Oliver at Prayer!

[gholmes1936]

After noticing him doing this the first time I decided that he was giving thanks for being rescued and being with a home that has a kitty buddy for him. He like to look out our bedroom window at the birds and squirrels as they eat on a railing. It looked to me as if he was praying.

I did the retouched one using PS CS5, Topaz Adjust, and Filter Forge.

[Veralisa]

Oh Gunner...what a cute pose, but a challenge to work with without the face visible, at least for me. So, I broke the image down to simple shapes, starting with a desaturate. Next was a run thru Fotosketcher on the cartoon 1 setting. After that I experimented w/ PS half tone dot, then hand colored on a separate layer, set to color mode. This was kind of appealing to me so I think I'll try some more along this line. Thank you very much!

[gholmes1936]

Oh that is good. thanks for this one.

[geepee52]

Nice shot Gunner. Used Lucis , Fractalius and Filter Forge for the frame. Thanks for the play.

Grant

[plugsnpixels]

Saying grace before an expected meal, no doubt!

[lkroll]

I guess when I have no good ideas, I can always stitch something together. Cat's like strings anyway.

[gholmes1936]

What great renditions, and such humor. Actually I like to think he is thanking god for having such a good life-now!!!!

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Here's one using Mehdi's EdgeFX - dilate edges and colorize.

[gholmes1936]

Cool rendition.

[plugsnpixels]

Nice! BTW, if you develop Tri-X film in Dektol (print developer) you get a similar effect! I found that out in the late '70s...

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Thanks, Gunner and plugsnpixels!

[gholmes1936]

Originally Posted by plugsnpixels

Nice! BTW, if you develop Tri-X film in Dektol (print developer) you get a similar effect! I found that out in the late '70s...

A large grain effect as I seem to recall doing it. At the time that I did it
Tri-X was the fastest film around, all 400ISO of it......

[plugsnpixels]

Serious grain and reticulation...

[gholmes1936]

Exactly! One could push-process it to quite good heights (1600 iso) with a different developer, whose name I forget now. We use to use it in the Governors office in the late 70's.

[plugsnpixels]

Acufine. It's scary I remember this; haven't used it since the mid-'90s!

[gholmes1936]

Acufine, of course!