Creative interpretations: Car - Classic Ford (Neve)

[Neve]

Photo by Luis Rock
Stock Exchange
http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml
"There are no usage restrictions for this photo"

[JustChecking]

justMessing w/ the Art History Brush again

horrible results, big fun

[Neve]

That's what it is all about JC, havin' fun!

I'm stuck on Sepia's today.

PaintShopPro 8.1

Apply a sepia tone. Dupe this layer.
L2 - Artistic Brushtrokes/Watercolour
Mode - Hard Light. Reduce Opacity to suit image.
Merge Visible Layers and Dupe this layer.
L2 - Apply WC again - Mode Normal - 50% or to
suit your image.

Merge All Layers

[byRo]

Originally Posted by JustChecking

justMessing w/ the Art History Brush again... horrible results, big fun

You're doing well then - for me I got just the horrible results!

Thought this cried out for a cartoon action, my preference in these cases is to leave the black outlines only on the main subject.

Rô

[Neve]

Fantastic Byro.

[sidis]

Fun image to work with, and great edits.

Duplicated layer and multiplied to enrich color
Virtual Painter 4
Blended light blue to tone down
Selective dodge and burn
Added texture and lightly unsharpened
Edged

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[Neve]

I do like that Sidis, well done!

[jaykita]

Excellent Rô. Care to tell what "cartoon" action?
Neve, Sidis, great results
J.C. today i had as much fun as u, i'm sure of it
Art History brush coupled with ps7 wc filter.

[byRo]

Originally Posted by jaykita

J.C. today i had as much fun as u, i'm sure of it
Art History brush coupled with ps7 wc filter.

I'd given up on art history, seeing the work of you guys (and girls), I'll have to reconsider.
Tutorials?

Originally Posted by jaykita

Excellent Rô. Care to tell what "cartoon" action?

Based on PStewart's inicial ideas I did two actions to post in the new Resources section - should be there tomorrow (note to me: remember to post link)

Rô

[JustChecking]

Originally Posted by byRo

I'd given up on art history, seeing the work of you guys (and girls), I'll have to reconsider.
Tutorials?

my only advice is to use enough layers for separate parts of the image and fingers on ctrl-z also help
no, kidding, i'd be also interested in jaykita's tut, i've been justMessing so far


@sidis - turned out just great

[jaykita]

Originally Posted by byRo

I'd given up on art history, seeing the work of you guys (and girls), I'll have to reconsider.
Tutorials?
Rô

Ok, here's a tutorial for you. Rô, please tell me what you think.

First of all, for my art history brush, I chose a brush from David Nagel's hair and fur series, downsized to about 4.
I used these settings for my art history brush:
Brush size 1/ mode "darken"/ opacity 100/ style "tight short"/ area 1px/ tolerance 1%.
Start with Original layer 1 - flatten image. In the history palette, create new snapshot, and set source for the history brush.
Go back to the layer's palette, create a new blank layer 2, fill with white 100% opacity. Blend normal.
Duplicate the original layer 1 and pull on top of stack. Reduce its opacity to 50%. This is our template. Layer 3.
Select layer 2, (the white fill layer), It will be highlighted. It is on this layer that our art history brush will create its image.
Go over entire layer once with art history brush using the settings given above. The fun is that you can see your paint strokes, so you have quite a bit of control over your image.
Go over color areas one more time if that's what you want to do.
Switch off layer visibility ( the eye) on layer 3 from time to time to view your creation.
When done, go to layer 3, increase opacity to 100%, and change to overlay blend mode.
Go to Select all - copy merged, and paste as a new layer 4.
Apply filter - artistic - watercolor settings 14,0,1. You can experiment with these settings.
And...you're done. Have fun!

[Janet Petty]

I'm going to be completely contrary here; so bear with me while I try to be articulate (not an easy task for me sometimes ).

Jaykita, you get amazing effects with your art work. I totally and thoroughly am in awe with the artistic things you do. If I had as much talent in my whole body that you have in your little finger, I would count myself happy.

But, I disagree with your Art History thing. It is much easier to get great results without having to toggle back and forth between layers to see your progress. "Switch off layer visibility ( the eye) on layer 3 from time to time to view your creation." Why create a layer three unless you want a safe backup layer? Isn't it much easier to 1. Open the image, 2. Create a background copy, 3. Create a snapshot, 4. Fill the background copy with white (or whatever color you want), 5. Begin painting? That way you never have to toggle between layers to see your progress. You have all the same creative options open and can still add the merged layers, textures, etc. to the final image after painting as desired.

Correct me if wrong. Advice and suggestions are always welcome.

Janet

[kiska]

Thanks, Janet, I surely do struggle with the history brush. When I have lots of layers, I can never get it to work.

kiska

[jaykita]

Do i have to reply?
If you dont have a layer 3, opacity low, then you have a blank white wall in front of you, with a brush that decides all. Like a runaway horse. You go where it takes you.
Maybe the brush is the star, but surely, you would like to be the Director/Producer?
That's all that layer 3 helps you do.
So, I dont quite understand your "Why create a layer three unless you want a safe backup layer". You can delete layer 3 anytime you want. I retained layer 3,overlay blend, it just looked good to me to keep it, thats all.

[JustChecking]

well, i typically create (white) fill layer above the background and set its opacity to 50% or so, and draw in empty layers above this one... that way i can use original as a guide, while clearly seeing what i drew so far

hope it doesn't sound too stupid