Creative portraits: Just 4 Palms - More curly hair

[Peter S]

Well Palms I know you like doing hair.
So this is for you.
Though anyone else is also welcome of course.

Low res posed here.

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Original size here

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I have not done anything with this myself yet. Will post someting maybe later.
Hope you all enjoy.
Peter

[Peter S]

Here's a quickie from me.

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And a better res one here:-
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Peter

[lkroll]

Cool capture for play Peter. Simple flow here. Used Toadies Metalwork set to Overlay (duplicate layer of course) for the bulk of the aniso. I then followed it up with Xero's Supersmooth filter. Here's the full hirez version. Attached is a lower quality reduced size version.

[palms]

Now that is some hair, looking forward to having a go later

Palms

[pavel123]

Peter, thank you for another great photo. Love you sketch.

Blenders in Painter, IMP in Photoshop.

Palms, I don't think I share your passion for hair. Not after manually going through all those curls.

Pavel

[keiser]

here is mine

increased contrast
optiverve filter
bas relief

[LonK]

Nice work all. I couldn't resist spending some time with her too.

[palms]

Great works everyone
Pavel the hair isnt to bad and helps pass away our awful weather
Couldnt make my mind up about a colour version or a black & white I did try a threshold as i think it would look good but lost patience with it a bit

Palms

[Photomaster]

Fun picture to work with. Painted in Corel Painter using the Thick Wet Oils brush. Finished in PSCS2 with highlights and shadows and color adjustment and sharpening.

[Steve Conway]

Now that's a real "do."

Steve C.

[Peter S]

lkroll - that has to be one of your best to date
Pavel - nice work hope the curls didn't cause too much strain on the brush hand
keiser - Looks good, but a little on the small size to see properly
Lonk - can I look over your shoulder next time you do one of these
Palms - Very nice, I prefer the colour one, more detail, I'm a detail freak at times.
Photomaster - as ever excellent, maybe I could watch you at work as well
Steve - what can I say to that, its real smooth man, like it.

You see the curls wern't that bad after all!

Peter

[lkroll]

Thanks for the comment Peter; glad you liked it.

[keiser]

sorry it was too small to see it.

here is a larger version

[Steve Conway]

Thanks Peter. Interesting photo to work with.

Steve C.

[Peter S]

sorry it was too small to see it.

here is a larger version

Now thats better. I need all the help I can get with my eyes nowadays.

Peter

[Kraellin]

wow. lonk, that is absolutely amazing. love photomaster's and steve's too. lots of others done well also, but just had to comment on those three.

[LonK]

Thanks, Craig. Very kind of you.

[Peter S]

I sort of goaded Palms into doing a smudge of this one, and a good job of it was done. So I had to try in myself (better late than never).
Its a little rough, but I think I'm getting there a little.
Thanks Palms, I know now what you went through with this one.

Peter

[palms]

Originally Posted by Peter S

I sort of goaded Palms into doing a smudge of this one, and a good job of it was done. So I had to try in myself (better late than never).
Its a little rough, but I think I'm getting there a little.
Thanks Palms, I know now what you went through with this one.

Peter

Nice one Peter, great work on the face and hair, looking back on mine i dont think it was a smudge, as such but c springers illustrated look ( which involves some smudging ) might have to have another go soon )

Palms

[DannyRaphael]

I always liked this one...

I started with Mike Warren's Illustration Action, then applied some Impressionist plugin effects and ePaperpress.com actions for the borders.

[mikajomc]

Danny- you are definitely the Action King! Love it!

[palms]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

I always liked this one...

I started with Mike Warren's Illustration Action, then applied some Impressionist plugin effects and ePaperpress.com actions for the borders.

Very nice Danny, I haven't visited ePaperpress for a while will have to have a look again

Palms

[amica999]

Had a try too, but not soo happy. May have another go sometimes later...Nice one to practice hair :-)

[Northernshadow]

Palms, I like the color, the rich colors are so pretty.

I did a watercolor,
3 layers in Photoshop with different presets form a Filter Forge filter I'm working on, just masked out what I didn't want.

[palms]

Originally Posted by Northernshadow

Palms, I like the color, the rich colors are so pretty.

I did a watercolor,
3 layers in Photoshop with different presets form a Filter Forge filter I'm working on, just masked out what I didn't want.

Nice work Sherry the crop is excellent

Palms

[Northernshadow]

Thanks Palms

[bross]

Here's my take on it.

[Kraellin]

nice, sherry, and good to see you back

i did two here.

[mikajomc]

Craig- really like your first one, with just that touch of color
bross- great job, welcome to retouchpro!

[Kraellin]

well, good, jordan; glad you enjoy it