Creative Portraits - Lotsa Curls

[Peter S]

Another one found at 'Gallery Usenet'
At first I thought the hair was the thing here, then changed my mind, lots of detail in the dress and the eyes look very piercing.

Have fun

Any style you like of course.

Peter

[patriciakay]

Hi Peter...see you have found another good one!!!

Like your pic...I have also gone for a lighter look...

Photoshop CS2...AHB watercolor....Flaming pears, Aetherize plugin and then a narrow frame...done with an action...

Patricia....

[Peter S]

Patricia, that was quick, you do stay up late in Sweden.
If that was B&W it would remind me of a silent movie I think it was called Metropolis????

Peter

[patriciakay]

Only cause Peter is working nights...it really is time i turned in but i am just posting another thread!!!

Will have another go tomorrow!!!

Patricia...

[Frank Lopes]

This image is indeed more than just the curls...
I used the Paint Daubs filter and added a frame from Splat!

Originally Posted by Peter S

Another one found at 'Gallery Usenet'
At first I thought the hair was the thing here, then changed my mind, lots of detail in the dress and the eyes look very piercing.

Have fun

Any style you like of course.

Peter

[lkroll]

...do an aged painting. Used GIMPressionist with Apply Canvas preset and Stone paper that's scaled. Did a lot of preprocessing prior to the canvas step to get the effect, but just too many things to explain (i.e., I can't remember the exact steps; lol. Can say that I used Flaming Pear's Mr. Contrast to enhance the contrast of the piece). Hope you like the result. Click here for the complete rendering. Attached is a crop to meet RetouchPRO's specs (and I didn't want to compromise the quality).

[DannyRaphael]

Another nice find, Peter...

1 - AKVIS Sketch (default settings) after darkening original image a bit. (Unfortunately the nicely rendered crosshatching got hosed in the compression.)

2 - Applied Paint Engine > Wetter2 to the AKVIS layer and used a duplicate of original Background with blend mode changed from Normal to Color to restore the color.

[raniday]

Very nice painting, Danny. Couple of questions:
Do you prefer Akvis better over Sketch Master?
And I don't think I have Wetter2 in Paint Engine. Is that a recent filter?

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by raniday

Very nice painting, Danny. Couple of questions:
Do you prefer Akvis better over Sketch Master?
And I don't think I have Wetter2 in Paint Engine. Is that a recent filter?

Hi Cat...

Nice to see you check in.

re: AKVIS vs. Skech Master
Funny you should ask. A review is in the works, but here's a preview. IMO AKVIS runs circles around SM in terms of achieving a pleasing, sketchy look. Although AKVIS has about a half dozen effect/fine tuning controls, I'm finding it yields the best results using the default settings other than specifying a stroke angle to something other than 45 degrees. In effect it's a one, maybe one and a half, trick pony somewhat like "Find Edges." Relatively slow to render, too. That said, it's now my 2nd favorite plugin, only slightly behind Impressionist. I could not live without it.

Suggest you download the 10-day, fully functional (unrestricted) trial from http://www.akvis.com and take it for a spin.

re: PE Wetter2
This is among the many custom PE settings floating around. In fact it's available here for download at RP in this thread. I believe the original name was "0Wetter".

Anyway, here's a copy of my setting so you don't have to fish for it:

Setting75=!Wetter2;1,1,0,0,0,0,4294967172,4294967213,34,2,100,54,56,59,0,2,-7,-1,4294967295,2

Setting75 will need to be changed to SettingNN, where NN is a 2-digit number in the range of 00-99 and not being used by any of your existing PE setting definitions.

Thanks for your kind words. We always like seeing you.

~Danny~

[kiska]

Hmmmmmmmm. This is one strange looking chic.

[palms]

Peter another great find love this one and think it will get more than one visit.
how did you do yours
Patricia yours has a mystical feel to it
Frank nice paint and frame belongs in a manor house now
Ikroll love the effect but i really like the crop that wasnt done for artistic reasons ! ! ! ! !
Danny like both the second one is quite serene looking
Kiska like your post very much and agree strange chick has a look of gothic about her, a couple of uk fashion designers used this look a year or two ago on the catwalks (although this does look a bit tame by their standards)

i dramatized her a bit

Palms

[oltenius]

Peter, Thanks for the nice pic!
I used Artweaver for my attempt.
Dan

[Steve Conway]

Mysterious lady.

Steve

[Steve Conway]

Interpretation #2 "Curly Girl."

Steve

[lkroll]

Originally Posted by palms1

....
Ikroll love the effect but i really like the crop that wasnt done for artistic reasons ! ! ! ! !
....

Palms

Glad you liked the crop too. Tried to eyeball a Venusean cut (i.e., all four corners different), but I'm not a true artist, so I'm sure someone could have picked it better.

[Peter S]

Some absolutely brilliant stuff coming out here.
Sorry Palms I can't remember every thing I did. There was sharpening Levels, add noise, I used an action to emphasize the details a little more, and there is more than a little Impressionist plugin as well. I know I added a texture but it does not show up very well here.

Peter

Danny I am still messing with some of your actions some good stuff in them (if I could understand it all that is)

[Kraellin]

wow. very victorian looking picture. i predict a LOT of responses on this one. nice find

craig

[Kraellin]

since i saw 'victorian' in this image, i went for victorian makeup... airbrush, airbrush, airbrush, adjustment layers of hue/sat and brightness/contrast. i then re-lit the whole with 'illumination'.

craig

[palms]

Back again, i didnt start of intending to do a full smudge ( especially with all that hair ) but what i wanted to do wasnt working out so back to the drawing board on that one .

Palms

[Drach]

Here's my take..

..enjoy

[raniday]

Thanks, Danny for the Pre-view and the link. I wish I had tried out Sketch Master before I bought it.
And thanks for the awesome presets. It had been so long since I used Paint Engine, that I ended up uninstalling/reinstalling and adding a ton of great presets.

[Kraellin]

drach,

you shld call that 'spun gold' for the hair. nice.

craig

[patriciakay]

Lovely pics done by all...

Well she was having a bad hair day yesterday and my brush kinda slipped a few times and ended this way.....

This is purely a fun one...I know all the hairs wrong...but i just kept goin....I have never done this before...another first...

The first one I did all the mess in Photoshop CS2 with various hair brushes,smudging...played in AAA filters with the multi filter and came up with the posterize one...
The second one i did all of that and then Dreamy...the free Autofx plugin and turned her a bit blue!!!!

Patricia.....

PS....Normality will resume as soon as possible!!!..........MAYBE!

[MargaretM]

Sepia version to add to the pot - I basically messed about and don't really remember exactly what I did. I buzzed to begin with, did some water spatter in Painter and some chalk among other things. Finished with a slight blur in Photoshop.
MargaretM

[patriciakay]

Think she looks great in Sepia...Margaret!

Patricia...

[palms]

As Craig said there will be alot of interest here and there is some great variations here love them all
And couldnt resist just one more then i must look at other things

Palms

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by palms1

As Craig said there will be alot of interest here and there is some great variations here love them all
And couldnt resist just one more then i must look at other things

Palms

Palms, love your picture. some details, please.

[MargaretM]

Had to have a go in color - I was getting back to work and saw Palms new version and so I played some more. Oh well, you know what they say about all work and no play, but I wonder what the boss says about all play and no work?? Hope I don't find out.
This one was done in Painter mainly with the thick camel cloner. Applied light texture and then painted the curls some more to hide the texture there. Framed in Photoshop.
MargaretM

[palms]

Thank you Pavel
I made a sketch/line layer then saved
opened original again, used impressionist djroil24 (made brush slightly bigger )
then saved again
reopened colour layer then copy and pasted the sketch over the top
used the history brush ( pastel dark 118 in the narural brushes2 ) and painted any which way till i got the look (the idea was to leave some of the sketch showing and i probably used a new layer so i could erase some if i wanted to )
There might be a easier way to do it but my brain was a bit addled

Margeret i hope he dosent find out either but as you live far enough away you could always blame me

Palms

[Peter S]

Nice one Palms thanks for the explain.

Peter