Creative interpretations: Architecture - Classic house

[DannyRaphael]

Photo by Jim...

Have fun,
~Danny~

[ahutton]

I love old houses! I sepia toned this and ran it thru VP oil paint, then did impressionist of the original and merged them, and buzz was in there somewhere.

AmyHutton

[Xaran]

Sketcher on one duplicate, Xero line art mono sketch on another, line art layer changed to multiply.

Christine

[byRo]

Thanks Danny for another great photo.

Amy: color looked good in the thumbnail, but seemed to be missing a bit more detail when I opened it up.
Xaran: I too thought pen/ink, but you got there first.

...so I went for texture:

Simplified colors
- Duplicate background
- Apply Cutout 8/10/3 (oops, lost the chimney)
Make texture (DIY emboss)
- Duplicate background
- Make a good grayscale: I like to use a b/w gradient layer
- Duplicate grayscale, invert, opacity=50%: all gray now;
- Apply offset: in this case used -1/-1 to get horizontal and vertical lines;
- Spread out the gray spike: Levels layer
- Merge these three layers.
Combine
- Set the 'texture' layer blending to luminosity and twiddle opacity until happy ;
- Finish off with a levels adjustment.

Phew.. (hmm, an ethereal chimney? )
Shame I had to crush it with 5% JPG quality to get under 100K

Mixing back 50% into the original gives it a bit more 'punch'.

enjoy...

[Xaran]

Wow - those are really great, almost as if you could reach out and touch the texture. I'll have to give that a try.

Christine

[Tiger_Steve]

I thought this was a great image to try out the Dave Jaseck sketch action I'd found somewhere online.

• Corrected perspective using the crop tool.
• Ran the 'sketch with colour' action.
• Increased contrast of the sketch layer using levels.
• Increased the overall colour saturation by +35.
• Added a blue sky gradient on a new layer at top of stack.
• Changed blend mode to Darken.
• Used layer mask to remove gradient from building.
• Crunched and saved.

Any thoughts?

[DannyRaphael]

Nice interpretations Ro (awesome texture depth) & Steve...

I believe Jaseck's sketch action (as well as many others) is available at www.AtnCentral.com.

~Danny~

[byRo]

Think I´m getting hooked on this Cutout filter....

- Cutout 8/10/1 on bottom;
- Cutout 2/5/10 on top and blending set to overlay

this is fun...

Roland

[JustChecking]

i wanted to do some kinda oil paint, and ended w/ this watercoloured-sketch-like thing... funny things happen

had to scale it down, looks much better full size

3 copies, bottom one palette knife, middle one just changed blend to hard light, top one find edges and blend-overlay...

maybe cutout filter would look also good instead of that palette knife...

[byRo]

Originally Posted by JustChecking

looks much better full size

Sure does....
Quick, easy and a beautiful result.
Thanks, this goes straight into my 'bag of tricks'.

Originally Posted by JustChecking

maybe cutout filter would look also good instead of that palette knife...

My vote´s for the palette knife. Cutout doesn´t seem to get past the hard light.

Have a good weekend,

Roland