[DannyRaphael]

You can almost smell the dust. (BTW: He made a great throw to 1st base.)

Terrific pic by C. Dahlberg.

~Danny~

[Patricia]

This is a really great image, so many possibilities. I went with Impressionist on this one.

Ran MIke Finn's pOpArTiSt, then adjust pOpArTiSt several times. Dragged the result back to the original, duped the original background layer, moved it to the top and set blend to color. merged layers.

Ran Impressionist with Danny's oil setting.

Made a new layer (per Cheryl H's excellent post on "color glaze"), selected white and a gray from image and ran render clouds. Added a layer mask and used a grunge brush to reveal the image.

Added a curves adjustment layer to give it a little more "pop".

Patricia

[Cheryl H]

Patricia--that's an interesting mix of processes--the result was great.

[CJ Swartz]

Patricia -- wonderful look! Like it a lot.

[DannyRaphael]

Patricia:

Even though this guy is playing 3rd base, you definitely wacked a home run on this one. I personally prefer photo-paintings that look more like paintings than photos, and this one definitely qualifies.

In a word: BRAVO!

~Danny~

[Patricia]

Thanks for all you kind words, encouragement, and techniques! This was really a fun image to work on.

Patricia

[catia]

Here is a pencil sketch done in PSP8.

First ran One Step Photo Fix. Then:

Duplicate layer and set top layer to negative image, mode to dodge. Select Effects, blur, blur more. Repeat. Adjust opacity to suit. Merge all. Adjust saturation to taste.

Catia

[catia]

Here is a PS7 version.

First applied Katrin Eismann Fill Flash action.
Duplicated BG.
Desaturate and duplicated again
Invert top layer and set mode to color dodge. Gaussian filter, radius 10.
Merge top two layers and duplicate.
Set top layer to multiply and adjust opacity to suit.
Merge top two layers
Double click BG and promote. Drag to top and adjust opacity to suit.
Add a Hue/Saturation layer and adjust hue, saturation and lightness to suit.
Flatten and save.....

Catia

[Cheryl H]

1. duplicated background and ran a modified buzz gloss stack (reduced remove to around 300 and set the rest of the sliders to 12, added brightness and contrast around 40)
2. Select black with magic wand and invert selection
3. paint with history brush
4. ran impressionist (paint swirl) and paint engine (bad chalk) (presets aren't too critical to the end result) faded both slightly
5. took 2 light colors from the image and made a canvas glaze layer
6. dodged the face a little and added a light texture.

[jch71566]

Cheryl, I really like this one!

-Jeff

[Cheryl H]

thanks Jeff

[kiska]

Ah, 3rd base, my old softball position.
Painter- different strokes for player and bg
Photoshop- history brush for a little detail, face, glove,ball
bg-palette knife,daubs,sprayed,texture filters
player-sprayed,texture filters
Apply image- bg-RGB,multi
player- red channel, soft, I think

kiska

[DannyRaphael]

Go, Cheryl... I like this look, too. Glad Summer is approaching where you'll have more time to play!

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I was experimenting with the Impressionist Marker: Opaque Strokes style and came up with this kind of mosaic tile effect. I duplicated the layer, applied Photoshop's Emboss filter and changed the blend mode to Overlay to give the pieces a little more depth.

~Danny~

[LQQKER]

Very imaginative renditions by everyone.

Cropped image.
Adjusted color & levels.
Applied adapt.eq
Xero clairity.
FP india ink.
Despeckled.
Simplified portions.
Ran Paint engine.
Adjusted hue & sat.
Find edges.
Nik filters (sunshine, skylight contrast and midnight).
Impressionist (applied filter in opposite direction of paint mode).
Embossed.
Several layers of blend modes (mainly overlay).
About four layer styles adjustments.

[Manjumena]

[quote=Patricia]

Very nice Patricia. looks like a real painting

Ran MIke Finn's pOpArTiSt, then adjust pOpArTiSt several times.

Ran Impressionist with Danny's oil setting.

Where can we find this action and Danny's oil .ctp sets?