Creative interpretations: Flowers - Orange and brave little Crocus

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by isanl

My try

1. desaturate
2. invert - color dodge
3. gaussian blur
4. merge visible (multiply)
5. equalize
5.diffuse-anisotropic
6.cutout

It's been a few months since you've posted. Welcome back.

I hope your schedule will allow you to continue participating. The more, the merrier!

~Danny~

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Manjumena

some beautiful art here
here's my contribution

Lovely as usual, Manju.

I understand (now) how to get the background, which works very well in this one.

Teach us more:
What did you do to get the random rippled effect once you rendered the BG?

~Danny~

[earthman]

I really like jaykita's image. Very delicate.

For my interpretation I started with a cracked earth texture I found on the web and played with the perspective tool untill I liked it.
I copied the resulting image and used it as an alpha channel.
Then I went to lighting effects and used the alpha channel I created as a texture cahnnel.
For the sky I used a picture I took, desaturated it, and played with the curves to get that effect.
I painted a thick blue stripe across the horizon and lowered the opacity to give the ground some depth.
Finally, I created a color balance adjustment layer on the whole image.
Oh, I also applied the add noise filter to the whole image

[Neve]

Well done Earthman, I would've been more impressed if there was more red colouring though in the sky and cracked earth. It is still very effective irrespective.

[SWEngineer]

When I first saw this thread, I thought Danny's title was perfect... a very brave flower to grow in that nasty gray muck. I think Earthman took the title to heart turning the muck into much worse (from a flower's perspective).

Painter users are starting to show their "unfair" advantage here. What great & varied results!

I'm joining the majority here giving the flower nothing to fear in an overly complicated sketch rendition... Isolated the flower on its own layer. Created a new background (Clouds, Diff. Clouds, Twirl, Levels, Angled Strokes, & Diffuse>Anisotropic) that I feared was too busy, Merged decolored version of the flower onto the background. Did the ColorDodge sketch trick, but ran Angled Strokes on the top layer instead of GBlur. Moved to top. Multiply mode with layer mask to tone down the sketch lines in the flower itself. Used the isolated color flower with a ShagRug pattern layer in Colorburn mode above. Merge the patt. layer down. Copy this and ran Spatter. Both layers set to reduced opacities. Put a light colored RenderClouds layer below this for some muted background color. Merged all visible to a new layer and deleted some of the background using a highly feathered selection. Put a white layer below this and cropped to taste.

-Mark

[Neve]

Very effective result SWE. I like the textures and colouring.... and the retention of the ground texture as a background.

[LQQKER]

Cropped the image.
Created a bg with virtual painter and layer styles.
Added some canvas.
Several contrast adj.
Copied BG and embossed as an overlay layer.
Fairy obtained using hemera.
Several layer adj on fairy.
Hue & Sat adjustment.
Simplified a few times.
Created frame with sketchmaster and layer styles.
Added some shadows and highlights.
Softened edges.
Flattened contrast and colors by adjusting layer opacity.
Nik foliage.

[Janet Petty]

LQQKER, that is very well done. I like the fantasy touch. The tiny fairy looks like she belongs there in fact as well as in execution of your technique. Adorable!

Janet

[JustChecking]

WOW! so many wonderful results here




i wanted mine to look a bit more watercolour like... didn't get there