Creative Portraits: Little Angelic Smile

[PamSav]

As far as I know, you can only get Jeremy's Mish Mash brush with the Painter IX Creativity book by Jeremy Sutton. It's a great book for learning Painter, I'm still on the first chapter and I've learnt loads already !! The book comes with a CD full of goodies and the brush is one of the ones on that.

Pam

[Legacy~Art]

Thats nice but you have a baby arms with a 5 yr olds head. Its not in proportion, i like the idea though.

[Kraellin]

legacy,

if you're referring to mine, yes, i know. it was the best image of an angel i could find. i'm not real happy with it either, but like you, i liked the idea of it

K.

[Kraellin]

ok, not being happy with my last one, i decided to do another, but with a more conventional style. i just want to make a better pic of the little girl. the original picture had quite a few things wrong with it and it took me a while to sort out all the things that bugged me with it, but i think i've got a passable shot this time.

doubled the image size to get more detail in corrections
cropped the image
altered the background with a selection and gradient fill
corrected color tones with contrast layer, levels set to color, and color blending
reduced noise and grain with texture preserving smooth and edge preserving smooth
smoothed out some odd textures with smudge and clone
added lighting effects with illumination/lights
more minor corrections with smudge
more lighting effects with illumination/lights, especially to bring out her face

i wouldnt call this a studio shot; it's more bordering on studio versus photo art, a combination of both. but such an adorable little girl needed better treatment

K.

[Kraellin]

i knew as soon as i posted that last one and looked at it that i hadnt gotten it. so, i redid it. i like this one better.

K.

[Legacy~Art]

That is beautiful Kraellin!!!

Lovely picture!

[Kraellin]

thank you, Legacy

one of the things i love about this site is the support and feedback from other folks like yourself. i've been on other sites where if you posted something like this, you might get 1000 views, but only one in that 1000 might comment, good or bad. an artist tends to live and breathe on feedback. this is true of performing arts, graphic arts, musical and all the other arts. thus, we tend to be somewhat at the mercy of our respective audiences. so, without any feedback, one can get the feeling one isnt doing anything worthwhile at times...we're having no effect.

with feedback, even if it's a decent criticism, we tend to grow and flourish and get better and continue to produce. and this place is definitely a place that enhances and encourages growth.

so, again, thank you, and to all the others that do the same

K.

[Kraellin]

Legacy,

i'm sorry, i dont understand. i was thanking the folks here, not asking for help, but thanks for the offer

i use psp 7.

K.

[lkroll]

This time I decided to link the image since I wanted to show a higher quality than the 100K limit (you can see the file size underneath the link image). I'm still experimenting with brush textures (this one created using Gimpressionist). Hope you all like it.

Side note: I used Impressionist with djrOil24 preset and some other things before this step. I used GIMP's bumpmap for relief texture.