Creative interpretations: Boat on a Lake at Sunset

[DannyRaphael]

A very relaxing scene... Photo by Robert.

Enjoy.

~Danny~

[Duv]

Wonderful serene picture. Played with a ton of different things but decided to stick with a simple Pop Artist action by MF. One of my faves. Thanks for this one Danny!

Cheers
Duv

[roger_ele]

Very pretty photo.

Reflected water in sky, merge into new layer added a little canvas texture, then merged into new layer, destaturated and used blend-if sliders to bring back color into the light and dark areas more than the midtones.

Roger

[DannyRaphael]

Roger: Comparing your subtle changes to the original = pretty amazing the improvements you made. ~Danny~

[DannyRaphael]

Duv:

pOpArTiSt is one of Mike's more amazing actions, available with many other free actions here: http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~mikefinn/action.html

Glad you liked the pic; your interpretation is a creative combination of bold and uncluttered.

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My Impressionist experiments continue. See attachment for Layers Palette snapshot.

I modified one of my favorite brushes (Charcoal: Default) as follows. Brush size = 350%, pressure = 110%. This rendered big wide strokes vs. the little dinky ones you get by default. The Impressionist: Paint - Flour. Palette Knife layer used this variant, but I made the brush a little smaller to render a little more texture.

~Danny~

[okplayer]

alright - I really don't remember what I did.... but:
I copied the background layer twice, set the middle one to multiply, then the top one to pin light, and varied the opacities a bit.

after that, I applied the dry brush filter, then the rough pastels filter and faded that.
i masked out the boat so that the original came through, then i copied the original layer again, and changed the blend mode to screen to lighten the boat a bit more. ohh wait... I ate a pizza in there somewhere, and that was a vital step.

For the border, I just made a bottom black layer, and then masked out a border around the boat, applied angled strokes, blurred it, then applied spatter.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by okplayer

alright - I really don't remember what I did.... but [snip] I ate a pizza in there somewhere, and that was a vital step.

So that's the secret of creativity! (LOL) With or without Pepto?

Well, you get a solid A+ for experimenting and having some fun while doing it, Greg. Glad you jumped in with an inspiring interpretation.

~Danny~

[okplayer]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

So that's the secret of creativity! (LOL) With or without Pepto?

Well, you get a solid A+ for experimenting and having some fun while doing it, Greg. Glad you jumped in with an inspiring interpretation.

~Danny~

i really think it was the pizza that helped pull off the picture you need to crush some rainbow peppercorn on it, that gives it the umph

[Duv]

What the heck was in that pizza? Nice job Greg. Specially like the idea of masking out the boat and lightening it.

Cheers
Duv

[jch71566]

No pizza in this one, just a couple of pints of Guiness in honor of Saint Patty.

Also included:
* Redfield Lattice Composer
* Redfiled Water Ripples
* Rosenman Diffuse
* MS Impressionist

Enjoy!
Jeff

[Cheryl H]

Nice submissions everyone.

Danny--really liked the impressionist work.

This is a mix of lucis art, virtual painter oil, and a little nik midnight.

[Trimoon]

My crayola look

Larger Image Here

[ahutton]

I gave the pic some rain with PMartgallery graphic pen, then converted the pic to greyscale. Then merged it with the original. Then added Flaming Pear Melancholytron

AmyHutton

[LQQKER]

Used mainly Buzz, xero filters and multiple masks, painting in and out.

[Duv]

Beautiful rendition! Great detail too! I don't have Buzz. Anything else that might give me similar effect?

Cheers
Duv

[jaykita]

I used the "Distort-Polar co-ordinates-rectangle to polar" filter in ps7, for the first time here. 3 layers, one of only the boat. Changed the position of the boat with cut-paste. A bit of brush work to straighten, and do a clean up.
Continuing to happily unearth the wealth available in this software program.