Creative challenge 001: Pamela in BW

[Neve]

Shoshanna, super result from your addiction. I'm sorry to say there's no known cure for it except a power cut

[Neve]

Thought I'd have another go in Painter trying the Pencils. Tweaked in PSP8.1

[raniday]

Some wonderful interpretations here, everyone. I gave her a new background and inverted it, then ran Mike Finn's Sketcher, did some dodging & smudging to remove some of the specks, played w/ layer modes, and applied Dave's Ethereal Glow @ 70%.

[Peter S]

How could I do something different, look at whats gone before all brilliant.
Well I tried, and here it is.


BTW if your going to have a go at this make sure you read the first post.


Peter

[Steve Conway]

The little lady in shades of gray.

Steve C.

[zganie]

did a channel mixing layer then a face light then bacground light in layers

zganie

[lkroll]

I needed a diversion to fine art. I dupped for three layers, used Mathmap to desaturate the image (like the result better then regular desaturation; just more excuses to play with my new toy), set the result to Grain Extract. Merged the Top two layers and set the resulting layer to divide to get the Highkey/contrast result. Final regular desat step and some contrast enhancements.

[Michele2u]

My version..alittle small sorry.

[Cimarron]

Wonderful inspirational efforts from everyone
I'm still pushing buttons and today I found the salt and pepper filter, how on earth do you remember them all!

I do know I'm going to have to get a tablet, it's hard using the mouse, and upgrade my old 'puter. I downloaded Painter but the poor old girl just froze on me lol!

Still, there's lots to learn with what I've got and here's my take on Pamela.
Touched up skin, smoothed, highlighted eyes and mouth and into the lightroom....see I'm starting to remember what I've done

[phil bourne]

Here's my attempt. A fairly straightforward B&W conversion. I wanted to go for a high key look so lightened the background did a bit of dodging and burning, duped the backgound layer and ran it through Diffuse Glow and reduced opacity.

[Cassidy]

Using Channel Mixer, but different settings on two different parts of the pic

[glikster]

funny, my niece's name is shoshana.

A bunch of color half-tones and a bitmap overlay with layer masks.

[pavel123]

Sketch in PS, then chalk brushes in Painter, some texture, charpening in PS.

[LonK]

I didn't have time for this month's contest, so here's my attempt at vexelization in B&W.

[pavel123]

Lonnie, teffific rendition.
Could you share your technique?

Pavel