Creative portraits: Another Nice Gal

[Peter S]

I found this one out there somewhere and thought "That'll do"

Have fun

Peter

[glikster]

I had fun with this one...

[palms]

Thought i would have a bit of a change for this one and used neat image and virtual photographer
but who knows might change my mind later and try something else ! ! !

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Another of my "some gonna like it...some ain't" interpretations.

Steve

[JimJam]

Good work palms ...like the elimination of distracting elements and the change to the soft cool blue monotone.

[MargaretM]

Another another nice gal.
MargaretM

[1STLITE]

PeterS!!! I opened this thread 5 minutes ago and I promise you I just caught my breath,literally! That is absolutely AMAZING! Please Please Please will you reveal your secret? I would LOVE to know how you did that.

STUNNING!!


Dawn

[palms]

Originally Posted by 1STLITE

PeterS!!! I opened this thread 5 minutes ago and I promise you I just caught my breath,literally! That is absolutely AMAZING! Please Please Please will you reveal your secret? I would LOVE to know how you did that.

STUNNING!!


Dawn

Dawn till Peter pops in take a look at this thread, i think it will be the same technique, and join in the campaign for him to do us all a tutorial i think this technique is great


http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/tur...character.html

Palms

[Peter S]

Dawn no secret really. (just hard work ).

I use Imagenomic to reduce the noise - set at full noise reduction. I do this several times to really soften the image, any blemishes left I remove with the healing brush,
Imagenomic also adds a little sharpening, I remove any halos with the blur brush opacity set quite high and use maximum hardness, this leets me get right up to the edges without overblurring them.
I use Hue/Sat to tweak the colours as the softening alters them slightly, adjust levels to suit. I have also used NancyJ's painting with light cheat a couple of times to emphasize stuff (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/rp-...ht=paint+light)
Then I go over it all again with the blur brush to pick up the small stuff I may have missed.
I did start to write a tutorial on this, but it can be very different for each image, less blurring less Hue/Sat etc. So far there are about 5 or 6 ways to get this effect. It does not work quite so well on complicated patterns in the picture, so I look for plain coloured things, they seem to work better.
It can be done partially with LucisArt if you have it.
Hope this helps, my this is a long post for me, I am usually quite brief.

Peter

[Peter S]

Palms nice one, similar to mine I see but is that a duotone?
Steve very different, do I detect heavy LuscisArt stuff there?
Margret very good simplification there, cutout filter used I think or maybe poster edges?

Peter

[Kraellin]

peter,

thanks for that explanation. i borrowed on it (and subsequently nancyj's tutorial) and altered things just a bit to get mine. it's pretty much the same thing but without any smudging, just digital camera noise removal, hue/sat layer, and nancyj's high pass solution. makes for a nice, soft, better highlighted image. i like it.

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

peter,

thanks for that explanation. i borrowed on it (and subsequently nancyj's tutorial) and altered things just a bit to get mine. it's pretty much the same thing but without any smudging, just digital camera noise removal, hue/sat layer, and nancyj's high pass solution. makes for a nice, soft, better highlighted image. i like it.

Nice one but:-
You do realise I get commission for every time this method is used now don't you Craig?

Peter

[palms]

Originally Posted by Peter S

Palms nice one, similar to mine I see but is that a duotone?
Steve very different, do I detect heavy LuscisArt stuff there?
Margret very good simplification there, cutout filter used I think or maybe poster edges?

Peter

Peter at a guess i would say yes it is a duotone, it is the satin steel preset in virtual photographer

Palms

[Kraellin]

thanks, peter, but only if you share it with nancyj

[Peter S]

But of course, would I.......................................

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by Peter S

Steve very different, do I detect heavy LuscisArt stuff there?
Peter

That's some of it with some auto photo fix and saturation adjustment. Then I just kept playing with various things like Buzz to take away some harshness until I got the look I was relatively satisfied with.

And like everyone else, I am amazed at what you came up with. But I see it's a bit of work too.

Steve

[irshgrlkc]

Cool picture, thanks for sharing.

[Peter S]

I think this is just a great picture, I just had to have another go at it.

Peter

[keiser]

Here is my try.

I am new to the forum and have been working on photoshop for about 6 months and would like suggestions and critiques on my "trys".


thanks

Keiser

[pavel123]

Keiser, welcome to the forum.
It's hard to give critiques on something that is supposed to be art representation, in other word anything goes.
I like your high key, I would probably darkened shadows, but that could be a calibration thing.

[keiser]

Well played around with this pic some more.

[Peter S]

keiser
I like the second one best, nice and sharp, though maybe a little over sharp.
The high key one, looked better when I pasted it into PS and darkened it with levels, not bad at all then.

Peter

[keiser]

thanks for the input. will work on my "eye" when it comes to viewing. still trying to figure what i need to look for.

[yanamation]

Weeeeeeeee!!!

This is GREAT! This is my first try at playing with your pics....good clean fun! And may I say, Peter S, that your work is beautiful. Keep 'em coming!

[yanamation]

Tweaked it a little bit........

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by yanamation

Weeeeeeeee!!!

This is GREAT! This is my first try at playing with your pics....good clean fun! And may I say, Peter S, that your work is beautiful. Keep 'em coming!

Thank you Yana. I see from your website your into fantasy, this pic fits in there somehow I think.
I prefer the tweaked version.
I look forward to seing more of your work.

Peter

[yanamation]

Thanks, Peter!

You'll definitely see more of my work......my website reflects only the illustration end......I'm a high end retoucher in real life. Can't seem to get enough of this creative stuff!!;-)))

Truly,
Yana

[yanamation]

Sometimes the UGLIEST curve can produce a really cool result.....what do you think?

[yanamation]

Sometimes the UGLIEST curve can produce a really cool result.....what do you think?

[Peter S]

There is no such thing as ugly, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so I'm led to believe.
Its getting smoother and lighter.
Your obviously going through a purple phase. Don't get to a black one, everything disappears, black on black not very visible.
Purple - it seems to work though.
I'm going through a grey phase myself, especially my hair.

Peter