Creative Portraits: Flower Girl

[palms]

Originally Posted by Mohammed

Thank you Palms, got it, quite simple but very effective

Thanks again

You are welcome, sometimes i think we over look the simple ways

Palms

[palms]

Originally Posted by pavel123

Steve, l like your second rendition, great painting effect.

Palms, I vote for your second renditions as well, I would've asked you how you did it, but I suspect the it's AHB and a sketch (??)

Pavel

bang on Pavel, Hope i am not getting to predictable although there was a clue in the post

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by pavel123

Steve, l like your second rendition, great painting effect.

Pavel

I thank you. Enjoyed working on it.

Steve

[Kraellin]

some delightful renditions here! and what a delightful picture to begin with

i thought there was a bit too much green in the overall image. so, i first did some retouching: color correction, airbrushing, a tiny bit of cloning, a usm to sharpen and so on.

next, there was too much background, so i cropped the whole thing to an 8x10 aspect ratio.

after that, i sprayed the background and then changed it with a selection and fill. did a little touchup there with soften and airbrush.

copy merged and pasted to new layer.

with the new layer, i ran a psp brush strokes on it, duplicated it and used a blend mode to soften the strokes a bit. and then added a brightness/contrast layer to adjust the lighting a bit.

and that was mostly it. probably left out something, but that was the main of it.