Granddaughter

[gholmes1936]

Here is an image of one of my granddaughters. It was taken by her mom, my daughter. I have her permission to post it here so that we can see what all of you might come up with. I am anxious to see what happens.

Here is my first post, using one of Swampy's tutorials plus a little extra. Not sure about it. Maybe the next one will be better.

[lkroll]

Very nice soft wash look Gunner. Decided to go the texture route with mine.

[gholmes1936]

Oh, I like lots me! Here are a couple of others I have worked on. One in Painter X and the other in Painter Essentials 4.

[Steve Conway]

You folks on this forum sure do have pretty relatives.

Steve C.

[Peter S]

I agree Steve.

Peter

[gholmes1936]

One more time.

[palms]

2 versions from me
a smudge and one using Mike Warrens new "artsy" action


Palms

[gholmes1936]

Originally Posted by palms1

2 versions from me
a smudge and one using Mike Warrens new "artsy" action


Palms

Which new Artsy look is that? I went to his site and am not able to discern which one you are referring to.

[palms]

it was a post over on dpr

Palms

[MargaretM]

Painter assorted brushes for this very pretty young lady. MargaretM

[gholmes1936]

For some reason it won't allow me to view the image result.

[0lBaldy]

Must have something to do with the updates.. I have submitted a version twice and it still has not shown up.. said it needed to be previewed by an administrator first

[gholmes1936]

It's working now. Nice effect they have added for viewing images on a page.

[0lBaldy]

Pattern stamp
different experimental brushes
texture from image
Oval frame from action by Bill Richardson (BillR Oval Frame 2.1) found here
blended in a canvas texture

[Fluffbutt]

Again, still playing with Fotosketcher, now up to version 1.6 with an extra painty filter added..

[gholmes1936]

Originally Posted by 0lBaldy

Pattern stamp
different experimental brushes
texture from image
Oval frame from action by Bill Richardson (BillR Oval Frame 2.1) found here
blended in a canvas texture

Isn't Bill Richardson governor of New Mexico?

[0lBaldy]

Originally Posted by gholmes1936

Isn't Bill Richardson governor of New Mexico?

Yeppers he is .. I do not know if it is the same guy .. but back in 03 he put out some pretty nifty actions here
(My how time flies!)

[Kraellin]

a bit of filter forge:

[Kraellin]

and another, this time using both filter forge and psp xi:

[azure]

I used 'thredge plug-in' in Serif Photo Plus X2 to get the line edges -

used gertrudis ps for some conversion to art

then used 'Corel Painter Essentials 3' to bring to add a few more art features

used 'BlackMagic Pro Edition' to color images

used 'Fix Any Color ver 1.3' to adjust colors

used 'Xara Xtreme 4' to merge and blend above images

used 'Adobe PhotoShop Elements 4' to complete image with vignette and a few more touch-ups

[azure]

oops... this is the final image here with the vignette

[Kraellin]

very nice, azure! especially that last one!

[gholmes1936]

Good one , azure. A lot of apps. used for the finished image. Like the possibilities. But one question remains in my mind, how the heck do you keep track of all the apps and steps that you go thru, to be able to enter them here? HUH?

[azure]

When joined I read the forum and saw that that was the main reason for posting and that some had gotten away from that procedure and was going to make sure they started back telling what steps were used. So I made a few quick notes as I went along. Or you would be right I probably would not have remembered what I used or in what order I used. I did forget and downloaded the incorrect file the first time. I did try a couple of things that I was not satisfied with and discarded those.

I also wanted to add a little more detail to face and lips as well as soften up the image so I did a little more combining of the original with the one I had said was the final vignette using 'Adobe Photo Shop Elements 4'. I opened both the original and my final pic and copied the upper portion of the original and then used it as a saturation layer with lowered opacity and erased out layer as needed along with my final pic. Also I used the same copy I used in the saturation layer but this time as a normal layer with lowered opacity to bring out some facial detail and smoothed the skin with slight blur and lightened overall image.

In all it gives a different look. Just a matter of preference. So here is the real final ( i believe ).

*****
I am glad I found this site been looking and reading. Very good ideas, info and some beautiful work here. Great going all of you. Wonderful site!!

[DannyRaphael]

Late to the party, but nice pic to work with...
1. BW conversion (best of G, B channels)
2. rendered by PencilPixels-OC-Vol-1 - Stylized Poster Art action

Thanks for the play, G.

[DannyRaphael]

Hi Azure...Welcome to RP.

Glad you found us and that you jumped right in.

[gholmes1936]

Such great work all of you. Also welcome to Azure, a little late with that one.

[Gilbert]

better late than never
cropped, cloned, blended & smudged then slight sharpening

[gholmes1936]

Really nice. I am especially interested in how you did the eyelashes!

[Gilbert]

drew a black line under the eye and with a small brush,marlyn's hair brush resat 0, pulled individual lashes down.....glad you liked it GH