Creative Portraits: Woman with a Hat

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by GOLDCOIN

A real mix..

the first version..using a woodcut version, painted it in Painter & also added a layer of a watercolor done in Painter 6... all blended in Photoshop

the second was painted in Painter, custom brushes... impressionist detail mono from Pencils... then used the woodcut plug in in Painter 8... then painted, textured.

Your combinations of effects are simply marvelous.

If I don't get anything done today, it's your fault: I'm gonna start checking out that Woodcut effect! Really appreciated the screenshot on that one.

[lkroll]

First, I duplicated the layer and ran DCSpecials Outliner4 filter set to colorbook. I then blur the base layer with a setting of 12 (still in GIMP by the way). I then set the top layer to Value and flatten. I port the whole thing into PS and duplicate the layer. I ran Flaming Pear's Pixel Trash on top layer and set it to Luminosity. I flatten and duplicated the layer again. I ran Impressionist Colored Pencil preset and adjust the opacity to 67%. Flatten. Done (well, I did autocontrast and increased the saturation a bit).

Oh yah; I added canvas texture too.

[Steve Conway]

Nice image. Great colors that add nicely to manipulations.

Jolly looking lady too.

Steve

[lkroll]

My other hobby is converting photos to b/w. One technique that I've been perfecting has been dubbed Metallic b/w (dubbed on another forum by another member). I use GIMP Retinex filter for the effect. I changed it up some from my original method. What I did was duplicate for a total of three layers, run Retinex on the top layer (set to low setting), Set layer property to Grain Extract and merge down. Invert the colors of this layer and set to Overlay. I then flatten, duplicate the layer and run GIMP's Gradient Map conversion to convert to Greyscale (using a PseudoGrey preset that I wish I knew where I got it from, but lost the original link). I set the top layer to Hue (returns the b/w gradients back; you have to do this step, otherwide the image will be standard 256 tones instead of over 1000). Flatten and save (well, I did brighten it up some more). Let me know what you think of it. The overall effect tends to equalize (in a good way, I believe) the overall contrast of an image.

[garazon]

Originally Posted by lkroll

.....(well, I did brighten it up some more). Let me know what you think of it. The overall effect tends to equalize (in a good way, I believe) the overall contrast of an image.

I agree with you Ikroll, overall image contrast looks very nice this way! Looks like a winner, I don't have Gimp, and had never heard of Retinex til this post. I did a little searching and was impressed with many of the examples using the filter.

But what I'm more impressed with is how many people share so much info here at RP, and how much can be learned by experimenting. I honestly believe I've learned more about blending layers, and the resulting effects, in the last couple of weeks, than I have in the last few years. Amazes me, the talent here.

[palms1]

I just about threw everything at this photo to many to not only list but remember !

Palms

[lkroll]

Mainly thanks to Impressionist. Also added a hint of the original too (used the previous rendering that I submitted to start out with).

[Janet Petty]

lkroll, I really, really like what you have done with Impressionist in creating the hand-stitched look. Hat's off to you for being persistent and making it look real.

Janet

[chiroka]

hi!
DannyRaphael, thanks for Caravago - very interesting plug-in!
my variant:
1. duplicate background layer and use filter Underpainting;
2. duplicate layer, use Caravago;
3. Unsharpen Mask for this layer;
4. opacity for Caravago layer = about 40%
5. use Level for brightness and contrast.
and it's all!!!!

[Steve Conway]

A little pencil sketch interpretation.

Steve

[Alcar]

An oil painting using impressionist djroil24 twice with modification.
Alan

[lkroll]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

lkroll, I really, really like what you have done with Impressionist in creating the hand-stitched look. Hat's off to you for being persistent and making it look real.

Janet

Thanks Janet. Hope you have some fun with it too; play with the family brush settings as well (I'm just using a single brush). Had some good results doing this too (haven't shown anyone yet). And, if you want to see a little bit of ugly, then click here of one done on me.

[dkcoats]

I did this one a week or so ago but apparently forgot to upload it. If I remember correctly (which is by no means certain these days) I used the EricN watercolor action with some tweaking.

dc

[Britsdad]

Really nice guys.... Here's one done with a combination of Ro's chalk and Trimoon's watercolor ahb's...hope it's worth putting on, I'm really only experimenting....John

[patriciakay]

Hi John... Liked yours a lot so thought i would have a go...i really need to practice doing faces as i would like to do good ones....

Previous renditions of this lady in a hat are brilliant...well done all of you...

I also used Photoshop CS2....Same trimoons art history water color brushes, played around changing the sizes for a while...took it into Painter and just added water to the background...i then smudged a little on the face...action frame to finish...

Patricia...