What Would You Do (#42)

[laepelba]

I'm working on selection and masking with PS ... so that's what I tried with this wwyd challenge.... I've got two versions.



I figured that the Washington Monument has been that boring gray for eons now ... it needed a nice flowery pattern. (Used the wand tool, then a quick mask to finish the selection ... then a new layer with clipping to add the texture only to the face of the monument. Then I reduced the opacity of the clipped layer.)

[laepelba]

I didn't like the Washington Monument one so much ... looks a little bit TOO weird. So I tried again.....



I used quick masks (again) on different flowers, then clipping layers and brushed different colors onto the flowers, and used different opacities and sometimes "multiply" to bring out the textures of the flower underneath....

[thekatiest]

I've been lurking for awhile, and this is my first contribution. I used Photoshop CS2.



Layers in order:
1. Sumi-e, multiply
2. Find Edges, hard light
3. Background.

I cropped it down, added a Gaussian blur, and then went to town with the Burn and Dodge tools. It looks quite a bit darker as a jpeg than it did as a psd... grr.

[Teewinot]

thekatiest, welcome to DPS!! nice job on your edit!

[wulf]

I'll echo Teewinot and agree - nice edit. You've turned it into stained glass.

Wulf

[thekatiest]

Originally Posted by kunaldaswani

Decided to make this look like a painting , which could be used as a wallpaper or just a background.

EDIT: Crop - Neon Glow (Orange) - Levels - Oversharpen - Saturation.

I'm really digging this! It looks like a really lovely woodblock print.

[light crayon]

My first post!

Here's what I did:

1. sharpen twice (unsharp)
2. bump up the contrast/lower the brightness slightly
3. shadow/highlight adjustment
4. color balance adjustment
5 poster effect
6. crop

[wulf]

light crayon - welcome to posting on DPS. I like the almost three dimensional look of yours. I presume it is from the original but your work makes it very apparent, especially on the branch running from bottom centre to half-way up the left side.

Wulf

[jujitsu1]

This took me 22 layers to do.
First I used the magic wand tool to get the best flower out of the main photo
then I opened it up until I had enough flowers to make the heart then took the photo of my wife and used the magic wand again to remove the background then blended all the layers together then just added the red with the bucket tool . I know its silly but couldn't think of anything else to do with it .

[Sandie]

What great ideas!!! I couldn't get my first fantasy idea to work, but I was pretty happy with this version.

I cropped, then clones a few spots, then just smudged at different percentages....less as I got closer to main flower. I think it plays up the painting feel and with reality and fantasy.