Creative Interpretations: Ghost Town

[ahutton]

Found this neat pic on Print Master, of all places.

AmyHutton

[kiska]

Here are two versions. Wagon-desat,ink outline,displacement map at multi,copy displace. at screen, copy displace. at dissolve, agate gradient at multi. Wagon 1- desat, curves, posterize, watercolor action, posterize at overlay, select color layer, copy this lay and set at soft light. kiska
Images won't go. I'll try later

[Cheryl H]

Great photo, but more challenging than I thought it would be.

Kiska--the first one has a great haunted feel to it. The second one puts me in mind of summer heat in the desert.

On the first one I tried to follow my notes on the neon diner--I must have missed writing it all down. Started with lucis art, went to nik midnight, then flaming pear's lacquer and ended with glowing edges.

On the second, I started with flaming pear's Mr. Contrast, then paint engine, and then a little nik midnight.

Hmm--doesn't seem to want the attachments. I'll try and add them later.

[kiska]

Cheryl, I've been having a hard time posting images too. Save for web says they're under 100kb, but when I try to upload, I'm told they're way over. Frustrating. You saw the images the way I intended. One spooky, one hot. Thanks. kiska

[LQQKER]

Filters used were Nik skylight, Sunshine and Contrast, Buzz, lacquer and adapt.eq.
Made several Hue & Sat adjustments as an adj layer.
Used layer styles for edges.

[Cheryl H]

LQQKER--Beautiful. It's always a pleasure to see your work.

[Xaran]

Some interesting ideas coming out here.

My effort:
Xero Line Art
Xero Moonlight
Xero Line Art again
VP Oil Paint
My own texture.

Christine

[ahutton]

I started with two copies of the image. One I used VP's new embroidery filter on, the other I used Xero lithograph. Merged the two on average and then sepia toned it and played with the contrast and saturation.

AmyHutton

[DannyRaphael]

Nice pic to work with, Amy. Share others of yours in the future, would ya?

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Per Cheryl's suggestion I tried the Buzz Ink stack and applied VP Oil Painting to it. Then I stopped keepng track, tweaking and piddling until it was time for lunch -- a natural stopping point.

This is sure fun!

[Legacy~Art]

I am bumping this up for our budding ATMOSPHERE members, see what you can come up with this picture!

[Neve]

Hadn't spotted this before, thanks! Gave me another chance with Painter's Fine Round Gouache. Great for pencil sketches. Finished off in PSP. Took 1-1/2 hours.

[CJ Swartz]

Neve -- like it a lot -- keeps the old-time look to it.

[Neve]

Hi CJ - much appreciated. I did try to sepia it afterwards as that's appropriate too however it didn't work well on this oddly enough after working in Painter. If I'd done sepia prior to Painter on the original, that would've worked alright I believe.

[Con Looymans]

Hi Amy,

Here's my attempt at a real "Ghost Town":

Hope you like it

Regards

Con

[Legacy~Art]

Your on a roll i see...Nicely done!

Neve superb pencil drawing!!!

[Swampy]

This was a good picture, but I wanted to grunge it up and recreate the time line. Completely the opposite of what we usually try to do. It is harder than you think. We all have techniques and actions to remove cracks, but how do you create one?

PhotoShop CS

Working on a duplicate of the original, I desaturated and then did a HSB LA for the sepia tone. I added grunge effects with Eye Candy's HSB noise filter, fractleized a streak for a crack and added a slight bevel/emboss to that. With a 50% Color layer and painting on it I added some more spotches and mottles, and blowouts. Added a yellow orange gradient color fill layer at about 30% opacity. All layers at Normal blend mode. After flatening the layers, I attempted to tear off the corner.

swampy

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by swampy@mac.com

This was a good picture, but I wanted to grunge it up and recreate the time line. Completely the opposite of what we usually try to do. It is harder than you think. We all have techniques and actions to remove cracks, but how do you create one?

PhotoShop CS

Working on a duplicate of the original, I desaturated and then did a HSB LA for the sepia tone. I added grunge effects with Eye Candy's HSB noise filter, fractleized a streak for a crack and added a slight bevel/emboss to that. With a 50% Color layer and painting on it I added some more spotches and mottles, and blowouts. Added a yellow orange gradient color fill layer at about 30% opacity. All layers at Normal blend mode. After flatening the layers, I attempted to tear off the corner.

swampy

swampy:

The irony of your creativity is that this would be an ideal candidate for "the other side of the house," those interested in photo restoration!

You do "aging" well!

~Danny~

[Swampy]

LOL, Danny!!

For a 64 year old granny, I'll take that as a compliment! <grin>

[CJ Swartz]

Swampy -- very realistic look -- we had a Challenge a few years ago to make a new photo look like one that needed restoration -- it was hard (but fun!) to try to make it look aged. Looks like you have had practice.


I wasn't sure which way I was going to go when I started, but ended up making it brighter. Did the Sharpen->Aniso to create some texture, then applied some color layers, layer masks, and curves adjustment. Also replaced the sky.

[Swampy]

C.J.

Yours has almost a Van Gogh feel. With all that is going on in the rest of the picture, the sky is "just there" and seems out of context. Other than that, it's kewl! The effect is really good on the wagon.

[CJ Swartz]

Originally Posted by Swampy

C.J.

... With all that is going on in the rest of the picture, the sky is "just there" and seems out of context....

Swampy -- you're probably right about the sky. I didn't like the original one, but the replacement is too bland/soft to fit with the image. Skies are ONE of those things that I have to "work on".

Okay, I found a sky that I liked and I worked it a bit -- does this help complete the image, or compete with, or just not fit?

[Swampy]

YES!! C.J. It really does lend itself to the overall look of the piece. I've seen skys with those colors in the desert.

[Neve]

Another beauty CJ in your own "style"

[Duv]

A leetle bit of Xero LineArt. A leetle bit of Painter: Blender and Cloner. A leetle bit of Impressionist.

Cheers
Dave

[Neve]

Unique Duv, the colours are wonderful. That little bit of impressionist adds a nice touch overall.

[Legacy~Art]

You all need trophies you got some very lovely and atmospheric pictures going on here!

[JustChecking]

at first i just wanted to enhance the sky and do something, but then i went straight for b&w... ahem, b&sepia

[raniday]

Swampy, your aged photo is so realistic, my first thought was omigosh, this would be a tough restoration!
CJ, your second effort was worth the wait. Very powerful piece.
Dave,a "leetle" bit of this and that, and you've got a painting.
JC, great sepia.
I've been trying for a Polaroid emulsion transfer effect. Here's my latest attempt.
http://www.pbase.com/image/39880796

[JustChecking]

Originally Posted by raniday

I've been trying for a Polaroid emulsion transfer effect. Here's my latest attempt.

wow! just wow... the full-size version is mighty impressive

[philbach]

CJ I really liked your rendering. The brilliant colors and the lines were appealing to me. In the background of your work between the buildings the background is horizontal and almost like a straight line. Making it more irregular may have improved it some.

My submission is more somber. A low Key sepia. Formed by using the channel Mixer adjustment layer, The HSB adjustment Layer, and on top of that a 50% gray layer in overlay blend mode. To the gray I added noise.