Creative Interpretations: Free for all...

Jillianweedmark · #1 01-30-2008, 03:49 PM

Hey guys;
I used to be an avid user who posted lots of comments and was more of a view then a poster as far as retouching goes.
I recently downloaded Gimp onto my computer as I heard from a friend that it was a great way to get rid of stuborn zits on family photos or self portraits.

After spending an hour on this site as a Guest I desided to see if my account was still active - it was!! Which brings me here.

I would love to post some photos that have are usually 3072x 1728 and Jpegs. If anyone would be interested in playing around with some photos I would love to use them as tempates to see if I can get the same results through teaching myself how to use Gimp.

Completely up to you guys, let me know

Until then I'm going to look further at this site and see what's changed.
Thanks, Jillian

Jillianweedmark · #2 01-30-2008, 04:56 PM

I've just uploaded some photos to Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/
Type JillianWeedmark into the Search area and you'll find my photos there.
Otherwise, if you'd like the larger format of the photo e-mail me at
Jillian_Weedmark@live.ca with the number it is on my Flickr Account.

Looking forward to some responces

Jillian

lkroll · #3 01-30-2008, 11:17 PM

Welcome to our little corner Jillian. GIMP is my favorite editor by the way (I also have CS2; just more experienced with the GIMP). If you look up Degrunging, you will come upon byRo's technique which is quite powerful. I like using a GIMP Centric Degrunging technique which I call ACE, Grain Extract Overlay. ACE (Adaptive Contrast Enhancement) is a GIMP filter which you can download at this link. Also, GIMP can run quite a lot of Photoshop compatible plugins (need to download PSPI from this link if it isn't already part of your particular build). I used Mehdi's Fine Threshold filter after running GIMP's Neon Edge detect filter (and inverted the result) for the graphic art rendering.

DannyRaphael · #4 01-31-2008, 08:30 AM

LK... thx for uploading a pic to work with.

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Hi Jillian... welcome back!

I used two Windows plugins to get this effect: Akvis Sketch and Impressionist.

Hope this gives you some inspiration. Thanks for letting us play!

lkroll · #5 01-31-2008, 11:37 AM

Nice pencil work Danny.

Steve Conway · #6 01-31-2008, 01:27 PM

Closeup sketch.

Steve C.

Jillianweedmark · #7 01-31-2008, 05:48 PM

WOW!!!! These are awesome - should I put some more up to play with ?

barbara · #8 01-31-2008, 07:46 PM

and here a quick sketch made with Gimp

yes, Gimp is my favour graphic editor.

smak · #9 01-31-2008, 08:04 PM

Let's see something you've worked on.

These links can also help you as you use the program:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

Gimp, like Photoshop takes a lot of effort to learn.

0lBaldy · #10 01-31-2008, 08:27 PM

Just thought I would play a little

~~Original~~ My version~

lkroll · #11 01-31-2008, 09:10 PM

Some very cool versions since I last left. Anyway, I didn't 100% like my last effort, so I combined some GIMPressionist (Graphite II) filter for this one.

Jillianweedmark · #12 02-03-2008, 07:22 AM

Hey smak;
Great help with that link. I'm going to set aside some time and see what I can do with Gimp. It looks like the "photo to sketch" is a very popular way to artistically retouch photos. I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was a colour one.
I'm going to be at work later tonight so it will be easier to set aside some time and fool around then.
If I do put something on here it's not going to be anything major .... you guys have been at this for some time - so I likely won't be able to achive what you've posted just yet.
Thanks for everyone's posts - they look great.
Jillian

P.S> 0lBaldy I like what you did with the eyes too! How do you chage eye colour on Gimp?

Cassidy · #13 02-03-2008, 10:13 AM

hi Jillian, how's health these days? and study? still the same boyfriend?

Jillianweedmark · #14 02-03-2008, 01:51 PM

Health - treatments are done, and all is well.
I went back to school this January - really hard with the change - but I'm only taking one class.
Boyfriend - no, different boyfriend. 11 months today.
I'm at work now - so I'm going to look at that link.
Take care, and glad to see you're still around Cassidy you were one of the nice ones.
Jillian

Jillianweedmark · #15 02-20-2008, 10:37 AM

Here's a link to where some of my new photos are.
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...n/IMG_4814.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...n/IMG_4576.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...n/IMG_4830.jpg (retouched)
I did some work on the black and white photo at the end. Just playing around and trying some things. I'm learning how to use make duplicates, and how to use the air brush and smudge and simple things right now.
Any suggestions on how I could make the B&W with coloured lips and eyes better?
Thanks, Jillian