Creative Portraits: Maria

[DannyRaphael]

A nice closeup, I thought. Should make for a good painting or high-key sketch.

Have fun...

~Danny~

[DannyRaphael]

1. Used basically the same technique as the one described here:

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/sho...p?postid=75040

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2. Based on this tutorial:

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-art-resources/9059-tutorial-link-sketch-effect-worth1000.html

Added some grain and applied Crosshatch to give it a little personality. Added a Brightness/contrast layer for on overall light gray look.

~Danny~

[byRo]

Although the art work ended up nicely, I wanted to show a little idea I've been working on.......

Lately I've been experimenting with (trying to understand,thanks JustChecking) the high-pass filter and it ended up serving as a way to put some spice into a photo before doing the "art" stuff.

Up to now every time I used this, the art work got easier and / or came out better. Although three times isn't a very big sample.

Art base: make a duplicate, set blending to overlay and blend-if to "This Layer" 0-20 / 235-255 (split the triangles); make a load of duplicates of this. Run the high-pass on each layer at a different radius and lower the opacity of the higher radii layers. (The palette shows it better, of course)

Hope the turns out useful to someone....

Rô

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by byRo

Although the art work ended up nicely, I wanted to show a little idea I've been working on.......

Lately I've been experimenting with (trying to understand,thanks JustChecking) the high-pass filter and it ended up serving as a way to put some spice into a photo before doing the "art" stuff.

Up to now every time I used this, the art work got easier and / or came out better. Although three times isn't a very big sample.

Art base: make a duplicate, set blending to overlay and blend-if to "This Layer" 0-20 / 235-255 (split the triangles); make a load of duplicates of this. Run the high-pass on each layer at a different radius and lower the opacity of the higher radii layers. (The palette shows it better, of course)

Hope the turns out useful to someone....

Rô

In the final arty version...

(a) In the "color" layer set did you take the Art Base and apply Cutout followed by Rough Pastel or Cutout to one copy and Rough Pastel to the other?

(b) In the "outline" layer set did the Luminosity layer begat the Pencil layer from which the Ansio layeer was created?

In the High Pass stack...
* OK. I get it now (after rereading the description) and eyeballing the layer stack. I hope you created an action to recreate this effect on future pics!

This is a facinating method. As I said recently, you're really opening my eyes to possibilities I'd never considered.

~Danny~

[DannyRaphael]

I was messing with some filters and settings and came up with this one. It's based on the attached Photoshop action.

After the action finished I added a hue/saturation adjustment layer to the final layer stack, set the saturation setting to -100, and then airbrushed black to restore the eye color.

~Danny~

[byRo]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

(a) In the "color" layer set did you take the Art Base and apply Cutout followed by Rough Pastel or Cutout to one copy and Rough Pastel to the other?

First option: in sequence Art Base -> Cut-Out -> Rough Pastel. Usually I leave it just with cut-out but I thought that this was looking too flat. If I was at home I'd probably have used something Impressionist. (Good thing I'm not!)

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

(b) In the "outline" layer set did the Luminosity layer begat the Pencil layer from which the Ansio layer was created?

Exactly

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

I hope you created an action to recreate this effect on future pics!

Sure. Almost posted it but I'm still tweaking. Like I said only used it three times up to now - tonight I'm doing some more.

Have fun,

Rô

[LQQKER]

Lovely expression.

Cropped and corrected color.
Used hue & Sat with a high feather to remove reddened shadow.
Simplified.
Impressionist paint/fine brush hairs at different settings and brushes.
Nik pro contrast (painted in)
embossed
Created bg with FP swirl and embossed.
Combined the two at various opacities.
Xero
Nik soft gold.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by LQQKER

Lovely expression.

Cropped and corrected color.
Used hue & Sat with a high feather to remove reddened shadow.
Simplified.
Impressionist paint/fine brush hairs at different settings and brushes.
Nik pro contrast (painted in)
embossed
Created bg with FP swirl and embossed.
Combined the two at various opacities.
Xero
Nik soft gold.

Great job on the eyes and lashes. They make the pic as far as I'm concerned.

[jaykita]

Love her hair. So...

Totally with "The all new FREE Project Dogwaffle version 1.2."

(Click here to be taken to a thread for more information and URL on this program.)

[DannyRaphael]

Very glamourized look you achieved here. This is a pretty nifty program and you sure can't beat the price!

~Danny~

[jaykita]

Couldnt resist doing this one. VP + impr plug-in.

[SWEngineer]

Here's something I wipped up using the idea behind Rô's "Graphic Eq" tutorial. No doubt there are many directions this could lead.

Layer description from bottom (layer1) to top
1. BG (original Maria)
2. BG copy. Highpass 20
3. BG copy. High pass 10. Invert. Layer mode LinearLight at 50% Opacity.
4. New layer. Fill with white. Turn off visibility for now.
5. New layer. Merge visible (layers 2 & 3). This is the 10-20 "radius" band in Rô's tut. Set this layer mode to LinearLight at 100% Opacity. Turn on visibility of layer 4.
6. New layer. Merge visible (layers 4 & 5)
7. Levels Adj. set to 196, 1.00, 255
8. New layer. Merge visible (layers 6 & 7)
9. Copy of layer 3. (Still linear light.) Desaturate. Reduce opacity to 40%. It turns out that I accidently left it inverted. This was accidental on my part. Both ways work although the results are rather different. Try it both ways to see what works best for you.
10. New Layer. Merge visible (layers 8 & 9).

Layer 10 looks to me like a great starting point for many things. For my posting, I just ran Crosshatch 10,4,2 on it and called it quits.

-Mark

[DannyRaphael]

Now THAT'S CREATIVE, Mark! Talk about being inspired and running with it.

I'll bet you find it hard to sleep at night as new possibilities keep popping into your head!

[TwinbNJ]

Great submissions to a very nice image to work with.

Desatureated the image, worked the curves and did find edges on a new layer. Did a select color to get rid of the dark lines then used levels to bring up the soft lines. Ran Anisotropic on the lines. Created new layer and embossed, lowered opacity and fill, then merge down. Blend mode to Liniar Dodge and added mask painted in the face. Merge and did Anisotropic portrait then landscape. flatten and added new layer soft light painted with black. merge then added the crosshatch.

Link to larger image on Pbase

[byRo]

This one's for Judy....lotsa strokes.

Home-made canvas, AHB pencils @ Hard Light, High-Pass outlines @ Linear Light, Levels tweak, Render lighting effects.

Rô

[Elleth]

This was a fun image to work with, thanks for posting it!
I ran Isabel's Pastel Sketch action on this one.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Elleth

This was a fun image to work with, thanks for posting it!
I ran Isabel's Pastel Sketch action on this one.

Welcome to the photo-art forum, Elleth!

A little history: I've known Isabel (via the net) for a couple of years and she is among the nicest folks you'll ever run across. I believe this action was written in her honor by photofixer (aka: Sharon). The effect it renders works well on some pics, as your interpretation illustrates.

Anyway, keep 'em coming. We enjoy having new folks join in on the fun.

~Danny~

[Elleth]

Thanks Danny,
I did have to do a bit of work on the image after I ran the action.
There were black blotches on her face where no black blotches should be!
I got rid of those using the patch tool and healing brush. Then I made the original photo the top layer and set the opacity to 30, bringing in a bit more color and detail to her face. Overall I like the effect, but if I keep looking at it I'll make even more changes!
I've made a few changes since my last "edit", at this point I think I'll leave it well enough alone...
It's hard to know when you're done fiddling with an image isn't it?

[jaykita]

Thank you Rô. Thats a great color-pencil sketch. In my book, this creation is a W-O-W!! I've downloaded the preset and can't wait to try it out! Thanks again.

[TylerRB]

Not quite so Artsy in these ones, so my apologies for them not being quite so.
There are some very minor artistic effects, like rough pastels amongst others too hopefully qualify still in this category.

I played A LOT with the adjustment layer levels and masks to get what I wanted with this one. I did very minute filtering on the pic to gain certain effects. Hard to list, once again, due to so much tampering and snap-shotting and the like.

The first is my nice attempt. The second, is just pretty, I hope. And the third is the result of experimenting with displacement mapping.

[Drach]

I worked with 3 layers..
Top layer: fine oilpainting (50%)
Med layer: diagonal something (don't know the translation) from artistic tab (10%)
Bottom layer: Fresco
After flattening I added a slight texture to it.

Enjoy

[Steve Conway]

Nic pic....great eyes.

Steve

[Steve Conway]

A second shot at it.

Steve

[Kraellin]

this is actually photo manipulation rather than art, but i'm not going to start a whole new thread elsewhere for it... besides, sometimes we can just get too serious, as is depicted in this image

Craig

[cazubi]

I love your humor, Craig.

I used impasto cloners and brushes in Painter for a loose, thick paint feel.
In PS I played with hue/sat and used the high pass with overlay mode to bring out more of the brush strokes.

Cathy

[Kraellin]

thanks, cathy the tongue was hard.

and lovely piece, btw!

Craig

[Fluffbutt]

Imp, with a few extra features. It's meant to be a colour-saturated oils style..

[GOLDCOIN]

Fluffy.. Looks wonderful..you are magic with that Impressionist program. Another new setting??

[Fluffbutt]

Originally Posted by GOLDCOIN

Fluffy.. Looks wonderful..you are magic with that Impressionist program. Another new setting??

Well it's one of my settings, but an oldish one, posted here.

I made 3 layers, did 3 vastly different setttings to each, with the most 'destructive' on top (rather than the obvious underpainting sytle). Then set layer transparencies to somewhere arouns 33 - 65%.

[lkroll]

...a few places. I know I tout the power of filters, but I had no choice but to do some mouse smudgeing this time.

Thought I do a glamour as well. I can make plastic with the best of them (and no, I did not use NeatImage ). A executed a technique I've used before which requires edge detection then either using Divide (GIMP of course) or Invert Dodge (PS or GIMP). Lots os smudging too by the way. Another technique that I used which I like to share with you is a cool way to extenuate the color saturation. I duplicate and the run a Script-fu called Invert Light and set the layer property to Dodge. I merge down and set to color and adjust opacity to taste. Adds a little makeup (subtle of course) to this beautiful model. Now, you won't see me do a glamour again (only natural cleanup work; my preferred method since I believe natural is beautiful too). Side note: I did leave the moles on her neck since, unless the subject wanted them out, blemishes should be left alone (she obviouse wanted the facial blemishes hidden, but not the neck). Just the philosphy I like following.