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I've been playing around with Photoshop (Elements 5) for a couple years and am having a blast. There is so much to learn, but the process is fun and there is a lot of help available on the internet. Here's a photo of the MOOSE at Rossport on Lake Superior made to look like a color sketch. What fun!
Al
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One morning a woman's husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors, and reads her book.
Along comes a Game Warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, "Good morning, Ma'am. What are you doing?"
"Reading a book," she replies, (thinking, "Isn't that obvious?") "You're in a Restricted Fishing Area," he informs her.
"I'm sorry, officer, but I'm not fishing. I'm reading."
"Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I'll have to take you in and write you up."
"For reading a book," she replies.
"You're in a Restricted Fishing Area," he informs her again.
"I'm sorry, officer, but I'm not fishing. I'm reading."
"Yes, b ut you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I'll have to take you in and write you up."
"If you do that, I'll have to charge you with sexual assault," says the woman.
"But I haven't even touched you," says the game warden.
"That's true, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment."
"Have a nice day ma'am," and he left.

MORAL: Never argue with a woman who reads. It's likely she can also think.
 
I have Photoshop Elements 4, so the tutorial doesn't help, but with a little trial and error, here's a water color version of Constant Craving... I really like this software.

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Moose - you inspired me to fire up Photoshop CS2 on the MacBook! Not a C-Dory pic but I had taken a shot a month or so ago of what I thought was interesting light and shadows on a wall from early morning light coming in the window...but the resulting photo was a bit disappointing until I Photoshopped it! The method in your tutorial with the addition of ink lines filter...


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And here is the original for comparison...

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Oh, you rich boys and your fancy-shmancy high-priced software and computers.

Seriously though...those are some cool alterations.

Now...just so the Penguin, cheap PC's and Free Software don't get ignored, here's my canvas painting alteration of my favorite Da Nag 19 pic. Performed with a couple clicks of the mouse, using The Gimp.

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And to stay on topic, here is Daydream anchored at Smuggler's Cove with the China painting stuff applied! Damn, this is fun! There is another open source program called Seashore that I have on the MacBook - have to fire that one up next!

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You folks have done some nice work; I'm glad you're having fun. Pat, your color sketch of Daydream is very nice indeed.

Here's another one I just completed using the same technique. It's at the Prince Arthur Landing Marina in Thunder Bay, ON. There are no C-Dories involved, but if you like boats I think you'll like this.
Al
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Very nice, Al. Have you had any of these printed?

I'm somewhat new to this, but we just ordered up some studio prints from the dog portraits I posted about earlier.

I visited the photographer's studio last week, and was pretty impressed with a "wrap around" technique she offers - I'm sure it's available in many places. Basically, a digital image is printed to canvas, and wrapped around a frame making it ready for hanging. You do lose a bit of the image around the edges, so it's not for every photo.

I just did a Google search, and found this place. I'm only offering this up for illustrative purposes...I've no idea if these guys are any good or not, but the process they describe sounds the same as what I saw in our photographer's studio.

There's a guy who hangs out here from Texas, that probably has some feedback on such things... :mrgreen:
 
At our local art shows, I noted that many artists are selling both the originals and "Art Giclee's"--photographic images on Canvas of those originals, for much less. So this technique seems main stream.
 
Da Nag":i38c04za said:
Very nice, Al. Have you had any of these printed?
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No, I've just printed them on our home printer. We thought about having a large Giclee print made of one of our favorite Lake Superior pics , but it turned out the file size was too small. This summer I want to try shooting in RAW format which captures everything and doesn't throw anything away like a JPEG. RAW files are big, but apparently maximize the megapixels that your camera has to offer, in my case 8.2. That would allow us, I think, about a 16 x 20" print with plenty of resolution.

So much to learn and so little time.......
Al
 
OK, Gimp is not for Penguins only! There are OSX flavors as well, both Intel and PowerPC, Tiger and Leopard! You will need X11, which is on the install CDs, but you can grab Gimp from Bill's link. Actually I think it took two clicks, not one, but it is pretty darn easy to make a painting on canvas out of any old photo...

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Bill,

I can't believe that a guy who makes his living with these instruments of satan is calling software fancy schmancy... Way back in the old days (can't you just see it coming?) we had to walk 10 miles just to use a command line console...

Regardless, this software is great. I don't think I will download gimp, but it looks interesting. Pat is having some fun with it. Here's a canvas shot of the Jennis Bay cookhouse, with CBrat Tim sitting in front.

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