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10-06-2005, 03:00 PM
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| | | Creative Portraits: Asian Girl I followed someone else's link to this site & found some great faces to practice on. Here's one that tugged at my heart. In the original she seems to have a sad expression, but is guarding it. My perception, anyway. I wanted to accentuate the sadness & eliminate the guardedness. Did I succeed? I'd love to see some more versions of her. | 
10-06-2005, 03:41 PM
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| | | How about this one been practising using sketchmaster
Palms | 
10-06-2005, 07:06 PM
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| | | Very nice Palms - I tried doing something similar but couldn't get satisfied with it.
A newbie question for anyone who feels like answering: this site that I linked to - do I understand correctly that anyone is free to use these pics for any non-commercial reason? I mean, you couldn't sell a painting adapted from a pic, but it's ok to practice on? There was next to no info provided by the site. | 
10-07-2005, 01:05 AM
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| | | First off I used Levels to adjust contrast, Hue/Saturation to boost saturation and Selective Color to make the colors look more interesting (to me, anyway).
Then I tryed (for the first time) a technique called "smudge painting," where I used Photoshop's Smudge Tool to smear the pixels followed by sharpening, then smear some more, sharpen some more, then a final smear.
Under the right circumstances, I think this method has promise.
Nice pic to work with. Thanks, Neasa, for finding/posting the link to a gold mine of pics and starting this thread.
re: [do]I understand correctly that anyone is free to use these pics for any non-commercial reason? I mean, you couldn't sell a painting adapted from a pic, but it's ok to practice on?
That's how I would interpret the verbiage on the site.
~Danny~ | 
10-07-2005, 02:13 AM
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| | It's early in the morning, I'm almost alone in office and Photoshop Elements is ready to go..
What does that mean? Right..
Edit: Did a small update
Last edited by Drach; 10-07-2005 at 02:23 AM.
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10-07-2005, 05:14 AM
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| | | Wow, Danny - that's great! The colors are much more interesting & vivd.
I've only used the smudge tool as a fixer, never thought about using it like this. I'll give it a try. | 
10-07-2005, 07:16 AM
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| | | Nice one Danny but beware smudging gets addictive ! ! ! ! !
Drach similar posting but how did you do yours ?
Palms | 
10-07-2005, 10:02 AM
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| | | Bottom layer = colored pencil - standard setting 100%
Middle layer = coal (dark grey/beige) - lighten 100%
Top layer = graphic pen + a slight gaussian blur - multiply 80%
Last edited by Drach; 10-12-2005 at 04:50 AM.
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10-07-2005, 10:50 AM
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| | | Nice colorful image to work with.
Steve | 
10-07-2005, 11:50 AM
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| | | Another approach.
Steve | 
10-07-2005, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Neasa Wow, Danny - that's great! The colors are much more interesting & vivd.
I've only used the smudge tool as a fixer, never thought about using it like this. I'll give it a try. | Thank you for your kind words. Important!
The more vivid colors came from preparing the image before smudging began. With adjustment layers I cranked up the Saturation and messed considerably with Selective Color settings before merging their effects on the original Background onto a new layer.
Smudging only smudged the "new" colors. | 
10-07-2005, 04:00 PM
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| | | Great creations! I went to the above link and could only download the thumbnails. How do you get to the high res images? I clicked on the small image, nothing.Also control/click, still just the small one. I have a mac.
Thanks | 
10-07-2005, 07:45 PM
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| | Some very nice renditions! You folks are soooo good!
Here's my attempt at a Gauguin look. Not exactly Tahitian Women, but it was fun. | 
10-08-2005, 04:02 AM
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| | | Nevermind the download problem above. Tried a different browser and it worked. | 
10-10-2005, 10:26 PM
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| | | Asian Girl done with SA I used 3 layers in Studio Artists then finished in PScs2. |
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