Photo-Based Art - - creative interpretations--feathered friend

bazza64 · #1 10-12-2008, 05:19 AM

An Australian Kookaburra to have a tinker with, one of the pair we feed every day. (member of the kingfisher family)

MY attempt, ahb,touch of smudge, redfield++ bas-relief.
Enjoy.
Barry.

amica999 · #2 10-12-2008, 07:55 AM

Barry, I had a go on this one, but I don't really like it, post it anyway...

bazza64 · #3 10-12-2008, 09:07 AM

Hi Amica,

I like it a lot, nicely defined and vivid colors.
(would you believe I forgot to upload my effort, so i've just updated my post)

Barry.

amica999 · #4 10-12-2008, 09:29 AM

Thank you Barry and I like your version very much :-)

MargaretM · #5 10-12-2008, 12:27 PM

Painter - mainly Conte for thsi cute little bird. MargaretM

lkroll · #6 10-12-2008, 04:32 PM

Even more crochet work. Many of you all already know how much like like stitching things. lol

Peter S · #7 10-12-2008, 05:10 PM

A little late for the party so I brought a prezzy

Peter

bazza64 · #8 10-12-2008, 08:53 PM

Peter you can come as late as you want when you bring prezzy's like this

I like both yours and Amica's vibrant colors, sorry to be a pest!! but i've got to ask, how did you both do it?
MargaretM, nice work!!
Lyle, you always come up with incredible variations.

Barry.

amica999 · #9 10-13-2008, 01:34 AM

Barry, I didn't do much to the colors, they were already there :-) I adjusted the pic in RAW fixing the exposure and the vibrance a little, after that in PS I ran an action I wrote (which works nicely on pastel flowers, not so good on this one, so I tweaked the blending options) ran 2x Topaz Sharpen (masked the bird) some curve adj. and played with the BG...

lkroll · #10 10-13-2008, 02:44 AM

Thanks Barry. Thought I would play with this cool online applet again (and a few additions of course).

Joeven · #11 10-13-2008, 02:45 AM

I never seen one of those before.

Joe

bazza64 · #12 10-13-2008, 08:06 AM

Lyle, this looks like one of my circuit boards, I'm looking for a spot to solder a capacitor in.

Joe, very nice effort, I like the way you've created the artificial timber grain.

Barry.

bazza64 · #13 10-13-2008, 08:10 AM

Amica, thanks for your help again, I'm working on a new photo based on your directions, Topaz is a versatile bit of software.

lkroll · #14 10-13-2008, 11:19 AM

I'm very familiar with circuit boards too Barry. As a side note, for some reason, RP converted the original Hi-Rez image, even though it meet Byte size specs, to a jpeg. Weird. Anyway, here's the original PNG file (full rez).

Peter S · #15 10-13-2008, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bazza64

Peter you can come as late as you want when you bring prezzy's like this

I like both yours and Amica's vibrant colors, sorry to be a pest!! but i've got to ask, how did you both do it?

Barry.

Thanks Barry
I was going to say using Photoshop but thought that was too flippant, so I won't.
The bird was a smudge using one of Trimoons presets. The BG is a variation on an abstract action that Palms posted a while back, then smudged with a larger brush,
Then the colour saturation was boosted slightly.
There was a Bas relief layer there as well for the perch (no not a fish - the post)

Peter