Creative interpretations: Loneliness

[Fluffbutt]

Found this on Morguefile - I empathise, this to me is the reality of life...

Anyway, lets see your interpretations; Mine is the reversed picture, cropped (1st pic).

I made a rough greyscale mask set (4) of background, backmiddle, foremiddle, foreground), then ran Impressionist on #1, #3, #4 with PE on #2. Then blended the four layers together.

Tips:

Try with masks from RGB channels, or LAB channels (VERY good!).

One thing I really like about Imp. is that it will work happily on single channel images (mask layers, for eg!!!!) - PE can't - so, try setting a lightness mask, then run Imp. on the mask itself, then use that mask to isolate the picture for a different Imp. setting. Weirdly brilliant results.

[DannyRaphael]

Great pic, Fluff. Thx for posting a fun one to work with.

The flip and crop make all the difference in the world.

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I used a method very similiar to the one I used on the Space Needle pic (click HERE).

As much as I wanted to crop it, I couldn't bring myself to do it. There were such pretty colors everywhere I wanted to crop!

~Danny~

[ahutton]

I went for solitude and isolation. Started with two images (I like to do that because it is easier than with layers to make each of the singular effects you want perfect before merging them.)

Image 1: VP Watercolor on NISNI (normal...intense...) with Canvas texture... Softened slightly
Image 2: Impressionist Paint SMudges, brush size at 50

Merge on Average, not Darken. Play around with contrast and saturation a bit.

AmyHutton@aol.com

[Duv]

Nice renditions everyone! It's a great pic to work with..lots of atmosphere.

I isolated the figure and ran a radial gradient to darken the edges. Saturated the sky with Sponge, then ran Impressionist: Ink:Soft Opaque: Image: 25/98/116.

Cheers
Dave

[Cheryl H]

Fluff--this was a great photo to work with. I think the wonderful submissions illustrate that very well.

I tried my usual cymk mask routine, but wound up with a big blob where there waves were near the head, so I tried adding an extra step at the front--I'm pretty happy with this.

1. lucis art exposure to bring out detail
2. convert to cymk and duplicate black channel
3. convert back to rgb and load black channel as a selection.
4. impressionist--watercolor--damp transulucent wash (set background to from image)
5. paint engine (bad chalk?) faded
6. invert selection--vp watercolor
7. added a gradient fill layer in soft light
8. added a pattern fill layer in soft light
9. added a "canvas glaze" in color dodge

canvas glaze is inspired by a combination of one of Trimoon's tutorial's (they are truly awesome) and something I read in one of my art books about canvases being filled with dark color before starting painting.

1. create an empty fill layer
2. choose 2 colors from image (I use dark)
3. render clouds
4. run through impressionist and paint engine (I use the same settings as used in the image from laziness)
5. run texturizer (I love trimoon's canvas 2)
6. add a layer mask and paint black to reveal image--adjust blending mode

[DannyRaphael]

Wow, you guys and gals are getting good -- make that really good. The pics posted in this thread are among THE BEST (as in, most interesting / most creatively rendered) I've seen since I began moderating this forum two years ago. Really.

We may be small in number, but there's definitely no shortage in talent.

I'm honored to be among you. Keep up the great work.
~Danny~

[kiska]

No way can i tell you what I did. Many filters, apply image, weak brush strokes,rotate image. Then i inverted the original for #2, more filters etc.
#2 is the first one
kiska

[Fluffbutt]

Cheryl, that's a really nice finish - it brings out the lovely lonely depressive nature of the image. I love it..

[Duv]

I liked this pic so much, I thought I'd do one more. Just a simple BuzzPro:Bright/contrast followed by Buzzpro:Simplifier 3.

Cheers
Dave

[Duv]

Good Lord. This is my third crack at this one. I must like the pic.

Cropped to place person at one third.
Apply Image: Multiple: Faded Back
Levels Adjustment layer
Selective Color: Pumped up the colors in the sky.
Xero: Soft Mood

Cheers
Dave

[jaykita]

Loneliness is a terrible thing. Nobody should have to face it.
It isnt so lonely anymore...at least in this image. Color change made with photopaint.

[roger_ele]

Too much playing and cloning to really explain it - but if anyone asks a specific question, I will do my best.

I went for solitude with company ... A fun alone

Roger

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by roger_ele

Too much playing and cloning to really explain it - but if anyone asks a specific question, I will do my best.

I went for solitude with company ... A fun alone

Roger

Roger:

This is a wonderful interpretaation. You should play and clone much more often, so please do!

~Danny~

[byRo]

Originally Posted by Fluffbutt

Mine is the reversed picture, cropped.

You did a great job there. It started out as a lovely photo, but came across much more interesting.

Cropped and reversed (Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - did I say that right, been here so long sometimes I forget whether I'm speaking English or Portuguese).
Did my little pencil sketch action, dialled up some wierd blending options, put back in a bit of color from the original.
The pencil strokes ended up looking like rain. I left it that way...

So now he's lonely and sopping wet! Poor guy.

[JustChecking]

[ozzy mode]don't ask me, i don't know... [/ozzy mode]

[SWEngineer]

Another great thread to revive. Anybody know what happened to Fluff? He did some great work here, but I haven't seen his name on anything recent.

Started w/ Curves and Hue adj. layers to create the base image. Did the ColorDodge sketch thing except ran AddNoise and ColorPencil filters on the (inverted) top layer instead of GBlur. Added a masked Levels adj to darken the sketch in the sky area. Merged the result to a new layer and ran Diffuse>Aniso putting a Curves adj layer above this to darken and the base image above that in Color mode to colorize it. Cloned the base image in Painter8 with the ChalkCloner brush (a very rough sketch). Put this as the next layer in Multiply mode, 47%. Merged all this to a new layer and dodged the person. Then copied a selection of the sea and sand to a yet another layer, lowered opacity to ~50% and nudged this above person to make him (her?) ghostly / shadowy. The idea here is one of a fading memory or feeling lost / insignificant in this huge world of ours.

-Mark

[jaykita]

I loved Roger_ele's. Something i'd imagine the "afterlife" would look like!

[PamSav]

There's so much creativity here, I can only hope that one day I'll be half as good as some of you. I really like the posts by roger_ele and SWEngineer. I'm not very good at expressing myself but I really love the totally different interpretations you guys did.

[glikster]

I would like to make it clear that I took the text from the Despair, Inc. website.
There is an actual print (with a different photo) titled Loneliness with the Text that's in my picture. So all legal rights of the phrasing is theirs, etc., etc....

[Fluffbutt]

Originally Posted by SWEngineer

Another great thread to revive. Anybody know what happened to Fluff? He did some great work here, but I haven't seen his name on anything recent.
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-Mark

Oh I'm still around.. Cats sleep a lot, and pad about very quietly, so's you don't even knows they're there! LOL PURRRR!

Actually I've been playing with pictures, taking some, working (ran out of money, too many wedding photographers in town, so now I drive a truck (!!). plenty of opportunities to take pix with my digital).

I've pretty much perfected a colour pencil system, but I can't post it (not being nasty!) because it changes with each picture.

The basic steps are multiple layers, all set to about 66% and overlay/softlight/screen/hardlight (that last one at 15%) (AND the order varies too!).
Then you run Impressionist with a chalky action, Imp. with a pencil action, drag the background up to a new layer set to colour, and finish of with a light PE layer. The fourth layer is for burn in adjustments or to paint back some detail at a 33% level. And this all changes depending on if its people, flowers, cars (old tractors, etc) or landscapes.

So I'd love to post you guys (and gals) something more definite, but I can't!!

<sad little purrrowww!!>

<Fluffbutt pads over to the computer and crops a piccy for ya's>

Here's a cropped section of a Holden rusting in a field (I think I got the original from Morguefiles, again)...

If you look at the side windows, you'll see the basic pencil effect with the chalked window 'behind', to add colour and depth.

[Neve]

Great result Fluffbutt and thanks for the details on your approach to this.

When we first arrived in W.A. in 1970 our first car was a Holden EJ 1963. Great family car with our kids enjoying jaunts to the drive-ins, beach etc.

Thanks for evoking such happy memories...!

[byRo]

Just had to hava another shot at this one.

Made a new set of AHB tools, sort of chalks..

Had to scrunch it down to 100k so I attached a cropped piece too.

Rô

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by byRo

Just had to hava another shot at this one.

Made a new set of AHB tools, sort of chalks..

Had to scrunch it down to 100k so I attached a cropped piece too.

Rô

Rô... I was just about to go to bed (it's 1:06 a.m.), when I noticed the link here where I found your little gift to all of us.

Sure appreciate all the work/study/fun you've been putting into the AHB settings of late. I'm learning things I could not have imagined.

You da man!

~Danny~

[Legacy~Art]

I adore this picture!!!

I have done this larger and going to print it off lately this evening.

Have just the place for it in my bathroom!

Anyhow this is what i did, i took the colours to extreme with a plugin in called Filter Unlimited 2 now if you cannot find this plugin let me know i will find a way of getting it uploaded.

Then i used a brush i got from Trimoon cd which is a hairbrush i use this all the time now to do paintings with, its a must just for this tool.

Then i added texture, then i painted in black over the man, just to add extra depth.

Simple!

Elle

[Janet Petty]

Ro, Legacy you guys ROCK. You both took a somewhat dull photo and made it into a masterpiece.



Janet

[Fluffbutt]

Well, the old FluffyButt just had to go and have fun again...

So with a big PURRR, he's missing you...

[Neve]

You're all excelling yourselves today!

LA - great colours...yep I have that filter, plenty to choose from isn't there.

[Legacy~Art]

Thank you Janet, Yes Neve it is a fun plugin, i guess Danny needs a charity bring and leave plugin thread, where someone leaves a plugin and only way someone can have it is if they leave one too, it works if everyone does it for fun.
Fluffy i think you need to just do the face smaller so you don't get the line at the top and to blend it in more with the sky ie...opacity, but i love that idea!!!

[Fluffbutt]

LA - you're right. I was doing a quick & dirty job... I was trying to find a piccy of a beautiful face crying, But Liz's will do for the idea..

[Elleth]

I've been working on trying to tame the art history brush and thought I'd give this image a try.

I used a combination of TM's art history brushes and ahb chalks by Ro.

This is getting addicting!