Baby Pic

[amica999]

Hi, today I found one of the older photos of my baby daughter, which was/is in not so good shape. I sort of restored it some and thought you may enjoy to play a little. Have fun

[Peter S]

Amica reading between the lines this young lady is now into adult shoe sizes.
wonderful picture and thanks for the play, I tried a B&W for this one.

Peter

Larger version for those who wish to see:-

[img=http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/4822/amicababeimdc2.th.jpg]

[lkroll]

Click here for some details. Here's the complete rendering. Attached is a lower quality crop.

[0lBaldy]

Thanks for the play Amica!

[Kraellin]

beautiful baby

had a go with some filter forge and psp.

[amica999]

I thank YOU for the play.

@Peter: simply lovely. I like that one a lot. Very well done and yes, you interpreted the between lines very well, that babe (Dionisia is her name) will soon get 29 :-)
@Lyle: nice effect, but I am not sure if I like that on portraits so much.
@OlBaldy: interesting crop and smooth finish, nicely done.
@Craig: nicely done and thanks for the comment

[Gilbert]

amica....gorgeous child

[palms]

beautiful girl there Amica
great painting Gilbert

Palms

[amica999]

Thank you Gilbert and Palms for playing, too.

@ Gilbert, great painting, especially well done in choosing the colors and a prime job on that fuzzy hair.

@ Palms, hard to see, is it AHB? Very well done, whatever you chose :-)

[Steve Conway]

Baby with Ball.........

Steve C.

[palms]

Originally Posted by amica999

Thank you Gilbert and Palms for playing, too.

@ Gilbert, great painting, especially well done in choosing the colors and a prime job on that fuzzy hair.

@ Palms, hard to see, is it AHB? Very well done, whatever you chose :-)

yes Amica it was the ahb used


Palms

[lkroll]

Haven't done one of these in a little while. Also, I agree that I need to figure out to milk out more realistic details concerning the signature collage version.

[Kraellin]

thanks, amica and you're welcome

that really is good, gilbert. and i like yours a lot too, steve.

[amica999]

Thank you too for playing, Steve. Nice sharp look.
@Lyle, that sure looks grungy :-)

I guess I owe you all a personal version. Reason for the delay is that I've tried to smudge and failed miserably :-) Now I came up with a version that is somewhat presentable, but still struggling on hair, though. Maybe some of you Smudge-cracks have some advise?

[palms]

Originally Posted by amica999

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I guess I owe you all a personal version. Reason for the delay is that I've tried to smudge and failed miserably :-) Now I came up with a version that is somewhat presentable, but still struggling on hair, though. Maybe some of you Smudge-cracks have some advise?

Amica firstly that is a great smudge, and they do take time,I think most smudgers struggle with hair and eyes
and there is not set rules which i know is annoying but just think of all the different hair colours and styles and you begin to understand I have 3-4 brushes that i will use on hair depending on which one works best for that particular image at the moment the one i use most is
the Dry brush tip light flow from the standard ps set set at about 50%. When fininished run the dodge/ burn tool over the hair to add a bit dimension to it. and of course the dreaded word "practice"

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by amica999

Thank you too for playing, Steve. Nice sharp look.

Yeah, nothing special here. Tried a couple of things that I didn't like, so just gave it a retouched kind of look.

THNX....

Steve C.

[Kraellin]

one tip on smudging hair, amica, i use a 'rake' brush. yeah, funny name but it works. you basically 'rake' the hair, just like raking a garden or your leaves. just align the 'rake' as if combing the hair and push/pull/paint.

the rake brush would look something like this: . . . . . . or, in words, a spot, space, spot, space, spot, space and so on. you can make the spots large or small, opaque, semi-opaque or almost translucent for whatever effect you're after.

and, without much tweaking, it can make a decent eyebrow brush, also.

[amica999]

Thank you, Palms and Craig, I will have to try the dry brush and I will certainly make a rake-brush. Will let you know how they work out.

[lkroll]

Trying a sketch. I attached a highly compressed version, which I'm not happy due to all the compression artifacts. here's the high quality version.

[amica999]

Real nice one, Lyle....Like that a lot :-)