Photo's To Play With

[KenB]

My wife posted quite a few photo's I took today here...

http://community.webshots.com/album/90225866IpJcsR

Feel free to play with any of them you'd like


Ken

[Cheryl H]

Ken--That's very nice of you to let us take our pick. There were some lovely choices.

This one takes 4 dups of the background. The first 3 are custom impressionist presets. Working from the bottom up.

1. CherylH thick paint 1 no texture
2. cherylH thick paint 2 no texture (soft light 65%)
3. Cheryl H fossil no texture (screen 73%)
4. Find Edges (overlay 50%)
5. Top with a pattern fill layer in soft light at 50%

[gina]

thanks Ken for the lovely pics.
Cheryl you certainly took one of the nicest pics and your rendition works magic on it!.

I chose one of the plumes photo's as I like the fluffy things a lot.

firstly 3 layers
1 : bg: normal
2 : dupe bg, light simplifier buzz simpl 2 : large 30/ darken
3 : dupe bg, impressionist one of the custom pencil filters with small brush: soft light

flatten

dupe this layer and run impressionist with one of the chalk presets/ small brush/overlay 67 %
flatten

make a frame with selecting a border ; filter ripple; zigzag and boss emboss.
render lighting efffects

gina

[palms]

well guys found another old post with plenty of flower photo's, If you are still out there KenB thank you ( and Mrs KenB)

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Nice photos. Here's one.

Steve

[Steve Conway]

Another from the flower selection.

Steve

[Steve Conway]

Ok...Ok...last one.

Steve

[palms]

Very nice Steve like the texture on them, oh go on i bet you could do a few more soon ! !

Palms

[Steve Conway]

No! No! I must now relax and gain new energy for whatever artistic challenge lies ahead.

But thanks anyway.

Steve

Originally Posted by palms1

Very nice Steve like the texture on them, oh go on i bet you could do a few more soon ! !

Palms

[Kraellin]

here's a very simple technique i've used a few times and always enjoy the effect of:

dupe original layer.
gausian blur duped layer (anywhere from 10 to 20. this one i used 10).
set duped, blurred layer's blend mode to 'darken'.
add brightness/contrast adjustment layer and brighten and contrast to taste.
done. simple, but with with some pop

compression was 30% so this is going to lose some.

craig

[palms]

Very nice Craig gives a warm glow

Palms

[lkroll]

Because I'm lazy. Thanks barbara again for motivating me making be even more lazy (yes vector ported straight into GIMP).

Here's the high quality original. Attached is a cropped lower quality version.

[Kraellin]

thanks palms that glowy effect is fun.

craig