Creative Portraits: Man in Hat

[DannyRaphael]

Image courtesy of Stock Exchange:
http://www.sxc.hu "Man in hat" - 619654_89626817

Have fun!

~Danny~

[palms]

I am quite happy with this "what if " accident

Palms

[pavel123]

Followed Palm's example of working in "try that and see what happens" mode.

Pavel

[DannyRaphael]

#1 - AKVIS sketch (for edges, detail) on top of Impressionist > Charcoal > Default

#2 - From a nifty Photoshop action Mike Warren crafted. Note different versions for CSx and PS7:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...hread=20054878

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Pavel, Palms: I like your "dark, shadowy" interpretations. Very Friday the 13th looking - even though it is Friday the 22nd!

[Swampy]

Ohhhh, you guys are good!

[lkroll]

Been itching to do a Rockwell; not even close to the master, but I hope you all like it anyway.

[Swampy]

So much character in this photo! Thanks, Danny

Extract, add Curves (each channel "sliced with the pencil" at 3/4,1/2, and 1/4 tones. Noise added to the mask.

Added shadow and background.

[pavel123]

Pavel, Palms: I like your "dark, shadowy" interpretations. Very Friday the 13th looking - even though it is Friday the 22nd!

Must be the weather... been cold, gray and generally miserable for some time

Pavel

[lkroll]

What else can I say.

[mikew714]

Used Curves, Posterized, with a little Lucas.

http://www.mikedubu.com/man_w_hat_900_rt_set4_150.jpg

Link to Larger Image

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

[palms]

Oh wow where to start what stunning entry's to this post

Pavel Your "what if " is really great, any chance you can recall your workflow please ?

Danny thank you now you mention it there is a resemblance to freddy kruger !
i like your first one very much, and if i dont win the lottery tonight will check your post for the winning one

Ikroll thanks for giving someone else to look at, had to google Rockwell
If you havent looked at ikrolls amazing circle large do, cause that way you can see more ! ! ! !

Mike welcome like your sort of pop art version for any help with posting here is a link
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/ima...ads-posts.html

I forgot to mention Swampy's post which is a terrible thing to of done because it is very worthy of a mention the background is great and even though i am not a fan of added noise this works realy well

Palms

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by palms1

Pavel Your "what if " is really great, any chance you can recall your workflow please ?
Palms

Palms, thank you. I'm very happy with the result myself ... as for what exactly did I do... let's see...selected face and blue wall behind...changed colors to the shades of blue and grey...used that for base layer and then did a number of consecutive transformations on that layer...FlamePear ghost...merged...used USM at high settings...smart blur to blur face surfaces leaving edges (and hair) intact...I think posterized at this point, not entirely sure...IMP using Alex crosshatch II at default settings (twice), PS watercolor....sketch of the original photo (find edges, desaturate), used white soft brush to remove "noise" leaving only face lines, merged in "multiply" with reduced opacity, art paper for background. I am a bit unsertain as to there some of the steps were done and I'm not sure if I used posterize at all...probably at low settings.
Best regards.
Pavel

[palms]

Thank you Pavel It is hard to recall the "what if " technique but it looks like you didnt do too bad, plus it looks as if you had a real good what if session
and another but on the lighter side ! (thought i had already done this once
Palms

[oltenius]

Colored sketch.
Dan

[lkroll]

Well the Amazing Circle is more like an Amazing plate though. LOL

[LQQKER]

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]

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

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by mikew714

Used Curves, Posterized, with a little Lucas.

http://www.mikedubu.com/man_w_hat_900_rt_set4_150.jpg

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]

Lonnie,

Enjoyed your "party time" interpretation.

[Trimoon]

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

[lkroll]

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]

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]

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

[Steve Conway]

"Thoughts of Long Ago"

Steve

[jch71566]

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]

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]

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]

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

Janet

[Kraellin]

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]

Studio Artist gradient nibs and flat paints.