Photo Art

[Barrie]

I have been having fun turning some of my photos into digital art. I thought it might be fun to have a thread where we share some of the creations we make from our photos.

This is one that I did yesterday. I am using it for the April calendar on AllEars.

http://www.barriebrewerphotography.com/Other/Original-Art/post2BLB1000/776935892_y9uG5-L.jpg (http://www.barriebrewerphotography.com/Walt-Disney-World/Disneys-Animal-Kingdom/Discovery-Island/6606929_M4gnh#776935892_y9uG5-A-LB)

Go crazy, get creative and show us what you've got! Anything goes, not just Disney photos.

[WDWNJ]

Ahhhh, OK..... if we turn them into digital "art" nobody can accuse us of overprocessing... ;) :lol:


OK, seriously, I love it! Georgous


I'll be back......

[WDWNJ]

OK - here's my first (very) quick attempt. Our fearless leader enjoying a day at the beach. :lol:

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/wdwnj/dave21.jpg

[WDWNJ]

OK, this is too much fun. I hated this picture when I took it.

It's from a local state park that Cathy and I visited around halloween.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/wdwnj/IMG_2134-2.jpg

[WillCAD]

I've been playing with Photoshop Elements lately myself, trying to salvage some pics that I didn't like the look of in the raw.

http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/2007-05-19199/759732594_n8kLK-M.jpg (http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/10884943_8nsPh#759732594_n8kLK-A-LB)
http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/2007-05-19211/759732665_g3K5U-M.jpg (http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/10884943_8nsPh#759732594_n8kLK-A-LB)
http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/2007-05-19232/759732791_6vTaG-M.jpg (http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/10884943_8nsPh#759732693_UJS5e-A-LB)
http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/2007-06-02043/759732992_gRVgm-M.jpg (http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/10884943_8nsPh#759732918_t7ktd-A-LB)http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/2007-06-02043paint/759772178_u9TvG-M.jpg (http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/10884943_8nsPh#759732992_gRVgm-A-LB)
http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/2007-07-14012paint/759772207_6MMao-M.jpg (http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/10884943_8nsPh#759733215_MobGn-A-LB)http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/2007-07-14014paint/759772238_ZANjM-M.jpg (http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/10884943_8nsPh#759772207_6MMao-A-LB)http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/2007-07-14015paint/759772249_nJHvt-M.jpg (http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/10884943_8nsPh#759772238_ZANjM-A-LB)
http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/2008-06-28089/759733298_Q2546-M-1.jpg (http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/10884943_8nsPh#759772249_nJHvt-A-LB)http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/2008-06-28089blur/760948190_LEDk8-M.jpg (http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/10884943_8nsPh#759733298_Q2546-A-LB)
http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/2008-06-28089bw-c/760913604_zyHCb-M.jpg (http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/10884943_8nsPh#760948190_LEDk8-A-LB)http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/2008-06-28089bw/760913508_hThTT-M.jpg (http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/10884943_8nsPh#760913604_zyHCb-A-LB)
http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/2008-06-28089bwblur/761186063_j3arn-M.jpg (http://gallery.willcad.org/Weddings/Specialty/10884943_8nsPh#760913508_hThTT-A-LB)

[WDWNJ]

Nice Will! I especially like the shot with the portrait left in color.

If I may offer a small critique, I would not share the re-do of the bride holding the bouquet with said bride. Her arm looks more hairy than mine in the re-do... :yikes: ;)

[Ursulinda]

i'm surprised at how much I like the ones with the black and white backgrounds. Those are so COOL!

I like the way you show the before and after, Will.

Barrie, I don't know what you do for a living, but it *should* be photography or art or
both.

John, what's not to like about that photo? It reminds me of "the road not taken. .."

[Barrie]

John - I like that effect on Dave's photo, the insta-buff one. Could you apply that to all the photos taken of me in the past 2 years? :lol:

No, actually, the other effect, it's cool. How did you do that?

Nice stuff Will, I like the blurred background one best.

Thanks Linda, I'm working on it!

[Sheryl]

Her arm looks more hairy than mine in the re-do... :yikes: ;)

Hey, there is NOTHING wrong with hairy arms or hair knuckles. :D

By the way I love all the photos, very cool.

[WillCAD]

Nice Will! I especially like the shot with the portrait left in color.

If I may offer a small critique, I would not share the re-do of the bride holding the bouquet with said bride. Her arm looks more hairy than mine in the re-do... :yikes: ;)

Hey, watch it John! She's my cousin. And I'm pretty sure her husband could take you...

Actually, all of those shots come from family weddngs; we've managed to marry off about 5 of my generation in the last 3 years.

[WDWNJ]

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/wdwnj/IMG_3386.jpg

[mickeefan]

These are all cool. How do you do this?

[WDWNJ]

Jim - I'm playing in Photoshop Elements. There are Filters that make these changes.

[TominPok]

These are all pretty cool! This is the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Park. I did this one a while ago using a Photoshop "pop art" action:

http://www.pbase.com/tominpok/image/121672313/large.jpg

Original:

http://www.pbase.com/tominpok/image/38588027/large.jpg

[mickeefan]

Thanks, I have Paint Shop Pro 8. Will that do the same?

[Cruiser]

Here's Cinderella Castle with Photoshop's Mosaic Tile filter!

http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/ss301/gcruise1948/FlowerGarden780A.jpg

[WDWNJ]

Thanks, I have Paint Shop Pro 8. Will that do the same?

I'm not familiar with Paint Shop, but when you open a picture to edit, check and see if you have "Actions" or "Filters" on the tool bar.

Maybe someone familiar with Paint shop will pop in here.

[WillCAD]

Thanks, I have Paint Shop Pro 8. Will that do the same?

Yes, it can.

In PSP there is an Effect menu with some built-in effects that you can try on your photos.

PSP can also use Photoshop-compatible Filters, so it's possible to download special effects filters from various graphics web sites, and add them to the PSP Effects menu. I don't have PSP, so I don't know the procedure for this, but I know that it can be done.

Since many of the best effects filters are written for Photoshop, you should be able to find lots of great stuff that will work in PSP with a few Google searches for "Photoshop filters".

[DebºoºS]

You all are so creative!:notworthy:

Here's my humble attempt with Elements Dry Brush
http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Epcot/Dry-brush-4097823-copy/781692205_joJQ9-XL.jpg (http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Epcot/6239669_bfEhG#781692205_joJQ9)

[Barrie]

This is fun - I love seeing all the different creative spins. Here's one I did a little while back.

http://www.barriebrewerphotography.com/Other/Original-Art/Plum-Blossoms/538998179_Dzatd-L.jpg (http://www.barriebrewerphotography.com/Other/Original-Art/8242491_CwjRT#538998179_Dzatd-A-LB)

This is the original photo I started with:

http://www.barriebrewerphotography.com/Things/Flowers-and-Plants/postDSC3448/470797447_wkZLa-S.jpg (http://www.barriebrewerphotography.com/Things/Flowers-and-Plants/7594399_HTbEW#470797447_wkZLa-A-LB)

[Barrie]

Deb - that's really nice. I especially like how it looks on the collar.

Tom - love that look!

John - It looks like you spent hours coloring with colored pencils. I've tried that effect before but never got that good of results. Yours looks cool.

Gary - nice treatment for the castle. It's like the mosaics inside.

[mickeefan]

I found the right section.Have no idea what I am doing, yet.
Very first try.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/JimElliott/Photo%20art/DSC_0008.jpg

[WDWNJ]

There ya go Jim! Very colorful, I like it!

All the pics posted so far are very cool. This is definately fun.

[Barrie]

Ooh, very 60's Jim, psychedelic - I like it!

[Barrie]

Inspired by Jim's colorful GF photo I made this one today.

http://www.barriebrewerphotography.com/Walt-Disney-World/Disneys-Hollywood-Studios-1/post2DSC6556-2/781951115_omrJp-M.jpg (http://www.barriebrewerphotography.com/Walt-Disney-World/Disneys-Hollywood-Studios-1/6509074_gqFhK#781951115_omrJp-A-LB)

[Princess Madelyn's Mommy]

These are fantastic! I got PSE 8 for Christmas but have yet to load it. You are inspiring me to get to playing with it.... in my spare time! ;)

[WDWNJ]

I'm stuck on the colored pecil filter.... :)

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/wdwnj/IMG_0495-1.jpg

here's the original...

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/wdwnj/IMG_0495.jpg

[DebºoºS]

http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/782370518_69Ui9-L.jpg (http://tagrel.com/forum/#782370518_69Ui9)
Gaussian Blur with select focus on the road & the red tree

John- Love the colored pencils look. I have pencil envy. I can't seem to get the hang of them.
Jim- What did you use to get those groovy colors?
Barrie- Brilliant, just the right amount of artistic flare.How did you get the effect?

[Ursulinda]

I like seeing the picture you started with, too. You folks are SO clever!

[DebºoºS]

I like seeing the picture you started with, too. You folks are SO clever!

Here's the original of the last one I did
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/425088984_RJ52T-L.jpg (http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/6651129_NZTbT#425088984_RJ52T)

[WDWNJ]

I like seeing the picture you started with, too. You folks are SO clever!

Good idea Linda. I'll go back and add some of my originals.

[WDWNJ]

Deb - both shots are very pretty. Nice colors.

[WDWNJ]

Nothing to do today but shovel snow, so I went out on the web and found some tutorials.

This one is done using multiple layers, like gray scale, emboss, blur, glowing edges, hard light color, and more. Fun but a little much...

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/wdwnj/fishscetchcopy3.jpg

and the original, taken a few years ago with a very old point and shoot.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/wdwnj/fish.jpg

[WDWNJ]

This one is done wih the Impressionist Brush and a layer of Gausian Blur at 50% opacity.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/wdwnj/lily.jpg

The original...

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/wdwnj/IMG_4244-1.jpg



arrgh.... sorry about the size of the pics. I wanted them a little bigger but not like this....

[ddindy]

I thought I'd chip in with this shot from the Jingle Jungle parade at Animal Kingdom. At first I thought it was a total loss, but bumping up the saturation a bit turns it into "art".

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4335537783_7389f95fb8_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddindy/4335537783/)

Click the photo to go to its flickr page.

[WDWNJ]

That's cool Dennis. It pays to play. :)

[mickeefan]

These are all great. I also like seeing the original.

Deb, I used the effects section of Paint Shop Pro 8. I can't remember which effect I used and have been looking for it since.

[TominPok]

I edited my Unisphere post to include the original.

Here's another I did of the Rocket Thrower (also in Flushing Meadows park), this time using Paint Daubs in Photoshop:

http://www.pbase.com/tominpok/image/121672312/large.jpg http://www.pbase.com/tominpok/image/38588005/large.jpg

[WDWNJ]

Very cool Tom.

It's really interesting to see how these pictures change so much.

[Barrie]

Barrie- Brilliant, just the right amount of artistic flare.How did you get the effect?

Well, I did a bunch of stuff. Best I can remember is that I started with the Sumi filter in Photoshop. Then I did something in Topaz, probably Topaz Clean (I really don't remember). Then I think I might have applied Poster Edges? Or not... I don't know. I just keep messing around until I get something I like. I'll try to pay more attention on the next one.

[DebºoºS]

http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/783024416_8o9CM-M.jpg (http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/6651129_NZTbT#783024416_8o9CM)
*************
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/424484089_rnzye-M.jpg (http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/6651129_NZTbT#424484089_rnzye)
This was fun but I took way too long playing around with it. The snow & sunshine today is beckoning me. I'm off to go xcountry skiing.

[WDWNJ]

Well, I did a bunch of stuff. Best I can remember is that I started with the Sumi filter in Photoshop. Then I did something in Topaz, probably Topaz Clean (I really don't remember). Then I think I might have applied Poster Edges? Or not... I don't know. I just keep messing around until I get something I like. I'll try to pay more attention on the next one.


LOL - I know what you mean.... but the result is really nice!

Deb - I really like that last one. Very cool effect!

[Cruiser]

Cinderella Castle
http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/ss301/gcruise1948/MouseFest2008178A.jpg

The original
http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/ss301/gcruise1948/MouseFest2008178.jpg

[WDWNJ]

Gary - Way Cool! I like that one.

[mickeefan]

I seem to be pretty limited so far as to what I can do.

Before


http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/JimElliott/Photo%20art/DSC01870.jpg


After

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/JimElliott/Photo%20art/DSC01870-a.jpg

[WDWNJ]

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/wdwnj/IMG_0476.jpg



http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/wdwnj/IMG_0476-1.jpg

[DebºoºS]

Just want to say I'm really enjoying all of these. Each one is so unique.

Barrie- Keep messing around it's giving you beautiful results.

[DebºoºS]

I found a tutorial online http://video.about.com/graphicssoft/Photo-Color-Sketch-in-Elements.htm for this one. It was fun to do but waaay too many steps for me.
#1 following the directions
http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Animal-Kingdom/colorsketch2491-copy/784564866_3anBJ-M.jpg (http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Animal-Kingdom/11076462_C4Uif#784564866_3anBJ)
#2 playing around

http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Animal-Kingdom/colordraw24911-copy/784564890_Nv6B7-M.jpg (http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Animal-Kingdom/11076462_C4Uif#784564890_Nv6B7)
http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Animal-Kingdom/Copy-of-MAY2491/784567993_PXCtU-S.jpg (http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Animal-Kingdom/11076462_C4Uif#784567993_PXCtU)

[WDWNJ]

Yup - that is the same one I used in my fish pic. :) It was a good learning experience.

I like the result you got with it.

[DebºoºS]

Yup - that is the same one I used in my fish pic. It was a good learning experience. I like the result you got with it.
Thanks, it's slow going but I'm learning :)Your fish pic was my inspiration to find a tutorial.
Today I got a chance to do another one after dealing with all the snow it was a nice break.

http://debspix.smugmug.com/photos/786261712_vfKVA-O.jpg (http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Magic-Kingdom/8513131_cAZNg#786261712_vfKVA)
http://debspix.smugmug.com/photos/783267834_hHMeh-O.jpg (http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Magic-Kingdom/8513131_cAZNg#783267834_hHMeh)

[WDWNJ]

Deb - that last one is really nice. I like the original shot too...

[DebºoºS]

Thanks John:)This is fun. Now that I have a few done I'm going to use in a digi scrapbook page.

http://debspix.smugmug.com/photos/786885560_KSNvS-L.jpg (http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Magic-Kingdom/8513131_cAZNg#786885560_KSNvS)

http://debspix.smugmug.com/photos/786885579_EqixH-L.jpg (http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Magic-Kingdom/8513131_cAZNg#786885579_EqixH)

[Barrie]

Today I played with layering textures.

http://www.barriebrewerphotography.com/Other/Original-Art/postDSC5310-4/790085968_hZvxF-M.jpg

This was what I started with.

http://www.barriebrewerphotography.com/Italy/Rome/postDSC5310/500938010_Ukwmt-S.jpg

You can find a lot of textures (http://www.flickr.com/groups/textures4layers/) here. They also have some tutorials (http://www.flickr.com/groups/textures4layers/discuss/72157603788149748/) for how to do it. I've played around with textures before but I'm usually not very pleased with what I end up with. It takes a lot of fiddling to get something you like. I think I got lucky on this one - it's actually the look I was going for.

[WDWNJ]

I like it Barrie, it looks like it's on a canvas.

[DebºoºS]

Barrie- Beautiful! Looks like it's an aged painting.

[Tyme4WDW]

How do you post pics??? Do I need to download them to photobucket or something like that??? How do you make the pics so clear and colors so bold??? I really want to take a photography class.

[Cruiser]

How do you post pics??? Do I need to download them to photobucket or something like that??? How do you make the pics so clear and colors so bold??? I really want to take a photography class.

Upload your pictures to Photobucket or a similar web site and then add a link to the photobucket pic in your post.

That will put your pictures in the post!

[Tyme4WDW]

Everyone's photos are absolutely beautiful!

[DebºoºS]

http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Epcot/Bu-4097861/816748291_83Cxx-L.jpg (http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Epcot/6239669_bfEhG#816748291_83Cxx)


http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Epcot/copy-4097861/816748233_4QVDn-L.jpg (http://debspix.smugmug.com/Travel/Epcot/6239669_bfEhG#816748233_4QVDn)

[Tyme4WDW]

How do you copyright your photo's???

[DebºoºS]

How do you copyright your photo's???

Here's a link that might be helpful. It's talking about wedding photos but it pertains to all photos.
http://www.weddingphotographydirectory.com/wedding-photo/for-wedding-photographers/professional-articles/photo-copyright-protection.aspx

[Tyme4WDW]

Thanks Deb!

[Barrie]

Another one with textures applied. This tree is on the festival land where I work in the summer. Click on photo to see larger.

http://www.barriebrewerphotography.com/Other/Original-Art/postBLB3914-4/833474652_AeKuF-S.jpg (http://www.barriebrewerphotography.com/Other/Original-Art/8242491_CwjRT#833474652_AeKuF-A-LB)

[Scottwdw]

Upgraded to Aperture 3 over the weekend and got to trying out some of the new presets and brushes (all adjustments can be brushed on/off/feathered) in a non-distructive way. Very cool.

http://www.sthomasphotos.com/photos/834081999_25uox-M.jpg