Creative Portraits: Therese age 8!

[patriciakay]

Found this nice school photo of Therese, my youngest stepdaughter,now 18!

Wondered if you would all like to play???

Patricia.....

[Steve Conway]

You realize Therese is going to "have a go" at you when she sees that you have posted a "baby" picture of her.

Nevertheless here is one way to mess with a good photo.

Steve

[patriciakay]

Nice one Steve...a soft look...

Therese came for a visit yesterday and gave me full permission to use any of her photos....the last one of her i posted on the forum...she was 3!!!!

Patricia....

[DannyRaphael]

Don't ask. I have no idea, but it was fun experimenting with layer blend modes and adjustment layers!

[patriciakay]

I like that ..Danny..

Very arty and the eyes are brilliant!!!

Patricia...

[lkroll]

Aniso, sat/color enhancments and added texture. Here's the full res version.

[patriciakay]

Great quickie Lyle...It glows...I like!!!

Patricia....

[oltenius]

Patricia, Thanks for the nice pic!
Regards,
Dan

[bbuttry]

My try at it! A pastel look (as usual for me). She's a cutie!

[Britsdad]

Some really nice stuff on here all ready, I am in awe of the pastel look bbuttry has perfected, very nice.
Hiya Pat:---here's a couple of your little cutie, the second one is just some blending and adjustment layers on top of the first smudge.(forgot how much I enjoyed smudging, been playing with Painter too much ) Hope you and your stepdaughter like them....John

[Kraellin]

patricia, if you have a current photo of therese with roughly the same pose, i'll do you a morph of younger to older. best if the poses are fairly similar and the file size is fairly similar, but i can fudge a bit, so doesnt have to be exact.

[palms]

Wow hope Therese will like all this great pictures of her. Here is mine just a high key

Palms

[Studio 58]

nice work Brad

[patriciakay]

Wow you guys have been really busy...with great results...I know Therese will be over the moon with all the different interpretations of her photo...

Dan...Nice one...I love the eyes...
Brad...Fabulous...Pastel Perfection...It glows!
John...Nice to see you back...Two lovely ones..great smudging and your second one i like...did you do it from a tute?
Craig...Only got school pics of that sort of size...as Therese doesnt live at home now and its hard to catch her...they leave home really young in Sweden! I will sort something and thanks the last one you did of her was great!!!
Palms...Your high key is great i love the intensity of the eyes...
Studio 58...Welcome to RetouchPro...Looking forward to your artwork!!!!

I have done Therese in watercolor in Photoshop CS2, put some hair back in and then Flaming Pears Aetherize plugin...framed with an action...
Also i thought i would send you my attempt at sketching the photo...hand done...no computer...i dont think it looks like Therese but a girl anyway....first attempt at sketching not long after the photo was taken!!!

Patricia....

[Britsdad]

Hiya Pat, it's nice to be back! . Didn't go far tho', just on the wrong shift. Thanks for the comments, and no tutorial involved I just duped the layer several times and fiddled with blending options until I found something I liked, then ran curves and hue sat layers and played with the layer order. (I couldn't get the same effect again!)
Oh by the way you can sketch much better than me aswell, nice one.
..........John

[patriciakay]

Hi John..
Hope you are on a better working time now!!!
Thanks for the comment about my sketch attempt.....maybe one day i will have another go!!!

Patricia...

[Britsdad]

Holiday next week, we are going down to Torquay, I'll see if I can get some pics to post with my new camera....John

[patriciakay]

Lovely place...John...hope the sun shines for you...
What camera did you get? My new one arrived last Friday, its a Canon 350D and i cant put it down...so much to learn!!!

Patricia..

[Britsdad]

Oh, it's only a compact Nikon Coolpix P2, but it's my first foray into digital after my OM10......seems pretty good so far and it was on offer at PC World at £97 so I thought it was a bargain....John

[patriciakay]

It will be fab John...you will love it as i love my powershot...which i will still use...what a bargain...well done!!!

Patricia...

[MargaretM]

Lovely photo to work with. Thanks Patricia. Here's a soft chalk version, using plaid texture in Painter.
MargaretM

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by MargaretM

Lovely photo to work with. Thanks Patricia. Here's a soft chalk version, using plaid texture in Painter.
MargaretM

Nice interpretation, Margaret. How did you do the outside edge effect? I especially like that.

[MargaretM]

Nice interpretation, Margaret. How did you do the outside edge effect? I especially like that.

Heh Danny and thank you. The outside edge was done in Painter using the builtin plugins - click on the little plug under the layers pallette. Choose Tear - then you can select color, margin, strength etc. The Burn choice also gives an interesting effect.
MargaretM

[HandMadeGod]

very nice portrait.

[pavel123]

A high key version.

High quality JPEG here

[서한우]

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[pavel123]

Another attempt.
Photoshop, lotsa filters (buzz, cutout, paint daubs, watercolor), merging. Most of the filters are not visible in the final pict.

Full size JPEG here

[patriciakay]

Margaret...love the look ..thanks for the how to do!!!
Handmadegod...Yours is great too ...it has a glow!!!
Pavel....I really like your high key....suits the photo!
Korea...Beautiful painting...love it!!!

Kraellin has done a great morphing of Therese...here is the link...
http://s82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...rese_3-k-1.flv

Thank you Craig ... love it!!!

Patricia.....

[patriciakay]

Pavel...we must have posted at the same time... as your new one wasnt there when i wrote my post..Really like this one...its a good filter one as it looks painted!!!

Patricia...

[pavel123]

Therese,

Thank you. Very nice picture, fun to play with. Looking at Kraig's animation I get a distinct impression that Therese is no longer 8.