Creative Portraits: Another Pensive Redhead

[palms1]

Originally Posted by KR1156

i never really liked doing stuff like this in photoshop before, but you can get some cool looking pics for family and friends and stuff. this took a whopping 2 min to do, so maybe i'll start playing around with these effects a little more.

thanks.

Nice Kr mind explaining how you spent that 2 minutes ?

Palms

[KR1156]

thanks Palms1....

i duped layer, read DannyRaphael's tips on how to use the art history brush, took a decent size brush and went over the image very quickly, think the settings were tight short, 100% opacity, area: 10pix, tolerance: 0%

i use a tablet so i brushed over the image quickly,.....then applied a canvas texture.

[palms1]

Originally Posted by KR1156

thanks Palms1....

i duped layer, read DannyRaphael's tips on how to use the art history brush, took a decent size brush and went over the image very quickly, think the settings were tight short, 100% opacity, area: 10pix, tolerance: 0%

i use a tablet so i brushed over the image quickly,.....then applied a canvas texture.

Thanks for info KR, Personaly i love the diversity of the ahb

Palms

[KR1156]

AHB is something i know nothing about! but so far looks like it can create a real cool effect......or 1 big mess!

[palms1]

Originally Posted by KR1156

AHB is something i know nothing about! but so far looks like it can create a real cool effect......or 1 big mess!

that's the fun of it

heres another post from me, i think i like doing these as they are so easy to keep in the size limits

Palms

[Ant]

slow day

dupe, canvas on a hardlight layer, ahb, selective color, photo filter, curve, selective lightening, a high pass...

[Ant]

palms yours is hot. not loving the purple edge but whatever.

[palms1]

Thank you Ant you done well yourself nice stuff


Palms

[lkroll]

Making up for the last effort that I did. Used Vabirdy's Landscape Illustrator Script-fu to start things off. Also did my Glass (small lense) distortion technique selectively to give it a overall sketchy feel. I finally added some canvas texture which was created using GIMP's mosaic filter.

[Steve Conway]

Pensive lady.

Steve C.

[pavel123]

Peter, thank you for the photo.
Sketch, smudging, IMP in Photoshop.

Pavel

[pavel123]

Photoshop: IMP, watercolor, smudging.

P.S. Steve, Love what you've done.

[Janet Petty]

After processing animal pictures all afternoon, I can certainly say this beautiful lady is no dog. There are some absolutely amazing renditions here. I'm very impressed!!!

I guess I'm going to have to get out of the dog (errr...squirrel) house and work on her too.

Keep up the GREAT work all.

Janet

[Peter S]

OK So it looks like I'm going to have to learn about smudging now.
Give me a chance to find out about AHB will you.
Too many names to quote but all good stuff.

Peter

[imagae]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

Your first attempt at using the AHB turned out a LOT better than when I first tried to use it.

Use the forum search tool to search titles for "Art History Brush" to find additional information/ideas on how to use what can be a frustrating tool.

Under most circumstances I find I get better results if I:
* Leave some of the 'canvas' unpainted
* Use AHB setting of Daub or Tight Short, Area = 10, Tolerance = 0
* Vary width of brush (3-8 px for detail; 20-30 px to rough in areas)
* Apply some Unsharp Mask to "rough up" the strokes a bit when finished
* Make a copy of the original Background, drag it to the top of the layer stack, add a "hide all" layer mask and restore a little detail that AHB totally hoses over.

Wonderful pic to work on.

~Danny~

p.s. I modified thread title for people who don't know what AHB means.

I love what you did here...really suits her mood..