Creative Portraits: Handsome Dude in a White Coat

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by palms1

You know Steve one would of been nice, BUT it has me wondering do men still where one except at weddings ?

Palms

Probably wouldn't go with jeans which guys wear for almost any occasion these days.

Steve C.

[palms]

I have had my interest in HighKey/black and white rekindled so i have been trying out a different technique out, needs a few more tweeks i think

Palms

[Peter S]

I couldn't find a clean piece of paper for him.


Nice one Palms, keep it up.

Peter

[palms]

Originally Posted by Peter S

I couldn't find a clean piece of paper for him.


Nice one Palms, keep it up.

Peter

Now i really like that one Peter what does it look like on cleaner paper ?

Palms

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by palms1

Now i really like that one Peter what does it look like on cleaner paper ?

Palms

I Dunnno, I couldn't find any.

Peter

[beefy24]

Had fun playing around with this one ...thanks

[Kraellin]

nice sketch, palms

and peter, if you printed 'Wanted: Dead or Alive' on that one, it would suit

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

nice sketch, palms

and peter, if you printed 'Wanted: Dead or Alive' on that one, it would suit

DOH!!!! there's always a better way.

Peter

[manish007]

look at this scketh & give you reviews

[Conan138]

Originally Posted by sharynideas

When I first joined RP, this was what I was trying to learn to do. Thanks to all of you I got seriously sidetracked.
Shari

Wow, how did you do this? Can you tell me or is it a secret?

[sharynideas]

Originally Posted by Conan138

Wow, how did you do this? Can you tell me or is it a secret?

No secret Conan, except that I messed with it a great deal first before I decided to do the stencil. Essentially, the stencil technique involved these steps:
1. removed the gray background
2. used the median filter to smooth him out some
3. adjusted the levels then shadows and highlights
4. desaturated
5. merged with a black fill layer
6. duplicated this layer so that I had two grayscale layers with black fill
7. on the top layer I used the brightness/contrast slider with the contrast set to 100 adjusted the brightness so that I had a good eye on the left and shadows on the throat and shirt etc. this left most of the right half of the face shadowed
8. on the second layer I used the brightness/contrast slider with the contrast set to 100 and adjusted the brightness lighter to show up the eye on the right side and bring out more highlights in the hair
9. Lowered the opacity on the top layer so that I could see both layers and used the eraser to remove any unwanted areas of shadow from the top layer
10 merged the two layers
11. Used the anistrophic diffuse filter to smooth out the edges of the black.

I hope this is making some sense to you. I never tried to put down the steps I used before. I have new respect for those who write tutorials
Shari

[Peter S]

This guy appears to be just to hot for his own good...

He Melted

Sorry couldn't help myself.

Peter

[palms]

Originally Posted by Peter S

This guy appears to be just to hot for his own good...

He Melted

Sorry couldn't help myself.

Peter

Palms

[lkroll]

Now that's cool Peter. lol

Not that I'm jealous or anything; he's probably not looking for the ladies anyway if you know what I mean. lol

[Kraellin]

lol, peter! that's hilarious

[Conan138]

Originally Posted by sharynideas

No secret Conan, except that I messed with it a great deal first before I decided to do the stencil. Essentially, the stencil technique involved these steps:
1. removed the gray background
2. used the median filter to smooth him out some
3. adjusted the levels then shadows and highlights
4. desaturated
5. merged with a black fill layer
6. duplicated this layer so that I had two grayscale layers with black fill
7. on the top layer I used the brightness/contrast slider with the contrast set to 100 adjusted the brightness so that I had a good eye on the left and shadows on the throat and shirt etc. this left most of the right half of the face shadowed
8. on the second layer I used the brightness/contrast slider with the contrast set to 100 and adjusted the brightness lighter to show up the eye on the right side and bring out more highlights in the hair
9. Lowered the opacity on the top layer so that I could see both layers and used the eraser to remove any unwanted areas of shadow from the top layer
10 merged the two layers
11. Used the anistrophic diffuse filter to smooth out the edges of the black.

I hope this is making some sense to you. I never tried to put down the steps I used before. I have new respect for those who write tutorials
Shari

Thank you for taking time to write this!
It looks difficult to me (yes, I am a noob) , but I am going to give it a try.

[sharynideas]

Conan,
I'll be interested in seeing how it turns out.
Shari