Creative Portraits: Desiree II

[Neve]

I have another photo of Desiree at my website done similarly, she's a lovely subject.

[Neve]

PR Brightness on original image. – Dupe bottom layer.
L2 – Dodge – Negative – GB 8.00 (or to suit your image)
Multiply a layer if necessary.
Optional – Noise filter
Auto Contrast if necessary.
Impressionist/Danny’s Fav’s/Conte:Faithfull ** Modified
PSP/Artistic Brushstrokes/Watercolour – Modified
Reduce Opacity to 70% or to suit image.
Merge – duped again
-Mode - Soft Light for this image
Merged all. Cropped, canvas texture added.

[Neve]

I used the same steps as for "sepia sketch" adding...

Dupe Sepia Sketch Layer
L2 - Dodge/Neg/GB4 - Dupe Layer
L3 - Difference - Dupe Layer
L4 - Screen 42% to suit image - Dupe Layer
L5 - Burn 60% to suit image - Dupe Layer
L6 - Hue - 78% (this alters colours)
Merged all
Added Criss-Cross Texture which filled in the
light areas.

[sidis]

Neve--beautiful and subtle edit.

[jaykita]

Got this surprising result while fooling around ... first i created a wmf file (from corel draw/ trace), converted to outline, copied into ps, and played around with blends.

[DannyRaphael]

jaykita:

Now that really out there (in a good way)! I like it when folks take chances to come up with something bold. Well done.


~Danny~

[SWEngineer]

Here's a couple using the sketch effects I worked up for my "101 Graduation". See the Campfire_Treat thread for how to. One difference -- I added some Reticulation filter to the BW version before Waterpaper et. al.

-Mark

[Xaran]

Watercolour from Digital Photo Effects Mag tutorial.

The basic principles are

image size 300ppi

Create a new coloured canvas layer.

Duplicate original background and move to top.
Increase Saturation (+38 in the tut on a fairly light image), mode = linear light, opacity 25.
Hide all layer mask and paint with white using Wet Media Brush - watercolour textured surface.

Duplicate this layer again, remove mask, blend mode = darken apply motion blur at 90 deg and distance 400+

Duplicate background and move to top
Median Filter value 5
hue = -4, saturation +17
blend mode = hard light
Hide all layer mask and paint white using same brush reduce brush size for facial features.

Another duplicate of background blurred and set to soft light.

These are the instructions as per the mag - they also added noise at 17 to the layers - I didn't like it with the noise added.

I also used dry brush filter instead of median as I felt it gave a better look.

It's quite surprising the difference the motion blur layer makes. I did find the file size getting a bit big and got 'not enough ram' when I tried to add a texture. (I have 2Gb).

Quite like the result though....

Christine

[glikster]

OK. Duped the BG.
Ran Danny's Chalk Sketch: Mono Color Jit.
Faded to 45%
Ran Danny's Charcoal: Color Scr on K.
Faded to 45%
Ran Danny's Paint: Linear Brush D.
Ran Danny's Natural Wild Cave.
Faded to 45%.
Duped BG again.
Find edges, Desaturate, Levels adj., Diffuse: Anis.
Set mode to Overlay and opacity to 15%.
Stamped visible, ran Custom twice and faded 2nd to 45%.

[jaykita]

Thanks Danny. Lovely renditions, all.
Tried colorizing a desaturated (and lightened) image with pattern stamp tool and a wee bit of hand paint.

[byRo]

Christine - I tried to follow but got lost, I also quite like the result

Neve - the sketch got me thinking.....

My little high-key action got stole along with my computer - but luckily I had posted a description on the threads - RP to the rescue!!

Posted the action, and a palette view below.
- Cropped to focus on the eyes;
- Made a good greyscale;
- Run action;
- Paint (white, low opacity) only on the masks;
- Tweak levels to taste.

Rô

[Duv]

Art History Brush using Trimoon Watercolor brush. Oversharpened image, changed to Luminosity 75%. Added Vignette.

Cheers
Dave

[Neve]

What a joy to view such variety in creativeness...you're all awesome!

[jch71566]

Lots of great renditions!

For mine, bottom layer: Various impressionist settings (eyes recolored)
Top layer: Darken, poster edges 2x

-Jeff

[plewis6]

Christine - Like Ro, I tried to follow but got lost, I and too like your result. I'll have to PM you for a more detailed recipe for the slow to catch on.

Ro, I'll have to go look for your high key action, nice!

---
Me this time, I am still playing around with Photoshop-Filter-Artistic-Cutout.

Did not have the time to play on this one and was hoping it would all fall together in the first hour, but two hours later and still not happy. Should have used Virtual Painter to develop a more interesting and appealing color palette.

Basic steps,
* - Smart Blur
* - Cutout
* - Endless time poorly blending most of the skin cutouts back together (Neither gaussian or smudges are fast here. Gaussian blur either brings colors in from outside the selection OR if you put on new layer the edges become semi-transparent. I just want it to blend everything within a selection without looking for data outside of the selection. Any suggestions MUCH appreciated)
* Brought back some of the original image around eyes and nose
* Brough back most of the original image as a color layer
* Created a standard sketch effect using black and white, gaussian blur, inverse technique (now a macro on my Action bar)
* Used the sketch effect as a soft light layer
- I should have finished up with better color, better cutout blending and some selective dodging and burning on the eyebrows and such, but alas, time runs out for the artist...

There is a style brewing here. As a long time fan of Patrick Nagel, I have never been able to get a feel akin to Nagel in Photoshop (just some disturbing ultra-high key images, if you have tried you know what I mean. The photographic nature of the image just doesn't lend itself that way). But the reduced color spaces and clean lines of the new technique do not seem to suffer from this. Wish me luck as I try to perfect.

[raniday]

Wow! This is another one of those threads where each post is a tutorial in itself.
Mine is very simple. I just wanted to try out the new Xero filter, Caravaggio. I love all their filters.

[cardmnal]

layers adjustment-levels.
hand painted with acrylic brush.
Ran a copy of the original through illustration filter, turned it into a layer mask and painted eye detail, lip detail and other lines onto the acrylic image.

Not a difficult project...just a little time consuming.

[Peter S]

This Thread is more than 927 days old.

That old thread warning again. Well I thought it past due that this should get another airing.

Peter

[Janet Petty]

WOW Peter. This one is amazing! Great stuff.

Janet

[lkroll]

Missed the first go around Peter, so thanks for doing some Time Traveling (just finished watching The Journeyman, so I had to put that pun in). Still on my blacklight chalk binge, so why not. Here's the complete high quality version. Attached is a lower quality crop.

[Swampy]

Wonderful portrait!

I took the original into Illustrator for a live tracing. Did one live trace as a grayscale and another in color.

Brought both into Photoshop and set the grayscale to SoftLight above the color version at about 80% opacity. Used the color version as a history state to paint color back with a soft spattery brush. White layer below the history layer.

Tweaked the grayscale layer with a little dodge and burn.

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

WOW Peter. This one is amazing! Great stuff.

Janet

Janet thank you very much, I love feed back like this.

Peter

[palms]

Good timing on this one i needed to practice the ahb on people

Palms

[lkroll]

See that you have the vector simplication bug now too Dee Dee.

[Steve Conway]

I like the pose and the lady.

Steve C.

[Steve Conway]

Here is one more interp.

Steve C.

[Gilbert]

Peter S, thanks for resurrecting this pic, missed it first time round
sketched, painted, blended/smudged then sharpened and textured in Photoshop.

[GerryB]

Originally Posted by Peter S

That old thread warning again. Well I thought it past due that this should get another airing.

Peter

Very nicely done, Peter. I've tried this on other pictures but didn't like the result. Could you please tell me how you achieved this look.

[bcarll]

Lovely young lady! Hope I did her justice. This is a smudge type painting but left a little soft. Changed a little background and lit it a little.

bcarll

[Swampy]

Lovely, bcarll! Very sellable