Something different to artify

[sponge03]

I'm fairly new to this photo based art.

A friend of mine has given me this photo of her old property and wants me to make it into a painting, but not sure how to do it as all the detail is so small.

Any suggestions for this type of photo?

[sponge03]

Opps, heres the photo now

[sponge03]

She also prefers not to crop in too much as they want to keep the hills etc.

[0lBaldy]

Do you have the original or just a scan?
how big is the original?
How big does she want the painting?
Color or Black N White Painting?
Do you have a high resolution copy you can post on a host site?

[lkroll]

Emo interpretation.

[sponge03]

Thats cool Lyle

Olbaldy, she is wanting either black and white or a color tone put through it like sepia or green tone maybe? She is wanting approx 8x12 inch print, i do have a bigger file, which host site do you recommend?

[Dave.Cox]

If you are using Photoshop, try playing with the artistic filter settings. For example:

[chillin]

Painter Essential 4

[0lBaldy]

sponge03, You can host your image on your own site or elsewhere and attach a link, Alternative Image Hosts if you do not have your own site are: ImageVenue.com (3Meg max, free) or pixentral.com (2Meg max, free) or photobucket.com (1 Meg max free,... 5 Meg PRO) or mediafire.com (100 Meg per file) ... then post a link here in the thread to the site that is hosting your larger image.

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There are many more hosts out there.. so it is really up to you which one you are comfortable with and which service will make the full size available for download

[BitG]

My take on it..added some clouds to liven it up a bit...

Here is a higher quality version..

http://i41.tinypic.com/2dtpwkw.jpg

[sponge03]

Thats neat with the clouds BitG..........what method/software did you use to paint it?

[BitG]

Originally Posted by sponge03

Thats neat with the clouds BitG..........what method/software did you use to paint it?

Thank you

I used coral painter and just did a quick clone, then touched up some parts..then used photoshop to work with the lighting..

[0lBaldy]

I tried a fake smudge just because of the way it affects the trees and did a sepia version to even things out and lighten it a bit.. I like BitG's version (Good Job BitG! ) so I guess I should've added some clouds... but you can do that on your version if you want to...

[palms]

a interesting one sponge03
on this i used buzz, some adjust, and a gradient map for the colour
and then on the first one i used a orton technique ( but wasnt sure which i prefered out of the two)

Palms

[Gilbert]

Trying to be more colourful.....
in PS used hue/sat adjust layers to add colour
then used buzz to simplify and blended ps cloud filter effect.

Total time 20 mins

Gilbert

[frate]

pencil and sepia

[gholmes1936]

A little bit of this and a little bit of that. Photoshop, Topaz SImplify, Photoshop to finish it off with.

[sponge03]

WOW, there are some amazing transformations, I didn't think it would turn out very good as a painting, NICE WORK

[Veralisa]

What a beautiful old photo. It actually reminds me of a past town which was flooded to form a power-generating lake. It's Lake Wallenpaupack in NE PA and that was done in the 1920's. The mountains around the town provided a deep bowl for a very pretty lake. Anyway...

I just painted on a layer above it, color blend setting and used a sky from one in my archives.

It is cropped it to a standard panoramic size.

[mcole]

There's some really great stuff here! I did a fake smudge too, but went very heavy with it. And then I did a bunch of other stuff too - just playing around.

[kiska]

PS for x-processing, Topaz simplify, artistic filters.

[Veralisa]

Wow, I really like your version Kiska. Looks like a duo or tri tone, and most effective.

[kiska]

THANKS! I used this for the cross processing:

http://www.pixelgenius.com/color2/

[gholmes1936]

One can attain cross processing effects using Photoshop as well as with Tiffen Dfx v2.0.
Try it you'll like it.

[Veralisa]

Thanks for the tips!