[DannyRaphael]

When my son saw this picture he said, "Dad: This boat looks lonely. There's no one in it."

Insights of the young and innocent!

Happy creating.
~Danny~

[Xaran]

Tried the new chalkaholic plugin on this one - another new toy to play with.

Removed edges with a rough brush and added black frame to finish.

Christine

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Xaran

Tried the new chalkaholic plugin on this one - another new toy to play with.

Removed edges with a rough brush and added black frame to finish.

Christine

Hey, that turned out very nice, Christine. Did you use the free version or is this "Pro"?

[Xaran]

Used the Pro version - when I saw the price was so low I bought it anyway.

I really like this plugin has lots of potential especially when used with others like sketcher.

Christine

[kiska]

All kinds of things and such.

[jaykita]

Here's one from me. Used Danny's "art-leroy like" action (found in "colorful couple" thread), and went a few steps further.
Thanks, Danny.

[DannyRaphael]

jakita... glad you liked the action.

- - - - - - -

I combined the output of a couple Mike Finn actions on mine...
* Bottom layers - via "Slap Dash". I experimented with the output of the action until I got something I liked.
* Top layer was created by applying "Watercolor" to a separate copy of the original image. After flattening, I copied the WC layer on top of the Slap Dash layers and set the layer blend mode to Exclusion. I then used the Move tool to shift this layer down/right a little. Finally I used the Free Tansform tool (ctrl + A to select all, followed by ctrl + T for Free Transform) to stretch the edges of the layer so they covered the entire image.

Mike's actions are available here...
http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~mikefinn/action.html

~Danny~

[kiska]

Another version:
smudge, rough pastel, sponge filters
fade 80%
dup, flip hor., vivid color mode, low opacity
flatten
dup
underpainting

[rlspencer1]

Danny:
Very nice image to work with:
1. adjusted the image with a polarizer filter.
2. Added blue to sky and gaussen blurred it.
3. Buzzed on layer at simple 174
4. CS Poster filter on another layer
5. Masked #4 to add dark highlights and #1 layer to add white highlights
6. Used the canvas texture
Thanks
Bob

[jaykita]

Impressionist filter - Chalk (modified).

[Duv]

Wanted to simplify as much as possible.

Corel Painter 8: Surface Contro: Apply Lighting: To background
Photoshop: TLR Saturation Mask: altered to suite
Watercolor action: reduced effect
Curves Adjustment to lighten foreground
Impressionist: Default Chalk, set to Image, Brush 25: Ran 3 times
Effects: Stroke: 8 pixel: Hard Light

Chccrs
Dave

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Duv

re: Watercolor action...

Nice results, Dave. Is the action one you can .zip and post or point to the source?

[Duv]

Hi Danny

I had to trace back as there was no credit attached to the action. It is one of Mike Finn's free actions which I use alot. Click here.

One of the things I really like to do is run his actions then reduce some of the history to get different effects.

Cheers
Dave

[DavidC]

Here's another version. Lovely photo.

[Duv]

Quite frankly David, I haven't seen anything that you have done so far that isn't first rate. Please keep them coming. But without a description, it's almost pointless

Cheers
Dave