Creative Interpretations- Easter Bunny

mikajomc · #1 03-23-2008, 07:15 AM

Happy Easter everyone!

Got this off Stock Xchange
Here's the link if you want the high-res
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/324800 (need to register, but free)

Swampy · #2 03-23-2008, 08:54 AM

Happy Easter to all my RetouchPRO friends!

Thank you for giving us a "painterly" thread to express our Easter wishes for all, Mika!

amica999 · #3 03-23-2008, 09:13 AM

Jordan, here is my try (another smudging practice :-))

amica999 · #4 03-23-2008, 09:15 AM

oops pic did not load, so here we go

amica999 · #5 03-23-2008, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Swampy

Happy Easter to all my RetouchPRO friends!

Thank you for giving us a "painterly" thread to express our Easter wishes for all, Mika!

Swampy, beautiful, it looks so fragile.

Swampy · #6 03-23-2008, 09:21 AM

Thank you, Amica :-)

kimlou · #7 03-23-2008, 02:57 PM

Happy Easter all.

palms1 · #8 03-23-2008, 03:03 PM

And Happy Easter from me

Palms

lkroll · #9 03-23-2008, 05:58 PM

Sorry; Easter Bunny has to be white. lol

Edit: I shoudl have posted the glam version that I used for the final rendering. I lost that one so I recreated the steps and posted that. Simple to do. Just run Fotomatic's Pseudo-IR filte and set the result to Lighten to start things off, then do a glam blur using a blend of Xero's Serious Fog.

mikajomc · #10 03-24-2008, 08:34 PM

Love everyone's Easter works of art!

I gave in and smudged up the Easter bunny. I am frustrated because I have worked on this thing all night and it doesn't hardly look any different to me. So Sensei Palms (or anyone else) what did I do wrong? Was my strength too low? (I used the rough bristle brush at 15px and 38%, following Scott Deardoff's tute.) Critiques welcome.

Now I remember why I love the AHB, it is soooo much faster!!!

lkroll · #11 03-25-2008, 12:16 AM

Fake smudge using GREYCstoration.

palms1 · #12 03-25-2008, 03:42 AM

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Originally Posted by mikajomc

Love everyone's Easter works of art!

I gave in and smudged up the Easter bunny. I am frustrated because I have worked on this thing all night and it doesn't hardly look any different to me. So Sensei Palms (or anyone else) what did I do wrong? Was my strength too low? (I used the rough bristle brush at 15px and 38%, following Scott Deardoff's tute.) Critiques welcome.

Now I remember why I love the AHB, it is soooo much faster!!!

And the problem is ? Scotts technique is referred to as photo realistic, and it does take a long time to do, I think he takes about 10 hours to do one image

(That's why i would of changed the background cuts out some of the smudging ) also with Scott's way you dont really see the the difference till you have applied the paint daubs at the end, etc
You have done a lovely smudge and you should be proud of it, Now try a different sort of smudge and see if you get on with that and like doing that better

Failing that ask lkroll how long his took ( nice one there lkroll )

Palms

lkroll · #13 03-25-2008, 06:32 AM

It took around 5 minutes (some figuring out; some cleaning) to create the White Softfocus version (see the above attached that I recently posted) and it took an additional 3 to 5 minutes to run it through GREYCstoration for the fake smudge. No where near Scott's quality (but I didn't spend hours on it either; lol).

mikajomc · #14 03-25-2008, 09:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by palms1

And the problem is ? Scotts technique is referred to as photo realistic, and it does take a long time to do, I think he takes about 10 hours to do one image

(That's why i would of changed the background cuts out some of the smudging ) also with Scott's way you dont really see the the difference till you have applied the paint daubs at the end, etc
You have done a lovely smudge and you should be proud of it, Now try a different sort of smudge and see if you get on with that and like doing that better

Failing that ask lkroll how long his took ( nice one there lkroll )

Palms

LOL!

I definitely do not have the patience to work on a photo for 10 hours!! (maybe if it was one of my kids....maybe)
Your comment about the background is funny, because I used a big brush and didn't really worry about it too much. I was following Scott's pdf, but my photo was hi-res, so the settings might not have been big enough/strong enough for the bunny.

So Lyle- is that Grey fake smudge thing a Gimp filter?

lkroll · #15 03-25-2008, 10:48 AM

I believe both a stand-a-lone and a GIMP filter are available. Check out the main website:

http://cimg.sourceforge.net/greycstoration/