Shells

[palms]

A little birdy (Lyle) thought you might like to have a mess around with these shells

have some fun

also posted a jigsaw that i made from the photograph

here is a link to the video tut for this technique it is relatively easy, but very effective ( i just changed the brush to a jigsaw piece and left out the motion blur )
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/scatt...h-masking.html

( for none photoshoppers if you have masks and layers you should be able to do it )

Palms

[lkroll]

Happy I am Palms. Thought I would try a new concoctions involving DAP (my new Paint Toss preset), G'MIC (GIMP Plugin; used it for the fake smudge step) and Inkscape (the gel effect) to create this gel'ed impasto.

[palms]

Originally Posted by lkroll

Happy I am Palms. Thought I would try a new concoctions involving DAP (my new Paint Toss preset), G'MIC (GIMP Plugin; used it for the fake smudge step) and Inkscape (the gel effect) to create this gel'ed impasto.

wow lyle that is cool

palms

[lkroll]

Thanks Palms. Thought I would try to repackage my Paint Toss AOP and this came of it. lol

[Crapaud]

Ikroll, I'm not sure that I'd know what the pic was of, but I love the colours and the effect. Nice one.

On the basis that practise makes perfect, another pencil sketch ...

(I'll get bored with it eventually, I promise)

[geepee52]

Interesting pic for play.Used some Topaz and Fractalius layers. Thanks Palms.

Grant

[palms]

Crapaud nice sketch, practice does make perfect but it also leads to some great results

Grant very nice I haven't tried the shells in fractalius yet but looks like it could be fun

Palms

[FranS]

This was done with the impressionist filter.

Thanks for posting, Palms.

Fran

[Boneappetit]

Pretty cool tutorial... I used it here: http://boneappetit.deviantart.com/#/d3klgmh
Thanx for sharing Palms...

[palms]

Originally Posted by FranS

This was done with the impressionist filter.

Thanks for posting, Palms.

Fran

Looks great Fran, may i ask which setting you used ?

you are welcome boneappetit

Palms

[Boneappetit]

One more !

[palms]

Originally Posted by Boneappetit

One more !

love the colours you have gottten

Palms

[Boneappetit]

Originally Posted by palms

love the colours you have gottten

Palms

Thanx a lot, I used color adjustments, Lab Color, luminosity and dark masks of Photoshop and Topaz, then I added a Blur/Noise layer (and a partial vignette).
That's a very nice pic.

[skipatk]

Here's one a little out of the box from my usual. Remember the Virtual Painter plugin? This is with the Airbrush effect on a layer that is overlaid on the original.

[palms]

Originally Posted by skipatk

Here's one a little out of the box from my usual. Remember the Virtual Painter plugin? This is with the Airbrush effect on a layer that is overlaid on the original.

and it is another pretty one

[skipatk]

Thanks Palms

[zip022]

I haven't posted in so long, but one of these images has just given me goosebumps!
They are all wonderful, but Crapaud please please tell me how you did this. I am going to search for you other posts as you suggested many of your pics have used this technique, but I can't wait. Wonderful for the shells....really!
Deb

[Crapaud]

Thanks, Zip. I don't think I've had such an effusive response to anything I've ever posted on the net. I'm glad you like it.

I should have some time tomorrow afternoon/evening and I'll try and put some form of tutorial together.

[lkroll]

Thought I would play with PostworkShop again. Click link below for complete rendering.

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8317/shellsp.png

[Crapaud]

OK, Zip, I've given this some thought and I think a general outline of the sketch process is better than a blow by blow account, of this one pic, is probably the way to go.


The general idea

If you've ever run PS's coloured pencil filter you'll know that it's not very satisfying; the pencillyness however is excellent. There are plenty of sketch tuts on the web that all achieve different results: the colour dodge/invert/blur, glowing edges, find edges for linework, for instance. The goal in this workflow is to use these techniques to create different levels of detail and combine them into one final black and white image.

Linework

We want to create 2 levels of linework: one for fine detail and one for broad strokes.

Detail (CD line in the stack): Make 2 copies of the BG layer, set the top one to Colour dodge, invert and blur. Merge down and desaturate. You should have something like this.

Broad lines (Glowing edges line): Copy the BG layer and run the Glowing lines filter, invert, desaturate (and copy this layer for later). Adjust - I used a curves layer - to make it linework like this.

Pencillyness

Repeat the Colour dodge/invert of the detail linework, but this time increase the blur. Run the Coloured pencil filter with paper brightness at full to get this (colour dodge plus in the stack).

Activate the copy of the Glowing edges layer and run the Coloured pencil filter again. You should have something like this.

Blending

Now the fun part: combining the layers. Change the layer blend modes to darken and mulitply.

CD line: Multiply
CD plus sketch: Multiply
Glowing edges line: Darken
Glowing edges sketch: Normal

The result should look something like this.

So far, so good. It looks sketchy, but there's are a lot of white/light areas which won't take colour. It's also very 'busy'.

Luminosity layer

Make 2 copies of the original layer and desaturate them. Run the coloured pencil filter on the top layer and set blend mode to darken. Merge layers and reduce the contrast to something like this. Reduce this layer's opacity to let the pencilly linework to come through.

The final black and white image should look like this.

To add colour, copy the background layer to the top of the stack and change the blend to colour.

[zip022]

Wow, you spent a lot of time on this, I am very greatful. I can't wait for the weekend to spend some time going over it. I have a few images I think will work nicely.
Thank you so much and if I get anywhere, I will share my results and/or questions too.
Yea! Deb

[Veralisa]

I just love shells...and these were such a pleasure to work on.

AHB/ D&B, line drawing on top, fussed w/ color tone, eg blacks to cyan, and....

[pat---]

I love these shells, thanks. I started with Adjust flat and smooth preset and tweaked it a lot. Used the PhotoPlusX5 glass filter on one copy and the water color2 filter on another and then used layer a lighten layer mode to blend them. Applied an X5 texture on top for the paper texture.

[lkroll]

Like the watercolor Pat and thanks for bringing this thread back. Thought I would try Rodilus with my own Organic flow twist to this one. Click here for a link to this images Flickr (and complete rendition). Attached is a crop.

[FranS]

Wow, Crapaud, I just saw your tutorial for the first time. Thanks so much. I can't wait to try it.

Veronica, that's a beautiful use of the AHB. I love it.
Pat, very, very pretty watercolor.
Lyle, that's quite an effect. I've never seen anything like it. Beautiful.

I'm trying out GMX Photo Painter so that's what I used on this.

[lkroll]

Thanks Fran; like your watercolor too. Recently some great guys collaborated together (Rod and the creator of G'MIC himself, David) to create an awesome G'MIC preset called Rodilius (which nearly exactly gives you the Fractilus effect) and I added my own twist to create this result (it's what I do; surprised nobody with Fractilus came up with this look but I guess it does require some GIMP no how; lol).

[pat---]

Thanks, Lyle and Fran.

Lyle - I think your version of Rodilius has a more varied look than Fractalius, very nice.

Fran - Great water color.

[palms]

Glad you bought this one back to life, some great versions posted

palms

[Crapaud]

Originally Posted by palms

Glad you bought this one back to life, some great versions posted

palms

I'd half forgotten about this thread. I agree Palms, all versions on this thread are consistently good and interesting, but it's a great pic to work with.

Lyle, that Rodilus version is just mental.

Fran, it's a work in progress, but a technique that I think has possibilities. A couple of things that have transpired: image size and compression can make quite a difference to the final image. Image size can make the pencillyness quite harsh, at times, or too subtle - I haven't yet worked out if there is an optimal size. If the original has been highly compressed it can lead to large areas of artifacts.

It works best with images that have a lot of detail and worst on images that have large areas of flat tone - see the differece between the face and the hat on my Face with character version.

[lkroll]

In college, they would call me Crazy Lyle (Happy Buddha when I was in Saudi; lol), and never said that I was sane. lol

Apreciate the comments Crapaud (I think; lol).