Sail Amsterdam 2010

[Nasturtium]

I'm in a rut. It's okay you can tell me

Have fun. And let's prove DH wrong...he didn't think he'd gotten any good pictures last night

Sail

[lkroll]

Definitely appreciated the play Nancy. This one was more a challenge for me too. I started out trying to use my illustration technique (Xero Supersmooth, Grain Extract merge Grain Merge) but it had way too many artifacts, so I blended in Impressionist Snake preset (changed brush; don't think you all would like snakes; lol) and then used Xero's Supersmoooth filter to "flatten" the details. I did some color enhancement details and voila. Liked the result so much that I added my signature to this one (I rarely do this). Please let me know if I can share this one on other forums that I frequent. Click the link for the complete rendering (didn't want to compress this one at all). I attached a crop (with my sig; lower quality too anyway; lol) here. If I do have permission, could you also give me a direct link to the author's image so I can show before/after? Thanks.

http://a.imageshack.us/img831/3533/s...terdam2010.jpg

[skipatk]

Nasturtium - Looks like a lot of fun and I think you have very nice ruts

My go at a watercolor.

[Nasturtium]

Lyle - you always do good work and this is no exception. I think it's best if you credit me (NL Schober) here and link back to this thread. What do you think?
Skip - wow! Amazing what you've done.

There's 4800 images on Flickr with the tag "sail2010". Some of them are just incredible so I've collected them into a gallery.

[lkroll]

Thanks Nancy; I will.

[skipatk]

Here's a go with a program called GMX-PhotoPainter from Gertrudis that I am trying out. Interesting effect - Here's the link to their site: http://www.gertrudisgraphics.com

[geepee52]

Nice pic. Thanks for the play.

Grant

[alexmeta]

Nice photo, Nasturtium, and great all works

AHB

[0lBaldy]

Thanks for the play Nancy !

[Nasturtium]

Skip-terrific results, really makes it look like a painting
Grant-yours feels like a Monet
Alex-love that beautiful traditional color scheme in yours
OlBaldy-the lines in yours are especially nice ~ like an ink drawing

- Nancy

[0lBaldy]

Thanks Nancy !

[palms]

Nancy i think it is a nice photo, and some great versions posted, here is my attempt

Palms

[FranS]

Thanks for posting the photo. I've enjoyed everyone's work.

Fran

[oltenius]

Thanks for the play!
So many great interpretations!
Dan

[Nasturtium]

Palms - that is a really lovely piece of art
Fran - I like what happened to the water in yours ~ it's kinda cool and 'choppy'
Dan - pretty as a postcard

I'm so impressed how different everybody's edits are. Such a creative bunch

[Veralisa]

When I first began it looked like such a difficult job. Yet so many here have come up with fantastic variations. Alex, can't believe that's AHB. There was no way I'd have attempted that. I really like the dirty, smudgy sky. Yes, this looks like a capture from many years ago. The photograph was "today" but the scene was "yesterday".
Basically here I replaced the sky with one of my own. Mask & blend mode. Not as tedious as I thought at first.
Liked the photograph, Nasturtium.

[alexmeta]

Originally Posted by Veralisa

... Alex, can't believe that's AHB. There was no way I'd have attempted that. I really like the dirty, smudgy sky. Yes, this looks like a capture from many years ago. The photograph was "today" but the scene was "yesterday".

Veralisa, thank you for kindly comments. AHB basically with different blend tricks, little smudge, etc

[Nasturtium]

Veronica - the sky really balances out the whole composition
Alex - I like how you capitalized on that band of golden light

[Tennie]

Love the photo and the many renditions. I'll have to see if I can come up with something also.

[Tennie]

Had some fun with this. Thanks for letting us play with this, Nancy.