Creative Interpretations - Spanish Fishing Village

Swampy · #1 12-28-2007, 11:04 AM

Are you up for a challenge? Can you paint a watercolor? Try to do it using only the filters that come native with your paint program. No 3rd party filters allowed.

In mine, I used Filter>Distort>Displace. The rest was PST, desaturation, and blend modes and my Line art Tute.

palms1 · #2 12-28-2007, 12:22 PM

Nice challenge Swampy, should be very interesting all the different techniques and interpretations of "watercolour"

This technique is from a tutorial i read, I liked it and made it into a easy to use action, it uses
cut out
dry brush
and median
and a simple sketch layer

Like everything else it wont work on all images, but in using the action it only takes a little time to work out if it will work ! ! !

Palms

Palms

Swampy · #3 12-28-2007, 12:32 PM

Oh, my, Palms, that is just fantastic. I notice you've been using cut out a lot lately. It's a filter I seldom use so I'll have to explore it.

Frank Lopes · #4 12-28-2007, 01:25 PM

Swampy,

It has been a while since I tried one of these:

Added a background with texturizer
Used the Smudge Stick filter on the image
Converted the image layer to Multiply
Applied the Diffuse filter to the image edge
Drop shadow in the background

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swampy

Are you up for a challenge? Can you paint a watercolor? Try to do it using only the filters that come native with your paint program. No 3rd party filters allowed.

In mine, I used Filter>Distort>Displace. The rest was PST, desaturation, and blend modes and my Line art Tute.

Swampy · #5 12-28-2007, 01:45 PM

Frank... another wonderful intrepretation. Thanks for the workflow. I like the simple paintings without all the filters. It is a challenge to turn a photo into a nice piece of art that granny would hang in her house. LOL

Alcar · #6 12-28-2007, 02:12 PM

A watercolor but with more blurring.
Alan

oltenius · #7 12-28-2007, 02:21 PM

Very nice village in Spain!
I liked the artworks from everyone!
I used a crop, usm, dry brush and reduced the opacity of the layer, selective color and other adjustments, texture.
Dan

Swampy · #8 12-28-2007, 02:34 PM

Alan, it's almost cubist. I love it! :-)

Dan, that is a super crop! Wow. Nice job.

lkroll · #9 12-28-2007, 06:37 PM

OK Dee Dee; just don't tie my hands again. lol

GIMP's Cubism filter (small tile size means very long processing time on my aging machine; yes, I like to complain. lol), followed by a Hue/Sat adjustment and then applied Clothify Script-fu (it ships with GIMP by default, and you said only use what comes with your editor of choice). If my hands were not so tied, but would have added other cool filters as well as a few third party GIMP preset/filters, but hey; you get what you see since you made the rules. lol

Sweetlight · #10 12-28-2007, 06:57 PM

I know it's one of the last of tons of attempts but here it is anyways.
Enjoy.
c

alexmeta · #11 12-28-2007, 08:48 PM

... and mine AHB

Mining Art · #12 12-28-2007, 11:26 PM

I really like the one by alexmeta. I cropped, simplified to 256 colors, converted to postscript, brightened it up a bit and saved as raster.

alexmeta · #13 12-29-2007, 01:44 AM

Mining Art, thank you.
Another one AHB

palms1 · #14 12-29-2007, 03:42 AM

See i knew you had a winner here Swampy what great images
well spotted i have been using cut out more, it works great when mixed with other filters ( although Alexmeta has done some great portrait work with it and Peter S has had more than a good dabble with it )
Frank I like the edges and will give your workflow a try out
Alcar interesting as said almost cubist
Dan excellent will look into your workflow as well
lkroll your hands may have been tied but it was worth it
Sweetlight the crop has made that into quite a dramatic piece
Alex two great ahb's hard to decide if i like one better than the other, no i think i like the both equal
Mining art nice I like the simplification

Here is another one from a tutorial Danny posted the link too some time ago but added texture and tweaked the colour around

Palms

Swampy · #15 12-29-2007, 07:39 AM

LK, I know you love your filters (you and Craig), but, for what it's worth your version is one of the best true "paintings" I've seen from you! :-) You did a wonderful job of pushing pixels around so they look like pigment spreading on paper! :-)

Sweetlight, The crop is great and darkening up that land formation in the background really sets off the village.

Alex, Some of your waves in the first one look almost transluscent! That's terriffic. The color simplification in the second one is really good.

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

Palms, your second one is soft and lovely. It's a little more photorealistic than the first, but I like it.

You folks have really accepted the challenge and the results are amazing!