Challenge #20

[Pete D]

Nancy (ng),

That was unfortunate timing on the hard drive failure, only a few weeks more
and you would probably have the new one all set up. And you are getting to
know the new one inside out, eh. Cool. A lot better than waiting for the
delivery guy to run it back and forth (and maybe dropping it a few times
along the way).

DSL....before you go to sons wedding....if you get it working you may not be
able to drag yourself away from your computer to go:)

Glad you are still there, I have missed seeing entries from you as well as
posts here on the forum.

Pete

[Jodi Frye]

Goodmorning forum folk ! What great images to wake up to ! Couldn't be on last night...hub needed the presario. Had to take the car to Sears yesterday for tires and allignment so there was a few hours killed. I guess I haven't really come up with 'my best' on this one...too many distractions this weekend ! The last one I did has my spedia sepia layer style along with my spedia cozy layer style ( reduced saturation) and then i put the original underneath which was in color and used a large soft eraser at lowered opacity to erase some areas on the top sepia layer. Wanted you to know that the 'cozy' spedia style looked fantastic on an outdoor image i had that was mostly green....as well as the spedia 'soft meadow' layerstyle. I still love the Spedia kiss though. Glad I was able to share these styles with so many of you. Mailed it out to 37 people so far.
Pete, glad you used them !...goodmorning

Grant, boo !

[Pete D]

Jodi,

Goodmorning to you too! (And to everyone that might be up this fine
morning).

Pete

[Ray]

Good Coffee to all of you.. oops! Morning :)

Ray

[JuergenDirrigl]

Marilyn, Pete,

Good morning. Thanks for your comments. That is a pretty isolated place, only reachable by boat. There were hundreds of birds standing on the beach. Pete, it's in your neighborhood: North Captiva.

Juergen

[Pete D]

Juergen,

I thought that looked familiar. I was thinking maybe the beach at the
north end of Bowman's. But they are all just great. Hope this weird
weather pattern gets out of here soon so I can get back to the beach.

Pete

[Grant Dixon]

Boo

[Grant Dixon]

Chuck

Boo who?
Boo Whom?
Whom boo who?
Is this like rap or is it wrap.

Grant so confused.

[Chuck Snyder]

Grant: Boo who (or should that be 'whom'...)?

[Grant Dixon]

Chuck

Great sleep in bet at 1:00 am up at 4:00 am. The older I get the less I
sleep!

Grant

[JuergenDirrigl]

Chuck,

How right you are!!
:)

Juergen

[RobertHJones]

> Goodmorning forum folk ! ... I guess I haven't really come up with 'my
best' on this one...

Good morning Jodi, I feel the same way about mine. I didn't have much free
time this weekend, almost didn't submit one. Maybe there will be fewer
"distractions" next week!

Bob

[Pete D]

RobertHJones> (Bob)

That big fish looked pretty good to me.

Pete

[Paul L UK]

Byron - Thanks for all your kind words

Susan - bit of a cheat that border, I've got dozens of pre-made and home made ones I can drop onto anything.

Bob E - It is similar to a method described by Rich C on another thread, here goes:-
Crop
Duplicate layer
Desaturate (CTRL+SHFT+U)
Duplicate desaturated layer
Invert (CTRL+I)
Change blend mode to Colour Dodge
Now have a white picture. Drop the layer opacity to about 50% and loosely select around the boats etc. Put opacity back to 100% (al white).
Feather selection 50-150 pixels-ish.

Now start using filters:
I used underpainting for inside the selection and rough pastels for outside the selection on my entry 2
On entry 1, I used gaussian blur, flatten image and copied all, stepped back in history to before the blur and did a Sumi-e brush. Created a new layer and stamped visible (CTRL+SHFT+ALT+E). Created a new layer under that and pasted the 'blur copy'.
Created a new canvas layer under that, and made a textured canvas. Created a new layer ontop of that and started painting with a stipple brush. Blurred the painting and added a border.
It sounds jumbled, and it probably was, but I didn't take notes I was playing.

Paul

[Jodi Frye]

Grant, I'm glad you don't have a personal counter on your site...I'd be embarrassed. Every week I look over the pages...over and over and over and.... i'm aware I need help ;)

Everyone is so gosh darn talented in this group. I have some favorites as i do every week but will refrain from voicing too much....don't want anyone to feel left out as i find genious in every single piece. I'm proud to be a part of this group ;)

[Patty Clarke]

Hi Guys,

I just sent my entry. Didn't have much time to work on it so I just sort of threw it together.

After sending it, I went to check in and see what was new---and to my horror--Weary had stolen my boat in a bottle idea!

Kidding of course. But just wanted Weary to know that I wasn't copying his/her idea! Plus Weary's is much better than mine. My saving grace is that the background is a photo of my "actual underwater bathroom mural" in my house and the table is something I created out of cardboard tubes and plywood.

I do enjoy it when people share their methods---Paul, I printed out your tutorial for my tips folder.

I really like the concept of everyone starting with the same image. I look forward to my improvement and learning from all of you.

Patty :)

[Pete D]

Jodi,

Nicely stated. (on the other subject too).

Pete

[Pete D]

Jodi,

Did I say thank you? Meant to.

[Marilyn Lee]

Bob Warren - Thank you for the instructions for making the wave and sea foam. I'll see if I can mimic any of that, but sounds pretty complicated! Now I know why I don't do water very well :) I think I might have to stick with seals holding bottles of pop!

Marty - Thanks for your comments. My cute little niece grew into a beautiful young woman who still wears dresses but of a different kind--she decided to become a nun, lives in a monastery in Texas, and continues to be just as happy now as she appears in my picture. Her adventures there make my life seem absolutely boring :)

Marilyn

[Paul L UK]

Looks like everybody has been busy this week-end. Haven't had too much time on concentrate on the challenge myself, you know what us Brit's are like:-
Grab the robes, birch twigs and goats heads and off to the nearest megalith at the drop of a Solstice.

But not me, had a barby and blew the froth off a few instead ! (I'm sure Susan will translate, if needed)

Paul