Creative Interpretations: Desiree

[Neve]

I often call into Stock Exchange so hope you don't mind me posting a couple of photos today?

Photo by Marc Petersen of his daughter.
Stock Exchange
http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml
"There are no usage restrictions for this photo"

[jaykita]

A beautiful lady with a glowing complexion.
Started off with high-key, about to post, changed my mind, duplicated and g'blurred, hardlight-blended with original. From there, aniso, smudge, and a bit of dodge tool.

[glikster]

ok... I think this is what I did.

Duped BG.
Loaded the Red Channel as a selection and made it a new alpha channel.
Used Levels to ramp up the contrast and named it "sillhouette".
G.Blurred it by about 2.
Loaded the Blue Channel and made it a new selection.
Used Levels to make it a drastically high contrast channel and named it "eyes".
G.Blurred it by about 2.
Loaded sillhouette and inverted selection.
Ran Artistic: Colored Pencils - 4, 8, 25.
Inverted selection again and ran Imp.: Pencil Sketch: Detailed Soft.
Inverted Selection and ran the same.
Faded to lower Opacity.
Loaded eyes and ran Imp.: Pencil Sketch: Detailed Colored.
Faded to lower Opacity.
Deselected. Ran the same filter.
Faded to lower opacity.
Loaded eyes again and inverted the selection.
Ran Imp: Pencil Sketch: Soft Light.
Faded to lower opacity.

I think that's about it.

[JustChecking]

jaykita - very interesting result... the aniso gives it "another dimension"
glikster - lovely chalk-like effect



i've been again messing w/ the art history brush + impressionist combination... hopefully one day i'll look up in the thesaurus what the word "moderation" means

[Duv]

Thanks for posting Neve and great renditions so far!!

Started with Impressionist: djrOil plus default settings
Sent to Painter 8 and smoothed the skin a bit with Chalk Cloner.
Back to PS and ran Dave's Simplifier action and pumped up saturation a tad.
Ran Velvia action
Frame by Extensis.

Cheers
Dave

[JustChecking]

Dave, just great

[Duv]

Thanks! I always prefer praise over a body Check!

Dave

[byRo]

jaykita, what beautiful hair - if only I had some, you could paint mine any day.

I'm getting hooked on this.

Rô

[CJ Swartz]

Just posterized and ran Image -> Threshold to give it the illustrated look, then ran Artistic-> Cutout to smooth the look. This interfered with the gloss and beauty of her hair, so I tried to mask it back in somewhat.

[Axleuk]

Smoothed skin
Changed lip colour
Painted Hair in Painter
Added soft direct lighting to the face
Bleached the overall colour
Added leafy border
Added Name

Voila !

[DannyRaphael]

Dave... You really captured her soul on this one. Excellent use of tools between Painter and PS.

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Two layers from the Impressionist plugin and one rendered by Photoshop (Dry Brush). Roadmap in the Layers Palette snapshot.

On isolating her from the BG...
* Duplicated the Red channel (the one with the most contrast)
* Image > Adjustment > Levels - to increase contrast
* Image > Adjustment > Threshold
* Hand painted black on the background areas a white on her to finish the mask
* Ctrl + click this alpha channel (to load the selection)
* Click on the RGB composite channel
* Switch to Layers Palette
* Clicked on a duplicate layer I'd made of layer E
* Ctrl + J to copy the selection onto its own layer

Then I converted the layer from which the subject has been isolated by applying the filters shown in the snapshot.

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Neve: A#1 photo... great choice. This is going to be a very popular thread.

~Danny~

[Neve]

Desiree is bringing out the best in all of you....!

[Neve]

PaintShopPro 8.1

Bottom Layer of Image
Applied - Filter - PR Brightness
Applied - Filter - Namesuppressed:Autochromatic/FX-Pseudo Sepia
Dupe Bottom Layer
L2 - Filter - Flaming Pear/Ghost - Mode Normal - Dupe this layer
L3 - Mode Soft Light 100% - Dupe this layer
L4 - Saturation (L)
Merge all layers.
Filter - Diffuse Glow - 1/9/18
Filter - Impressionist - Ink: Color Line Pen
BG=Image/Size=25%/Coverage=85/Pressure=50
Filter - AIM/USM
Merge all layers and dupe this layer.
L2 - Hard Light 50%
Merge all layers.

p.s. Edit....compressing this image after using AIM/USM results in poor quality unfortunately.

[jaykita]

Originally Posted by byRo

jaykita, what beautiful hair - if only I had some, you could paint mine any day.

I'm getting hooked on this.

Rô

Thanks, Rô. You know, you are a great-looking guy even without much hair, but if you'd like, i could paint some on your photograph for you!

[glikster]

Everybody's renditions really are incredible. Axeleuk's and C.J.'s are my particular favorites.

I used Jaykita's waercolor settings in Imp. a lot.
I also used a modified Paint: Angled Scribbles.
Cloned and Healed some problem areas.