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Old 07-18-2006, 03:23 PM
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Creative Portraits Blue Boy
Another nice portrait from Stock Exchange


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Old 07-18-2006, 04:05 PM
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Baby in Blue...

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Old 07-18-2006, 04:37 PM
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Nice pic!
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Old 07-18-2006, 04:39 PM
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I liked this guy so much I did two versions

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Old 07-18-2006, 07:57 PM
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Like them all, but I especially like ...
...the mural Steve. Fantastic.

Attached is my feeble attempt.
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Old 07-18-2006, 11:25 PM
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wanted to keep this one quite soft and focus on the eyes,
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Old 07-18-2006, 11:56 PM
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lk, marvelous. really like that one.

nancy, love the soft tones.

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Old 07-19-2006, 12:42 AM
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thought i'd do the waif thing

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Old 07-19-2006, 03:55 AM
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Lovely cute photo (bet his a demon though) used ahb

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Old 07-19-2006, 06:34 AM
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Thanks for the most generous & welcome comment, Ikroll.

And in your "feeble attempt" , I see a combination of sketch, painting, and, saturation enhancement all in a neat package. Nice one.

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...the mural Steve. Fantastic.

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Old 07-19-2006, 08:15 AM
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Palms, nice job...what exactly is ahb?

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Old 07-19-2006, 08:49 AM
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Amy thanks ahb =art history brush in ps

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Old 07-19-2006, 08:50 AM
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Amy, ahb=art history brush.

SA bez outliner, PS photo filters.
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That explains it. I'm a die hard PSP user. I have PS but I rarely open it. The main gripe I have about PS is that every time you want to "go back" or remove an effect you have to do an Edit> Undo. PSP has a one click undo.

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Old 07-19-2006, 10:58 AM
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kiska, very nice! i wonder what that would look like with the same blues except skin tones on the face.

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Old 07-19-2006, 11:06 AM
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Amy, I use the shortcut in PS to undo....Command+Z (mac).
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Old 07-19-2006, 12:52 PM
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Amy in ps you should have a pallette with layers ,channels,paths,history,actions and presets when you want to undo you use the history and "step back", There is a bit more to it than this but it is a start. The earlier versions of ps didnt have the ahb brush though, if yours does have it give it a go you will enjoy it

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ps just saw Kiska's reply sorry for doubling up but there again i didnt know the shortcut so thanks
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Old 07-19-2006, 05:04 PM
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i thought i'd give this a try -- went for a painted on canvas look.
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Old 07-30-2006, 01:34 PM
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Well the background I made blue anyway. lol
Here's another one.
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Nancy...very nice...
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Old 07-30-2006, 05:52 PM
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Nancy...I keep going back to your picture...I really like it. I'm sure what you did was easy for you, but I'm not sure where to start to create this look. In one of your previous post you said if you had a before and an after you could show...would you...PLEASE. I was wondering the tools you used. Did you smudge? I like the deep blue and the color of the skin...again very nice.
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I ended up with a messed up photo, that I decided to post anyway... to make a background for the rest of postings.

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Old 08-12-2006, 12:58 PM
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My effort at this one
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Old 10-30-2006, 02:58 PM
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Coloured sketch thing from me.
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