The house

[ghealy]

This is a picture of a dwelling along Cote-des-neiges road in Montreal. A bit too ritzy for my budget, but I thought it made an interesting photo and a painting.

Looking forward to you all working your magic.

A slightly larger version (1000x667 276 KB) of the original photo can be obtained from here:
http://ghealy.smugmug.com/photos/1094800538_HEgec-O.jpg

The full size paint (3200x2128 - 3.44 MB) can be seen here:
http://ghealy.smugmug.com/photos/1078093248_UJ9TT-O.jpg

[geepee52]

Nice house Gene.Thanks for the play.

Grant

[skipatk]

OK I'll go first. A watercolor, just in case you couldn't tell
Edit - Looks like Grant beat me to it.

[skipatk]

Here's another try. Not sure what to call it? Pastel or maybe a soft color pencil.

[lkroll]

Thanks for the play Gene.

[ghealy]

You're not getting away that easily, Lyle. How about a hint as to what you did to get such a great image. (I am a real sucker for saturated images. <Smile>)

[lkroll]

OK; a few hints. I did use an HDR Script-fu to open the Shadows up some; also a G'MIC preset called Tonemap to enhance it even more. I then copy pasted into Irfanview to run Buzz (Buzz's not GIMP friendly) and then copied back into GIMP where I amped the Saturation more and also used Xero's Supersmooth filter selectively to clean things up some.

edit: more details on how I amped the saturation can be found at link below (scroll til you see my comments under my other alter ego (lylejk).

http://www.flickr.com/groups/gmic/di...7625254122361/

[ghealy]

Nice one, Grant.

Skip, both nice plays but #2 really stands out for me. Reminds me of a book illustration.

Thanks Lyle. That G'MIC looks interesting. Will have to check it out.

[palms]

Originally Posted by ghealy

(I am a real sucker for saturated images. <Smile>)

after a hint like that
i used photomatix and buzz

[ghealy]

LOL! Glad you took the hint, Palms. It turned out great.

[automotion]

Hello everyone.

First contribution!

A pencil one:

http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/6...0538hegeco.jpg

[FranS]

Fun photo to work with. Thanks for posting. Great renditions posted.

Fran

[ghealy]

Originally Posted by automotion

Hello everyone.

First contribution! A pencil one:

Welcome, Automotion. Nice contribution. Hopefully we'll see more from you.

Originally Posted by FranS

Fun photo to work with. Thanks for posting. Great renditions posted.

Glad you had fun, Fran. There have indeed been some great renditions in this thread, yours included.

[Joeven]

Hey Gene is that the part of town where all the mobsters live? It looks like the neighborhood they were showing on TV after the last murder.

Joe

[ghealy]

LOL! Don't think there are too many mobsters living around there, Joe. This is located in Montreal's Ville-Marie borough.

[Dak Paule]

Beautiful house.. Here is my try...


Dak

[ghealy]

Dak, Like the emphasis on the Fall colours. Thanks for playing.

[automotion]

Another one :

[ghealy]

@Automotion: Ah, you read I'm a sucker for saturated images. <Grin> Love this one.