Creative interpretations: Pasture

[palms1]

I needed a photo to practice on and found this lovely one it almost has a Constable air about it ! ! ! ! (painter of course not policeman !)

and need more practice

Palms

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by palms1

I needed a photo to practice on and found this lovely one it almost has a Constable air about it ! ! ! ! (painter of course not policeman !)

and need more practice

Palms

Nicely done, Palms... Glad you dug this one up.

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I was in the mood to do a little playing. The results I got are easy to recreate in Elements or Photoshop as long as one has the Impressionist plugin and the "jch van gogh" custom preset installed.** See the Layer's Palette snapshot for the layer detail.

The texture/depth effect comes from applying the Texture > Craquelure filter with all settings = 0, a trick I learned from Phyllis Stewart.

** To find this and other custom Impressionist presets, go here:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-art-resources/8328-impressionist-plugin-custom-styles-member-posted.html

Step-by-step:
1. Duplicate Background
2. Apply Impressionist > jch > van gogh (pressure = 200)
3. Layer > New Layer > Hue/Saturation (Saturation = 75)
4. Create a new layer
5. Alt + Layer > Merge visible
6. Apply Craquelure 0,0,0

~Danny~

[NancyJ]

Couldnt quite get the sky right....

[lkroll]

I used this image that I stole (er um) borrowed for this mix of fantasy with reality. For the original background, I merged the original with an Overlay of Harry's Atmospherizer filter to blend it with the fantasy background. Hope you all like it.

[palms1]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

Nicely done, Palms... Glad you dug this one up.

I am glad i dug this one up as well. already some great postings added. the texture /depth effect looks interesting -- will have to look into this,

Nancy i like your sky

Ikroll i also like your stole/borrowed effect

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Can't see the forest for the painterly effect.

Steve

[lkroll]

Originally Posted by palms1

Ikroll i also like your stole/borrowed effect

Palms

Thanks Palms.

[Kraellin]

lk,

that is very, very cool! love the addtions and coloring. the only thing missing is the unicorn, which is what i was going to add to this one

craig

[dkcoats]

Cloned foreground, added second horsie and simplified in CS2; painted in Gertrudis Pro; added texture, embossed, touched up in CS2.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...RP/pasture.jpg

dc

[Alcar]

A very nice shot with good color and lots of opportunities. I did an oil painting that began with Caravaggio (default setting) but lost track of the rest.
Alan

[lkroll]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

lk,

that is very, very cool! love the addtions and coloring. the only thing missing is the unicorn, which is what i was going to add to this one

craig

Such a small addition too.

Thanks for the comment Craig.

[dbuckle]

This is my SA try.

[Swampy]

Great photo, EB! The painted versions look like they should be hanging in a museum somewhere.

My goal was to add something suitable to the foreground (me and my cows), add some punch to the sky and change the lighting on the right side of the picture for some depth.

I started to do something "painterly", but I'm not good at it so left it more photographic.

[jch71566]

My Try.

Replaced the sky
Used Carravagio
Min-i-max filtering
Smoothing

[Peter S]

Lord knows everything I did with this, I tried to remember, but got a pm from D.R. and now can't remember a thing except.
Art history, and I went down to a one pixel brush at times just to get some more details in.
Also overlaid a Redfield Bas-Relief layer to heighten the brush stokes.
Oh yeah there is a slight texture there as well - honest.

Peter