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03-21-2005, 10:23 PM
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| Creative Portraits: Mother and Son - Contributed by Legacy She requests: * No distorted/abstract interpretations * To only post interpretations here at RetouchPRO, not at other websites, including your own. She (and I) would appreciate it. Happy creating. ~Danny~  |
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#2
03-22-2005, 01:44 AM
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| Hi Elle, arts not really my thing, but loved the picture, so thought I'd have a go for a change. Hope this posts OK, had to resize and compress a lot to get inside 100K. |
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#3
03-22-2005, 02:37 AM
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| Very Sweet Photo.. Very madonna and child like photo. Thanks for sharing it! Thought I'd try and give it a pen & ink/watercolour feel. Always did love the mixed media warmth. I have no idea since it's 2:30 am how I got to this end actually. I just played with it til it felt right. I'll keep better notes next time! Teri |
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03-22-2005, 07:59 AM
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| Beautiful!!! Super pictures everyone... This is actually my neice and also my great nephew, they are not mother and son, but my neice Vikki is always babysitting him. Little one is called Cameron, he had an operation a few days ago and was alittle poorly but doing alot better now. |
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03-22-2005, 08:40 AM
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I'm glad you found your way over to the photo-art form and gave this one a go. I know what you mean about staying up late and losing track!!! (LOL)  I hope you'll play along on more of these. - - - - - - - Very nice, Christine. That's one of my favorite brushes. - - - - - - - Judy, I especially like the first one. Which of the Virtual Painter effects did you use? ~Danny~ |
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03-22-2005, 01:47 PM
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When my wife looked at these this morning, her response was, "You're going to upload THOSE?" Not exactly the kind of remarkable remark I was looking for, but I'll keep working at it! That's half the fun.  |
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#11
03-22-2005, 02:08 PM
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| Lovely image of a very sweet moment -- it brings out a lot of creativity from everyone, as evidenced by all your submissions so far. Followed Christine's lead and tried to remove the hair from over her eye, did some color adjustments, then a Sketch-> Notepaper set to Luminosity layer mode (lowered opacity), added a layer mask to bring back some luster in their eyes, etc. |
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#12
03-22-2005, 05:21 PM
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| Had to try this beautiful photo too. I started off by extracting figures from the background, removing badges from girl’s top and resized to 300 dpi. Applied slight buzz simplify to duplicate and smudged to remove jpeg artifacts. Used a bit of dodging on the dark areas around the little boy’s eyes. Added gradient background in soft peach from photo. Duplicated and used smart blur, edges only to get the outline then blurred outline with gaussian blur. Applied Multiply blend mode to edges and reduced opacity. Took snapshot of image (select all, copy merged, paste into new layer) and applied watercolour filter. Overlaid b/w clouds layer to background area. Applied circular gradient mask to soften edges. |
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#13
03-22-2005, 05:30 PM
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| Pam that is just perfect, i shall email you back now... |
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03-22-2005, 07:24 PM
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| Wonderful result, Pam. Sure glad you're back! |
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03-22-2005, 09:33 PM
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| OK, first try Hi everyone!  I've watched this forum for a while now, and finally decided to play. I'm not real crazy about the outcome, but I had a good time doing it, and it gave me a much needed break from restoration work. I had no ideas of posting this, so I'm so sorry I don't know how I got here. I know I played with the USM and Emboss filters as well as Saturation and Contrast adjustment layers. Next time I'll keep track of what I do. You'll see more of me and I have some nice pics for evryone to play with.  |
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03-22-2005, 10:50 PM
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Great to have you join us. Not to worry about not being totally thrilled with the resuts. Sometimes ya do, sometimes ya don't. The important thing is to have given it a go and learned something in the process -- and of course have a little fun in the process which you mentioned. Ya done good. Keep on playing along. ~Danny~ |
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03-22-2005, 10:57 PM
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| Fizzgiz -- welcome to the Art threads -- I think you'll find it's relaxing to work with an image that doesn't have pieces missing or 1000 cracks in its surface.  I think you'll also find it's a good way to learn even more about your photo editing software because you end up trying filters and layer adjustments that you would not usually try in retouch/restoration.I know we're supposed to keep track of the steps we follow so that others can re-trace our steps if they want to try to reach some of the same effects, but it takes time to get in the habit -- you'll get better at it in time. It's good practice to label your layers with the steps you've taken -- that said, I often just carried away with trying things and forget to label -- and then if I get a result I like, I sometimes can't figure out how to do it again. So, get in the habit early --- you'll be glad you did! |
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03-23-2005, 01:05 PM
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| Hello..... Here is mine...I also did a oil painting of this but as i signed my full name on it i shall just upload this one. Black White Pencil drawing a'la carte! Variety of Trimoon and my own technique added too. |
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#19
03-23-2005, 03:52 PM
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Thank you Danny! A Very nice message for my 40th birthday (today). I'll certainly keep an eye on this area. Just found it, and it's a lovely place to visit! ~Teri~ |
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#20
03-23-2005, 03:54 PM
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| Thanks so much for the warm welcome!! I really did have fun doing this and it was very relaxing. I agree with you CJ in that I did learn more by playing with adjustments and filters that I might not think to use in restoration. I'll be posting a pic for everyone to play with soon. BTW, I loved everyone's work on this one. It was a great pic to begin with, as I feel the bond between mother and son was visible. I may actually play with it again!  |
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03-23-2005, 05:46 PM
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| Welcome to the forum!!! They are very close...Cameron is one of those babies that everyone falls in love with, he has such a cheeky charm. |
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#23
04-07-2005, 09:21 AM
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| Changed angle Cropped. Knocked out subjects. Light simplification. Color balance. contrast adj. Used sketchmaster for most of the texture (bg & subject). Hue & sat adj. Painted out edges. Added shadows & some highlights. |
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04-09-2005, 01:33 AM
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Looks like you used the Impressionist plugin on the grayscale painting part... Pencil Sketch - Detailed Monochrome. Yes? No? Something else? |
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#26
04-09-2005, 02:08 PM
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| Thank you for the nice comment. Since I don't use PS or PSP as yet, I am not sure if what I did relates to those plugins or not. I use MS Picture It and ArcSoft's PhotoStudio along with Irfanview for my editing. When I started editing a few months ago, that was what I had on my system so continued to use. I am still learning what I can do with them and to what extent things can be adjusted. I am finding more and more daily. One of these days, I may instll PS and/or PSP, but until then, my descriptions may be just a tad confusing to others due to the software that I presently have.  |
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#27
04-11-2005, 09:47 AM
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As you have shown, impressive works can be rendered using programs that aren't among those most commonly used. ~Danny~ |
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04-11-2005, 09:50 AM
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| LQQker i adore your picture, you have made my little nephew and neice look very lively, thanks... Love everyones pictures!!! Hey Danny get adding more of those pictures i sent to you!!! |
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01-10-2007, 11:20 PM
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| Re: Creative Portraits: Mother and Son - Contributed by Legacy Very nice Peter. It is one of the best "cartooned" I've seen lately. Janet |
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