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08-07-2007, 07:01 AM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty Another Version... RedheadImp.jpg | 
08-07-2007, 10:58 AM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty Oily pastels and blenders in Painter, contrast/color correction in PS
Pavel | 
08-07-2007, 12:15 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty 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. | 
08-07-2007, 03:46 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty 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 | 
08-07-2007, 04:04 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty Desaturated and painted with a pencil in Painter.
Back to Photoshop, layer blend mode set to Linear Burn over the original | 
08-07-2007, 05:26 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty 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. | 
08-07-2007, 06:40 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty 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. | 
08-07-2007, 08:32 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty 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 | 
08-07-2007, 09:09 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty ok, one filter forge rendition with a little post work in psp. | 
08-07-2007, 09:33 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty Can someone please post a link to a videotutorial about "smudging"?
lg Calvin | 
08-08-2007, 08:55 AM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty 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.
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08-08-2007, 09:27 AM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty 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 | 
08-08-2007, 01:59 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty Really nice image to play with and some very nice renditions.
Mainly used Nik filters. | 
08-09-2007, 09:16 PM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty nice lighting, lqqker. really gets you wondering what she's looking at.
i had another go. | 
08-10-2007, 12:12 AM
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| | | Re: Creative Portraits: Red Headed Beauty Wow, there are some very creative and beautiful renditions here. As a reward for your creativity here is a little gift. Check out Imagenomic's Portraiture plug-in here: http://www.imagenomic.com/download.aspx
for a free trial download. It is a bit pricey but when you see what it can do you may want to take the plunge. IMHO, no semi-serious retoucher should be without it. It is the slickest plug-in I have ever seen. For me it took my work to a whole new level that I never thought possible. |
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