Creative Portraits: Niki

[Cheryl H]

The variety in the submissions on this one is amazing.

1. Ran through VP air brush
2. Made a couple of duplicates of the BP layer and ran different lucis art settings on them--blended together and merged
3. Ran through Nik midnight and blended with original
4. added some adjustment layers, a little dodge and burn, and a pattern fill layer in soft light with reduced opacity for a hint of texture.

[billglaw]

Using multiple layers each with different effects and degrees of transparency gives you many levels of control. In portrait work I use "posterizing" and "conte crayon" to effect an enhanced image.

[Xaran]

Duplicated background twice.

Bottom layer converted to black and white.
Secondlayer - changed hue to give a more magenta tone, ran xero line art in drawing mode -65 and line 2. Changed layer mode to overlay.

New layer on the top - Painted white over the background area - gaussian blur to soften the edges.

Christine

[DannyRaphael]

Hey, Bill:

Sure glad you found us and posted a creation. I like what you've done here. Hope to see more of you in the future.

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Christine:

That's a very unique approach (the BW on the bottom and building on that). Do appreciate the detail on how you did it.

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Amy:

Meant to ask... Do you have the PM ArtGalery standalone program or the plugin? I thought the results of your slicing and dicing on this one was outstanding. I really like this effect.

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Inspired by Amy's creation, I set out in one direction, took a sharp left turn and ended up with something completely different than I originally intended.

BTW: I sure didn't realize when I uploaded the base image that it was so doggone small. Sorry about that.

Basic layer stack (top to bottom) after resizing image to 10" high, 100 ppi:
* Curves Adjustment layer - tweak contrast
* Channel Mixer Adjustment layer - monochrome
* Clone over a few blotches
* Merge visible
* Duplicate of Merge visible + Emboss (Overlay) - Add depth
* Merge visible
* Duplicate of background + Impressionist: Natural - Gauze Underlay, selectively merged in with a layer mask
* Duplicate of Merge visible + Unsharp Mask (oversharpened)
* Merge visible
* Duplicate of background + Find Edges (Multiply)
* Duplicate of background + Fluff's custom Gouache style from his Impasto collection (click HERE to get Fluff's brushes.)

~Danny~

[Xaran]

Thanks Danny, it is really interesting to see all the different techniques being used. Neve ceases to amaze me how many incredible variations on one picture can be done.

Christine

[angue]

Just sharing my impressionist filters render

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by angue

Just sharing my impressionist filters render

Very nice interpretation, Tony.

By impressionist you mean the Impressionist plugin, it would be great if you would add your custom style definitions to THIS THREAD.

In any event, it's always a pleasure to see your work.

~Danny~

[ahutton]

Danny, you wrote: Amy:

Meant to ask... Do you have the PM ArtGalery standalone program or the plugin? I thought the results of your slicing and dicing on this one was outstanding. I really like this effect.

ANS: I have both There are more filters in the stand alone one. But not worth the extra $$ if you already have the plugins.

Amy Hutton

[Duv]

The two things that really struck me about this image is the hand and the eyes. I decided to accentuate the hand (larger almost masculine) and her left eye. Puckered the lips. Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer. Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer. PS Angled Strokes, Direction Balance 81/Stroke 8/ Sharpness 5
Thomas Newman: Palladium
Cropped and stroked.

Cheers
Dave

[Manjumena]

smudge in photoshop

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Manjumena

smudge in photoshop

This one is very nice too. If you'd care to elaborate on the steps you used to achieve this lovely result, I'm sure many would be interested.

Well done.

~Danny~

[Joy_CA]

Nice picture, fun to play with...
Joy

[Duv]

Really nice Rendition Joy! As Danny has alluded to, we here to learn techniques. Do you remember your steps to achieve this effect?

Cheers
Dave

[Joy_CA]

Hi Duv, thank you.

I honestly doubt that I could tell you if, my life depended on it. You would not believe how many steps and 'undos' (mostly Undos) this one had. I started out to do a sketch and it wasn't going very well, so, I started playing. I doubt that I could repeat it, myself.

I'm sorry, I promise, I will do better with keeping notes, next time.

Joy (PSP8)

[Manjumena]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

This one is very nice too. If you'd care to elaborate on the steps you used to achieve this lovely result, I'm sure many would be interested.

Well done.

~Danny~

Thanks Danny

I followed 2 grate tutorials by Phyllis Stewart at innographx.com
http://www.innographx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=274
and then followed
http://www.innographx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18
with the coloured pencil layer, when you smudge it gives the hair effect
finaly created a white top layer>masked>brushed away from 20%.40% and 80%

hope this will help and sorry if there is any grammer or spelling mIsTaKeS!