An Impressionist View

[Richard Britt]

The image started as a slighly out of focus image of a boy hitting a baseball. I was playing around with different filters in photo shop and ended up with what you see. I used the smudge to to distort the back ground removing the fence and spectators but do not remember which tool gave the batter's his look. Any one have any Ideas.

[clockdoc]

Interesting effect. It reminds me of the way some artists were able to manipulate the SX-70 Polariod images by using a stylus to adjust the position of the emulsion under the protective plastic film before it dried and became more permanent.

[jiminyClickit]

Richard Britt,

The batter looks like "Brighten Edges," or whatever it's called in PS. Fascinating work here.

[Richard Britt]

Thanks for the feed back. Your clue worked. I search for brighten and "edges" in Photoshop help. I did not find the filter Brighten but the filter Accent Edges did the trick. Thanks for the kick in the right direction.

[Richard Britt]

Wow the use of the word Artist to reference something I had done brought a tear to the eye. I was interesting to hear that a similar effect could be created by smearing the chemicals in a SX-70 Polariod, now that's inventive.