Creative Interpretations: School Band

[Swampy]

As a life long "Band Mom", I really enjoyed working on this piece. High school band is a great tradition and I know how much my son enjoyed and benefitted from both his high school and college marching experiences.

I went a little whimsical and added a mediveal flutist to conjure up the ghost of musicians past. Just a piece of Illustrator clipart with some noise/GBlur added and a shadow to set him in place among the other musicians.

[cardmnal]

This is a fun photo to work with and I love all the different renditions.

Lots of layers on this.

-Duplicated background and made a pretty rough selection, inversed,deleted background, inversed again and filled all the band members and shadows with black, styled with outer glow of yellow.
-Duplicate background, gausian blur, multiply, and back off opacity to about 72%,
-New layer, filled with green and slid it under my background copy layer.
-New layer, drew my grid adjusted perspective and copied
-Pasted grid to another new layer, and flipped it horizontal. combined these two grid layers and placed them under background copy and above fill layer.
-New layer, rectangular selection, filled with gradient, slid under background copy above grid.
-Flattened visible, added noise.

This is pretty close to what I did though there were a couple other steps that I cannot remember.

I had to save as a GIF in order to maintain file size to be posted on RP.

[Swampy]

Love the silhouette look, Card

[cardmnal]

This was interesting, took the above image and ran a fresco filter at 55% opacity.

Not sure which one I like better though.

[TylerRB]

Can't recall really what I did here as it was a week ago or so.

Can be guaranteed that the levels and curves were adjusted though....

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