Creative interpretations - Flower Red Gerbera

[DannyRaphael]

Courtesy of Stock Exchange
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/512883

Have fun.

[DannyRaphael]

I may be addicted to the Impressionist plugin -- in a good way. It sure is fun to experiment with.

I was playing with custom KentC 'Cezanne' settings available in this thread (look for file kentc.zip):

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...er-posted.html

[Swampy]

Wow, Danny, that's one red flower! :-) Great catch and thanks for the play.

[Steve Conway]

Now that's red!

Steve C.

[palms]

With that strong a red only one action for it !

Popartist

Palms

[mikajomc]

Danny- wow what a great photo find!
Everyone's versions have been fabulous and very RED

I went for a different look. I'm trying to perfect a technique I guess. And I do like this watercolor look. But I kind of feel this is missing something.
Is there not enough detail? Should the colors be brighter?
I am open to suggestions....

thanks-
jordan in cinci

[Swampy]

Jordan. That is a great state, but I do think it could use more detail in the center of the flower. Love the over all look and background, but we all know that a flower has stamens and stuff and this one doesn't.

[lkroll]

Have to click here to see the complete rendering (just shy of 1MByte). By the way, I did this one during my lunch break, but didn't have time to upload and post (i.e., don't ask me detailed steps; used PS 5.5's Glass filter and Plastic Wrap, Eye Candy III's Glass filter and a lot of other things).

By they, since I had to edit my post, I have to say that some very cool versions have been posted since and before lunch. Thanks for sharing your find Danny.

[mikajomc]

Lyle- I love the texture on yours!

Thanks for the tip Swampy, I will go back and play some more. But for now I thought I'd try something completely different. Typical art history brush.

-jordan in cinci

[Swampy]

Lyle... Super, Super! Especially love the crop! Very creative.

Jordan, great painting. I Like the background.

[byRo]

Seems that this was an invitation to go a bit wild.

AHB with heavy post-processing.

Rô

[Peter S]

I did this last night, but didn't -post it as it was late and had to be up early. Now I can't remember what I did.


Peter

[Dron58]

2 watercolor works

Vitali