Creative interpretations: Flowers - Poppies

[DannyRaphael]

Wonderful picture by W.Carlton.

Have fun.

~Danny~

[Xaran]

Something a bit different.

duplicated background layer Xero line art - mono - sketch line = 8
a new layer between filled white - layer mask.
painted on mask with low opacity water paint brush to bring colour image out.
Ran impressionist on the mask - I didn't mean to do that but forgot to switch back to the image - like the result anyway.

Ran impressionist on the colour image as well.

Christine

[Fluffbutt]

Hey that's really neat! I like that 'toony' effect, brilliant!!

[kiska]

Steps

Painter 8 for strokes
PS- filter-rough pastels, fade
Dup, multiply

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by kiska

Painter 8 for strokes

The strokes sure can a pic like this to another level. Nicely done.

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Mine is based on a tutorial that makes creative use of the File > Automate > Picture Package function. The tutorial is available here (scroll down to "Warhol") :
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/peteback.html

I converted the steps into a PS action plus added the slightly rotated and bent image on top. Unfortunately at low-res, the curved edges of the top image look pretty ragged, but at 300 ppi they're smooth.

The action is still pretty rough, but I'll post it for download once I tune it up a bit and make it a little more user friendly by including the display of hints and instructions.

~Danny~

[kiska]

I like your Warhol better than Warhol. Be sure and 'Holla' when you perfect the action.
kiska

[rlspencer1]

Danny:
Thanks for the nice Flower.
Bob

[CJ Swartz]

Nice use of selective focus, W. Carlton! Nice "Warhol", Danny!

Bottom layer -> copy of original image, above that place a copy of the image's green channel using Color Burn layer blend, inverted the layer and reducing the opacity of the green channel layer to 80%. Then I ran the Texture -> Craquelure filter on the original image copy and faded the effect to show just a bit of the texture. Finally, I ran the Spatter filter on the green channel layer which brought back a bit more of the background with an effect that I liked.

[shariwb]

Watercolor look using PS Watercolor and Impressionist Watercolor filters:

[ahutton]

This one got the buzz treatment, then a heavy cork texture and VP gothic, then a repaint of the blossoms.

amyHutton

[DannyRaphael]

Amy:

That's a very creative combination of effects. Nicely done.

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Shari:

Yours is one of the best examples of a WC effect I've seen.

Would you provide some specific details on how you achieved this effect? I'm intrigued by the part PS WC played, a filter I gave up on a long time ago.

Impressionist setting specifics, layer bland mode details, etc.

This is quite nice.
~Danny~

[Duv]

It's nice to work on a simple beautiful pic. Lots of great ideas so far!

Ran Find Edges 72% Fade: 90% Multiply blend mode. Did this exactly the same 3 times.
Solarized: Faded to 42%
Apply Image: Vivid Light 33%
Curves adjustment layer to brighten
Selective Colors: Intensified reds and yellows
Solarized: 25%
As a bonus, it looks like the Multiplying effects has pulled out a background texture.

Cheers
Dave

[brandonx49]

Here is my attempt with the flowers

Created and auto-color layer
Blended to color dodge
Flattened
Ran Simplifier one buzz pro @ 300
Hit it with an impressionist filter.

B

[JustChecking]

first of all, i just freshly installed (1hr ago) PS7, and i'm a bit scared/frightened of it... i've been using PS4 till now, so it's like an elephant feeling, LOL... so, didn't come out as should, but hope you'll forgive me, wink ;-) wink (just the "history" pallete itself scares me a lot )

second of all, that's an absolutely gorgeous pic, really wonderful, and many great stylizations posted (i mean, all are great )...

third of all, my try - i wanted to make a watercolour that "preserves" the outta focus feeling, so i made a copy of background, erased from that copy everything but those orange flowers and some of the yellow ones, then i ran watercolor on the background, and dry brush (low details, medium texture) on the copy... and that's it... just that the dry brush left many white pieces on the copy, that needed to be erased/recoloured... (haven't accomplished that perfectly, as i said, a bit scared ;-) )

hope you'll like:

[pjb]

Christine-lovely job love the texture and color
Kiska- wow looks like a beautiful painting
Danny- wonderful job showing all the different colors and l like how you bent the picture in the middle
Bob- really nice job
C.J.- love the deep dark colors and texture wonderful job
Shariwb- wonderful watercolor and I like the white around the picture
Amy- very very nice job. Just started using buzz it is a lot of fun.
Dave- nice mixture of colors and texture
B- really nice bright spring colors great job
JustChecking- from the looks of the picture you have nothing to be scared about wonderful job.

poster edge on flower
lighting effect on stems and background then put a impressionist screen blending

[JustChecking]

Originally Posted by pjb

poster edge on flower
lighting effect on stems and background then put a impressionist screen blending

wow, that looks great! reminds me a lot of the watercolour paintings on the raw (handmade) paper with inking we did at arts school (hope you understand i don't mean it as insult, though i've been 10 at that time ;-) )

[kiska]

Another trip around 'ps world'.
kiska

[Cheryl H]

I love poppies--they are so photogenic. I also enjoy that they lend themselves to both strong and soft interpretations-as the submissions so far show.

I used my ink and thin water color action. Basically several impressionist layers (tinfoil, thick paint, and fossil) blended together and topped with a find edges layer. I added a glaze layer (render clouds followed by impressionist and mostly masked out) in screen mode at reduced opacity to lighten the image.

[pjb]

JustChecking- thank you for your kind comments.

[JustChecking]

you're welcome pjb!


i tried a pontilistic style here (if the impress plug-in does some kinda "the same" thing, sorry; i don't have it, so donnow...)

i applied artistic->"paint dubs" w/ medium sized brush and high contrast, then artistic->"rough pastels" w/ high detail and medium sized strokes [maybe this phase could've been left out...]; duplicated the layer, and set the upper one to "hard light", and applied distort->"glass" to it (frosted, smooth 2, distort 5)

the rescaling smoothed it a lot... better try it at home ;-)