Mommy's Little Pumpkin

[TwinANJ]

I loved the story you told how your son kept falling over so I thought I would try a rendition of just that.

Did cut and paste on the top half and lower half of the body. Then used wind. Ran effie and added canvas texture.

Jean

[ArtistColumbus]

Jean, that's AWESOME!!

That's about how he looked that day.

Bubba, glad you joined in. I like your PI sketch a lot.! You REALLY kept the sparkle in his eyes!

-- CJ wrote:
Perhaps a different camera (one that looks quite a bit different so he won't really know what it is - ask friends/family to let you borrow one for a trial) would let you photograph him a few times so he'll stop crying when he sees a camera.

I have tried flash, no flash, and every other camera imaginable -- no luck. All anyone has to do is hold up a black/dark object up to their face and he starts to freak. The only thing so far that seems to be somewhat okay is our camcorder. He does stress out over that as much. But it's gray, not black. Go figure. Guess I'll have to paint our camera a different color!

[pstewart]

So many nice sketches! And Jean, those two manipulations are really fun! LOL!

Since all the good sketches have been done, I went with a painting using AH brush to start, added an outline faded to 10% overlay to define the edges more, then a pattern layer...forget which pattern, one of the watercolor paper ones I think.

Phyllis

[bubba]

Jennifer - I just did all of my lightening routines, etc. then, in PS, I took a snapshot, ran unsharp mask with the following(500%, 1.0 - 1.5, 0), did another snapshot. then I checked box on the unsharp snapshot, selected the regular snapshot with the artist history brush set at about 40-75%, and repainted the eyes and mouth.

Good subject - at least no one has put him inside the pumpkin yet!

bubba

[tyeise]

This was such a wonderful image to play with! Thank you!

Here's my colored sketch.

Tyeise

[ArtistColumbus]

Thanks Tyeise. I'm glad you had fun. It's been fun for me watching everyone play with Cameron's picture.

Bubba, is this what you were afraid of???

[ArtistColumbus]

I love it Chuck! The oval mat really works on this. I may have to re-mat the actual photo with an oval version. Thanks!

[Opal]

Thanks for the fun and beautiful photograph to work with, Jennifer....what a little charmer he is....but you already know that, don't you.

I did my version in PSP 8

1* duplicated layer

2* Gaussian blurred by 8 on this new layer

3* Lowered the Opacity to 74 and changed the blend to 'darken'

4* merged layers

5* Applied Dream Suite 1's deckle filter

6* New Raster layer and flood filled with gradient

7* Applied Paint Engine filter

8* Merged layers again and added a border of 30

9* Magic wand to select border and then applied Texturizer filter

10* Added a cut out to it


I have loved all the awesome renditions that have come in...for the effects they give and for the great info that goes with them...thanks for sharing.

Cheers.
Opal

[Opal]

I couldn't go to bed without doing another one of this little cutie.

This time I did a pencil sketch effect and again, I did it in PSP 8



1* promoted background to raster layer

2* added a new layer and flood filled with a greyscale rain effect pattern.

3* Changed the blend to 'overlay'

4* merged layers

5* sharpened this layer and yet again.


6* Added a mask and then a pencil that I had made a while ago.

7* then added a new layer and moved to bottom of palette..flood filled this by picking out a colour from the photo and adding a texture to it.

8* Merged layers again and added a border of 30

9* Magic wand to select border and then applied mosaic antique filter

10* Added a cut out to it


Off to bed now otherwise I will be meeting myself getting up.

Cheers.
Opal