Creative Portraits: Diana

[DannyRaphael]

Lovely picture by M. Edward.

[Neve]

I settled for a watercolour with a different approach.

Levels to lighten slightly.
Dupe bottom layer Twice
L3 (Top) - Overlay Mode 80%
L2 - GB 6.0
Merged all layers and duped layer again.
PSP8.01 Art Media Effects/Brushstrokes/Watercolor
Layer Blend at 46%
Merged all.
Applied mask, new bg, sandstone texture and frame.

[Legacy~Art]

Hello - its now very late in england, and i have the flu, outside the weather is very scary, heavy rain, and the wind is mean!

I did this of the picture added its my version of drawing, i won't say how i did it at moment cos i am going to write a tutorial with screenprints for people who use PSP.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Legacy~Art

...I am going to write a tutorial with screenprints for people who use PSP.

That would be great. We'll take all the PSP help we can get.

Hope you're feeling better soon.

~Danny~

[jaykita]

Well, hope you enjoy viewing this as much as i did creating it!
Several layers - increase saturation, cut-out, posterize, art history brush, and emboss, all diff blends.

[Axleuk]

jaykita - Your rendition has a very Pop Art feel about, the colours are very bright and vibrant, great job.

My example shouldnt really belong here, well at least i dont think it should as it is more of an enhancement retouch than a creative rendition, however seeign as the image was used i have to post it nontheless, i hope you dont mind.

Copied main image
Smothed the skin and applied sligh makeup to the cheeks, eyes and lips.
Colour burned then applied a hipass mask sharpen to the hair.
Curve control on the RGB, Red and Blue and Green
Levels adjustment
Imported image into Auto FX Mystical Lighting to apply a light cast on the face and chest then ran a colour correction to the whole image.

Provided link as the compression has undesired results.

Diana

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by jaykita

Well, hope you enjoy viewing this as much as i did creating it!
Several layers - increase saturation, cut-out, posterize, art history brush, and emboss, all diff blends.

Very bold. I admire your stretching the boundaries of creativity.

Great, eyecatching color.

[jaykita]

Thank you very much, Danny.
This recipe contains the art history brush, ps filters brush strokes-accented edges, texturizer, usm in ps7.

[sidis]

Buzz Simplifier + Gothic Glow + Tweaks

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[raniday]

This is a great photo, Danny. I downloaded it a while back and finally got around to painting it, using Judy's watercolor technique...........well, mostly.

[Steve Conway]

Looks like these folks were going for a Wyeth look here, but the model looks uncomfortable.

Steve

[Duv]

Agree with you Steve, maybe a slight body turn to camera and an elbow bend. Don't like how the straight arm anchors into the ground. Nice effect BTW. Thought I'd give it a vertical crop.

Cheers

Dave

[Steve Conway]

Maybe this is not the only shot they took that day. Would be interesting to see other poses in same location.

Thanks for your kind comments.

Steve

Originally Posted by Duv

Agree with you Steve, maybe a slight body turn to camera and an elbow bend. Don't like how the straight arm anchors into the ground. Nice effect BTW. Thought I'd give it a vertical crop.

Cheers

Dave

[cazubi]

Beautiful, Raniday. Ditto Steve and Duv.

I used Lucis and Buzz, and some hue and sat adjustments. I ran a Ted Lacascio oil action, and made my own adjustments.

Cathy

[Duv]

Nice Cathy! You've got lots of stuff I don't have but would like to get sometime.

Dave

[ydelle]

Nev, how did you get that affect of the paint washing off the canvas toward the frame. today I used one I got in one of the forums and it looked fine but the more choices I have the better (for the look I am after).
ydelle

[cazubi]

Dave, I confess...I have a passion for filters and plugins.

Cathy

[Steve Conway]

Your nice comments are appreciated Cathy. Thanks.

Steve

Originally Posted by cazubi

Beautiful, Raniday. Ditto Steve and Duv.


Cathy

[lkroll]

Knew I had to use a lot of compression to get in under 100K. Figured I would take a little advantage of the artifacting (gives the oil more of a smushed stroke fill) for this one. For the curious, here was my original intent (nearly 500K).

[Duv]

Gorgeous! Love that chunky style. I tried to do a combination of Deep Paint and Impressionist. Like yours way better though!

Cheers

Dave

[Swampy]

You people do such lovely pait effects. My niche leans more to the commercial art look. As said above, this photo does have some flaws and if I had to use it in an ad or brochure, here's what I would do to make it a little more appealing. It's an old trick to recrop, frame the subject and blur the background, but the technique lends itself to this photo. Anything to draw the eye away from that locked elbow. <wink>.

Also, this technique took about 3 minutes to complete. When time is money, that bears some consideration too.

[Kraellin]

cat,

love your rendition. the grain/grass effect is very cool and complements the reds of her dress perfectly. very lovely.

Craig

[Peter S]

Nearly 3 years late for this one. Ah well better late than never.


Peter

[palms]

Originally Posted by Peter S

Nearly 3 years late for this one. Ah well better late than never.


Peter

Ditto here

[Steve Conway]

Still looks like a Wyeth to me.

Here's another look.

Steve C.

[stosh7]

Went for the watercolor look.

changed the crop and worked on the smile a bit.

Stosh