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I've got to catch a plane soon, so no time to detail the "how to," but I can tell you this is a combination of Dry Brush and Microsoft Impressionist effects.
Speaking of which I still have two legit copies of MSFT Impressionist for sale for anyone interested. Contact me by PM (click link under my name at top of post).
I brightened the eye color, duplicating the layers twice in screen mode, and masking everything but the eyes. Next, I duplicated the layer and ran Amphisoft's sorting-shaman in Min-I-Max mode to get the squares. I then masked the eyes, nose, and mouth to restore the details.
Just a basic technique I've run across and that seems to really work well with portraits of this type.
Some Smart Blur, Smudge, a bit of USM (Unsharp Mask), touch-ups here and there and then added a small amount of texture. The second is the same without the texture, not sure which I like better.
1. Cropped & replace background with one I made up
2. Spatter, SmartBlur, Palette Knife
3. Copy above: Fresco, linear burn, 20% opacity. Mask to hide a few spots that got too dark.
4. Merge visble, Crosshatch (very light settings) then...
Selecting only the backgroud: Add Noise, Color Pencil, Paint Daubs, & darken w/ Curves
5. New layer, clone lips (mostly just the upper lip) from original. Normal mode, 56% opacity.
6. Added texture with an overlay map.
jaykita, I really like the loose brush stroke effect in yours. How did you do this?
jaykita, I really like the loose brush stroke effect in yours. How did you do this?
-Mark
Hello, and thank you.
I used a combination of pshop7 and impressionist plugin filters.
For the strong black lines, i used the blur-smart blur - find edges, invert filter. Multiply blend. Also the green backgr was with the help of a fill layer and layer mask.
The brush strokes were done with an impressionist filter style which has been modified by me. Very much like a water-pencil effect.
If anyone's interested, i could post it.
Although it is winter in the U.S. we can always look forward to summer weather, right?
My interpretation: The Akvis sketch plugin was used for the top layer of edges/line detail (blend mode = Darken) with Impressionist plugin rendered layers below it. I used a modification of the Aron...
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