Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty

[manta1900]

I tried to play with the light a bit...

[Kraellin]

photomaster, thank you, btw, for posting the image. lovely picture, lovely woman.

and i also very much like your original rendition. you have a combination there, of sharpness and softness which i find very appealing.

and, thanks for the link. i tried it out. it seems to only work on photoshop and not psp. it crashed psp when i ran it from there. seems like a good piece of software. simple interface, very intuitive and did a nice job on the image i tried with it.

[Janet Petty]

I've wanted time to play with this ever since it was posted. Finally found a few free minutes. Thanks for sharing Photomaster. It is a great photo.

Janet

[lkroll]

Still experimenting with various simplication techniques. Cat (other forum) started a theme thread concerning Gradients which I see lot's of potential for certain abstract renderings. Used a multi-color gradient to start things off and did some other things too.

[Steve Conway]

Lovely lady and photo.

Steve C.

[Steve Conway]

Decided to do one more slightly different version showing more detail and shadowing.

Steve C.

[Nanls]

Lovely shot! Here is mine. :-)

~Nancy~

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[Nanls]

One more just for fun!
~Nancy~

[Northernshadow]

It's been ages since I've played with Impressionist, forgot how much fun it it is!
this is 4 layers starting with a large chalky brush then progressivly shrinking the brush and masking out unwanted detail.

[Photomaster]

Nancy, your first rendition is exceptional. The lips look fantastic!

[Nanls]

Originally Posted by Photomaster

Nancy, your first rendition is exceptional. The lips look fantastic!

Thanks Photomaster - and for the very nice image!

~Nancy~

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[Kraellin]

sherri, where have you been? we've missed you over at filter forge!

[Northernshadow]

Hey Craig!! I've missed you and everyone at filterforge too!
Too much to do and not enough time!!!

[Kraellin]

excuses, excuses well, it's good to see you here

[LdyNghtWng]

Gave myself ten New York minutes and came up with this..maybe I can put a little more time into it later! Beautiful portait to begin with; in a way, I hated to alter it.

Buzz simplifier and pure colour on the first layer, with a coloured edge outline merged on top..paint strokes in Gertrudis Pro because I am pressed for time..then another edge layer on top of that...

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by LdyNghtWng

Gave myself ten New York minutes and came up with this..maybe I can put a little more time into it later! Beautiful portait to begin with; in a way, I hated to alter it.

Buzz simplifier and pure colour on the first layer, with a coloured edge outline merged on top..paint strokes in Gertrudis Pro because I am pressed for time..then another edge layer on top of that...

Does ten New York minutes = 5 minutes to the rest of the world? (LOL)

Glad you got over the hump with Buzz. I see why it's among your favorite plugins.

[palms1]

Still practising (I needed to find different colour hair to try out )
Palms

[Kraellin]

very nice, palms

i decided to knit something.

[palms1]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

very nice, palms

i decided to knit something.

I like that Craig have you got the pattern ?

Palms

[lkroll]

Looks like I got some competition now. lol

Cool sweater looking texture Craig.

[frate]

I'm throwing up a few PBAs for fun. Not my usual pursuit, but I love looking at what all of you have been able to create from the photos.

[lkroll]

Mannequin.

[manish007]

take a look at this picture and make comments

[mcole]

Greetings everyone,

This is my first post on this site. But I saw this photo and had to give it a go. It's just such a great shot. I used Photoshop with no plugins, and just gave her a basic glamour makeover and tried to create sort of an ethereal glow about her.

: )

P.S. How do I upload a photo bigger than 100k?

[frate]

Originally Posted by lkroll

Mannequin.

Great idea. Pretty cool.

[Kraellin]

hehe, palms. sure, go buy filter forge and i'll send it to you

thanks, lyle, but no competition since we're selling from the same store

frate, what are PBA's?

[lkroll]

Thanks Frate; wish I could give you an exact formula, but I kept on throughing things at it til I got what I wanted. lol

Still couldn't get the eyes right though.

[amica999]

frate, what are PBA's?[/QUOTE]

I guess that this is Photo Based Art?

[Kraellin]

mcole,

the only way to upload a file larger than 100k is to become a patron. you then get 200k per image. (or, you cheat like me and become a moderator ).

[mcole]

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the info. I appreciate that. But that seems like an awful lot for an extra 100k. Especially being a moderator! (lol-lol)