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.

[okplayer]

Originally Posted by Rawessence

Just playing around ....

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
(extra exclamation points added to meet min message length)

[brandonx49]

Morning all,

Something from my twisted mind early in the morning. A cute parody.

Brad

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by brandonx49

Morning all,

Something from my twisted mind early in the morning. A cute parody.

Brad

This is very cute. Some are exceptionally creative in the early a.m., and you must be one of them, Brad. Was this before you went to bed or soon after getting up?

Ol' timers like me usually ask, "Where's the bathroom?"

Well done, sir.

~Danny~

[brandonx49]

re: morning hours.

Good questions - up until a week ago it would have been before bed time. Now it's morning as I've been up at 4 am lately. Early Mornings are so nice. I had no idea.

Brad