Creative Portraits: After the Bath (Ed L)

[Ed_L]

Okay, here's my first submission for you to have fun with. It's a shot of my youngest boy, after a bath. Have a ball.

Ed

[BillC]

Ed - great pic! Mine sure isn't considered 'art'!
Bill C

[GOLDCOIN]

Ed.....A super pix, thanks

BillC.........Am still laughting, great thought & leaf!!

Mine was an accident......

[TwinbNJ]

Ed - thank you, what a wonderful image!


Just did threshold, very light history brush, added texture, and slight lighting.

[spinnnz]

Ed - great picture!
Bill C - too funny!
Goldcoin - Bills right, it has a heavenly feel to the image.
Jill, what a cool effect.

Here's mine, did a sketch.

-Lisa

[Blacknight]

Smart blur on a layer copy, blend mode to hue. Some blur tool and hue/sat.

[TwinANJ]

Ed what a wonderful picture. One could only wish to have such a treasure. There is nothing like a boy and his dog!

I did a sketch and had a nice time working with your image thank you for such a nice post.


Jean

[shariwb]

I love this picture Ed! What great renditions everyone has made.
I am learning so much from y'all (texas talk). I was going for a water color effect.

Shari

[shariwb]

I am so sorry, I don't know how I reached my result. I just started playing with the picture trying different things. When something doesn't work, I delete that and start over. Pretty soon my history fills up and I can't tell what I've done. I do know I did it all in Photoshop. I know I used aimphisoft simplifier, rough pastels, andromeda scatterlight, and played around with
other filters and selective color(for the background). I tried to replicate and I can't. I hate when that happens. I've come up with some neat stuff before, and can't remember how I got there. Do y'all write everything down. How do you remember?

Shari

[LQQKER]

Ed - Outstanding photograph. I only wish I had a high-res to play with.

Bill C - Love the leaf
Lisa - Nice sketch, they seem to get better and better.
GoldCoin - Your accident looks really nice.
Jill - You managed to capture the essence of the photograph with a very simple black and white. Nice.
BK - Nice rendition. I like the floor reflection.
Jean - Almost looks like a logo.
Shari - Very nice misty watercolor effect. The colors also blend very well.


I started out with using adapt.equalize to bring out some detail in the pooch.
Did a smudge on the pooch and the boy. Attempted to improve the skin tones a bit using skylight filter.
Used an assortment of blending modes to enhance colors.
I drew the background on several layers, expermenting with some colors and forms.

[catia]

I am late to the party on this one. A lot of nice work here as usual. I do like the last post (Looker I believe) a lot. Has a kind of painting look with the detail of a photo.

Couldn't resist trying one although I had trouble downloading the original. The first thing I thought of when I saw this photo was - old photo. So, here is an old photo...

Catia

[DannyRaphael]

1st one.
Messing with a technique to create "panes" within an image. Trying to get an effect similar to the one in recent Hewlett-Packard commercials.

Nothing fancy technique-wise: Creating selections on the base layer and placing them on layers by themselves (Layer > New Layer > Layer by Copy)

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2nd one.

Mostly Impressionist effects on different layers, blended together.

It's 2 a.m. and I'm pooped. I-O-U the details. I'll write 'em up and post them this weekend.

~Danny~

[Duv]

Just playin'

Cheers
Dave

[Rawessence]

Just playing around ....

[DannyRaphael]

Now that's a manipulation.

Brilliant concept.