Creative interpretations: Flowers - Purple & Ready for Spring (JanetP)

Janet Petty · #1 01-23-2005, 02:03 PM

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm ready for spring. Enough already with the winter. Neve, you've been making me so long for warmer weather I can't stand it any longer. So have fun with a flower picture and keep in mind that spring/summer is just around the corner for those of us in the northern hemisphere.

Janet

Hephaestos · #2 01-23-2005, 02:39 PM

Pretty much exactly followed one of my fave tutorials here.

http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161032

Neve · #3 01-23-2005, 05:33 PM

Thank you for a lovely floral photo Janet. I couldn't forget about life in the Northern Hemisphere, I lived their for the best part of 27 years. Canada and Scotland... so I appreciate totally how you must be feeling right now waiting for warmer weather.

Janet Petty · #4 01-23-2005, 05:35 PM

Have had fun with these little flowers. Come on others. Join in.

Great result Hephaestos. I'm going to have to try that tutorial.

JustChecking · #5 01-24-2005, 06:10 AM

we got yesterday first proper snow of this winter, so i can't complain - it's beautiful outside

and yet better when you sit inside, hot cup of coffee or cocoa in your hand and watch the snow

raniday · #6 01-25-2005, 08:04 PM

Janet, thanks for the pretty flowers. I added a couple of flowers and used Impressionist filter and Sharon's mat action.
http://www.pbase.com/image/39062490

Janet Petty · #7 01-25-2005, 08:11 PM

Wonderful Raniday. Simply wonderful. Wanna come play when the spring flowers are out in bloom? We can take lots of pics like these.

Janet

CJ Swartz · #8 01-25-2005, 09:21 PM

Janet -- I'm with you -- definitely in favor of Spring!!
Gotta have sunshine and warmth. I live in the "Valley of the Sun" but we've got more rain clouds headed our way.

The sunlight is beginning to warm these blooms, but some are still waiting and hoping...

Neve · #9 01-26-2005, 01:19 AM

Lovely results everyone. I made a square selection, brightened with Filter PR Brightness. Impressionist/03 CH More Stuff - Stitches 83/97/200 (i.e. Cheryl's sets). Thanks Cheryl, very useful!!! Sharpened the stitches using AIM/USM filter. Used same selection of your floral Janet and used Enki's
http://www.netreach.net/~barry/downloads.html
Wallpaper filter to create the bg.

Not exactly painterly but was fun anyway.

Janet Petty · #10 01-26-2005, 06:20 AM

Great results everyone. It's amazing how many different ways we each see the composition of the wildflowers.

Neve, I especially like the stitches. I can't help but think about how long it would take to do something like that by hand.

Janet

raniday · #11 01-26-2005, 07:25 AM

Janet, just say when. My car has been in the garage way too much this winter and wouldn't mind a day trip up to your part of the state; I'll bring my camera, and we'll make a day of it.
CJ, I like that so much. How did you do it?
Neve, I don't mean to be thick headed, but where did you get the Impressionist/03 CH More Stuff - Stitches 83/97/200? That's kewl. I just now downloaded the Enki's filter but haven't installed it. Is it mainly for backgrounds?

ahutton · #12 01-26-2005, 09:34 AM

I love purple flowers. I used impressionist watercolor on this, then reversed this layer, and simply merged it with original on lightest (the watercolor) and added canvas.

Amy

jaykita · #13 01-26-2005, 09:50 AM

Lovely work everyone!
I adore flowers.
Janet, i esp like your 3rd image. So pretty! How did u get this effect?
I was just toying with a tutorial by Jacquelin Vanderwood ...
you'll find it HERE.

Btw, i did one using this same tute for the "Leaves of Autumn (Geddes)" thread.

Janet Petty · #14 01-26-2005, 11:07 AM

Jaykita, the square one is AWESOME, creative, fanciful, and bold. You have such talent!!!

My third one was a very high emboss and unsharp mask to almost blown out proportions. Then inverted it and overlayed onto the painted copy (number one). Merged and the last step was to solarize the whole thing and then invert.

Janet

Neve · #15 01-26-2005, 04:53 PM

Hi Raniday, I downloaded Cheryl's Impressionist sets from here:-

http://f2.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/...+paper&.view=l

You need to have the Impressionist Plugin installed first though. Contact Danny Raphael, he can help you with this Plugin.

Some very generous folks here at RetouchPRO have also contributed other VERY useful sets for Impressionist which you can download from here:-

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/sho...8&page=2&pp=10

Yes, Enki's wallpaper filter is very simple but effectively creates striped wallpaper quickly. Useful, I've used it in a lot of projects. Especially on some 12 x 12" Scrapbook layouts which I design for the family.