pedal pushers !

[palms]

both from SXC and not sure if they have been posted before ?
but i thought it might kick off the new year creativity

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1316796

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1316795

[skipatk]

Don't know why but I seemed to struggle a bit on which way to go with these. They're great pics, I guess my brain is on a go slow. Here are my tries, a simple pencil on the pedal taxis and a combination of two DAP AOPs, Andy's Watercolor5 and Gruppe_wc on the bike.

[lkroll]

Some G'MIC; some Impressionist. Cool finds Palms.

[lkroll]

Sketch for the bicycle.

[skipatk]

Nice sketch effect Lyle, was this a GIMP?

[palms]

skip glad you found your way, Sometimes it happens you just cant seem to find what to do to images, usually if they have a lovely blue sky i struggle !

Lyle nice ones as usual but that sketch is great

Palms

[lkroll]

GIMP with G'MIC (various presets; don't recall now; lol) and Impressionist Geo Chaotic Chrome preset (yes; someone a while back figured out to get Impressionist to work in GIMP too; lol). Thanks for the comments Skip/Palms.

[palms]

I used buzz and a texture on this one

Palms

[Peter S]

How about a Fractallibike

Peter

[alexmeta]

My AHB version of bike

[lkroll]

Excellent results folks; definitely that Frac sketch is a keeper Peter. Went da Vinci on this one this time. I pretty much looked like it was on a da Vinci canvas already, so I abliged.

[ghealy]

da Vinci?? Where might I find that, Lyle. BTW real nice.

Alex: Love what you've done. I've not had a chance to play with this image yet. But what you produced is what I wish I had. <Smile>

Lyle & Skip: Also really like your sketch versions.

Super work everyone.

Wow, Peter! Wow!

Nice, Palms. Love the texture. Have come across many images over at RedBubble where a vintage feel is given to an image, partly from colouring, but many times by the texture added. Need to research and locate tutorials on turning images into textured vintage .

[0lBaldy]

Just played around with some filters

[palms]

Originally Posted by ghealy

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Nice, Palms. Love the texture. Have come across many images over at RedBubble where a vintage feel is given to an image, partly from colouring, but many times by the texture added. Need to research and locate tutorials on turning images into textured vintage .

Here you are all in one place tutorials, textures and great work

http://shadowhousecreations.blogspot...max-results=10

and there is plenty more out there ( and that is probably the hardest part finding your fav textures and combination of textures )

Nice filter work Ol Baldy

Palms

[ghealy]

Thanks ever so much, Palms. Looks like I've got some reading and experimenting a head of me today. <Big Grin>

[skipatk]

Decided to have another go at the bike. Alien Skin Impasto and your paint texture Palms. A little photoshop texturizer as well, but that kind of got lost in reducing it for posting. Then framed it in Fotosketcher.

[palms]

Originally Posted by skipatk

Decided to have another go at the bike. Alien Skin Impasto and your paint texture Palms. A little photoshop texturizer as well, but that kind of got lost in reducing it for posting. Then framed it in Fotosketcher.

another nice one Skip i think this image lends itself to texture work

Palms

[ghealy]

I really love this image. I've been saving it on my hard drive wanting to do something extra special. But no matter what I did, nothing came close to the original. Tried sketches. Naw. Tried painting with DAP, FotoSketcher. Nope. Tried merging different attempts. Garbage.

Have been playing with textures and tints recently. Worked on this adding and deleting layers of textures, tints, shading.

What's here is my best attempt. Still a far cry from the beauty of the initial image. But at least along the way, I learned a bit more about playing with textures & tints. <Smile> FWIW, there are 9 layers (including the initial image) in this.)

Thanks for looking. And thanks for the play

[Peter S]

Nice vintage look to this one Gene - good texture.

Originally Posted by ghealy

I really love this image. I've been saving it on my hard drive wanting to do something extra special. But no matter what I did, nothing came close to the original. Tried sketches. Naw. Tried painting with DAP, FotoSketcher. Nope. Tried merging different attempts. Garbage.

Have been playing with textures and tints recently. Worked on this adding and deleting layers of textures, tints, shading.

What's here is my best attempt. Still a far cry from the beauty of the initial image. But at least along the way, I learned a bit more about playing with textures & tints. <Smile> FWIW, there are 9 layers (including the initial image) in this.)

Thanks for looking. And thanks for the play

[ghealy]

Thanks, Peter. Appreciate the comments.

[FranS]

Here's another one I missed. I like the photo so I tried a watercolor.

[PeterI]

Palms,

I always enjoy your choices in images, Thanks

I tried to change the overall texture of the image and remove some of the color.

PeterI

[palms]

Fran nice watercolour

PeterI love the texture and colour on your version

Palms

[FranS]

Wow, the board is slow lately.

Here's #2 from this thread done with the impressionist filter.

[PeterI]

Thanks Palms,
I noticed that you have been using more textures lately, sometimes I a amazed at the results with textures that seem to have nothing in common but when added together makes the image.

FranS, I really like the composition of your strollers image, Great use of color and detail

PeterI

[palms]

Originally Posted by FranS

Wow, the board is slow lately.

Here's #2 from this thread done with the impressionist filter.

nice one Fran