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| | Photo-Based Art Emulating natural-media painting techniques | 
04-30-2008, 01:55 PM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
thanks, cathy 
very cool, lyle!
and i especially like yours, danny! |
05-19-2008, 02:58 PM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
Had a go at this.
I need the practice, especially on hair.
Though I may have over done the eyelashes a bit.
Peter |
05-19-2008, 03:17 PM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
Peter that is amazing...nice work! |
05-19-2008, 05:53 PM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
Pete that is great, can you tell me what you did?
Do you use the smudge tool at 100% pressure?
cathy |
05-20-2008, 10:14 AM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
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Originally Posted by CathyH  Pete that is great, can you tell me what you did?
Do you use the smudge tool at 100% pressure?
cathy | Thanks Cath, !00% no, I made that mistake when I first tried smudging things. This was Trimoons #23 preset, I've been finding that the easiest for me to use, set to about 50%, but I cheat a little at the start by using noise reduction to get rid of any stray pixel noise there. The trouble with that, is that it tends to lose details in hair especially, so I use the Darken and lighten modes a lot, to try and bring some of the highlights back, and of course D&B.
The rest is just lot and lots of small brush strokes, though the eyelashes where from a eyelash brush dabbed onto a separate layer and then lightly smudged and faded the opacity a little.
Peter |
05-20-2008, 11:42 AM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
Thanks Peter, I will give mine another try.
cathy |
05-20-2008, 01:17 PM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
sorry guys i was feeling a bit left out 
and i need the practice
Palms |
05-20-2008, 03:25 PM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
Palms that is very nice, I like the background color, it brings out the color of her eyes.
Although it seems a little soft over all?
cathy |
05-20-2008, 03:31 PM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
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Originally Posted by palms1 sorry guys i was feeling a bit left out
and i need the practice
Palms | Practice - likely story, just cos you can do hair I'll bet.
It's good though.
Peter |
05-21-2008, 04:30 AM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
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Originally Posted by Peter S Practice - likely story, just cos you can do hair I'll bet.
It's good though.
Peter | Peter are you using just a mouse ? cause that makes hair very hard work
one tip is to rotate the image so that you go across as opposed to down
Palms |
05-21-2008, 09:19 AM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
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Originally Posted by palms1 Peter are you using just a mouse ? cause that makes hair very hard work
one tip is to rotate the image so that you go across as opposed to down
Palms |
No I use a CAT fur (for) smudging. 
I've got an old Wacom pen, though its still hard work.
Peter |
06-06-2008, 02:42 PM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
Different then my last version. Also, a lot more smudging too. |
06-06-2008, 05:43 PM
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Hey that is neat lkroll, almost like a wood cut.
I like it. |
06-07-2008, 01:14 AM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
My first try at portrait
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06-07-2008, 05:05 AM
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| | | Re: Smudge pretty blond
Vitali, that is great. How did you do it? | 
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