Creative Portraits: Wedding Diva

[Steve Conway]

Heck, that's the way I always end up doing this stuff. And why I bore most of you folks to death by posting more than one image. "Hey! This would look good done as...etc,etc." 8-)


Steve

Originally Posted by Kraellin

thanks steve

the funny thing is, this one started out as 'ok, i'm going to try something here. i'm going to do ONE thing and ONE thing ONLY to this image and submit that.' lol. 50 steps later....

craig

[Kraellin]

Heck, that's the way I always end up doing this stuff. And why I bore most of you folks to death by posting more than one image. "Hey! This would look good done as...etc,etc." 8-)

that sounds WAY too familiar

craig

[lkroll]

I repackaged it to be a little more user friendly. Note that I used an image for Orientation (has to be either .BMP or .TIF or .TARGA format according the my system; just save the original image in one of these formats). To get to this control, you need to click on the "More Controls" option.

By the way, there are ways to make for varying sized tiles; did not save this here, but play with those normally hidden options under "More Controls". Pretty cool.

[Nanls]

This is a little different. Used the art history brush on a layer above the original, with a fairly large brush and then smaller on the diva. Used a layer mask to bring back some of the detail to the diva, but let the dress merge into the background.
~Nancy~

[MargaretM]

My attempt at this great photo. Used Painter to do chalk sketch(clone mode). Then added edges on a new layer in Painter. Back to Photoshop and used Skylight filter.
To compare work methods, I also tried the chalk filter in Impressionist plugin and was really surprised at it's quality, especially given the time difference of making every stroke in Painter as opposed to watching the status gaze in Impressionist. Oh well - live and learn.
MargaretM

[Duv]

Happy New Year everyone!! Thought I'd try a solarizing effect but instead of the filter I used a W curve.

Cheers
Dave

[PamSav]

Thanks for finding such a beautiful image for us to play with Danny !

I simplified this with Gertrudis first then cloned in Painter with some of my own brushes. Finished and framed in PS.

Larger version: Someday My Prince Will Come

[RL Design]

Here is my artisit view of this bride...

Done with several layers with the paint brush, lightening adjustments and adding noise. Basically just fooling around, but much of the work was hand painted over the orig image. Using PS 7.

The other work on this image is breath taking!

[garazon]

Not quite where I wanted it to end up, but this will have to suffice, Wanted to have a more window detail, but my creativity failed me , maybe later. If someone wants to build from this, feel free.

[ahutton]

Robin, I like yours a lot. Really looks like it was done from scratch by a wonderful artist.

Mine is mostly PSP8

Amy

[lkroll]

I first started out with a Power Tone (Dup for three layers, set the top layer to Value, center layer to Saturation, and fill the base layer with the color of choice). I then blended Impressionist Van Gogh preset with Paint Engine's Arctic preset to get this result (and some additional color/contrast adjustments and mouse smudges too; canvas as well).

[Patricia]

My try at this one.

[palms1]

Some beautiful posts on this one, shame really that it is a model and not a "real" bride who could of kept these with her album.

Keeping to the same trend used the ahb brush
Palms

[Con Looymans]

Here's my attempt.

Duplicated Layer used Motion Blur and screen bend mode. Added Mask to control effect.
Created a Hue/Saturation Layer to help emphasise figure.

Hope you like it

Regards

Con

[pellepiano]

Mostly a lot of textures and blend modes.