Poppy pics

[sharynideas]

Lately I've been playing with painting poppy pictures. (How 'bout that alliteration!)
Anyway, I took these last June and July and it's kind of a relief to know that this snow will pass and the green will come back. So I thought I'd post some poppy promises of summer. (There I go again)

Shari

[ghealy]

Beautiful picts, Shari. Thanks for sharing them.

Here are my first two attempts.

The first done in PS C4 following Vitaly's watercolour tut; some additional processing in PSPv9. The second some in DAP -- FunkyOils AOP with both blur & detail brush masks. Again some additional processing in PSPv9.

Thanks for the play

[lynn55]

That beautiful.


I set plastic warp, vibrance and curve.

Thank you for the fun play.

[Peter S]

Shari very nice Poppies thanks.

Peter

[gholmes1936]

Thanks for the play Shari. Total Photoshop CS5 Mac.

[lkroll]

Decided to go Fine Art for this one Shari. Thanks for the play.

[lkroll]

FA, but colored this time.

[sharynideas]

Gene-I love the work you do with Vitaly's tut. I can't follow it since I don't have either Photoshop or CS but I sure do admire what comes out of it.
Lynn-Those colors are great. I wish I could grow a real poppy with all those hues.
Peter-Fabulous as always. What did you use as a background in the first one?
Gunner-Wow. I had to look at my picture again to see if it really had the details you brought out and I love how the background works with the photo.
Lyle-As usual you send me to google, but I'm still scratching my head. Is Fine Art a program or filter or are you just referring to your style of editing?
Shari

[sharynideas]

I forgot to post one of the pictures I worked on. I've been playing lately with Fotosketcher 2 and this is one that I really liked from the program.
Shari

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by sharynideas

Peter-Fabulous as always. What did you use as a background in the first one?

Shari

Thanks Shari, it was one I made myself from several other pics on different layers and messed with blend modes and masks. Here is another example of something similar.

Peter

[lkroll]

lol; I just catagorize all photographic interpretations (i.e., augmented photos) as Fine Art, but historically, Fine Art, with respect to photography, was mainly for b/w or monochromatic images.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_art_photography

[palms]

Shari great photo's, just what is needed to lift the winter gloom

Palms

[lkroll]

Excellent Palms; left you a message at your Flickr on this one too. Like that stretched canvas frame.

[lkroll]

Thought I would paint this one on glazed glass.

[ghealy]

Thanks, Shari for the kind words. And I love playing with FotoSketcher too.

Palms, Super image with the texture!

[Peter S]

Okay so I had to do another one.

Peter

[skipatk]

Really good Peter!!!

[holybovine]

All these pics are very nice.

[sharynideas]

Palms-Very interesting texture. And thanks for making my photo look like gallery art.
Peter-Keep them coming. Each one is more interesting than the last. I like how you changed up the light in the pictures.
And to Palms and Peter- I can spend hours in your photostreams on Flickr. I am SO jealous!
Shari

[gholmes1936]

Such great renditions here, I love them all.

[Veralisa]

Shari...your poppies are irresistable! Kudos to all for some truly expert work, and Peter, your last one blew me away.

Decided to do just the petal parts, experimented with layers, a dash of GB and a final blend mode of ...one of the "burns", forgot which. Color burn I think.

[lkroll]

Gotta love the glow. Definitely your interpretations are keepers Veronica.

[palms]

Originally Posted by sharynideas

Palms-Very interesting texture. And thanks for making my photo look like gallery art.
Peter-Keep them coming. Each one is more interesting than the last. I like how you changed up the light in the pictures.
And to Palms and Peter- I can spend hours in your photostreams on Flickr. I am SO jealous!
Shari

Thank you Shari
The standard of renditions is very high, great workings all

Palms

[Peter S]

Thanks again Shari, I have to ditto what Palms says here, great stuff from all.
Plus you asked for more.

Peter

[ghealy]

WoW! Peter, that is gorgeous!

[sharynideas]

Veronica- A great idea. I never thought of putting them into a triptych. And they just glow. Lovely.

Shari

[sharynideas]

Peter-Another great one. Do you have a tut for making your backgrounds? I was trying to do it with your azalea picture and it keeps turning out looking like I'm using vegetable soup for the background.

Shari

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by sharynideas

Peter-Another great one. Do you have a tut for making your backgrounds? I was trying to do it with your azalea picture and it keeps turning out looking like I'm using vegetable soup for the background.

Shari

Welllll not really as I do something diffent every time, (not that I've been messing with this for very long).
A quick suggestion though:-
Stack allyour pics, dupe the bottom one then fill the botom one with a colour of your choice (the base colour).
Add masks to the rest of the layers and then "Render-Diffence Clouds to each mask, (you can tweak them afterwards, change the blending modes of the layers, then you could do some colour adustment layers and clip them.
The possibillities are endles and every time a different result.
when nearly finished do a Merge visible while keeping the layers intact, change the blend to overlay and then Bas Relief it, this adds a little more depth, then fade the opacity down a bit if it's too harsh.

Hope this helps.

Peter

[Veralisa]

Thanks Lyle & Shari.
Wouldn't it be breathtaking if every pic submitted was displayed on one wall together? Imagine the POW factor!

[Veralisa]

OK, one last poppy, or as it's file reads, "peach poppy copy".