[Alcar]

Just one more attempt.
Alan

[Swampy]

Alan... nice and "drippy"! Wonderful!

[Mining Art]

Swampy; MiningArt, going vector then coming back? What program are you using? It sure gives an interesting result.

I ran it through CR2V, now called Vector Eye, a raster to vector converter. It does a good job of merging detail and I made no other changes. A little texture would be nice maybe.
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This one I did in Zoner Draw5. Enhanced the colors, reduced to 8bit 256 colors and applied a paint effect.

[Swampy]

Ahhh. I could probably do the same thing taking it to Live Trace in Illustrator.

[Bob Mc]

Great picture and even better results everyone.

2 good ones Palms. Is the technique from Danny an action or his other magic?

Alan your newer watercolor's are terrific.

Here's mine basically starting using "Tony's Wishy Washy Watercolor technique" found over in Innographics with some minor changes - all PS7 tho

Regards and Happy New Year
Bob Mc

[Swampy]

Wow, Bob, your crop really puts a different perspective on the piece. Very nice.

[Alcar]

The workflow for my last submission in this thread, as best as I can remember: (1) simplify with buzz; (2) new white layer and mask; (3) paint image on white layer with watercolor brush and make ragged border with textured brush; (4) duplicate simplified layer, add impressionist plugin (damp translucent style modified): (5) use hide all mask to spot paint watercolor texture here and there and soften hard lines; (6) add hue/saturation layer and use mask to increase color here and there; (7) flatten layers and dupe; (8) apply sketch>photocopy (foreground color must be black) and change mode to color burn; (9) spot paint using low opacity to deepen and sharpen facets of building and “pooling” of watercolor strokes; (10) sharpen. Alan

[Swampy]

Wonderful workflow, Alan, Thank you so much! I'll have to remember the masking out of some paint strokes. I'm assuming that is how you got so much white (like in the buildings).

[Alcar]

Swampy, I did forget that I may have added a levels adjustment layer and used the white setting point to add white to the buildings. This often has the side benefit of changing the overall color characteristics of the image. Alan

[Swampy]

Gotcha, Alan. It's easy to think in terms of adding brush strokes, but not intuitive to remove them. LOL

[Peter S]

Nice idea Swampy
All Photoshop stuff used here.
1 duped
2 slight Gaussian blur to BG
3 Dry brush to BG
4 Smart blur to BG
5 Desat dupe
6 Smart blur dupe (edges only)
7 Invert dupe
8 blend mode dupe to multiply and fade opacity and diffuse aniso to soften.
9 add new layer between BG and dupe and fill with white
10 add mask to white layer and fill with black
11 choose spatter brush and paint with white on mask
12 Levels AL for overall adjustment.

Sorry Palms no cut out used at all this time.


Peter

[Swampy]

Oh, My, Peter! that is really cool. Thanks for the work flow. (Swampy scribbling notes here).

[CJ Swartz]

Such a beautiful image, Swampy! So many lovely variations made me want to try some of the suggestions -- I used a color sketch layer, some dry brush, many color range layers, etc. etc.

[Swampy]

Wow, CJ... Love that sky. It really sets a wonderful mood. Well done.

[Hapsmig]

Hi

Here are my version of the image. I correted the horison. Made som sharpening and bluring on the LAB file. Copied the layer, blured it and set to overlay. Then some color corretion and at the end some noise. It was my intention to make it like then sun is about to go down.