Creative Portraits: Mother and Daughter - Toni and Shanon

[DannyRaphael]

A special moment in time shot by J.Thuemler.

[jaykita]

Tried all sorts in the hope it would look like an oil painting...sigh!
Started with photoline32 paint effect, added some brushwork in painter, changed hue-sat in ps7.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by jaykita

Tried all sorts in the hope it would look like an oil painting...sigh!
Started with photoline32 paint effect, added some brushwork in painter, changed hue-sat in ps7.

Hey, that's pretty neat. Hadn't heard of Photoline32 before, so I goggled it and came up with a few hits, among them:

http://www.pl32.com

Thanks for including that tidbit. Another fun tool to investigate!

~Danny~

[CJ Swartz]

What a beautiful pair! May want to try a few different types of techniques on this image....

For this one, in Photoshop, I duped several layers to work with, and used the wand tool to pick out most of the background highlights - then used the Quick Mask to add to my selection. Decided to recreate a background for the burned out areas and added noise, then did a variety of the Pixilate filters - Pointillize especially, to create a look of flower petals in the distance (to me, at least ). Ran the Smart Blur edges on another layer and topped it with a couple of Graphic Pen layers (ran at different strengths - not quite like Glenn Mitchell's tip, but using his idea ) with a Screen layer mode -- with opacity reduced on the Edges layer. Added layers on top to add back Color (Color layer mode with layer masking to taste).

[Neve]

Lovely submissions Jaykita and CJ!

I had a number of goes at this one as I was experimenting with Impressionist. I finally settled for this....using PSP8.01. Image size worked on was 880 x 843 pixels, 72 dpi. I reduced final image to 65% prior to applying a sandstone texture.

Auto contrast to original image (lighter-norma-natural)
Duped bottom layer.
2nd Layer - Soft Focus (setting=Minimum Focus)
Eraser - low opacity - to reveal eyes mouth etc.
Impressionist Filter/Watercolour/Damp Translucent Wash
Bg=Image Coverage=35%
Brush Size=25% Pressure=76%
Again applied Soft Focus/Min Focus
Erased for eyes etc again.
Merged visible.
Applied some sharpening to highlight eyes mouth more.
Sandstone texture applied.

Thank you for the lovely photo to work with....!

[LQQKER]

Nice entries by all.

An attractive duo.

Adjusted levels.
Slight curve adjustment.
light simplification.
Used several layers to build up bg.
Used Nik Ink to further flatten and build bg.
Virtual painter on bg.
xero clairity to enhance.
Impressionist pencil sketch/detailed color for bg.
Did the same for subject but less opacity.
Embossed.
Nik skylight, contrast.
Another hue/sat adj.
Slight blur to reduce image size.

[Neve]

Superb Lqqker Colours are vibrant and I like the detail on the whole. Great result.

[Janet Petty]

Lqqker, I quite like the technique you used. I like the colors you chose. I like the painterly effect without having them too stylized. There is one thing that I noticed, however. And that is the light brown halo over the mother's head. Notice I haven't yet posted my own feeble efforts; so take what I say however you may. In any case, you did a great job.

Janet

[Reason]

changed photo to black and white
painted and blended in painter 8, about 9 hours.
used edge preserving smooth in psp7
used emboss filter
added a glass filter
added black border
added glass filter.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Reason

changed photo to black and white
painted and blended in painter 8, about 9 hours.
used edge preserving smooth in psp7
used emboss filter
added a glass filter
added black border
added glass filter.

Wow.... you converted to BW, then colorized in Painter. That's impressive.

Nicely done.

~Danny~

[jaykita]

Originally Posted by Reason

painted and blended in painter 8, about 9 hours.

Bravo, Reason. Lovely rendition! Well worth the effort!

[Xaran]

3 copies of background layer.

Bottom copy - Xero line Art - Drawing to lighten and enhance colours followed by impressionist chalk - background = image brush = 25 ran this twice.

next layer white fill - layer mask and using Trimoon's water colour technique painted back figures and part of background.

Next background copy layer - Chalkaholic, gaussian blur 2.5, Sketcher - dodged colour on girls neck later. Layer mode = screen

Next background copy Xero line art - Sketch, line = 10, Tone = -63, Mono. Layer mode = multiply. Painted white with rough brush to remove edges where ovelapped undelying layers

Christine

[jaykita]

Here's mine. And these are the steps:
First, original image-adjustment levels to brighten and lighten, 0, 1.45, 255.
Made 6 background copies. From last layer upwards:
6th - Impressionist plug-in pencil sketch soft detailed, opac 100, Normal.
5th - Impr custom #djr oil 24, hard light, opac 58.
4th - Impr custom chalk soft detail pastel rain (palette rainbow), normal opac 53.
3rd - Backgr copy - smart blur, find edges, invert, diffuse anisotropic, multiply, opac 63.
2nd - same as 6th, hard light, opac 57.
1st - Backgr copy - g'blur, soft light.
Merge all. Increase saturation upto 10.

[M_Hnatiuk]

Originally Posted by Reason

changed photo to black and white
painted and blended in painter 8, about 9 hours.
used edge preserving smooth in psp7
used emboss filter
added a glass filter
added black border
added glass filter.

Great effort! I always look forward to seeing your exciting use of color!

[Reason]

Thanks, Mary