Painting Anyone ?

[rogleale]

Hi All,

After entering a challenge on another site, to produce a photograph that resembled an impressionist painting, I decided to try and make such a picture without using any outside plug-in or HDR, just the tools available in Photoshop. It's not easy!

The first one, of poppies in a cornfield, is one of about forty I took after waiting for special lighting conditions. Early morning, backlit. Not exactly Monet I know.

The second one I was trying to get a Turner look. More complicated, but they both look a lot betted printed on matt heavyweight paper than they do on screen.







Comments welcome, and if you have a personal idea of how to get an impressionistic look without using Painter or Akvis I would like to hear it.

Roger

[mike_j]

Re: Painting Anyone ?

The only successful way of getting a painting result that I have found is to give the picture to my artist wife.

Annoyingly, she then wins competetiions and sells the resulting artwork. All I ever get is an occasional "from an photograph by ...."

[ash]

Re: Painting Anyone ?

Hello Roger, dare I say it but the flowers look like a really bad photo taken with a really poor quality camera on a mobile phone
Now to the good news Your second shot looks very impressive and if suited the colours of my decor would'nt hesitate in hanging it on my wall.
Good job.
Ash.