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[pavel123]

This photo was taken from sxc.

Pavel

[pavel123]

A watercolor attempt. Photoshop, Impressionist filter

Pavel

[lkroll]

More accurately, a GREYCstoration assisted smudge (a few other friends involved tool, but that's my secret).

[Alcar]

A watercolor using PaintEngine.
Alan

[palms]

A ahb version for me great work everyone so far

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Not for everyone, but may be interesting to some.

Steve

[Steve Conway]

This may be more in the line of what most people prefer.

Steve

[mistermonday]

I tried for a less distorted look on this one.
Regards, Murray

[Steve Conway]

Soft focus technique.

Steve

[DannyRaphael]

This one is a little "out there," but since I was experimenting with the AKVIS sketch plugin, that's OK:
* Image > Image size: Width 12", 80 ppi
* Base layer created by opening up shadows and her eye color with levels and boosting saturation
* AKVIS sketch applied to a copy of Base
* VP Oils applied twice to sketch layer to ket the wet paint on paper look
* Paint Engine > Wetter applied to sketch layer for more wet look
* Base layer duplicated and dragged to top of layer stack, hide all layer mask added, blend mode changed from Normal to Color
* Base layer duplicated and dragged to top of layer stack, hide all layer mask added, blend mode changed from Normal to Hue
* Base layer duplicated and dragged to top of layer stack, hide all layer mask added, blend mode changed from Normal to Saturation
* Airbrushed white on layer masks of top 3 layers to selectively reveal semi-surreal colors

...and we have a Happy Accident!

~Danny~

[MargaretM]

Charcoal brushes in Painter - first primed in PS (Poster edges and blur).
By the way, if anyone has a chance to look at the new Rolling Stone magazine, it has a wonderful full page sketch of Bob Dylan in it. Sort of Picasso style - don't know if it was Photo Art or a freehand sketch, but it is worth looking at. (Also has a great interview with him.)
MargaretM

[Drach]

..finally got me Impressionist and played around a bit with it. Pretty nice tool

[oltenius]

Glamour attempt.
Dan

[Drach]

Originally Posted by oltenius

Glamour attempt.
Dan

Glamour needs to be way more subtle imho, but as an illustration your work rocks da house

[oltenius]

Originally Posted by Drach

Glamour needs to be way more subtle imho, but as an illustration your work rocks da house

Drach, my attempt is just an... attempt! Have you an illustration to post in without any pretension?
Dan

[LonK]

High key, grainy B&W with a bit of color added back.

[alexmeta]

Young lady - abstract style.
PSCS (mostly Cutout filter)

Regards
Alex

[pavel123]

Painter (oil cloning, blenders), texture added in PS.

Pavel

[Kraellin]

this took a left turn somewhere. no idea

craig

[Kraellin]

alex, excellent abstract.

craig

[MargaretM]

LonK - very nice. Like it a lot!
MargaretM

[pavel123]

Drawing on asphalt. Pavel

P.S. Just noticed "pavement art" thread. A coincidence?

[Kraellin]

pavel, excellent job. very realistic. what were your steps?

craig

[JimJam]

Here is my take on this image. I used noise,crosshatch,high pass,rough pastel and other filters,blend modes and such that I did not keep up with.

[Squggle]

Um....TBH I have no idea what happened?!

[Peter S]

Went for the soft Dior effect.
Somrthing went wrong!!!!

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

pavel, excellent job. very realistic. what were your steps?

craig

Craig, thank you.
I did the following:
Used a cracked asphalt image for background.
Ran main image through Paint Daubs filter.
Made a layer mask to cover sky and dark part of the image
Duplicated “paint daubs” layer two times
Merged “paint daubs” layers in Overlay, Multiply and Screen modes
Adjusted opacity
Made a displacement map based on “asphalt” image (red channel, Gaus Blur 2 pix, adjust levels to increase contrast)
Applied “Displace” filter to each of the “Paint Daubs” layers using the displacement map.

I’m not sure if this would translate to Paint Shop…probably it should…

Pavel

Layers snapshot is attached

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by pavel123

Craig, thank you.
I did the following:
Used a cracked asphalt image for background.
Ran main image through Paint Daubs filter.
Made a layer mask to cover sky and dark part of the image
Duplicated “paint daubs” layer two times
Merged “paint daubs” layers in Overlay, Multiply and Screen modes
Adjusted opacity
Made a displacement map based on “asphalt” image (red channel, Gaus Blur 2 pix, adjust levels to increase contrast)
Applied “Displace” filter to each of the “Paint Daubs” layers using the displacement map.

Pavel

Layers snapshot is attached

Great manipulation and instructions, Pavel. Thanks for sharing your method.

~Danny~

[Kraellin]

pavel, thank you. i was wondering if you'd used a displacement map or something else. that answers that. and no, it doesnt translate exactly into psp. you say you made a layers mask; is that the one on your layer palette that says curves? i know ps gets fancier than psp on this stuff.

basically, what i see is that you masked out the parts you didnt want showing on the girl pic, did a displacement mapping of the asphalt pic onto the girl (or the girl onto the asphalt) and used some other filters and blend modes on the girl pic to simulate a chalk look. is that close?

in psp i'd have to do this a bit differently, but i think it could be done.

at any rate, it's a clever effect.

craig

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

basically, what i see is that you masked out the parts you didnt want showing on the girl pic, did a displacement mapping of the asphalt pic onto the girl (or the girl onto the asphalt) and used some other filters and blend modes on the girl pic to simulate a chalk look. is that close?

craig

That about sums it up. I used layer mask to cover some parts of the girls pic (the places there asphalt is seen), used a simple filter on a girls pic (it basically) simplifies the image, made three layers with the girl after filter, used three different merging modes (one to increase contrast, one to darken and to boost colors and one to lighten), used opacity sliders on each of the layers to get a decent looking pic, did a displacement mapping of the asphalt pic onto the girl (for each of three layers)

Pavel