What I can tell you is that a Brit named David Rowely published a
step-by-step on his website using Dry Brush, Palette Knife and
inverse Smart Blur along with layer effects and color balance
controls. He did this on an image of the Hayes Island Cafe.
Subsequently his tutorial has gained a life of its own and has
appeared in litterally hundreds of websites and digital photo
forums all over the web. It has most often been referred to as "The
Hayes Iisland Effect."
Users of other editing programs, such as Paint Shop Pro, have
either modified his steps or created their own. David_S85 in our
own forum has created steps for PSP.
In the DPReview Retouching Forum, Randall Smith put together a
group of Photoshop Actions (including a similer effect to HIE which
he called RBS Ink & Paint) which is now being administered and
updated by a successor member.
While there is no indication of the publication dates of each
action, the compilation was first made available to the forum in
July, 2002 and was last updated in October. one item was removed
from the latest distribution in November.
So I don't think it's been misnamed, but I'm sure there are a lot
of other names it could go by ;-)
-Ed ( A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter. ) W.
http://www.pbase.com/ewaldorph/dpreview
Sony F505v w/Canon 500D +2 Diopter lens
Here is my first crack at it... I can see this eating up a lot of
my time.
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