Creative Interpretations: Pronghorn antelope

[palms1]

Originally Posted by cardmnal

and Palms1, Love it!! How did you achieve it.


Alan

thank you Alan

What i did was to use a ahb texture brush all over the image then used the history brush at about 50% on a seperate layer so that i could edit it if needed to, then used the dodge and burn tools to emphasis some bits
and finished with a texutre on top and probably set it to hard light ( not too sure on that one)

Palms

[Kraellin]

thank you, alan

yes, sometimes a frame is all you need, though i agree, some very nice renditions here

[Alcar]

Plenty of nice work...my interpretation uses the impressionist plugin.
Alan

[Alcar]

I had to take one more crack at this nice image. It also is used the impressionist plugin. Alan

[mikajomc]

Alan- simply fabulous as always, I think you are a magician with Impressionist.

Do you add colors to the photo before you run impressionist, or are you somehow bringing those nice colors out by using impressionist? I hope that makes sense

[Alcar]

Jordan, thanks for your very generous comments. I generally use the following to alter an image's color palette: 1) match color, 2) gradients, and 3) hue/saturation adjustment layers. I used 2 or possibly 3 layers of the latter for the antelope images. In this regard, the hue adjustment provided a new color which was then painted onto the image using a "hide all mask" (that is filling the layer's white mask with black). There are probably better ways to create a new color palette, but these seem to work for me. Hope this helps. Alan

[mikajomc]

Thanks for the tips Alan!!

[Kraellin]

excellent, alan. i like em both, though the first a bit more. great strokes

[lkroll]

Wow Alan. I really like the strokes. What Impressionist preset are you using?

[Alcar]

Craig and lkroll, thank you for your comments. Most of the styles I use are custom or standard styles that I have modified. These are usually painted onto the image using masks. One of the styles I used on the antelope images is called ac bold and is attached in a zip file. Alan