Lone Piper

[palms]

Taken while on holiday, I thought he would be something different for you all, and i know there are some with Scottish connections
( not your cup of tea ? no fear i took photo's of other things as well )


Palms

[palms]

And a ahb/sketch to start things off with

Palms

[Sweetlight]

Oh Miss Palms, What a subject indeed. Those pipes and I have a love hate relationship. After too many funerals for too many cops, one of which was my best friend I would nearly go mad hearing the pipes, truly it was pretty bad. I decided to either beat myself over the head with them or make peace so I bought myself a practice chanter and started to learn a bit. I made peace with the pipes but they don't want much to do with me after the practices I put the poor things through. Kinda the sound of a cat in a blender maybe
Did you see my new piece I did for the memorial? First image up now at www.flickr.com/photos/sweetlight.

c

[MiningArt]

Fireworks and Pipes. Paint Effect.

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by palms1

( not your cup of tea ? no fear I took photo's of other things as well )
Palms

I suppose that means more cat pics to come then
Welcome back btw
Peter

[beefy24]

Had a bit play with this one ..thanks

[FranS]

Love those bagpipers -- thanks for posting the photos.

Fran

[lkroll]

Thought I would do a watercolor illustration for this gent; just trying to break my Giger binge (other forums). lol

[FranS]

Here's my version of piper #2.

Fran

[palms]

Oh dear Sweets glad you made your peace with the pipes I have had a look at your new work and it gets the usual thumbs up

John both of those are nice but i do like the fireworks a little bit more

Peter you can breathe a sigh of relief as there where not cats on holiday like your version very much
especially the colours

Beefy glad you did play the selective colouring works well

Fran nice strong colours and i do like your texture, may i ask what it is ? please, Your second version is great as well

Lyle some explanation please i do like that a lot (so i will be looking forward to this new binge )


Palms

[lkroll]

It was just a deviation from my Giger binge Palms. lol

I dup, run Wavelet Denoise (a GIMP plugin) that I set to Grain Extract and merge down to get a b/w illustrated look which I then blend back in the color. Extremely easy to do, but for non-GIMPers, hard to explain. I do not know of an equivalent in PS for Grain Extract layer property, but I use is so much (almost every edit, both renders and photographic since it's indispensible for simulating Contrast Mask) that I wish they would port this layer property to PS. At the end, I do add Xero's Supersmooth which sort of both cleans up the rendition and adds some Aniso to boot.

[FranS]

Palms,
I used a free program called Photo Filtre for the texture. I don't use it a lot bit it does have a few neat features. It's a standalone -- not a plugin.

Fran

[sylvia1065]

Great picture, Palms, thanks for sharing it
Changed the background (obviously ) and adjusted the colors here and there...
Sylvia

[palms]

Originally Posted by sylvia1065

Great picture, Palms, thanks for sharing it
Changed the background (obviously ) and adjusted the colors here and there...
Sylvia

Nice one Sylvia

Palms

[lkroll]

Definitely a wall hanger there Sylvia.

[sylvia1065]

Thank you Palms and Lyle
Sylvia

[Mitch]

Ithink he's sucking, not blowing. The pipes are obviously filled with single malt!

Respect to Palms for suffering the noise while taking the photo - what we have to suffer for our hobbies eh..

[palms]

Originally Posted by Mitch

Ithink he's sucking, not blowing. The pipes are obviously filled with single malt!

Respect to Palms for suffering the noise while taking the photo - what we have to suffer for our hobbies eh..

Way cool Mitch that brought a smile to my face

Palms