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| | Photo-Based Art Emulating natural-media painting techniques | 
11-12-2007, 11:37 AM
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| | | Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen It's not the Soup Nazi, but it could still be fun to paint.
Mine was started in Painter then brought over to Photoshop for cropping, texture and a little paint with light. | 
11-12-2007, 02:04 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen Another nice one Swampy
I thought I'd get this one going. Too many steps to recall, also I'm still playing about with the way I've done this.
Peter | 
11-12-2007, 02:44 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen Peter, try this.
Duplicate your original photo desaturate it. Put it at the top of the stack (over your above version) set the blend mode to softlight and watch the shadows pop. Adjust levels or opacity of the b/w to suit your taste. | 
11-12-2007, 03:14 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen Thanks Swampy, tried it, nice, certainly increases the contrast.
You can get a similar effect with a black layer set to soft light as well, though it is more global, whereas your idea is governed by the picture to a large extent.
Peter | 
11-12-2007, 03:30 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen I've used both black and white layers at different times and you're right, black really increases the contrast. In addition to opacity and Levels, you can dodge and burn on that b/w layer for more or less affect. I've done some stuff like run Buzz on that layer or different textures. Lots to play with once you know it's there to work with. | 
11-12-2007, 09:18 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen Supersmooth, Grain Extract Overlay and a few other GIMPy things.
Link to hirez/quality version below; attached is a very low quality crop (51% quality that is). http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/5...kitchenzm2.jpg | 
11-12-2007, 11:38 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen i wanted to give this sort of an old world look, so i borrowed a filter forge filter from one of the resident geniuses, crapadilla. this is his 'wormcraft' filter, very slightly modified to allow more opacity of the original image. the original filter simulates a worm-eaten, carved piece of wood. | 
11-13-2007, 12:47 AM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen A little abstract with a cutout filter. | 
11-13-2007, 07:19 AM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen LK goes Gimpy! Looks good to me
Craig, Awsome!
Chillin, Abstract works well on this photo. | 
11-13-2007, 09:07 AM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen Looking at the weather at this place, I can see why this would be a thriving business.
Steve C. | 
11-13-2007, 10:10 AM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen I think it's sufficient soup for the users of this thread! 
Very nice jobs, all!
Dan | 
11-13-2007, 10:14 AM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen Dan, nice, colorful image. I thought a low key might be interesting. Painted in Photoshop.
Alan | 
11-13-2007, 10:20 AM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen Steve, Dan and Alan...more great interpretations. That's what I love about this site, there are so many talented people with such different takes on one subject. | 
11-13-2007, 10:21 AM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen Alan, Swampy, Thank you!
Alan, excellent light technique in your artwork.
Dan | 
11-13-2007, 12:09 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Interpretations - The Soup Kitchen "Soup er" renditions everyone great subject Swampy
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