Creative Portraits: Wedding Diva

[DannyRaphael]

I'll bet you'll be able to do some fun things with this one.

Image source: http://retrodiva.deviantart.com via the tutorial here:
http://www.artworld.si/e_painting_wi...torial-223.art

(It appears the link to the source image may no longer be working )

Remember to share the filters, plugins and/or brushes you use, so others can learn from your creativity.

Have fun!

~Danny~

[Janet Petty]

This is a WONDERFUL picture to have worked on. The AHB is my friend...finally.

Janet

[Legacy~Art]

Retouch wedding, oh i did get excited, i thought someone in the group had got hitched!

All i did was smudge paint, then add texture, then saved it from the photoshop7 then took it into psp7 did the mask so it has jagged edges, then frame it in psp7.

[dkcoats]

That was a fun one.
A little shadow/highlight and dupe layer/gauss blur/overlay, then AHB a la Trimoon.

dc

[Steve Conway]

Another Diva interpretation.

Steve

[Serissa]

I enjoyed doing this one, I use psp 7
I used usm, then darken and lighten layer modes,
smudged, sharpened
soft light layer mode.

[byRo]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

This is a WONDERFUL picture to have worked on. The AHB is my friend...finally.

Glad to see you've tamed the wild horses, Janet.

Rô

[lkroll]

I modified an Impressionist setting to create this tile mosaic. (See below.)
The full size rendering is located here (near 500K).

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The custom styles can be found in post #28 of this thread:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-art-resources/8328-impressionist-plugin-custom-styles-member-posted.html

[Cassidy]

Paint daubs filter and art history brush

[cazubi]

This is a very nice image. I used Painter's Sargent brushes using cloned colores. PS for texture and some smudging and Trimoon lighting effects.

Cathy

[raniday]

Beautiful bride paintings, everyone! This is a fun photo to play with. I tweaked her a little in PS, then went to Painter.

My canvas texture doesn't look very good at low res, so here's a link to a higher res version:
http://www.pbase.com/image/54059229

[Kraellin]

lovely picture. lovely renditions.

added one also.

craig

[Steve Conway]

That's a winner Craig!

Steve

Originally Posted by Kraellin

lovely picture. lovely renditions.

added one also.

craig

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by lkroll

I've included the preset (zipped it up so that I could upload) with this submission as well. Have fun.

Appreciate you packaging/sharing your custom style.

(From your other thread) I know what you mean about "Man, I will never master Impressionist." But it is sure fun to keep learning more about it!

Need a favor: It needs to be repackaged...

Why? It's nearly impossible to find your preset(s) among all the ones that are already installed.

Recommendation on how to do it (see attached image):
* Specify a unique Category name = easier to find your presets
* Specify a leading character such as #. This causes custom categories to be listed at the top of the flyout menu = even easier for others to find.
* Use the same Category and File (.set) name = easy to keep track of what's where among your .set files.

If you'd make these changes and upload the new .zip (add it to this thread, if you would, please),

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8328

then I'll be able to try out try out your handiwork. I'll add links from this and the Bara thread to the fixed .zip, too, OK?

TIA...

~Danny~

[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

[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.

[palms]

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.