Creative interpretations: Lighthouse in Nantucket

[DannyRaphael]

This photo, taken by Eric, was taken on the U.S. Atlantic coast. Looks like summer is coming.

~Danny~

[kiska]

Gotten a little wild.

kiska

[Duv]

Kiska. That's really cool. Looks to me a bit like cross processing in a conventional darkroom.

I started off selecting clouds and footprints and Stylized Wind twice. Added some whitecaps with Impressionist.
Ran an overall Impressionist: Charcoal: Stamped tonal: 35/100/100
FP Meloncholytron: Wide/Multiply
KPT Equalizer
Impressionist: Sumie:Fine Ghost Brush: 25/52/100
Xero: Tweaker: -83/74/89

With all the filters I lost most of the wind effect. Oh well!

Cheers
Dave

[kiska]

Thanks, Dave. I really like yours, especially the boardwalk and beach area.
On mine I just used the red and green channel, to get that funky color.

kiska

[ahutton]

Here's my attempt: Started out with a xero lithograph, followed by buzz simplifier. Then I made two copies, one of which I did with PSP8 impasto. Then I did a lot of merging and something else I can't remember.

AmyHutton

[Duv]

That's really tasty Amy. I especially like the way the clouds are defined. The image almost has a cartoony effect to me.

Cheers
Dave

[Cheryl H]

Nice entries everyone.

Dave--I especially like the painted effect in yours.

Xoas tools paint alchemy on 1 layer and VP oil on another. Blended together, topped with a patten fill layer and adjusted brightness and contrast.

[DannyRaphael]

I've had Paint Alchemy for a couple years and could never get into it. With all those settings that seem unrelated, I gave up. Maybe I just wasn't ready for such a feature rich toy. Could be time to dust it off again.

Anyway on this one I was going for a pencil sketch look. I took a pile of background copies to which a plethora of effects were applied. The final image was 36 layers and I lost track of decent details at about layer eight! So beware: The fillowing is NOT a step-by-step recipe... just a high level summary of the major effects applied:
* Mike Finn's InstaSketch Beta action (available here:
http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~mikefinn/action.html)
* Impressionist: Pencil Sketch - Detailed Monochrome
* Impressionist: Pencil Sketch - Detailed Monochrome applied to an inverted copy of the Background
* Impressionist: Ink - Spyderweb Crosshatch
* Photoshop: Angled Strokes (applied to a grayscale copy of BG)
* Photoshop: Smart Blur/Edge Only (inverted), blend mode=Darken
* Photoshop Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer
* Virtual Painter - Oil Paint

By the time I got tired of messing with it I could see I had overcooked a few areas detail-wise, but I learned a few things, making the journey worthwhile.

~Danny~