Creative Portraits: Mother and Son - Contributed by Legacy

[DannyRaphael]

Legacy-Art (aka Elle) contributed this photo on behalf of a friend.

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~

[Gary Richardson]

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.

[terivon]

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

[Xaran]

Cropped, removed hair from face in PS.

Painter IX - Flat Oil Cloner

Christine

[jaykita]

Lovely picture, Elle! I felt it deserved a soft, romantic touch.
V.Painter, impr filter, render-clouds, buzz, cutout filter.

[jaykita]

Elle, hope your friend likes this one, coz i do, a LOT!
Achieved this effect with several snapshots and the history brush.

[Legacy~Art]

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.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by terivon

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

Welcome back, Teri:

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.

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Very nice, Christine. That's one of my favorite brushes.

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Judy, I especially like the first one. Which of the Virtual Painter effects did you use?

~Danny~

[jaykita]

Hey Danny. Thanks. Aren't u going to send in one of your remarkable creations??
Re: Which of the Virtual Painter effects did i use--- the watercolor filter. Lowest setting. Low opacity.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by jaykita

Re: Which of the Virtual Painter effects did i use--- the watercolor filter. Lowest setting. Low opacity.

Thx for the VP options. VP WC can generate a nice effect and some great colors.

Aren't u going to send in one of your remarkable creations??

You're very kind, Judy. As a matter of fact I'm experimenting with a different kind of process. It's not "there" yet -- and may never "get there," but if it does I'll definitely share the details.

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.

[CJ Swartz]

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.

[PamSav]

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.

[Legacy~Art]

Pam that is just perfect, i shall email you back now...

[DannyRaphael]

Wonderful result, Pam.

Sure glad you're back!

[Fizzgiz]

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.