Turning Portraits into Digital Sketches, Oils, Watercolors - - Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty - Page 2

rab3rd · #16 08-07-2007, 07:01 AM

Another Version...

RedheadImp.jpg

pavel123 · #17 08-07-2007, 10:58 AM

Oily pastels and blenders in Painter, contrast/color correction in PS

Pavel

MadChapelier · #18 08-07-2007, 12:15 PM

I thought this girl reminded me a lot of Ariel from the Little Mermaid... so I thought I'd see what I could do to make her look that way. I considered adding more elements to make her more mermaidish, but I only had like 30 minutes to work on it and didn't want to get too carried away. The first image is the background change and the second is a more painterly version.

Peter S · #19 08-07-2007, 03:46 PM

Tahnks you guys.
Yes Palms it was the water paper filter on a 50%grey b/ground, overlaid with a slight emboss, then used one of the colour channels as a mask to soften the effect. Glad U liked it.

I had another go as well!!!!

Peter

Swampy · #20 08-07-2007, 04:04 PM

Desaturated and painted with a pencil in Painter.

Back to Photoshop, layer blend mode set to Linear Burn over the original

Kraellin · #21 08-07-2007, 05:26 PM

oh, now i see what's gotten everyone distracted from the other threads!

i like that, dee dee. that treatment is quite suggestive of many things.

Swampy · #22 08-07-2007, 06:40 PM

I had no idea what I was doing, Craig. I just ran a soft pencil in auto mode in Painter. It was when I brought it back to PS and started playing with blending modes that this effect popped up. I can't put my finger on it, but I kinda liked the effect too.

Kraellin · #23 08-07-2007, 08:32 PM

it's almost like seeing it through a gauze curtain or something. very provacative.

i had a go also. just some Paint Shop Pro work. no filter forge this time

Kraellin · #24 08-07-2007, 09:09 PM

ok, one filter forge rendition with a little post work in psp.

Calvinhollywood · #25 08-07-2007, 09:33 PM

Can someone please post a link to a videotutorial about "smudging"?

lg Calvin

DannyRaphael · #26 08-08-2007, 08:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Calvinhollywood

Can someone please post a link to a videotutorial about "smudging"?

lg Calvin

Unfortunately a very good tutorial of this nature is no longer available at Nikoncafe.com.

I found this one by googling: photoshop smudge painting video

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/id/176729780

Pretty basic, but a start in the right direction.

palms1 · #27 08-08-2007, 09:27 AM

The first link to Lisa's video dosent work but if you go to this page and thread #46 the link there works ( just tried it, but i did have to move the slider slightly to start it)

http://www.nikoncafe.com/vforums/sho...mudging&page=5

Palms

LQQKER · #28 08-08-2007, 01:59 PM

Really nice image to play with and some very nice renditions.
Mainly used Nik filters.

Kraellin · #29 08-09-2007, 09:16 PM

nice lighting, lqqker. really gets you wondering what she's looking at.

i had another go.

Photomaster · #30 08-10-2007, 12:12 AM

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