Creative interpretations: Portrait - Stephanie sipping vino

[DannyRaphael]

Maybe it's grapejuice?

Nice picture nonetheless. Photo by Greg.

~Danny~

[Mike Finn]

Some "Replace Color" and a little smudging away of some lines.

Mike Finn

[kiska]

Used an action called Feivels gothic glow, sepia,history brush. kiska

[Duv]

Ran Amphisoft Simplifier followed by Flaming Pear Mr Contrast. Added a small amount of Xero Moodlight. Played with the settings in Xero Illustrator then ran a 50% blur on the skin.

Cheers
Duv

[Cheryl H]

Great variety in the submissions so far.

Kiska--I love what gothic glow did to her eyes.

I went all over the place with this one. On the first image, I started with buzz followed by lucis art. Duped this layer and ran VP air brush followed by xero's porcelain. Reduce the opacity to 65% and blended in luminosity mode. Merged the layers together. Ran impressionist followed by paint engine on the result. Faded paint engine to 65 soft light and blend mode of soft light. I know I went back to lucis after that, but ran out of room on my scrap of paper where I was taking notes and can't read my handwriting. I finished by masking her eyes back in.

On the second I was playing with composites again. I put a street scene on her dress and the golden gate bridge in her glass. Merged together and played around with VP Oil and Lucis art. Then topped with some pattern fill layers in soft light to add texture.

[kiska]

Cheryl
The gothic glow didn't do the eyes. Went back in and painted a pale blue on whites, color mode I think. For the iris I used her skin tone from 'glow' copy before I did the sepia to original, then went in and painted eyes. Does that make sense???

[Cheryl H]

Originally Posted by kiska

Cheryl
The gothic glow didn't do the eyes. Went back in and painted a pale blue on whites, color mode I think. For the iris I used her skin tone from 'glow' copy before I did the sepia to original, then went in and painted eyes. Does that make sense???

Yes--it makes sense. The eyes are even better now I know how much work it took to make them.

[kiska]

You're very kind. I especially like your composite version. Are those plug-ins you're using or what? kiska

[Cheryl H]

Originally Posted by kiska

Are those plug-ins you're using or what? kiska

This page has links to the (free) xero filters, (free) fantastic machine's paint engine, and flaming pears website (some free, some not)http://punkinstuff.tripod.com/

lucis can be found here http://www.lucisart.com/

virtual painter is here http://www.vpainter.com/default.asp

buzz is here http://www.skydancers.com/_fo2pix/fo2pix.html

Talk to Danny about impressionist.

A lot of the effect in the composite pic comes from putting different pattern fill layers in either soft light or overlay blending mode at reduce opacity (65%) over the top of the image.

[kiska]

Thanks! I'll go for ANYTHING that's free. kiska

[DannyRaphael]

I agree, Cheryl. Definitely some nice interpretations so far.

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kiska: The Impressionist plugin is part of a program called Image Composer that was distributed with Microsoft Front Page 98, which is no longer being sold commercially. If you're an eBay shopper, FP98 comes up for auction pretty often.

If you're not into eBay and you're interested in acquiring this plugin, contact me through e-mail or private mail (click my name above the post).

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I was trying for a sketchy look that didn't look too much like anything I've seen before.

Speaking of Impressionist, I used the varients Pencil Sketch: Detailed Monochrome and Conte: Smudged Monochrome, plus Virtual Painter Collage (only the black strokes), Find Edges, Smart Blur/Normal + Smart Blur Edges Only and the usual layer masks and blend modes to select areas of each effect to include in the final result.

If anyone wants to see all the gory details (there are many), send me e-mail. I never know if anybody really finds the blow-by-blow descriptions I do occasionally useful and I'm too tired right now to describe a 17 layer stack.

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Keep having fun. Glad to such a variety of interpretations.
~Danny~

[Duv]

Danny. Pleeeze bore me with the details!

Cheers
Duv

[LQQKER]

This photo gives a whole new meaning to sipping wine. A nice picture to try some different techniques.

Did a levels adjustment.
Eliminated noise in order to apply an even texture.
Not sure, but I think I applied ink outlines to the BG. Darkened with Nik midnight.
Used india ink for the texture and painted a light emboss to certain areas.
Added some form where needed on her dress.
Applied a lens flare to wine glass.
Added a highlight to her lips.
Applied lacquer to portions of her face and dress.
Made a color adjustment.

[ahutton]

I did two versions. The first is xero lineart on sketch with lines all the way up, merged with a buzzed copy of original.

Second is Fauvist from the new VP

Amy Hutton

[doosume]

Quick and dirty - Adjusted threshold, cut out image and started playing around. Simple!

[suchyy]

I prefer simple effects :>

[DannyRaphael]

suchyy:

Nothing wrong with simple. Nobody says this has to be complicated.

Welcome to the forum. Hope to see more of your works in the future.

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doosume:

Bold simplicity. Very creative.

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LQQKER:

Always glad to see your interpretations, L. Another unique interpretation. Nice to see variety.

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Amy:

Appreciate you posting something rendered with one of the new Virtual Painter 4 filters for others to see.

I like this filter on some images, but generally keep the settings more modest to minimize the distortion. Just a preference.

[Andrew B.]

This is a basic method I've used on quite a few pics. I don't remember the exact settings, but the idea is to simplify color and form, then increase contrast and edges. With this image, I ran Neat Image twice to get rid of all noise. Then I overcranked with Image Doctor Jpeg Repair. Then ran Focal Blade sharpener at very high levels. Then did touch up with blur and sharpen tools. Also some cloning.

[DannyRaphael]

Hey, Andrew... Long time, no see. Glad to see your post.

Very interesting interpretation with the zoom, super smoothe and crop. Well done, sir.

Is it just me, or is there no thumbnail for Andrew's attachment? Doug is doing some forum software tweaking, so no thumbnail may be due to his handiwork.

~Danny~

[Peter S]

Two attempts from me

Peter

[lkroll]

What a beautiful subject. Thought an illustrative like rendering was in order.

[pavel123]

Sketch in PS/sumi-e in Painter.

[CJ Swartz]

Is she flirting or serious? Great image to work -- I decided that first the guy would imagine the "dream" version, and then she would take action...

[alexmeta]

A little bit AHB

[Kraellin]

peter, i like that first one. good tones and interesting shadow work.

lk, i like that one too. nice detail work and good colors and shadows.

pavel, nice.

cj, on the first, it seems a bit washed out on my monitor, like one or two steps too much on the highlights and on the second, i like where you were headed with the color additions, but the lighting seems inconsistent and she's faded into the background too much.

alex, i like what you've been doing with the ahb, but on this one there is a distracting artifacting or something, like the canvas texture didnt quite make the save for web transition correctly. other than that, very nice.

[palms]

Peter i too like the first one better but both good posts

Ikroll think you are onto a winner with this technique

Pavel great work again

C.J. i prefer the dark mysterious one

Alex Super ahb work again I agree with Craig the texture hasnt done any favours can you post again with out the texture ?

And here is two from me one using one of Danny's actions i found recently and a ahb version

Great work everyone

Palms

[alexmeta]

Craig, PalmsThank you.
The distracting artifacting you talking about hide the imperfection of this work.
It was napkin on the background

[pavel123]

Craig, Palms, thank you.
Palms, fantastic work. I find it difficult to choose between two images, love both. What was that action you mentioned?

Pavel

[dkcoats]

Interesting photo.

A Twisted Brush learning experience here, with tweaking in PS.

dc

[palms]

Originally Posted by pavel123

Craig, Palms, thank you.
Palms, fantastic work. I find it difficult to choose between two images, love both. What was that action you mentioned?

Pavel

Phew after searching around for a bit i have found the thread ( why did i think it involved flowers !)

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...html#post55910

post #23 and#24

I ran the action on a duplicate layer merged all except the background, changed the blendmode to luminosity and tweaked the colours etc

Palms