creative interpretations ~ snow!

[Nasturtium]

I've made a gallery of some of my snowy landscapes and Dutch landscapes for everybody at RetouchPRO to artify.

If you post your edits outside of RetouchPRO please supply a link back to my blog;

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/nasturtium/

Have fun!

- Nancy

[lkroll]

What a cool wintery scene Nancy. I see cabin fever in your future if you live here. lol

Anyway, thought of a Christmas Card like textured render for this one.

[palms]

Lyle that is great. maybe a bit late for a xmas card ( or i suppose early )

added a bit of colour to mine

Palms

[Nasturtium]

Lyle-great blizzard effect
palms1-that's soooooooo pretty!

[lkroll]

lol; suppose to be silvery cardstock reflection. Oh well.

[mikajomc]

Nice one Palms.
And it does look like silver cardstock Lyle.

Thanks for the play Nancy.
My 4yo told me I should paint this one.
Just filters and masks today.

[Nasturtium]

Lyle, sorry. eek!

jordan - your four year old was right!

[PeterI]

Just some subtle changes. tried to bring out the detail in another way.
Palms, I like the color you got out of your image.

[Nasturtium]

PeterI-Very nice version indeed. Do you mind sharing what program/technique you used to make all those really cool crosshatch lines?

[PeterI]

Nancy, I used AHB as a base with the Sprayed Strokes filter to create a consistant stroke and add detail. I made a sketch layer with Akvis plugin for the vertical lines and masked off most of it balance the image with the Sprayed strokes filter. a few adjustment layers for color. Hard to improve on an already great original image.

[LQQKER]

Whoa! That is a really great photograph! I love seeing what everyone comes up with. Some very imaginative guys (and of course gals).

[MiningArt]

Nice winter images, thanks. Used Impressionist on the foreground and painted the sky.

[Nasturtium]

LQQKER-That border is perfect for this picture

John - that is one of my favorite captures. You've managed to give it a great Van Gogh 'Cypresses' treatement. I haven't been able to do anything with it yet myself

[Veralisa]

Hi Nasturtium,
first of all I think you live in the most beautiful place on earth! Every photograph, snow and snowless, was really lovely.

I wove two images together...then it started to look like the visual illusion as in:
http://http://www.retouchpro.com/for...fect-blur.html

Okay, simplified, hue adjust, and then it started to remind me of something Asian, so, added my sig in red & gave texture. It was a great project tonight. Time to brush my teeth!

[Kraellin]

see, i told ya

[MiningArt]

Veralisa, Those two went well together. For this one I just started simplifying and reducing until the pond was almost one tone and there was still some detail in the trees.

[Veralisa]

John, I think you were able to keep necessary detail while simplifying at the same time. Nice...I'll try something like that tomorrow. Thanks.

[FranS]

Thanks for posting.
Fran

[Nasturtium]

Veronica-Thank you. I agree**. you can move mountains beautifully convincing. I like the graphic illustration quality
John-Brrrrrrrr! :-)
Fran-What a beautiful water color

**I've made a gallery of other's images of the neighborhood

[Nasturtium]

I keep adding more pictures to that gallery if anyone is looking for more 'fodder'. Or would it be better for me to start new threads? Here's a sled dog from our '07 trip to British Columbia and the other is a summer shot from the moated village. Sigh, will it ever get warm again? I'm having fun playing with 40 free Xero filters. I used the 'sky cleaner' and I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship. :-)

[Kraellin]

yup, i said it elsewhere and i'll say it again; you have a good eye, nasturtium!

i had to take a shot at the river scene. very pretty.

[Nasturtium]

Craig-Blush.
Can you believe I found that in a folder called 'Of no earthly use?' lol
Your edit is so dreamy!

[MiningArt]

My take on the river scene. As a casual observation, that place must be loaded with fish.

[Nasturtium]

John - sweet edit! I don't know if there's lots of fish but there certainly are lots of fishermen sitting on the banks throughout the year

[Kraellin]

thanks, nasturtium

and thanks for the pictures

[lynn55]

These beautiful.

I cannot upload photo attachment because it said, "
forest-glade-reflecting-pool-wallpaper180K.jpg:
Your file of 294.9 KB bytes exceeds the forum's limit of 100.0 KB for this filetype. "
then I give it up then I post link. http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/6...flectingpo.jpg



I adjust color correction with curve.

Snow landscape photo 's size file: 92.4 KB.

[Nasturtium]

Lynne,

nice blue snow.

You are limited to 100kb attachments. This can be achieved by 'save for web' in Photoshop.

When you become a patron your maximum attached file size is raised to 200kb.

HTH

- Nancy

[Mitch]

I guess that winter is just a memory in this little lane.
So I did it this way

[Kraellin]

had another go at this lovely, what's got to be one of my favorite pics in these forums.

[lkroll]

Still on my Meander Mosaic binge. Thought I would repackage it a little for this Stained Glass interpretation.