Turning Portraits into Digital Sketches, Oils, Watercolors - - Creative Portraits: Beauty from India

Peter S · #1 01-07-2007, 04:31 PM

Well I hope you'll like this one as much as I did.

First one lots of smoothing. a small adjust with Lucis (a new toy I got).
Second carried on with Impressionist, then duped changed mode to overlay, ran Bas Relief filter. changed opacity down to about 50% as was a little harsh. this was still too much so added a layer mask and added render difference clouds to soften the effect a little.

Looking forward to some real crackers here, enjoy.

Peter

alexmeta · #2 01-07-2007, 10:55 PM

Pencil Sketch and GertrudisPro

DannyRaphael · #3 01-08-2007, 08:20 AM

Fun image to work with, Peter. Thanks for getting us going.

Click here to see my interpretation using Snap Art.

Steve Conway · #4 01-08-2007, 10:10 AM

Nice image....interesting subject.

Steve

MargaretM · #5 01-08-2007, 11:02 AM

PS and Painter. Wonderful colors in this image.
MargaretM

palms1 · #6 01-08-2007, 01:20 PM

Thanks Peter another nice image
this is a bit of a cross between pwl and smudge ( not quite cspringers illustrated look but maybe one day ! ! ! ! )
decided to leave what i think is a hanky of some sort in her top as i to have been guilty of doing that

Palms

LQQKER · #7 01-08-2007, 01:25 PM

Nice renditions posted.

Danny - Very painterly and authentic look. Nice example.

Kraellin · #8 01-08-2007, 01:27 PM

danny,

along with lqqker, i concur. and i can see why you didnt post it on RP directly. all those great paint strokes would have been lost or subdued.

Peter S · #9 01-08-2007, 02:03 PM

Ditto from me Danny. Just how did you get all that detail into 97.76 kB.

Palms I think your right it is a hanky, I was too interested in the rest to even notice that one. (DOH)

palms1 · #10 01-10-2007, 01:15 PM

another try from me very pretty girl

Palms

lkroll · #11 01-10-2007, 03:44 PM

Pixel Trash set to Value; copied the original on Top layer and set it to Saturation (adjusted Opacity to taste). Opened it up in PS and set to @Wetter2 (Paint Engine) and added canvas (well I also used gamut replacement to enhance the color/sat of the piece).

Here's the full version.

DannyRaphael · #12 01-10-2007, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Peter S

Ditto from me Danny. Just how did you get all that detail into 97.76 kB.

Nothing special... just ran it through Photoshop's File > Save for Web dialog and specified 99Kb in the Optimize > To File Size dialog.

The image is in fact posted at RP in the "Snap Art" thread here.

Thanks to each of you for the kind words on my interpretation. I was pleasantly surprised at what I thought was a pretty decent looking oil painting effect based on Snap Art's "pastel" filter. LOL

Janet Petty · #13 01-12-2007, 07:19 PM

This is a gorgeous photo. Do we get to credit the photographer and tell him/her how good it is?

I had fun experimenting with a boatload of techniques. I hope ya'll like the result as much as I've enjoy the results of others.

Janet

byRo · #14 01-13-2007, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Janet Petty

This is a gorgeous photo. Do we get to credit the photographer and tell him/her how good it is?

Janet, I'm pretty certain that this is from the "old" El Dorado site.

Peter - do you have a new link, or did you have this image stashed away?

Rô

Peter S · #15 01-13-2007, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by byRo

Janet, I'm pretty certain that this is from the "old" El Dorado site.

Peter - do you have a new link, or did you have this image stashed away?

Rô

Ro you are exactly right. I downloaded quite a few before it disappeared. I only wish I had taken more.

Peter