Play with me!...

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There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.

Working on Caracature. No offense intended, but you did say play.



Image hosted free thanks to ImageShack ( http://www.imageshack.us ).

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haha..this is totally scary
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Jamie K.
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Here's my basic glamour retouch, with background replaced, cropped and framed:



Regards....

Allen

Nice job Allen...thank you!
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Jamie K.
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Can you please explain how you made such a great extraction? or did you just select background and change color?
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Jamie K.
From the lovely Va. Beach!!
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jamskes said:

Can you please explain how you made such a great extraction? or did
you just select background and change color?

Click to expand...

I used CS3's new Selection Tool. Actually works rather good. Some tweaks on the hair on your left shoulder. But then yeah, I changed the color in hue/sat to start - moving the hue slider to get the hue, then Blur Average.
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Thanks Kent. That means a great deal to me coming from you.

Regards...

Allen

Doug

Just a quickie... Cheers... Mike

That's the one for me.

Best regards, Greg. (Missing Oz)...

I have only looked at half of them, so i do not know if one like mine is already there. I just had a little fun with it... so this what came out of it.

sorry Greg
by mistake i put a message as a reply to yours....
It looks as if one can not edit ones post....

I haven't done one of these in YEARS....



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Roberta D'Achille
Rendered Memories

Do you have a workflow for this cartoon image that doesn't require being an exceptional artist?
It looks awesome.

Here is my version of a before and after. I couldn't get any of the originals so I used the one in this thread.

Before



After



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Frank Lauri

Beautiful.
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Roberta D'Achille

Thanks. I'm not thrilled with it, but, it's been awhile. It does not bear enough of a likeness to her for me and the highlights/lowlights make it appear "puffy". Anyway, here is the workflow. You just have to be able to trace and color inside the lines . Here's how I did it:

-Open photo

-Create new layer

-Trace over obvious edges in black - best accomplished with a vector tool for clean lines and ability to move the nodes around a bit (I used Corel Draw as I much prefer their artistic tool to any other vector that I have)

-Create new layer between photo and black lines

-Start filling in the areas from front to back so that you don't obsure the image incase you want to pick up some color from there.

-When all filled in, you can optionally do PWL for some highlights and lowlights. I truthfully have a bit of trouble with this as I don't "see" the brightness in a color image when I look at it. That's why I can't take a b/w photo for anything. Here's my cheat. I duplicate the image and desaturate it and then add some contrast so it becomes very obvious where the bright areas and where the less than bright areas are. I then use that to guide me doing PWL.

-When I finished that I flattened, rotated the image, added a mat, put in a drop shadow, separated the drop shadow and then warped it to give the illusion that the photo was curled up on the edges.



Hope that's understandable. If not, drop me an email.

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