Creative Portraits: Woman Deep in Thought

[DannyRaphael]

Great shot. I especially like the eyes...

[DannyRaphael]

In Photoshop...
* Levels to open up shadows
* Oversharpened considerably

Over to Painter
* Cloning using brushes from the Chalk and Artists Oils groups
* Impressionist > Charcoal > Default

Back to Photoshop
* Smudged a bit
* Sharpened a bit
* Added edge

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If nothing else it IS colorful.

[admirer]

Hmm did not come out as i had hoped.

[keiser]

Did a glamour retouch with d/b, healing, hue/sat layer, high pass sharpen, trimoon sketch with color and texture

[Kraellin]

i treated this more as a photograph than a painting. so, i mostly retouched, re-lit, re-colored and re-everything

[Gilbert]

My painterly attempt

[Alcar]

Superb image and some excellent work already. My offering uses the Impressionist Plugin.
Alan

[cazubi]

Great portrait study. I used Studio Artist for most of the painting, then back to PS to dodge & burn and saturate. I also added some layers of color in overlay and color modes. I used a Trimoon paper texture and put a water color edge around the picture.

Cathy

[palms1]

It took a while but got here in the end

Palms

[chillin]

...& my attempt

[lkroll]

Thought I would do a mostly smudge this time. Here's the big version.

[Kraellin]

chillin, i like that. very subtle. makes you reach for it a bit.

lyle, i like the smudge part, but that left arm stands out too much for me.

[kmj495]

Here's my version

Screened layers to get the hi-key effect.
Buzzed and Paint Engine bringing back the detail at the eyes after each step.

Karen

[saby]

some crosshatch filter followed by spatter, different settings for the colors and lightness and some paint with light

saby

[Peter S]

I didn't intend this to go this way at first, but I think it looks OK.

Thanks for the pic Danny.

Peter

Larger version
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