Creative Portraits: Ella

[Neve]

Another photo I took on holiday recently of a friend's grand-daughter (11 months). Ella's parents agreed to let me post this photo and any results at RP only.

[Legacy~Art]

Here is mine...

Ella i did in painter first then into photoshop and used a brush that is on trimoons cd...Then added texture and a frame, if you want this picture without the texture let me know.

Elle

Ps.....Thank her parents for allowing us to paint her, she is beautiful, looks like she is crying but nevertheless she is gorgeous!

[Neve]

Elle, that's really lovely, thank you! She wasn't crying, nor had been actually. I posted this because it was a better quality one than most that I took of her. Here's another of her smiling.....

[Legacy~Art]

Neve she is adorable i shall work on that one tomorrow...

Here is a b&w pencil one and a colour one its just the original overlayed the b&w one.

G'night everyone...

[Patricia]

Such a sweet baby! We have our own Ella, my neice's daughter, who will be 1 year old in April.

For your Ella, I played around with levels, and increased the saturation. Then I over-sharpened, and used buzz simplifier. Then played around with selective colors.

After I liked the way the image looked, I added a texture and used the edit-fade command to set the blend mode to hard light to get a high key sketch. Then, continued playing, duplicated the layer, changed blend mode to color dodge, inverted the layer, and applied gaussian blur. Her hair color was off, so I used the eraser at low opacity to bring back some of her original color. Then gently smudged her face to make it baby smooth, like I'm sure it really is.

Well, I think that's it. I was experimenting and didn't keep very good notes. I wish I had, because I think I'm going to want to duplicate this effect on my babies!

[Neve]

What a terrific result Patricia, well done! I hope too that you'll recall your steps taken!

[CJ Swartz]

Such a lovely little one! She does look startled -- at least in my version.

[Xaran]

Lovely pictures to work on.

Christine

[Neve]

A marvellous result CJ.

Christine - Lovely work there, the first one is terrific!

[Neve]

After fiddling in Painter with this and still not happy with it, I opened it in PSP8.1. On a duped layer, Virtual Painter/Collage - Dodge 50% approx.

[jaykita]

Here you go, Pauline! Hope your friend likes my creation. I do enjoy these so-called soft "pencil sketch" effects.
Ella's a beautiful baby, so cute and cuddly-looking! I love babies!

[Legacy~Art]

Neve how lovely!!!

Judy how did you do that? That is gorgeous!

[jaykita]

Originally Posted by Legacy~Art

Judy how did you do that? That is gorgeous!

Thank you Elle! Actually i just replaced the image with another i consider better! The earlier one was a bit darker.
How i achieved this look - Using channel mixer adj, I changed it to b&w, trying to keep the contrast low. Duped the image and applied filter - median on lowest setting. Also filter- noise - despeckle.
Then i used the dodge and burn tools all over the image.
I also observed if you invert the image and apply "softlight" blend, you get some interesting results. Well, I did that too, to this image.
Then merged and repeated with the dodge/burn tools. Dodged out much of the bckgr and did a border with style-bevel and inner shadow.
Thank you once again for your kind words.

[Neve]

That is different! I love it Judy, thank you!

[GOLDCOIN]

Christine... Your first watercolor was just wonderful! Did you do that in Painter?

She is a little living doll... thanks Neve for posting..

First was painted in Painter 8, then in Photoshop.. played with some watercolor brushes used 17 Brush heavy flow scattered" and then blended the two versions.

A custom sketch.. using the same finished version ..
Have larger copies if she wants them..

To view original
http://www.pbase.com/image/41549453/original

http://www.pbase.com/goldcoin/image/41549477/original

[Legacy~Art]

GC - they are gorgeous!!!

[Neve]

Goldcoil - these are marvellous!

[Neve]

Finally I got around to doing gorgeous Ella in Painter. I was basically following a tutorial in the Painter 8 WOW book "Creating a Photo-Painting" by Michael Campbell. Although I didn't follow it to the letter, I liked his approach.

[lkroll]

Hope you all like this one. I really liked how it came out. First, I made the eyes 10% bigger. I then supersharpened just the eyeballs. I then used Flaming Pear's Pixel Trash on a separate layer with adjusted opacity set to Luminosity. I then flattened and did some additional enhancements in GIMP (more comfortable with the layer properties and such in GIMP which I'm more competent using). Flatten and done.

[Peter S]

A couple of sketches here.

Peter

[Steve Conway]

Baby in the comics.

Steve

[Steve Conway]

Just one more.

Steve

[palms]

after all the great posts i couldnt resist a Art History attempt

Palms