Creative Portraits: Man in Hat

LQQKER · #16 09-23-2006, 12:00 PM

Nice ideas by all.

Added some canvas
painted in top hat & bottom suit
Nik filters
Redfield Sketchmaster
Some AE
Paint engine
Numerous hue & sat / contrast adj.
Painted in light & shadows
Layer styles

LonK · #17 09-23-2006, 03:14 PM

Lqqker, I love your interpretation. Here's mine...

DannyRaphael · #18 09-23-2006, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikew714

Used Curves, Posterized, with a little Lucas.

Link to Larger Image

I don't know the right way to post an image with the thumbnail... my first image post here.

Hey, Mike...

Glad you jumped into the pool. Nice work on this one.

The trick to attaching images: Below the message text window is a button with a not-so-intuitive label, "Manage Attachments." Click it to bring up a browse/upload dialog.

Note: 100 KB max file size. Photoshop Save for Web/Optimize to File Size dialog works great for this function. (see attachment)

~Danny~

pavel123 · #19 09-23-2006, 06:26 PM

Lonnie,

Enjoyed your "party time" interpretation.

Trimoon · #20 09-23-2006, 10:10 PM

Used Photoshop and LucisArt some layering/texturing.
Larger Man in Hat

lkroll · #21 09-23-2006, 10:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trimoon

Used Photoshop and LucisArt some layering/texturing.
Larger Man in Hat

Wow; fantastic craquelature effect (did I spell that right; too lazy to Yahoo! {don't Google} tonight) Steve.

mikew714 · #22 09-24-2006, 02:11 AM

Let's try this again. I hope the thumbnail and link shows up.
Thanks Palms & Danny for the info.

Here is another try.
This is a mix of everything, but the kitchen sink.
Dragan action, Lucisart, blends of original, added texture, color adj. Adjusted levels and blurred background, desat. Matted and framed.

MargaretM · #23 09-25-2006, 10:49 AM

Here's another version. Primed in Photoshop, then in Painter using the liquid ink pens. Texturized in Painter.
MargaretM

Steve Conway · #24 09-25-2006, 12:45 PM

"Thoughts of Long Ago"

Steve

jch71566 · #25 09-25-2006, 12:56 PM

I like all of these, but especially Trimoons.

I thought the man looks as if he has the blues, and painted him appropriately. The mixture was a combination of a gradient, noise, and EyeCandy swirl for the background, and Impressionist for the foreground.

-Jeff

Kraellin · #26 09-25-2006, 03:02 PM

some really amazing pieces here. lqqker, love the background and excellent shadowing. (i'll probably comment on some others after a while).

i'm adding one also. this is a variation of a technique i've been playing with for a while now. the basic steps are dupe the bg; blur the dupe; set the dupe to darken. and that's it.

however, i varied this a bit this time. i first painted out the bg. i then did a little dodge and burn here and there. not much, i wasnt really going for a dragan.

i then duped that layer and set to difference, instead of darken and added an adjustment layer of brightness/contrast set very high on both settings.

i copy merged all that and ran Fast Fix on that layer to desaturate and contrast even more.

save to pspimage to save the layers, merged all layers and saved as a .jpg.

done

craig

pavel123 · #27 09-25-2006, 03:40 PM

Craig,

Like your "dark side" portrait.
I took a liberty to play with it a bit - inverted, desaturated, made a scketch.

Another "man in hat", impressionist (I hope).

Pavel

Janet Petty · #28 09-26-2006, 09:45 AM

Just playing around. This was a perfect picture for trying out something I had seen somewhere else. Modified by me of course.

Janet

Kraellin · #29 09-26-2006, 08:24 PM

thanks, pavel

i like the inversion. you sure you used my version? i made some changes to his mouth and eye and i dont see it in your sketch.

craig

kiska · #30 09-27-2006, 01:53 AM

Studio Artist gradient nibs and flat paints.