Painted Portraits

weslandaffairweslandaffair Registered Users Posts: 10 Big grins
edited November 4, 2012 in Wildlife
What do you think, your feedback is greatly appreciated?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/88718429@N07/8093824912/




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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2012
    Nice effect

    However if you're going to turn pictures into paintings the result is usually not as good as what a painter could do.
    Harry
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  • weslandaffairweslandaffair Registered Users Posts: 10 Big grins
    edited October 22, 2012
    Thanks for your feedback, fair point
  • Spinner of TalesSpinner of Tales Registered Users Posts: 528 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2012
    The effect defiantly has its place and I like it.

    Spinner

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  • mercphotomercphoto Registered Users Posts: 4,550 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2012
    I don't know why but I'm drawn to stuff like this and do a lot of experiementation myself. I really like what you did.
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  • Spinner of TalesSpinner of Tales Registered Users Posts: 528 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2012
    Thank you I did that one for a friend. Ever since I got the program I have been experimenting with various shots and believe me it gets habit forming.
    Did several hunting dogs and they sold as fast as I could get them printed.

    Spinner :D
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  • rwellsrwells Registered Users Posts: 6,084 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2012
    Spinner of Tales wrote: »
    Thank you I did that one for a friend. Ever since I got the program I have been experimenting with various shots and believe me it gets habit forming.
    Did several hunting dogs and they sold as fast as I could get them printed.

    Spinner :D

    I have tried a few painting programs and have not been pleased with the results. I really like this result. If you don't mind, would you please reveal what program you used?
    Randy
  • weslandaffairweslandaffair Registered Users Posts: 10 Big grins
    edited October 24, 2012
    Nice work spinner..I personally love the crisp vibrant painted look achieved in digital portraits compared with traditional oil paintings. These 2 shots show the original images I used. The Macaw was a simple shot taken with my iPhone.

    I can spend up to 7 hours on one picture alone and i use a combination of mixer brushes and smudge brushes at various sizes and opacity to build the picture. in photoshop but there are no hard and fast rules. There are no filters used apart from the odd paint daub.
  • Spinner of TalesSpinner of Tales Registered Users Posts: 528 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2012
    Thanks Randy,

    the program is called Pixel Bender from Adobe. Be forewarned though it eats memory like a starving pig and often locks up just when your about finished with the edit.
    Hopefully Adobe will get the bugs worked out frankly I love it because its fun to see what kind of results you can get.
    It's great with landscapes and wildlife...they have a winner now they need to work on it.
    I run it on Adobe CS5 as a plug in.

    Have fun with it.

    Spinner :D
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  • GaleGale Registered Users Posts: 1,052 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2012
    smudge painting is quite time consuming and a long learning curve. i love the effects.
    check out Scott deardorff..google will find him... He has tuts also.

    http://www.innographx.com/forum/
    search forum for smudge painting and phyllis Stewart she is great and alot of free tuts and brushes..
    Cheers
    Best Regards
    Gale

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