This scenic image was donated by RetouchPro regular, Lisa (OhThatGirl2001), who lives in British Columbia, Canada. Looks like a nice place to spend a summer day, doesn't it?
. * Feeling animated? A few fish jumping, perhaps?
Hard to explain the process since I don't take notes while I work. Basically, image was simplified by way of combination of photocopy filter, blurring, desaturation, and overlays of original and handdrawn color layers with intensified saturation.
VisualEyes, I only get a partial load on your graphic. Any one else have the same problem?
I only get a partial load on your graphic. Any one else have the same problem?
Yes, I get only the top 20% or so. I like it so far.
Hmm, I'll repost it this evening when I get home. It looked ok when I checked it last night.
WOW... This is very nice and definitely worth the wait for the fixed upload.
Simplification + color magic really works here. Stellar effort.
Wonderful job. I like the posterized version. It's given me all kinds of ideas!
Well, here's my version. I started out with 2 duplicated layers. Inverted the second layer and changed mode to grayscale without flattening. Then changed blend mode to color dodge and filter blur - gaussian blur until I like the effect. I actually found there was very little clean up. I sandwiched the sketch layer between my background and duplicate layer. Changed blend mode of the top layer to hard light and adjusted opacity. Then I used Nik Color Effects Filter called Midnight Violet to give the over all photo a dawn like effect. That's it!
Brightened with Levels and Curves, coloured starting by running through the Virtual Painter Collage plugin and then a fair bit of masking and hand colouring of different areas, some crosshatching.
When I first started with the photo I was just playing around with it, therefore I did take notes. I did select major areas and put them in their own layer, Layer > New > Layer Via Copy and add filters. I just played around with filters until I was satisfied.
This is a good one to just play with … it’s a beautiful sea/landscape.
These are all so good so far it's hard to pick a favorite. And...grrrr...sure wish Visual Eyes took better notes!
Visual eyes....nice image ...like a color sketch.
Leah...Very beautiful blue.... complemented with the boardwalk..
Oh Tom that is SOOOoooooo silly you just have to love it! LOL!
Aimed for an almost surreal sunset. I used some gradients set to multiply to accent and add colors in the sky and water, along with some rippling and one of my favorite filters, diffuse-->anisotropic, to soften all the rough edges of the buildings.