweaked the brightness. This applied the 3D look to the brush strokes.

Cassidy · #3 10-14-2007, 09:27 AM

Hey that's different Swampy and thanks for the explanation

TangentMemory · #4 10-14-2007, 11:14 AM

Well, this is my first post. I jumped into this without seeing it was the photo-based art forum (it was on the recent threads).

I originally wanted to show the truck zooming by the house, so I created a motion blur. I created a radial blur on the tires. I added a driver.

Right before I went to post, I noticed what forum I was in, so I used the angled strokes filter.

Nothing too fancy...

Swampy · #5 10-14-2007, 11:51 AM

Nothing too fancy...? Maybe not, but well done, TM! Like the way you added the driver! :-) Welcome to RetouchPRO and have fun!

Janet Petty · #6 10-14-2007, 01:45 PM

I often get flamed for some of my offbeat expressions. But in this case, I'm going to just say, "COOL BEANS, folks. Great interpretations Swampy and TM."

And a hearty welcome to you TM (not to be confused by Trimoon). You did a fine job.

Janet

oltenius · #7 10-14-2007, 03:05 PM

Great job, everyone!
Dan

GerryB · #8 10-15-2007, 02:34 AM

Line Art and Wash on Art Paper.

Janet Petty · #9 10-15-2007, 06:53 AM

Oltenius and Gerry, both of you have such different approaches. Just goes to show how versatile art is. I like both of them. Keep up the good work.

Janet

oltenius · #10 10-15-2007, 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Janet Petty

Oltenius and Gerry, both of you have such different approaches. Just goes to show how versatile art is. I like both of them. Keep up the good work.

Janet

Janet, Thanks for the kind words!
Dan

GerryB · #11 10-15-2007, 11:10 AM

Thanks for the complimant, Janet.

Gary Richardson · #12 10-16-2007, 02:53 AM

Since I haven't had time to play for some time now, and nobody else had done a sketch, thought I'd do one.

palms1 · #13 10-16-2007, 06:16 AM

It's a shame really to mess around with such a super photo, but i did ! ! ! !

Palms

DannyRaphael · #14 10-16-2007, 11:15 PM

When informed when this truck was built my daughter observed, "Wow, Daddy. You're older than it is!" (Yeah, yeah, yeah...How sad is THAT?)

Wonderful pic anyway, Janet.

Used a Photoshop action for auto placement of images in 2 columns/3 rows, followed by some fooling around with adjustment layers for variety -- about 5 minutes work.

Janet Petty · #15 10-17-2007, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

When informed when this truck was built my daughter observed, "Wow, Daddy. You're older than it is!" (Yeah, yeah, yeah...How sad is THAT?).

Sad, but typical. Welcome to the club. Wanna count gray hairs with me? I'll bet I have more than you do.

I like the creative showcase you built here. I'm especially interested in the halftone rendition. I can't ever seem to get that filter to work properly. What settings did you use? I can see all sorts of applications for that one.

Janet