Creative interpretations: Golden Gate Bridge

[DannyRaphael]

This is one of the great bridges of the world, connecting the city of San Francisco, California with Marin County.

The painting on this bridge never ends. At any given point in time,some section of it is being (re)painted.

~Danny~

[Duv]

One of these years I've got to try an make it to S.F. I hear it's a beautiful city.

Selected sky and inverted
Ran L'Amico Perry: Luce. Used settings that introduced a yellow sky and the unusual vertical banding.
BuzzPro: Soft Lunar Wash then faded.

Cheers
Dave

[Cheryl H]

Great interpretation Duv. I'm not familiar with this L'Amico Perry: Luce. Can you elaborate a little please? Soft Lunar wash sounds like you have the new version of Buzz pro. How do you like it? If you had the old one, is it worth the upgrade?

The color comes from some impressionist layers blended together. I topped it with a Buzz (old version) sketch stack run through distort glass.

[Duv]

Hi Cheryl

You can get the Luce plugin at pluginsworld.com. I misnamed BuzzPro. Should have been Soft "Colour" Wash. I was also playing with FPs Lunar Cell and tend to get things mixed up. In Luce, I changed the light type to Directional; Algorithm to Light From and reduced the Intensity setting.

Anyhow, I love the soft romantic feel of your rendition!

Cheers
Dave

[Cheryl H]

Thanks Duv. That pluginsworld.com could have been a dangerous place to visit if I was in shopping mode. I found Luce easily.

[DannyRaphael]

Cheryl: You're 2-for-2 on the questions. I was going to ask both myself.

Dave: Very, very cool effect. And I highly recommend a SF visit one of these days. It's quite a city.

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On mine I duplicated the background numerous times...Layer stack (top to bottom)

* Hue/Sat (adjust saturation)
* BG copy (color)
* Merge all below + Virtual Painter Gouache. Layer mask added. Used chalk brush and airbrushed black to restore some texture from layers below.
* BG copy + Smart Blur (Edge Only), inverted [Darken] and selectively applied with layer mask to fill in edge area left out by Find Edges.
* BG copy + Find Edges + Desaturate + Image > Adjustments > Levels to give lines some character. [Darken]
* BG copy + Impressionist Crayon-Short Choppy Strokes + Charcoal-Default + Watercolor-Translucent Wash. Break up all-blue sky and give colors some texture.
* Background (not visible)

[Cheryl H]

Danny--that came out great. Good balance between strong colors and strong lines.

[Duv]

I agree Cheryl. Very nice rendition Danny! I had another go finishing with MF watercolor. Lost a lot of detail but what the heck.

Selected sky: inverse: adjustments: invert
FP: Mr Contrast
Xero: Abstractor
Eyecandy: Corona
MF: Watercolor

Cheers
Dave

[Patricia]

One of my favorite places; after living in the Bay Area for 25 years before moving south, I've spent a lot of time looking at the GG Bridge.

Once again, I used Cheryl H.'s technique of using the history brush on a sketch (see the earlier train thread for details). This one came out very differently!

Love to see all the versions everyone comes up with, thanks for sharing. Hope you like mine,

Patricia

[kiska]

Hello, I tried out Painter 8 on the bridge. Oil brush. Sloppy, but hey. Bg filters, apply image, feivel's glow. And some other stuff I don't recall.

kiska

[Cheryl H]

Patricia--another winner. I think that technique works better for you than it does for me.

Kiska--painter 8 kicks my butt. I'm going to have to site down and try harder when vacation starts.

[kiska]

Cheryl- I've just had one lesson in basic Painter from Eclectic (via Danny). This could be difficult. Step up and maybe we can muddle thru a little bit.

kiska

[Kraellin]

going through some old threads here tonight. thought i'd do this one up a bit. simple colored pencil. these are easy to do in Paint Shop Pro. make a duplicate of your background, then use the 'find all edges' tool in the effects menu on this layer. set this layer to a new layer group and add a contrast/brightness adjustment layer to the group over the black and white sketch. set that to taste, darkening the lines of the b&w. set the layer to luminance, et voila'!

[gholmes1936]

Originally Posted by Duv

One of these years I've got to try an make it to S.F. I hear it's a beautiful city.

Selected sky and inverted
Ran L'Amico Perry: Luce. Used settings that introduced a yellow sky and the unusual vertical banding.
BuzzPro: Soft Lunar Wash then faded.

Cheers
Dave

Dave,

I just love this rendition. Over the top it is! Thanks for sharing it.

By the way I am going to S.F. on the 13th for 5 days. It'll be my 4th or 5th time there. It's a great city, I think.

Over and out,
Gunner Holmes

[gholmes1936]

Originally Posted by Duv

I agree Cheryl. Very nice rendition Danny! I had another go finishing with MF watercolor. Lost a lot of detail but what the heck.

Selected sky: inverse: adjustments: invert
FP: Mr Contrast
Xero: Abstractor
Eyecandy: Corona
MF: Watercolor

Cheers
Dave

Okay Dave,
I bite what is FP, Xero, and MF? Please enlighten me.

[Alcar]

Some very interesting interpretations for this fine image.
Alan

[alexmeta]

Gertrudis version

[Ziaphra]

Tried a sketch with this one too...

[Kraellin]

looking good, folks. glad i resurrected this one

[gholmes1936]

Well, I finally managed to come up with something for this great landmark. I did a lot of plain enhancement. Then I used Tonemapping a might. After which I copied it, made a new document and after pasting it in twice I inverted one of them. After that it was a matter of using the regular filter in CS2. Topped off with the "Rainy Day" action by Panos.

[DannyRaphael]

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...ird-error.html

Worthy of its own thread.

[Kraellin]

nice one, gunner

[secretagents]

Very "classic" I guess. Quite a bit of filters and some Lab color boosting.