Bride-to-be...what can you do?

[byRo]

Originally Posted by palms1

how did you do the skin please? was it your de grunge technique?

Quite the contratry !! It was your smudge brushes.

It was supposed to become a painting, like I said - got detoured.

Rô

[palms1]

Originally Posted by byRo

Quite the contratry !! It was your smudge brushes.

It was supposed to become a painting, like I said - got detoured.

Rô

Whoops dropped a clanger there, but just goes to show how well you have used them. Oh well i am of to practice myself with them some more got a lot to learn

Palms

[carb]

Here's my try at smudge painting. still looks to much like the photo. Carb

[byRo]

Originally Posted by carb

Here's my try at smudge painting. still looks to much like the photo. Carb

That's exactly what happened to me too!

Rô

[lcramer53]

Originally Posted by Peter S

And another, a little lighter and more attention paid to the detail in the posh frock.

Peter

Peter, care to share your technique, please? I especially would like to know how you achieved the results in your second one.

[CathyH]

Everyone has done a great job.
I really like Swampy's, and Cindy's (thanks for the explanation).
Here is mine.

[Joeven]

This started out as a smudge of the bride but ended up being about the tree.

Joe

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by lcramer53

Peter, care to share your technique, please? I especially would like to know how you achieved the results in your second one.

Sorry its taken a while to answer this, but there has been a lot of posts lately and I just didn't notice.

Well it was Palms who gave me the idea when she mentioned losing the detail of the dress, so i duped the BG again and moved it to the top of the stack and tried a fake HDR on it. That brought out the details in the dress but the rest I didn't like so I masked them out and faded slightly, ALT/Merged visible to a new layer played with the levels and colours, and I think I added a slight vignette to darken the edges a little just to emphasize the bride a bit more, oh yes then added the texture I used on the first post.


Peter

[lcramer53]

Originally Posted by Peter S

Sorry its taken a while to answer this, but there has been a lot of posts lately and I just didn't notice.
Peter

Thank you so much, Peter, for responding. And 'thank you' to Palms too for inspiring Peter to arrive at his rendition. I hope that I'll have some time soon to experiment with the technique because IMHO I love it! Thanks again Peter.

[lcramer53]

This is such a pretty picture, I had to see what I could come up with and ended up with something other than I was intending..that happens a lot to me.