Creative interpretations: Holland Windmill

[Patricia]

Manjumena, thanks for the excellent instructions. I spent some time at your gallery, wonderful work!

Patricia

[jaykita]

Used manju's idea of masking. Thanks manju!

[Neve]

What a challenge and I'm in awe of your amazing submissions!

Being new to Impressionist I enjoyed this try with 'Cloth Scraps' for the first time. Interesting effect.

PSP8.01
Worked on photo to highlight dark areas
Noticed some pixelation at the bottom so chalked smudged
that area.
Duped bottom layer.
2nd Layer - Auto Sat to bring out bolder colouring
Also Colour Balanced for more blue in sky.
Impressionist/Natural?/Cloth Scraps - Image/BS=25/Cov=100/Press=100
Layer Blend Mode = Lighten
Merged all.

Cheers

[Peter S]

A really really nice picture this one Thanks Danny.
I thought I'd try and make it more dramatic though.
I has taken a mighty hit from the 100k limit.

Peter

Larger version.

[img=http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7510/windmillhfg7.th.jpg]

[alexmeta]

All nice works.
Another dramatic scene...

[palms1]

I tried to think of something different so came up with this ! !

Palms

[Janet Petty]

Your something different works, Palms. I like the somewhat Victorian feel of the piece that you captured in the silhouette.

Janet

[keiser]

Here is mine.

Started with a sketch, added texture, brought color back, added a few other adjustments.

Never quite looks the same when I decrease size. Will have to work on that.

[Swampy]

Starry, Starry night...

The silhouette of the windmill is so strong that about the only thing to do color wise is to play with the sky, so play I did.

Selections of the windmill and sky on separate layers. Duped then broke up the sky colors on the dupe using the pencil tool on a curves adjustment layer and merged the adjustment layer down. Ran a polar coordiantes filter on the result (which gave the vortex). Merged down to the adjusted layer below. Saved out a copy of the sky layer and took that into Painter and ran an Auto Surrat. Saved and brought that back into PS.

Made a Pattern Stamp of the windmill layer and painted with a rough brush to "paintify" (is that a word?) the windmill. Used Select Color Range-Highlights, to delete any white spill over from the PST paint brush.

[GerryB]

I created a darker silhouette and added a soft neon glow. Then I replaced the background with a new cloud layer. Next, I tweeked the sunset colors in the clouds. After I combined the cloud layer with the windmill, I added a slight texture.

[glikster]

this was what immediately came to mind

I was torn between showing the gorgeous sky or leaving the simplest silhouette.
I went for this.