Creative interpretations - Basilika

[amica999]

Found this one and thought you may have some fun....

Original image: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1128408

[Sweetlight]

Nice to work!

c

[sylvia1065]

That's different, Sweetlight, interesting
AHB version.
Sylvia

[MiningArt]

On the original, are those the real colors the buildings are painted? Strange looking place, may be the most impractical use of space on the planet.

Version two is a softer.

[Sweetlight]

No min, they are real and you can't even get how beautiful they are but in person.
c

[sylvia1065]

It's the cathedral of Saint Petersburg (Russia).
http://images.google.com/images?q=ca...N&hl=en&tab=wi
Sylvia

[amica999]

@ Chris, yours sure is different, I like it
@ Sylvia, what can I say, breathtaking
@ MA, it looks a little busy regarding the original soft flow of the image

[geepee52]

Nice find Amica.I experimented with Virtual Painter and Buzz Pro and a couple of textures.

Thanks
Grant

[amica999]

Lovely, Grant

[palms1]

One place that i would like to go and see
and i think i have read that they are as ornate inside as they are outside

Palms

[amica999]

nice saturated colors...cool

[Sweetlight]

As usual Palms blows us away........
I'll try not to let my recent bout of mindlesness cause me to blow any fingers off with explosives today, it's the fourth and I love my boom-booms.
Palms, I don't know if you can guide me through this like everything else lately
ha..
Happy 4th everyone. Even those of you across the big water.

[palms1]

Sweets do you have buzz pro and topaz adjust?

or cant you remember

Happy 4th of July

Palms

[Sweetlight]

I can remember smarty clown....
No, I dont have any plug-ins actually. Everything is hand-cooked.......
Thanks for the smile, I needed it.

c

[palms1]

Originally Posted by Sweetlight

I can remember smarty clown....
No, I dont have any plug-ins actually. Everything is hand-cooked.......
Thanks for the smile, I needed it.

c

Oh my goodness No plug ins
did you hear that noise ? that was Ikroll fainting, he will have to have a serious word with you and put you straight in the meantime get buzz pro from here free have a mess around with it over the wekend if you dont like it just take it back off ( but i bet you will like it )

just thought this is only for a pc not sure if you are pc or mac

Palms

[Sweetlight]

Thanks Palms,
It's not that I think plug-ins are bad but I am a bit of a traditionalist as far as one can be in PS I guess. I have been meaning to put some in though and this will be the first. Thanks
Lyle is the plug-in man, he's probably dissapointed in me now, haaha. It was my little secret.
I am cross-platform so I'll put it on the puter it belongs on.
Smile.
c

[sylvia1065]

No plug-ins? No PLUG-INS???????????? Ouch!!! LOL
Wow, you're missing out on some nice stuff, Sweetlight...

If you're on Windows, you could also get the Impressionist plug-in, it's free.
http://photoart-tutorials.com/downlo...ressionist.zip
unless of course you prefer to hand-cook everything, as you said...

Sylvia

[0lBaldy]

Yeppers Impressionist is Kewl and you can still 'hand cook' the results by changing almost everything within the plug-in...
How to 'hand cook' in Impressionist is discussed here: Impressionist plugin: Custom styles (member posted)

Hmmm, am I wrong or are all those filters and things shipped with Photoshop sorta like Plug-ins put there to make the traditionalists job a bit easier... me thinks its all a bit of semantics.... go for it Sweetlight... expand those horizons!

My version using traditional filters/plug-ins

[sylvia1065]

Originally Posted by 0lBaldy

Hmmm, am I wrong or are all those filters and things shipped with Photoshop sorta like Plug-ins put there to make the traditionalists job a bit easier... me thinks its all a bit of semantics

I bet that's exactly what it is, the plug-ins must have been added gradually.

[amica999]

OB, as you may have noticed I haven't put my hand on this one yet, but I had some embossing in mind..yours turned out very well, if I may say

[amica999]

went for AHB with this

[palms1]

Originally Posted by amica999

went for AHB with this

lovely Amica could i ask which brush you used ?

Palms

[sylvia1065]

Very nice, Amica.
Sylvia

[amica999]

Originally Posted by palms1

lovely Amica could i ask which brush you used ?

Palms

Palms, I used some of Sylvia's brushes, background 2, small bristle and hard mechanical - I believe - , but made some heavy adjustments prior with Topaz adjust, added a sketch only from Topaz Simplify

BTW, Sylvia, I love those brushes

[palms1]

Thank you Amica and sorry for not using my manners earlier and saying please


Palms

[amica999]

Originally Posted by palms1

Thank you Amica and sorry for not using my manners earlier and saying please


Palms

no problem, dear, I know you are always polite

[sylvia1065]

Thank you, Amica.

Palms, send me your email and I'll email them to you. I can't attach them here because they're over 200 Kb.

Anyone wants them, send me a PM with your email (before Sunday, as I'll be gone after that).

Sylvia

[Sweetlight]

Me too please....<Look Palms
How could one of the nicest people here think we had she had no manners?

cwaltersart@yahoo.com

[Dron58]

Originally Posted by sylvia1065

It's the cathedral of Saint Petersburg (Russia).
http://images.google.com/images?q=ca...N&hl=en&tab=wi
Sylvia

Sylvia,
sorry, you are wrong - it's Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Basil%27s_Cathedral

Your link to Church of the Savior on Blood in St.Petersburg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_...avior_on_Blood

[0lBaldy]

Originally Posted by amica999

OB, as you may have noticed I haven't put my hand on this one yet, but I had some embossing in mind..yours turned out very well, if I may say

Thank you Amica