Creative Interpretations: Smiling bright

[amica999]

Found this on sxc and thought you might enjoy.
Original here: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1116543

[lkroll]

You definitely found a wonderful smile for play Amica.

[alexmeta]

Wonderful smile, Amica

[MiningArt]

Lots of rich texture. I have no idea, except at the end used paintEngine. The second is a duotone. Had a little trouble with interlacing with the halftones, so lost some clarity correcting for it.

[amica999]

Lyle, lovely
Alex, what? no blue? You disappoint me... just joking, really nice, I love that frac plugin, too
MA, very different

[palms]

I desaturated, buzzed, cut out. and then cropped to get more of the smile

Palms

[amica999]

Very nice, Palms and interesting crop, too

[geepee52]

Nice find Amica.A bit of smudging and a bit of Buzz.

Thanks
Grant

[amica999]

Grant, this is sure a lovely piece of work. Well done

[GerryB]

Nice work, Grant.
A few filters and experiments with blend modes.

[Kraellin]

amica, good picture and i love that style of sketch.

very nice, lyle. for some reason i want to call that style 'west coast'. not sure why, but there ya go (it's a good style ).

alex, good texture. captured all the good points of the image. nicely done

miningart, a little rough on that first one, but still, nice. and that grainy 2nd one is interesting, too.

very nice, palms

beautiful smudge, grant

i like that one, too, gerry. where'd the frame come from?

[Kraellin]

i had a go at this. i made a new filter in filter forge. it's sort of a paint daub or pointilism or impressionist, or just junk... not real sure

both of these are from the same filter.

[Kraellin]

hehe, ok, i can do these all night. i dont do this too often, but i took the output from one filter and fed it back into another filter; both filter forge filters, one mine, one someone else's.

[GerryB]

Thanks, Craig. The frame is one of my own. I make all my frames from scratch, or they were at one time. I have a collection of several "one side of a frame." The sides are all vertical and were started with the same colors. The thing that changes is what kind of layer styles I use. When I decide which one I want, I copy that side to my project. If the longest side is horizontal, I rotate the layer 90 degrees and scale it to fit the side of the picture and the thickness i want. Then I make a copy and rotate a side until I have a right angle. I miter the corner then merge the two layers. I make a copy of the resulting layer, rotate it 180 degrees and miter the remaining corners. I merge these two layers and add a few layer styles. From start to finish it takes about 5 minutes to do one.

[0lBaldy]

WoW! Some great renditions presented! Thanks for the play Amica!

I see "Cheech" Marin...

[amica999]

Gerry, very nice.
Craig, very different, I personally prefer no. 3
OB, well done

[GerryB]

Thanks, amica999, for the compliment and for the nice picture to work with .

[Steve Conway]

Looks a little like Cheech of "Cheech & Chong."

Steve C.

[amica999]

Steve, that looks really nice, but what happened to the teeth?

[PaleoTube.com]

Here is Grants photo with my action 37 .... lil smudge stick, noise, blur, glow, and smoothed. Thanks for the cool images everyone. Grants is my fav so far.

Mario

[PaleoTube.com]

I'll give you guys the action if you promise to share any fame or fortune from it. hahaha

[PaleoTube.com]

Action 37 - Created by Mario Antoci ...lol

Reality is I made this by mistake and was recording so I was able to save the steps

Mario Antoci’s Action 37 – Basic

Smudge Stick

Stroke: 3
Highlight area: 3
Intensity:8

Dust and Scratchs

Radius: 5
Threshold: 3

Glowing Edges

Edge width: 4
Edge Brightness: 13
Smoothness: 14

in that order.

Mario

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by amica999

Steve, that looks really nice, but what happened to the teeth?

Sorry....Now those teeth stand out as individuals!

Steve C.

[geepee52]

Thanks for the compliments on this image.It was a good image to work on.

Grant

[Bodak]

Combination of Photoshop and Snap Art

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a343/Bodak/smile.jpg

[PaleoTube.com]

This one was fun so I tried a couple things. first one is 2 actions on yop of eachothe and a bit of cloning to fix the right eye. Second was a minimalist version of the combo. Man I'm in trouble now that I know this site is here.

Mario

[Kraellin]

thanks, gerry

and thanks, amica. i think i like that one best, also