Creative interpretations: Mexico - suntan time

[DannyRaphael]

It's still pretty chilly where I live near Seattle. This picture, courtesy of Google images, gave me hope for warmer days aheead.

Enjoy.

~Danny~

[jch71566]

Makes me think of all the poor locals at beaches suffering through the spring breakers....

Anyway, here's mine. Simplified using Amphisoft Sorting Shaman (minimax), Underpainting, and Amphisoft Simplifier.

-Jeff

[DannyRaphael]

Makes me think of all the poor locals at beaches suffering through the spring breakers....

Anyway, here's mine. Simplified using Amphisoft Sorting Shaman (minimax), Underpainting, and Amphisoft Simplifier.

-Jeff

Glad to see you back with us of late, Jeff.

Have you developed any more custom Impressionist styles you'd want to upload here? JCH van gogh & painter have been hits for a long time.

~Danny~

[Swampy]

Personally, I don't like crowds, so here's a little hide-away bar on the bay.

[Gary Richardson]

Much prefer your view Swampy. Like you I hate crowds, the first picture is my idea of purgatory (hot and crowded, Urgh).

[kiska]

I used several SA MSG layers.

[palms]

Yes i would like to be on a warm beach somewhere ( prefably quiet)
Yes I would like the body (and youth) to wear a bikini
Yes I would like the skin that tanned ( and not have to use factor 3,000
because the sun has popped out from behind a cloud )
Yes I would like a young hunk to be sat with me ( old ones are ten a penny)
and most definately i would like the money to afford all
BUT then i wouldnt be me sat here on my computer
Admiring all your gret works of art ! ! ! ! !

Palms

[Swampy]

Nice, Palms... You've manage to reduce the "clutter" factor. :-)

[aylaah]

Ok I just downloaded the xero filters I found mentioned in a post regarding cartoon making (I think)!

So basically, I've gone mad. There is almost every available filter or plug in they have on this - I wanted to keep the people, but make them less obtrusive.

Its a really lazy effort, but I was seriously lacking inspiration. So I decided to see where I ended up, and this is it.

[Bob Mc]

Like the style

Good one Palms - I really like that style.

I stood back several feet from the screen and it was very effective at that distance too.

Hope you'll share the technique

Regards

Bob Mc

[lkroll]

Love to cheat.

Vector simplication with some contrast enhancements and Impressionist to boot. Attached is a lower quality crop of the rendering. The complete higher quality rendering can be found here.

[RL Design]

Here is my go at it...

I am in Minnesota so the weather here is a cool 27 degrees above zero and freezing.

[palms]

Thank you Swampy and Bob Mc, Good point/tip you made Bob, to stand away from your screen and look.
My work flow is as follows ( quite easy i think for the outcome)

open and duplicate
filter >artistic> cut out settings 4, 4, 2 set blendmode to luminosity
duplicate layer
Filter > artistic> dry brush settings 2 8 1 set blendmode to screen
Flatten image
Filter> brush strokes > crosshatch settings 11, 6 ,1
then adjust colour settings to taste.

Hope this helps , the last filter (not 100% sure of settings) can be swapped for any other just experiment ,

Palms

[Cassidy]

Reduced the colours to 24 and then created a charcoal and chalk filtered overlay, overlaid in luminosity mode