Creative Interpretations - This old House

[Swampy]

Thought this would be a good candidate for a pixel pushin'.

Did mine in Photoshop where I have been exploring new ways to push the pixels around before painting to achieve a more painted look and less of a photographic look when painting with the AHB or Pattern Stamp Tool.

[amica999]

Hi Swampy, not quite your "unique" look, but nice, very nice

[Swampy]

Thank you, Amica. This one is probably overdone. I think we tend to do that when looking for new techniques. I'm discovering that every bit important as selecting a sutiable brush to paint with, preparing the image befor painting can make a ton of difference in the final result.

I am no longer happy with just setting a history brush or the PST to paint from the original photo because it usually comes out looking like...the original photo. LOL

[lkroll]

I used a secret to start things out. See if anyone can figure it out. lol

[Swampy]

Blur then add noise?

[Peter S]

Swampy you certainly find some good pics for us thank you.

Originally Posted by lkroll

I used a secret to start things out. See if anyone can figure it out. lol

LK As a complete guess, I would go for the opposite to what it appears, and say you used - Xero - Supersmooth. (I know you like that one)

Peter

[lkroll]

No and No. I used ASCIIGen to create an ASCII version and Dissolved it in as part of the pointillistic process. Had to do some other things too. Yes, I was bored again and when I get bored, I fiddle with alternative ideas.

[allieok]

One of my favorite things to do is manipulate photos to look like artwork, and I'm so glad I found this forum. I am not sure how this forum works, however. Where does one go to get the original that everyone is working with? At first I thought the first image Swampy posted was it, but it appears to have some manipulating to begin with. Is that the one? Also... can anyone post a photo for others to try their hand at. Sorry to be so ignorant. Thanks

[Cassidy]

The original actually already looks sketchy. This is purely accidental this one, did a high pass in hard light mode and then went to the filter gallery and the dry brush was already selected, eyes went wow

[palms]

Originally Posted by allieok

One of my favorite things to do is manipulate photos to look like artwork, and I'm so glad I found this forum. I am not sure how this forum works, however. Where does one go to get the original that everyone is working with? At first I thought the first image Swampy posted was it, but it appears to have some manipulating to begin with. Is that the one? Also... can anyone post a photo for others to try their hand at. Sorry to be so ignorant. Thanks

Hello and welcome allieok The first image, the one on the left (as you look at the screen) is the one we will all use , and yes you can post your own photo's for us to mess around with, Your images will have to be under 100kb (use save for web )
if not sure here is a link for you to read
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/ima...ed-images.html

You have come to the right place if you enjoy artifying photo's, join in and have some fun (we all do )

Palms

[Swampy]

Allieok...Welcome aboard. Have fun and don't be shy.

Cass... WOW is right. Great pixel pushing in just a couple clicks! I love the dry brush. I think of all the "Art" filters in Photoshop, it is my favorite.

I've been playing with the >Distort>Displace filter along with texture mapping. I have another idea that I want to play with today that involves trying a sketch filter then taking that to Illustrator to trace then bring it back to PS for colorizing etc.

[Steve Conway]

"This ole house once knew my children
This ole house once knew my wife
This ole house was home and comfort
As they fought the storms of life
This old house once rang with laughter
This old house heard many shouts
Now it trembles in the darkness
When the lightnin' walks about."

"This Old House" Stewart Hamblin

Steve C.

[Alcar]

This version used both the ahb and the impressionist plugin.
Alan

[palms]

This ole house once knew his children
This ole house once knew a wife
This ole house was home and comfort
As we fought the storms of life
This old house once rang with laughter
This old house heard many shouts
Now she trembles in the darkness
When the lightnin' walks about

"This ole house" Shakin Stevens (1981)

Palms

[Swampy]

Steve and Palms are singing off the same song sheet! :-) It's a good song too, but kinda sad for me.

My family home was known locally as "The Big House". With eight kids and all their friends, there was always activity. Our small town didn't even have a movie theater when we were growing up, so all the kids congregated at our house to play touch football in the yard, swim, water ski, jump on the trampoline, shoot pool, have a musical jam session, watch late night "Shock Theatre" or just hang out. My Dad always took out an ad in the high school year book..."Congratulations to the class of (fill in the blank)... Compliments The Dressel Big House Youth Center".

The house was sold and torn down by the new owners. I can't tell you the number of people all over this county who told me how sad they were to see it go. It was a HUGE house. Seven bedrooms, 8 baths. I was glad that the new owners donated a lot of the usable cabinets, fixtures, appliances, windows, etc. to the local Habitat For Humanity so it lives on somewhere.

Alan, Nice one.

[oltenius]

Nice pic, Thanks Swampy!
Great job, everyone.
Dan

[Swampy]

Dan, the dark frame and tonality make it look like a spooky house. How dlightful! :-)

[oltenius]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Dan, the dark frame and tonality make it look like a spooky house. How dlightful! :-)

Thank you!
Guess it's a domestic house!
Dan

[allieok]

What fun! Here's mine.

AllieOK-old-house.jpg

[Swampy]

Very nice, Allie. Welcome to RTP. Look forward to seeing more of your stuff. You are off to a wonderful start.

[grannysdc]

Here is mine..
Had fun playing with "The-Old-House."
Nice picture, Thanks Swampy

[Swampy]

Nice tapastry look, Granny.

[Nimbus]

A sepia sketch.

[Swampy]

Sepia works well, Nimbus!

[allieok]

Thanks for the warm welcome Swampy and Palms1. I'm going to love it here.

[GerryB]

A cross stitch effect.

[Swampy]

Cool, Gerry, it looks like needlepoint! :-)

[allieok]

That is so cool, Gerry. I can just see that as a real needlepoint.