Humming Bird

[skipatk]

Here's a "little something" I took this morning while sitting on the back deck.

Reducing it to upload doesn't do justice to the sharpness, but hope you can still have some fun with it.

I used Mike Finn's Paint Wtih Texture for my go.

[MiningArt]

Those hummingbirds are pretty neat. We started putting out feeders a few years ago. For my version, adjusted for awhile and finished up by painting with Impressionist.

[0lBaldy]

Thanks for the play Skip

Cropped, made a cutout, blurred background (radial then Gaussian), increased saturation a bit, solar curve on flower in corner, finished off with a softlight -FotoSketcher watercolor layer

[skipatk]

John, OlBaldy -- Very nice renditions, I love them both. OlBaldy, your bluring of the background really accentuates the subject. Nice!

[FranS]

I did have fun with your photo, Skip. What a great capture.

I used the various layers of the Impressionist filter, Virtual Painter, and Topaz.

Fran

[Veralisa]

Skip, John, Ol'Baldy & Fran,
Each of your translations is a gem. And what an incredible capture, Skip.

[lkroll]

Thought I would try a Seurat.

Below's the complete rendering.

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/7110/mg2275hirez.jpg

[FranS]

Wow, Lyle, you sure did try a Seurat. Great job. That's a very effective piece of artwork.

Fran

[skipatk]

Very nice Fran, love the enhanced color

Thanks Veronica, I was at the ready with the camera but still got very lucky to catch the shot just as he/she stopped to take a little nectar from the flower.

Another great interpretation Lyle, such imagination you have.

[lkroll]

Thanks Fran/Skip; easy to do but hard to explain. Used ICE4 filter (after applying some noise) for starters. I then used GIMP's Erode filter to make the little dots bigger. I dupped the result and then used a Script-fu called Warp Sharp (default settings) and copied the lower layer on top and set the result to Grain Extract. I merged down and set that result to Grain Merge and dupped this layer a few times til happy. I then copied original on top and set to Hue and adjusted Opacity to taste and flattened. I then ran GIMP's bumpmap filter for added dimension. Like I said, simple to do but hard to explain.

[FranS]

Yeah, sure, Lyle -- it doesn't sound so simple to do ;-) Photoshop is cake compared to Gimp.

fran

[lkroll]

But can you do Seurat with it? lol

Well DCSpecial's ICE4 filter is a PS filter (get you started anyway; )

I will add that nothing's hard; just needs to be learned (and in my case, through the school of hard knocks over a period of nearly 10 years now).