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| | Photo-Based Art Emulating natural-media painting techniques | 
06-15-2003, 01:46 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: California
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| | | Scenic shot Another one from Three Rivers, CA. I've had lots of fun playing with this one and wanted to share and see what others come up with. | 
06-15-2003, 02:33 PM
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| | | Cheryl -- thanks for letting us work on your image -- nice shot with different elements to play with -- foliage, water, sky, rocks...
Just adjusted the color ranges and added a bit of Cutout over an adjusted layer. | 
06-16-2003, 09:09 AM
| | Member | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: On the road in our motorhome.
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| | | Mauler...
You may have answered this before, but what filters are you using and what brushes? Is this in Photoshop or another program?
I think the first one is the nicest, for what it's worth.
E.B. | 
08-10-2003, 10:43 PM
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| | | Cheryl
I just had fun, I used the reflected part and then added the sun and birds - painted/liquified/adjusted until I liked it. It is hard to describe the steps when it is more of a painting thought process. Anyway, I just wanted to see how different I could make it look using the reflection.
Roger | 
08-11-2003, 08:45 PM
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| | | Here's my addition to this. I love water in nature, it's just beautiful to me, especially small streams or rivers. I don't really remember what I did to this image beacause there were a lot of control alt z's and merge's and going back and forth in the history, but first i played with the color balance a little, then i believe i used the paint daub, palette knife, rough pastel, and cross hatch filters in some order with various blend modes and opacities. Sorry, that's about as specific as I could get. For the edge I thought it'd go with a darker border, so I found a dark reddish brown, and for the edge i did a lasso>feather, then used the displacement filter with one of adobe's textures. Hope you enjoy.
Last edited by okplayer : 08-11-2003 at 09:07 PM.
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08-11-2003, 09:16 PM
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| | | ok
Let me be the first to say - That is Cool
I love the fact that you have the different colors cleanly different and there placement works as part of the composition. | 
08-11-2003, 09:59 PM
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| | Roger--the birds were a nice touch. You had me going back to the original to figure out why I hadn't noticed them  The rays of the rising/setting sun give it a nice feeling.
okplayer--I like the painted effect you gave it. The subdued tones are very attractive. I like the subtle texture in the image--particulary the bushes on the left side. | 
08-12-2003, 04:02 AM
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| | | How about a colour pencil & wash style? | 
08-14-2006, 10:59 AM
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| | Hi Cheryl! I think your picture was gr8 to begin with! Sometimes over-doing it and adding silly filters can ruin a shot.
All I did was add some saturation, added a few highlights and played with the levels and VOILA! http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...pa206817wb.jpg | 
08-14-2006, 01:43 PM
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| | Welcome Duchess i agree great shot I dont think i improve a image with silly filters but change it and have fun in the process
Palms | 
08-14-2006, 02:31 PM
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| | | I like silly filters. Thanks for the fantastic capture (and your marvelous Impressionist presets, though I didn't use Impressionist this time) Cheryl.
High quality version here hosted by ImageShack.  | 
08-14-2006, 02:49 PM
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| | | Hard to beat trees, rocks, and water for a placid scene.
Steve | 
08-14-2006, 05:57 PM
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| | | Tried to ruin great image in Photoshop SC2 (Combination of sharpening, blur & accented edges).
Pavel | 
08-14-2006, 06:57 PM
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| |  Great photo and results from everyone, a pleasure to view thank you.
This is a mixture of Lucis Art/Impressionist/Paint Alchemy plugins. What a mix  | 
08-14-2006, 08:27 PM
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| | | Just some posterization and texture. HSB AJ to shift the colors toward spring greens. |
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