Creative Portraits: Bonnie Brunette

[Neve]

Another nice photo to play with courtesy of http://gal.mvc.ru/

[Neve]

I applied brushstrokes to the background.
Duped bottom layer
Smudged her skin (got rid of blemishes)
Xero/Caravaggio Filter at 80%
Merged both layers
Smudged blemishes again
Applied a faded border in black(Filters Unlimited)
Cropped the image.
Canvas texture.

[Janet Petty]

I wanted to see what could be done with just filters. And surprise, surprise I actually liked the result.

I extracted the model from the background and gave her sophistication a step downward by placing her in front of an old barn. I tweaked the old wood by using hue/sat and then merged the result. I made a copy of the barn and applied a very heavy motion blur to it. I applied a filter I had never tried called reticulation and followed that by using emboss and high pass. This layer was overlayed with the layer below and merged. I then made a copy of that new merged layer and moved it above the model and applied the overlay mode with a greatly reduced opacity.

The motion blur was applied on the model to a much less degree than the barn; then I used several filters to achieve a look I was pleased with. The next to last step was copy merged and angled strokes was used twice. After all was said and done, I decided to use the channel mixer and make the whole thing grayscale. Go figure; all that work and I liked the b/w version the best.

Janet

[Neve]

I like it too Janet, terrific result!

[corona2632]

I applied Corel Painter 9 (painted by mouse: Artist's oil brush and Blenders) and Potoshop CS.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by corona2632

I applied Corel Painter 9 (painted by mouse: Artist's oil brush and Blenders) and Potoshop CS.

I should have looked at this one first. Did you use Artist's Oils on "Lady with a Rose" also?

[corona2632]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

I should have looked at this one first. Did you use Artist's Oils on "Lady with a Rose" also?

Thank you very much for your good words!
I use Artist's Oils (Painter 9) on "Lady with a Rose" also.
But I can use also other Painter's brushes. Oil brushes, Blender...

[corona2632]

Pencil sketch on old paper (photoshop CS only)

[cardmnal]

Extracted the lass, desaturated and duplicated.
Back on original layer extracted lips.
On lass 1 layer, applied crosshatch filter, switched to overlay mode and blended with lass 2 layer.
Moved lips layer to top of stack and switched to overlay.
Put these three layers into a layer group, Moved group, lasso, inverse selection, feather to 25, delete.

Created back ground with a solid fill layer.
New pattern layer>noise pattern.

[Neve]

Fantastic results Card...and Corona. Amazingly creative

[Janet Petty]

Great job everyone. This was a wonderful photo to work with.

Corona, I've just finished visiting your website and looking at your posts here. Your work is top notch; and your style of painting really makes the subjects look like they have been painted. Keep up the good work.

Janet

[jaykita]

Good work everyone!
I started out in painter, my brush was "simple water" (modified). Picked colors from the image. Upped saturation of each color. Some freehand brushwork. Some cloning too.
In ps7 blended with original.

[corona2632]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

Great job everyone. This was a wonderful photo to work with.

Corona, I've just finished visiting your website and looking at your posts here. Your work is top notch; and your style of painting really makes the subjects look like they have been painted. Keep up the good work.

Janet

I shall try, that keep up the good work. Thank you very much for your fine words!

[Neve]

Words almost fail me..... ....but not quite Jaykita....

FABULOUS

[jaykita]

Heehee, thanks Neve, you are SO kind!