Creative Portraits: Autumn Girl

[raniday]

Here's a photo from Stock Xchange that I thought might be fun for us to paint.

[NancyJ]

A quick watercolour I whipped up in PS.

[raniday]

Hi, Nancy You whipped up a very nice watercolor effect. How did you do that?

[NancyJ]

Would have posted before but I'm supposed to be working

1. Duplicate background layer (ofcourse) - 3 times
Layers should then be:

Layer 3
Layer 2
Layer 1
Background

2. Set Layer 3 blending mode to colour
3. Desaturate layer 1
4. Desaturate and invert layer 2
5. Set Layer 2 blending mode to colour dodge
6. On layer 2 filter -> blur -> gaussian blur - adjust to tastes - on this one I used a radius of 100.
7. If required add your favorite blur to layer 1

[NancyJ]

For a wetter look:
8. Apply a small gaussian blur to layer 1
9. Filter -> Stylise -> Find Edges
10. Edit -> Fade -> 30% Colour burn

[Alcar]

Another watercolor. Impressionist plugin with 3 custom styles.
Alan

[twinkissed]

Not sure what I would call this.... used posterization, gaussian blur, diffuse, texturizer (rust flakes) and then painted with the brush tool. From the shaky lines I think maybe I should go easy on the coffee. LOL. It looks better higher quality but had to reduce to put on here.

[raniday]

Nancy, beautiful second effort as well. Thanks for the details. Hey, all work and no play.........well, you know
Alan, that's gorgeous. Are these some of the custom styles that you shared?
Twin, really neat effects. I used that rust flake texture recently and wondered why I'd waited so long.

[Alcar]

Catherine, no. These are new styles that I am still working on trying to get a decent looking watercolor. Below is a zip file with a set of four different versions and I would be interested in comments on anyone's experience with these styles.
Alan

[raniday]

Alan, you knew I was hinting for these! Thanks so much. I'm downloading them now.

[twinkissed]

Nothing serious here, this picture was just too much fun to play with.

[Legacy~Art]

Oh wow Cat gorgeous picture to use!

Look at you guys great pictures...

Allen i asked in the Ali thread would you like me to send you some chocs being the 2nd, and i heard nothing, anyhow...

Allen would you do a script for your pencil drawing please?

And thank you for this script...Like collecting them.

Ella

[ahutton]

I really like this pic. I desaturated, impressionist, median filter, soft focus/halo and VP oil.

Hi res, which of course if much better, is at http://www.bigbluebird.com/fallgirl.jpg

Amy

[Steve Conway]

Did a lot of playing around with a little of everything on this one. Still not sure what I did is anything postable. Sometimes one's inspiration falters. Don't say you weren't warned.

Steve

[PamSav]

Great photo to play with Cat !

Nancy - I love your watercolour look !

Alan - thanks for sharing your Impressionist styles, you got a great result.

Here's mine, smudged in Photoshop. Larger version available here: Autumn Girl