Creative Interpretations: School Band

[CJ Swartz]

I went to a small town parade and took this image of a school band.

Hope it catches your interest!

[CJ Swartz]

Top layer is copy of original run thru the new Xero Caravaggio filter; set to Overlay layer blend mode --

next layer is the masked-out result from the Red channel after running Levels to increase contrast --- ran the Distort --> Wave filter on mostly the dark areas, then I changed the color to a yellowish hue; set to Overlay layer blend mode;

Bottom layer is color range selection for sky blue and tree green plus a bit of the street added by hand in quick mask -- ran Paint Engine's "Riverwild" filter;

[Neve]

Amazing result CJ, unusual chevron pattern! Thanks for the photo, I had fun with it...

PaintShopPro 8.1

Enhanced colours first.
Buzz Simplifier (Setting 2)
Filters Unlimited 2.0/Render/Color Clouds - Soft Light - Layer Mode ???
( ....useful for using prior to adding a WC filter....)
Impressionist Plugin/Jaykita's WC A
Duped and multiplied next layer at 50%
Merged both layers.

[CJ Swartz]

Oooooh, Neve -- lovely, light and cheery result! Gives me the feeling that I had while I was there.

[Neve]

If it gave you some cheer, then I'm happy!

[kiska]

Thought these guys needed a little color. Dup, b/w, smudge, aniso, cutout. Color fills.

[CJ Swartz]

Originally Posted by kiska

Thought these guys needed a little color.

The crowd can see them coming at Least a mile away now!
Thanks, Kiska!

[SWEngineer]

Nice pic CJ.

A: BG - expanded to 800px wide
B: Impressionist - JCHPainter w/ some modification
C: copy B. LightingEffects (blue texture). Aniso. Distort>Glass(frosted). [Hardlight, 50%]
D: Levels Adj to darken
E: Hue/Sat to inc. saturation
F: A texturizer layer [Overlay]

Lost some of the detail sampling size back down & JPGing

-Mark

[jaykita]

Motion blur, change hue, layer mask with drop shadow, bevel and emboss, color overlay, colorburn blend with original. Intrigued by Manju's technique!!

[CJ Swartz]

Mark, Judy -- nice work, each of you -- and very different techniques, to say the least!

[Janet Petty]

WOW, I really like what everyone has come up with in this thread. They are all so different. What a wonderful, creative variety.

Lately, however, my creativity has been running a tad to the wild and crazy (must be the meds I'm on ). Jaykita, yours in especially marvelous.

Janet

[jaykita]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

Lately, however, my creativity has been running a tad to the wild and crazy (must be the meds I'm on ). Jaykita, yours in especially marvelous.

Janet

Hey Janet, thanks...i may have forgotten my pepcid that day

[DannyRaphael]

For the longest time I could never figure out why, when I applied a Posterize adjustment layer with Levels = 3, there always seemed to be a whole lot more than 3 colors.

Now I get it: 3 levels x 3 color channels (RGB) = 9 distinct colors.

If you start with a grayscale image (which I did in this case), all the channels are the same... so Levels = 3 results in Black, White and 50% Gray.

*The light goes on!*

Thank you, CJ, for helping me put a piece in the puzzle!

~Danny~

[CJ Swartz]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

...when I applied a Posterize adjustment layer with Levels = 3, ...Now I get it: 3 levels x 3 color channels (RGB) = 9 distinct colors.

If you start with a grayscale image (which I did in this case), all the channels are the same... so Levels = 3 results in Black, White and 50% Gray.

*The light goes on!*

Thank you, CJ, for helping me put a piece in the puzzle!

~Danny~

Always happy to "be of help" to our Photo Art leader
Thank YOU, Danny, for sharing that info -- I hadn't even thought about it..., and if I had, probably wouldn't have "seen the light".

P.S. -- I really like the effect of the Posterization on this image!

[Manjumena]

Basics were on a duplicated copy Distro>pola> rect to polar
Brush strokes> Angled strokes (50/15/3)
distro>pola> polar to rect.
Then USM
Add hue
(did not add any texture)
Manju

[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....

T