All aglow

[Peter S]

Well "mylifefashion" has given me permission to do this (I hope she doesn't regret it)

Thanks Beth

I'm sure there is better than mine to come.

Peter

[CJ Swartz]

Well, with her body, she has reason to "glow"! There was never a day in my life that I looked that good...

I did some USM/diffuse, then some PolarCoord and Extrude with some masking out of rough spots it added, and then added a Diffuse glow.

[Steve Conway]

Here are a couple of interpretations that hopefully we won't be shot for posting.

Steve

[zganie]

here is a couple i just did quick

zganie

[palms]

heres a try from me

Palms

[Peter S]

Excellent All of them
especially like yours Palms

Peter

[palms]

Originally Posted by Peter S

Excellent All of them
especially like yours Palms

Peter

Thank you Peter interesting experiment not done a "whole" body before

Palms

[manta1900]

Wow.... what a beauty.

[Lasa]

Going for the silk-glow look.
Lasa

[Cassidy]

A bit of a smudge

[Kraellin]

palms, that's an interesting look. i like it. the extraction is a bit irregular in places, but the overall is pretty amazing.

and cassidy, when i first saw yours i immediately thought 'goldfinger!' where they painted that woman gold in the film

[palms]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

palms, that's an interesting look. i like it. the extraction is a bit irregular in places, but the overall is pretty amazing.

and cassidy, when i first saw yours i immediately thought 'goldfinger!' where they painted that woman gold in the film

Doh Craig cant get nothing by you ! ! ! my only excuse was that i was tired ( not a good excuse really ) but thanks

Palms

[Kraellin]

palms, i'm always harder on the better

[lkroll]

Preprocessing for contrast (help via Xero's Supersmooth filter for initial Aniso) and then Autotract vector simplication. Other color/gamma/sat adjustments.

[palms]

Originally Posted by lkroll

Preprocessing for contrast (help via Xero's Supersmooth filter for initial Aniso) and then Autotract vector simplication. Other color/gamma/sat adjustments.

Like it Ikroll any chance you could simplify the explanation for me a bit !
what is autotract ? can it be used with ps

Palms

[lkroll]

Typo; should have said Autotrace; can try the online interface if you don't have a supported OS. I really like vector simplication (lazy I am). It really enhances Aniso. I've posted the script before, but it's been a while. Below's the script that I use:

AUTOTRACE -corner-threshold 75 -despeckle-level 16 -despeckle-tightness 2 -output-format svg -output-file c:\temp\d.svg -report-progress %1

I port the SVG file directly into GIMP (GIMP reads vectored SVG thanks to Ghostscript; I like SVG since it keeps transparencies. When saving as EPS, GIMP doesn't read the transparencies), and blend it with the original (the transparencies need to be filled; if I were to use an EPS file, the transparencies would default with white which makes for a terrible situation). I know it's a little techy, so I apoligize for this, but this can't be helped.

[palms]

Thank you Ikroll still a little bit over my head but will keep going back till it sinks in

Palms

[MargaretM]

Golden Girl. Done in Photoshop with hue and sat. layer and blurred layer.
MargaretM

[MargaretM]

I just rolled the dice in the Kyoto color filter in Flaming Pear filters and thought this was a cool look.
MargaretM

[Peter S]

Had to have another go at this beautiful lady with art history.
I hope she likes this one.

Peter

[lkroll]

Thought I would try something different too. Created the false colors via Retinex. Some smoothing (GREYCStoration) also.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by CJ Swartz

There was never a day in my life that I looked that good...

That goes for me too, CJ.

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Before starting this manipulation I masked the bathing suit and changed its color, and selectively applied Levels to lighten areas that looked too dark.

Experimenting continues with actions from the Pencil Pixels One-Click Volume 1 collection from www.PencilPixels.com...

On the first one I used the Styled Poster Art action. To this layer a little sharpening was applied followed by selective blurring (using Photoshop's Blur tool) to smooth some skin areas.

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#2 (collage)

Top right: A copy of the one described above
TL: I have no idea.
BL: Snap Art > Comics
BR: Grayscale > Bitmap > Diffusion dither

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Great one to work with, Peter. Thanks for getting it started... and bringing it back for an encore.

~Danny~

[LQQKER]

Nice entries. Doing some experimenting.

[MiningArt]

All hail youth... I tried a smudge using Impressionist.

[chillin]

I tried to get a metallic look.

[frizzysky]

LQQKER,

I like your play. Can you tell us how you did it?

[LQQKER]

Originally Posted by frizzysky

LQQKER,

I like your play. Can you tell us how you did it?

Thanks for the compliment. I really don't use any given workflow to achieve an end result, pretty much depends on the image and what comes to mind. I can tell you I work with a lot of layers and masks and layer styles, even with simple types of artwork (as I'm sure most do). The filters that I use in addition to the PS CS3 filters are Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 complete (most used), Nik Viveza 2, Alien Skin Snap art 2, Adaptive equalization, Several Redfield filters, Buzz Pro, Topaz filters, Virtual Painter 5, Xero and the list goes on (no I don't have stock in these companies). Most images I isolate the subject from the BG, although I have various knock out tools, I usually do it by hand using the lasso tool (using alt, shift, space and feathering). I've never been happy with knock out types of software, unless there's no other way.

I'm not trying to be vague with your question but I use filters as tools not an end result. For example, although it may not be obvious but the background alone was probably ten or so layers with several filters and different opacities. The colors are usually changed when I'm near the end result I have in mind. Usually I spend about an hour on a project before I post and probably another hour checking out the various forums at this site.

[Kraellin]

such a sexy, sultry pose. i thought i'd give it a bit more sultry, sexy lighting (and a little simplification).

[Nasturtium]

Lasa-Love that silk glow effect! Is that something you learned here at RetouchPRO?

That was fun. Anybody know where I can make a living retouching such images?

I wanted to make her pretty muscle "pop" so I smoothed things out with various noise reductions, and masked back in the important details with an inverted copy of the original green channel. Also sharpened the sequins on her bikini, gotta have that bling! :-) Then I dodged and burned pecs, quads, abs, biceps.

I've also been playing around with an idea for automating D/B
- made a B/W adjustment layer
..... - scrub curser to the left where you want it dark & right where you want it light
.... - the tonality of this can be decreased/increased with a curve
- stamp a merged copy
- turn off B/W adjustment layer
- change blending mode of stamped layer to Soft Light
..... - this can be blurred if necessary

[secretagents]

And another one for posterity.