Creative Portraits: Toody's Hunk

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by tjacobs

How about a pencil sketch? I got rid of the background desaturated the image and used the graphite_2 plugin of the gimp. I played around with the trc curves to get the sketch the way I wanted. The grayscale is a layer under the graphite_2 layer to give some depth. Finally, the color original is at the bottom of the layer stack. I used some masking to let some of the color back into the image for the face and neck.

Nicely done, Tim. One of the best of this type of effect I've seen in some time. You do have the Gimp touch!

Keep 'em coming...

[toodaloo toody]

great work everyone

there is so much to do on this site, there is no end for creative minds


toodaloo to you

[Andrew B.]

I oversharpened with FocalBlade, and then got rid of excess noise with mild buZZ. Then went over face and neck with different smudge brushes. Adjust color and saturation. Add background (which is a digital backdrop from a collection I bought).

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Andrew B.

I oversharpened with FocalBlade, and then got rid of excess noise with mild buZZ. Then went over face and neck with different smudge brushes. Adjust color and saturation. Add background (which is a digital backdrop from a collection I bought).

Bravo Andrew! Great painted effect + the background is perfect!

You inspired me again...
* Duplicated background
* Added a layer below that and filled with white
* Back to duplicated background layer: added a layer mask and painted with black to isolate (knockout) subject
* Merged top two layers
* Over sharpened (Unsharp Mask)
* Buzz Simplifier 2 (this rendered some of the interesting color highlights)
* Sharpened again
* Smoothed (smudged) a few places
* Saved/closed
* Opened in Painter 8
* Went over with Blender > Grainy Blender
* Saved/closed
* Opened in Photoshop again
* Duplicated Background
* Sharpened with Unsharp Mask (270,2)
* Added a layer mask and airbrushed black to suppress some areas that needed to be toned down

Thank you Andrew, for sharing your creativity and giving me an idea for a different approach.

~Danny~

[toodaloo toody]

those are great and thanks for sharing your process

I love em'

[Andrew B.]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

You inspired me again...

You got a nice painted effect there. And after seeing all the hand work you did to refine the brush strokes, I looked back at mine and realized it could have benefited from more smudge brush.

[Neve]

Well done everyone, I'm too busy to comment individually for now but certainly enjoying the views, thank you!

PSP8.1

PR/Black and White Studio on bottom layer
Duped bottom layer
L2 - Impressionist/Conte: Unsmudged
L2 - erased to reveal eyes, lips and nose

Merged layers and added borders.
I selected the gray border colour and used
Greg's Pool Shadow (free filter)

[jaykita]

Great job on a great looking guy, everyone!!
Danny, i used your impressionist #djr smudge paint 3L, i LOVE it!!!
Started out taking 2 snapshots, one of lighting effect (trimoon's pencil sketch modified), another of charcoal sketch filter, and on a white layer painted with history brush (chalk brush). Duped this and applied danny's impr filter. Lowered the opacity. Merged.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by jaykita

Great job on a great looking guy, everyone!!
Danny, i used your impressionist #djr smudge paint 3L, i LOVE it!!!
Started out taking 2 snapshots, one of lighting effect (trimoon's pencil sketch modified), another of charcoal sketch filter, and on a white layer painted with history brush (chalk brush). Duped this and applied danny's impr filter. Lowered the opacity. Merged.

Wow! Nice combination of effects, Judy.

I like the hint of abstractness mixed with "realism."