Creative Portraits: Lady in Profile

[DannyRaphael]

Some stunning work by F.Toussa.

[Xaran]

Not a sketch or watercolour but I liked the result.

Channel Mixer
Curves
Gradient map

Christine

[ahutton]

Nice Pic. I did two takes on this. The more traditional: Buzz, VP Gouache, PSPsoft focus Dream, toned down the saturation.

Pic 2: A modern art version. Take the above image and add to it another layer of xero lineart, bring out the eye a bit.

AmyHutton

[DannyRaphael]

I like #2 a lot. A very inspirational dose of creativity on this one, Amy.

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After isolating the subject from the background, several layers were generated and blended using layer masks. The following list is not the order of creation, but the filters used:
* Impressionist Pencil Sketch - Detailed Color (face detail)
* Photoshop Dry Brush (face detail)
* Impressionist Conte: Unsmudged Mono (hair and blouse)
* Photoshop Colored Pencil (face detail)
This pile of layers was eventually merged onto a single layer which was duplicated and over sharpened to give it more of an arty look.

~Danny~

[T Paul]

Worked in PhotoShop and Painter...

1. Ran the image through NeatImage to reduce artifacts
2. Opened image in PhotoShop
-Adjusted Highlights and Shadows
-Cloned out fly away hair
-Added hair to blown out highlight area
3. Opened the image in Painter
-Applied painterly effect with artist pastel chalk and grainy water
4. Opened the image in PhotoShop
-Added fine hairs with small brush
-Rendered lighting effects to brighten image

[DannyRaphael]

T...

I especially like the way you "grew" the hair near the crown of her head. You're developing a very pleasing technique with PS and Painter.

~Danny~

[T Paul]

Thanks Danny. I'm very new to Painter. A while back a forum member was asking questions about painting portraits and I play with it a little then to help him out, but haven't touched it since. As you can see from my steps, I am still more comfortable working in PhotoShop as I opened the image in PhotoShop to add the finishing touches. I know Painter is a very powerful program, and I'm looking forward to mastering it (grin)!

~T

[DannyRaphael]

T...

FWIW acccording to the Painter 8 Product Manager, ~80% of Painter owners use it in conjunction with Photoshop because a) they are more familiar with Photoshop and/or (b) Photoshop provides superior ease of use or options for functionalty available in both programs (layer masks, introduced in Painter 8, but awkward to use in Painter) and/or (c) Photoshop has functionality Painter doesn't have. e.g., adjustment layers, actions, batch processing, etc.

As you know Painter shines with all the brush options/variants, papers, textures and the cloning functionality to which Photoshop's art history function can't hold a candle.

They compliment each other very well and I know with certainty I'll never every master either!

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Attached is a happy accident. Guess what? No Impressionist. All Photoshop!

1. Duplicate the Background.
2. To the duplicate apply Pixelate > Crystalize (7)
3. Duplcate the Crystalized layer.
4. Apply Unsharp Mask, about 200, 3, 0
5. Apply Blur > Smart Blur, 9, 20, Low, Edge Only
6. Change blend mode on the Smart Blur layer from Normal to Color Burn
7. Add a new layer to the top of the layer stack
8. With a small hard edged brush, paint black over errant lines
9. Top with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and set Saturation to +100

Note: This technique will NOT work on all images! Some may argue (and rightly so) it didn't work on this one!

Keep having fun!

~Danny~

[Manjumena]

I tried colour pencil with aniso

[Neve]

Great efforts from everyone, I especially like T’s
rendition. I failed to get a satisfactory result trying
to fill in the white space at the top of her head.

This was a difficult one to finish and some steps have
to be missing because I started this 3 times and changed
direction a few times in the middle of it too however here
are the basics.

PSP8.01

I started by smudging hair up into white area to fill that space.
Smudged the face and rest of hair.
Applied Buzz Simplifier Filter/Both/27
Channel Mixer/Default/Mono
Levels to lighten

Feathered selection (4) and placed into a new
white image as a new layer. Erased (low opacity) dark background
carefully working my way towards the profile.
I lowered opacity again once I got closer to the
face and didn’t drag the eraser but tapped it instead around
the outline of face. I erased more outline than I intended.
So got the paintbrush/default and added more outline to
define the profile more. I also used Darken tool
tool over white edges of face, also lips and nose.

I think I Buzzed it again….?

Merged all. Added a sandstone texture instead of a pencil
texture. Adjusted contrast.

[Neve]

Very nice Jaykita, I like the colouring.

[Punch]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

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Attached is a happy accident. Guess what? No Impressionist. All Photoshop!

Hope you aren't going through Impressionist withdrawal...

1. Duplicate the Background.
2. To the duplicate apply Pixelate > Crystalize (7)
3. Duplcate the Crystalized layer.
4. Apply Unsharp Mask, about 200, 3, 0
5. Apply Blur > Smart Blur, 9, 20, Low, Edge Only
6. Change blend mode on the Smart Blur layer from Normal to Color Burn
7. Add a new layer to the top of the layer stack
8. With a small hard edged brush, paint black over errant lines
9. Top with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and set Saturation to +100

Note: This technique will NOT work on all images! Some may argue (and rightly so) it didn't work on this one!

Keep having fun!

~Danny~

Danny... Looks like stained glass jigsaw puzzle. I'd hate to have to put that one together

Kent

[byRo]

Pencils or paint? Paint or pencils?
OK, Just post both of 'em!

Ro

[lkroll]

Lots of stuff. All filters applied to selective layers and opacities with erasure (reverse painting) techniques. Used Flaming Pear's Pixel Trash, DCSpecial's 1969 filter (a got to have filter for saturation/color adjustments to simulate painting colors and lighting), Impressionist (mainly for the hair area), GIMPressionist furry (for the overall brushing texture) and, of course, GIMP's Bumpmap filter.

[palms]

Well done Ikroll very good, you never cease to amaze me with all the ideas that you come up with in fact i make it a point to see what you have come up with everyday, ( plus that you find out all the old threads ) Will you be taking time of for the holidays or will you do more ??

Palms

[Kraellin]

very nice, lkroll

i had to have a go at this one too. it started out with, of all things, warp mesh. i raised her eyebrow a bit and gave her a hint of a smile. from there, all hell broke loose used several impressionist presets, lots of blend modes, some blank raster layers with airbrush dabs of this and that and some smudge painting with a smudge brush. there's also a couple of adjustment layers in there; a contrast/lighten and a color balance one and maybe even another contrast/lighten. there were many layers, some of which got turned on and off at different points to find/create an effect. if i had to post the exact workflow it would take up way too much space.

craig

edit: thought i'd touch this one up a bit more. so, i've added a second version.

[Alcar]

This is a watercolor using only impressionist plugin with three styles.
Alan

[Steve Conway]

Our lady of the profile......

Steve

[lkroll]

...the most part, I will be in the home area. I really like the artistic retouch technique the best; I'm very happy that I have this oportunity to have some fun and share with you all. Thanks for the comment Palms.

Glad you liked it too Craig; is that a little smirk that you added to her? (en lieu of a smirk smiley since I do not see one; LOL).

[Kraellin]

lkroll,

well, i was trying to get a bit of a smile out of her, but i can see how it could be a smirk also. a shame; people look so much better with smiles.

craig

[Serissa]

Im using psp7, I smudged, lightened, and added colored pencil.

ETA: Merry Christmas one and all!!

[Janet Petty]

I don't know how I missed this thread the first time around. That makes me late to comment on the renditions prior to 23 December 2005. In any case, I'm impressed with the path this thread is taking. Great work everyone.

Janet

[Peter S]

I finally got round to this one.

At last.

Peter

[Steve Conway]

The lady in profile. Glad someone opened this one again.

Steve C.