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[Peter S]

Found this at Stockvault, should give good results I think.

Mine smudged with a texture added and a generous amount of sharpening.

Peter

[Kraellin]

i like your technique, peter and nice original images.

[palms]

A quick 5 min try, nice photo's and work Peter

Palms

[lkroll]

Still playing with signature collages. Click here for the full rez version. Attached is a crop (just an eye).

[0lBaldy]

A quickie from me using some instructions by Peter from another thread

[DannyRaphael]

very nice pix, peter...thx for getting this one started

Mine (1): Akvis > Sketch & Impressionist plugins, Photoshop Texturizer effect. The "film edge effect" via applied using a Photoshop action I wrote/tweaked over the past couple days

Click my name above to send me an e-mail if you would like this .atn. Works under CS3 on images of any size and resolution.

#2: conversions to BW with film edge .atn applied to each pic. The resulting film-edged images were combined into a single image.

[LQQKER]

Peter - Nice image selection (as always).

Interesting ideas posted by all.

[0lBaldy]

Thanks for the play Peter!

Played with #2 also...

[Kraellin]

very nice, OB. i like the lighting contrasting.

[sylvia1065]

Mixture of layers with some Topaz Clean2...
Sylvia

[Kraellin]

very lovely, sylvia

i decided to put my contest prize, Akvis artwork 2.0 to work. i havent had much chance to use it before this and i must say, i'm impressed! it's got a good range of effects, does a very nice job on those effects and is very intuitive to use. it does have a few minor little bugs/unwanteds, but all in all, very handy, easy to use and produces some very good effects

all of these are from the program.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by sylvia1065

Mixture of layers with some Topaz Clean2...
Sylvia

You ROCK, Sylvia!
That's very cool!

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by lkroll

Still playing with signature collages. Click here for the full rez version. Attached is a crop (just an eye).

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Over the years Lyle (aka lkroll) has inspired me with tools he's discovered and his creative innovation. He did it again with this interpretation based on "signature strokes."

I found a signature on the Net (via Google image search) and from it created a custom brush for Impressionist.

The LEFT attachment is the first layer rendered by Impressionist.

The RIGHT attachment is where I stopped a few layers later. I also used Akvis > Sketch to restore some edge detail.

[sylvia1065]

Thank you, Craig and Danny
I don't have Akvis, but I do love my Topaz
Sylvia

[Kraellin]

oh my god, danny, not another lyle! just kidding, of course. interesting technique. would have never tried to do that with an impressionist brush. very clever!

[lkroll]

That's cool Danny; didn't check yet, but did you upload you custom brush set to the Impressionist thread? Anyway, thought I would go on the line side (not vector) for the final one.

[lkroll]

What the hey; vector too.

[Nasturtium]

Lyle that signature one is radical! You alway find the newest stuff.

[lkroll]

Thanks Nasturtium. Been working on sketches of late too.