Creative Interpretations - Venice Boat

[Swampy]

Here's one I think you will enjoy. It needs some loving color and tonal correction, but it makes a lovely painting.

[Swampy]

Here's my version using Trimoon's Impressionist AHB.

[DannyRaphael]

Venice is among the cities on my "places to visit someday" list...

Anyway, still experimenting with this action... I believe it has potential on the right image.

[Swampy]

I think your action loses something on this particular image because there are so many vertical lines in the original they get "lost" in the vertical boxes of the action.

[Peter S]

Nice pic to work on, thanks Swampy.

Peter

[oltenius]

Thanks for the nice pic!
I used ahb and impressionist.
Dan

[Janet Petty]

Lookee, no painting.

I've been playing around with HDR and filters again and sort of liked the half cartooned, rough look of this one.

Thank you Swampy. It was the perfect picture for playing.

Janet

[Swampy]

Janet! No brushes? All done with HDR?? Great effect!

[Steve Conway]

Venice and those dirty old canals again....gee whiz!

Steve C.

[Swampy]

The place fasinates me, Steve. What can I say? LOL I would love to go there even though they say it stinks. :-)

Nice painting, hon.

[sylvia1065]

Thanks for the beautiful picture, Swampy!
You guys did a fantastic job on this one!!!
Peter, what's the name of the action you used? I recognize the style but can't remember the name of the action...
Sylvia

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Swampy

I think your action loses something on this particular image because there are so many vertical lines in the original they get "lost" in the vertical boxes of the action.

Totally true... it was more an exercise of action testing than creative endeavor.

[palms]

Another great photo Swampy I have had one mess around, but as someone once said "I'll be back "

Palms

[Swampy]

Well done, Sylvie. I couldn't quite get the detail in the laundry that I wanted, you did a great job.

Wonderful, Palms. The sepia toned background is perfect.

[jch71566]

Great picture Swampy!

I really like Dan's interpretation.

Here's mine, a kind of digital impressionistic.

Thanks,
Jeff

[palms]

As promised i'm back

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by Swampy

The place fasinates me, Steve. What can I say? LOL I would love to go there even though they say it stinks. :-)

Nice painting, hon.

Me too!

Thanks........Steve C.

[Swampy]

Jeff, yours has a nice "glow" about it.

Palms, that's really, really nice. Love all the blotchiness and textures!

[palms]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Jeff, yours has a nice "glow" about it.

Palms, that's really, really nice. Love all the blotchiness and textures!

Thank you Swampy it was somewhat of a experiment using ahb with a texture ( if any one has downloaded trimoons ahb set named art brush 3 the spatter 18 is a textured one ), neat image and a few other tweeks

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Wonder if anyone has the ABR equivalent of Trimoon's Art History brushes?

These will not work in PS version 6.

Steve C.

[Swampy]

Oh, man, Steve. I wish I knew how to convert them. I know how you feel though, I would love to have a Mac version of Impressionist. :-(

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Oh, man, Steve. I wish I knew how to convert them. I know how you feel though, I would love to have a Mac version of Impressionist. :-(

Yeah, most of the brushes in PS 6 seem to be for doing weird and strange things.

All I want to do is nice, sometimes heavy, brush strokes but leaving detail in tact. I can get close on some images, but I want control on the detail more. And all these fancy brushes that I find to download for PS 6 tend to give me abstracts.

What I am looking for is like what Alcar did with this image. I might even want to bring out just a bit more detail. At least that is the capability I would like while working with the AHB in PS 6.

Steve C.

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by sylvia1065

Thanks for the beautiful picture, Swampy!
You guys did a fantastic job on this one!!!
Peter, what's the name of the action you used? I recognize the style but can't remember the name of the action...
Sylvia

Sylvia sorry its taken me a while to reply. No actions used for my attempt at all. I used the Cutout filter with an overlaid layer with a Redfields++ bas relief plug-in, plus a texture layer overlaid on op of that. Plus some colour tweaks of course.


Peter

[Swampy]

Steve, To restore detail, I use the History Brush with a small semi hard brush and set the history back to the original file (turn the eyeball on the Open history state). That's what I did to key in on the bridge area of my painting above.

For those who don't know...When using the history brushes you can "jump" or copy the current history to a new layer, then go back to the history layer select and delete all and continue painting. When I do this, I usually drag the copied layer below the history layer so that new painting can be seen on top of it. Also, when I remember, I try to name a jumped layer as the name of the brush I used.

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Steve, To restore detail, I use the History Brush with a small semi hard brush and set the history back to the original file (turn the eyeball on the Open history state). That's what I did to key in on the bridge area of my painting above.

For those who don't know...When using the history brushes you can "jump" or copy the current history to a new layer, then go back to the history layer select and delete all and continue painting. When I do this, I usually drag the copied layer below the history layer so that new painting can be seen on top of it. Also, when I remember, I try to name a jumped layer as the name of the brush I used.

Let me give that a try. Having just started to use the AHB I am pretty awkward with it and it's not allowing me enough flexability. That is, to be able to repeat the brushing on subsequent layers with different sizes of the brush until I get the amount of detail I want on a particular image, then stop. This may not be possible, but your idea sounds like it might allow me to do something like that.

Stay tuned!

And thank you ma'm.

Steve C.

[sylvia1065]

Thanks for the steps, Peter, I really like what you did with yours.

Steve, are you saying the thumbnail you posted is a picture done by Alcar? It looks like a Monet!!! Do you know where's that thread?
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...4&d=1192632799

By the way, resize your brush way down to bring back details with the AHB. The hard mechanical brush is pretty good used as a AHB brush.

Sylvia

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by sylvia1065

Thanks for the steps, Peter, I really like what you did with yours.

Steve, are you saying the thumbnail you posted is a picture done by Alcar? It looks like a Monet!!! Do you know where's that thread?
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...4&d=1192632799

By the way, resize your brush way down to bring back details with the AHB. The hard mechanical brush is pretty good used as a AHB brush.

Sylvia

Alcar posted two images to the thread "Creative Interpretations Holland Amsterdam Canal."

Thanks for the tip. Don't believe I have that brush on PS 6, but will check.

Steve C.

[sylvia1065]

I apologize for not thanking you earlier for this last post, Steve, I couldn't find it anymore. Sorry.
Sylvia

[Bob Mc]

Missed this thread earlier but since I like Venice (pictures only so far) thought I'd try 2

Regards

Bob Mc

[Swampy]

Very nice, Bob. :-)