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Technique! Week 8

Since I am still a copy cat, I would love to see a few of the techniques mentioned in this weeks posts demonstrated so I can learn! Paint and photo techniques combined, how do you use a paintbrush on a photo (especially from those with drawing pads) or how do you create a great canvas/watercolor photo?
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...or how do you create a great canvas/watercolor photo?

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There are some very nice tutorials here: »www.skydancers.com/_fo2pix/buzz_tutes.html Note this entails the use of a filter called Buzz-Pro. I have the filter and really like what I can do with it. It's basically a bunch of filters but the main ones are the simplifier filters (much like a median filter but with more controls)
You'll find more samples of this filter's use here: »www.pbase.com/buzzpro/root

You can achieve some very nice water-color looks with this filter.
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No I didn't, marked it now! Ok, the addict needs more!
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OK - so it looks like this week's technique will be to create paintings from pictures using any of the links provided above. If you choose to practice this using climbers technique, here's a step-by-step tutorial:

Hayes Island Tutorial


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NIKON E885 8mm 1/342th F7.6 ISO100

Very pretty, for some reason, it reminds me of the story of the little prince!
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CASIO EX-S3 0mm 1/640th F4.2 Original

CASIO EX-S3 0mm 1/640th F4.2 Technique 8

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FUJIFILM FinePix 3800 6mm 1/25th F2.8 ISO100

FUJIFILM FinePix 3800 6mm 1/25th F2.8 ISO100

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Oil Version

Water Color Version

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The Oil version really does look like an oil painting! It looks really good!
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Just a personal preference and not meant as a criticism of anyone's work in any way but I have a dislike to the standard "hayes technique" that is shown, not because that the results look don't look good, but more because they look "too" good.

I don't like "perfect" when it comes to art or paintings. I like style and personal touch.

So, what I like to do with this sort of technique is once I have obtained the "painted look" or feel that I am aiming for by following the "rules", I go in and purposely add in imperfections.

I do this by creating new blank layer(s) and using the eye-dropper to pick up various colours from the canvas and then "throwing" and "pushing" those colours around the "canvas" to add or subtract detail. I try to emulate traditional paint brush and pallette knife techniques and cut in new objects or over top of existing ones to "roughen" up their look.

It takes a longer and sometimes doesn't work but to me it gives a final result that looks more authentic and gives each piece done that added personal style.

here are some sample of past ones.

Rodeo
. . . .orginal photo . . . on this one I used a "wet brush" and pallette knife to trace over a lot of the existing objects and did some blotting out on the trees.

from first edit this thread I more or less painted over top much of the entire image. Using many varying brushes and playing around I added in lots of custom details to distinguish it from the original photo. (easily seen if one looks for them).

Now I realize this is only a "personal taste" sort of thing and some may not like the idea of "ruining" their creations by purposely adding in imperfections. Indeed others may not even be able to tell any difference, but its just something that I enjoy doing and I like the results of. . .

so I thought I would impose my ideas on to all of you and try to infect you with some of the methods to my madness

(and of course I'll be doing up another one for this thread
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Hi Kalford,

That is the whole idea to the oil or water color conversion. It is not one technique, It is a personal thing. It is how you would like the picture to look in oil or water color. That is the idea of this thread. Try them all and either use it or do it your way. I got to quit typing, I am starting to sound like a commercial.

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OLYMPUS C4100Z,C4000Z 9.1mm 1/320th F2.8 ISO100 Hayes

OLYMPUS C4100Z,C4000Z 9.1mm 1/320th F2.8 ISO100 Pen Sketch