Creative interpretations: Rocky Morning

[Swampy]

Ah.. retirement, rocking chair, Social Security, deep south. I could relate to this photo.

PhotoShop CS

Did a sketch type action on the entire photo and set the blend mode to overlay. Ran a Lighting effects with texture on the blue and red channels and added bark texture to both of them (also set these layers to Overlay blend mode) I then added a mask to both lighting layers and painted the effects in on the trees, and background except in the misty area and the rocking chair and foreground walk way. I added a Levels AL to darken the misty fog area and painted this in on all the fog areas except the top and right side of the roof and sky above it, the building in the far background's highlights and the stronger sunlight under the roof of the porch. I also darkend up the boardwalk from the house up to the underside and left of the chair. I felt that by darkening the fog area the chair would pop.

A fun project!

[Swampy]

Axle

I appreciate the amount of time your submission must have taken, the water reflections and cloning out the chair then replacing the walk is tedious work. Absolutly beautiful work. I'm new to RP, but already feel you are a pixel pushing MASTER! :-)

[Neve]

Oh yes....great result Swampy

[CJ Swartz]

Such a wonderful image, and so many excellent renditions! Swampy -- your's is another beauty added to the list!

I worked a bit with Luminesence layers from different channels, but the main ingredient was a tritone created from a sketch layer -- added color layers back on and layer masks to try to control the lighting...

[Swampy]

C.J.

I love the choices of color. Very effective. I love luminosity as a selection tool. Good job.

[Neve]

Excellent CJ - the lighting is marvellous as are the colours!

I changed to sepia, darkened some areas, added more mist.
Impressionist gouache ?
Some USM, canvas texture.

[jaykita]

Good job everyone. A warm welcome to Swampy.
Here's my contribution, rather carelessly done, i'm afraid.

[Swampy]

Neve, nice job, I like the textures. As with others, I wish I had thought to crop the picture.

Jaykita, thank you for the welcome! Pretty colors and I like the addition of flower beds. Good job on the dog's shadow too!

[Neve]

Woof woof Jaykita! That's terrific, rich and colourful.

[Peter S]

What happened to the hound dog that was supposed to be lying there?

Peter

[GerryB]

Here's my attempt.

[Sweetlight]

I love old rockers, especially when they rock and nobody is in them.......

[palms1]

This photo is absolutely gorgeous and has a Thomas Kincaid feel to it
but went along with the flow and messed with colour the second one is virtual photographers "spooky " setting changed the atmosphere quite a bit i think

Palms

[Steve Conway]

That is one gorgeous photo!

I added only a little Lucis Art, but was reluctant to do even that.

Steve C.