Creative Interpretations - Board Fence

[Swampy]

Another great wall paper.

[palms]

Nice image Swampy

Palms

[Swampy]

Cool Palms. It looks almost like a reflection with those swirly leaves.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by palms1

Nice image Swampy

Palms

Indeed... great pic.

I took a shot at a BW conversion. I copied each channel onto separate layers and use blend modes and layer masks to isolate the "best" from each layer, plus Curves adjustment layers to increase contrast.

Adding the wide black border seemed to give the illusion of more contrast.

[Swampy]

Wow, Danny! That is a great black and white. Thanks for the workflow!

[Steve Conway]

"Peaceful Places"

Steve C.

[Swampy]

Ooooo, Steve! How'd you do that? I love the effect!

[alexmeta]

Really nice pic Swampy
AHB

[Kraellin]

yup, give up the secrets, steve! that's a good one

[palms]

I'm with the rest of the gang Steve, that is gorgeous especially the trees

Palms

[DannyRaphael]

Ditto the previous kudos... Outstanding work on this one, Steve.

[Steve Conway]

Wow! Many thanks to all...nice comments...all appreciated.

How did I do it...well believe it or not it started out as a watercolor which I did not really like, so I added some Buzz and to bring back a little detail I ran USM on it. That's really about it.

Sometimes you luck out when you can't decide what you want.

Thanks again.

Steve C.

[Swampy]

Interesting, Steve. I never thought to run Buzz on a painted layer, but I can see where it would tend to really smooth things out.

[pavel123]

Swampy, thank you for the photo.
Sketch, compressed to basically noise...

Pavel

[Kraellin]

thanks, steve. buzz... never had it or used it. maybe one of these days. hmm, wonder if i could make a filter forge buzz filter

[palms]

Originally Posted by pavel123

Swampy, thank you for the photo.
Sketch, compressed to basically noise...

Pavel

I really like that pavel

Palms

[Swampy]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

thanks, steve. buzz... never had it or used it. maybe one of these days. hmm, wonder if i could make a filter forge buzz filter

You could make money, Craig. The folks that wrote Buzz have apparently gone out of business. A Filter Forge version would be quite popular, I'm sure.

[Kraellin]

hehe, dee dee, the problem is, i've never used buzz, so have no good idea what it does. perhaps someone would care to donate a copy?

[Swampy]

Buzz is a simplifier. It reduces detail in a photo on a sliding scale.

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

hehe, dee dee, the problem is, i've never used buzz, so have no good idea what it does. perhaps someone would care to donate a copy?

Can't donate a copy, but here is an example of Buzz in action on Swampy's wagon. This is a simple simplification using only one of the many settings.

Steve C.

[Kraellin]

ah, yes, that would be quite useful! hmmm....

ok, so you could reduce based on any number of things, i take it, like brightness, opacity, hue, and so on. hmmmm.....

[Alcar]

After so many fine interpretations, I had to take a crack at this one. Painted in photoshop using the PaintEngine plugin.
Alan

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

ah, yes, that would be quite useful! hmmm....

ok, so you could reduce based on any number of things, i take it, like brightness, opacity, hue, and so on. hmmmm.....

There are many settings which can be used alone or in combination with others.

Check out this pdf file on Buzz. http://www.atncentral.com/PDF/Buzz-Pro-2_lr.pdf

Steve C.

[Kraellin]

thanks, steve and thanks olbaldy for the pm

ok, so would this be somewhat like what buzz does? this is not my FF filter. i simply found it in the FF library. it's called 'comic - art'.

[Swampy]

That FF did simplify, but the basic Buzz doesn't add black outlining. Your post looks more like a PS Watercolor filter has been applied.

[Kraellin]

ah, ok. so simplify without the edgework. cool thanks, dee dee

i did try making one of my own. limited results so far. i can isolate parts of an image and blur those parts, but what i've read in the .pdf and here, so far, buzz did things without blurring, so i'll have to take another tack.