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Post by tonyw on Mar 19, 2024 21:29:54 GMT
There's an old farmhouse not too far away that I've used several times for similar themes so stopped by today and it has indeed got even more derelict than the last time I dropped in for a photo. And this truck and drilling rig doesn't look like it's moved in a while and might not be going to far in the future Tony
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Post by tonyw on Mar 19, 2024 21:21:19 GMT
Here's another one using the Graphic Novel and Cutout filters. It does produce some interesting results with people and in case you wondered the original was a publicity shot I did very recently for a comedy being put on by a local theatre group. Tony
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Post by tonyw on Mar 19, 2024 21:11:10 GMT
Davrodigital also provided a tutorial on this effect using Affinity Photo so I gave it a try on this image from Pexels. Interesting to see the difference. He has several different versions of the effect all done differently and the results all look a bit different so I don't think there's one look that could be called the Hayes Island Effect! Tony
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Post by tonyw on Mar 19, 2024 21:06:53 GMT
Images from Pixabay and Hiclipart. From Filter > Sketch > I chose the Comic B&W filter - Overlay Blend mode at 72%. On the Cutout layer I applied a shadows/highlights adjustment. A nice sketchy result too! Clever idea to put it on an easel. Very well done.
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Post by tonyw on Mar 17, 2024 21:04:36 GMT
The race is on! Tony
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Post by tonyw on Mar 17, 2024 20:16:11 GMT
Excellent start Sepiana , hmca and Lillias. A good idea using a B/W sketch action if you don't have the graphic novel filter - you can find Sepiana's one here . Tony
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Post by tonyw on Mar 16, 2024 21:47:13 GMT
I'm rather fond of painterly/sketchy type effects and the effect does seem to be quite commonly seen these days. Back in 2015 we did the Hayes Island Effect but I ran into this video by Davrodigital that updates his original Hayes Island effect using Photoshop Elements and I thought we could give it try. The first 8 minutes are the ones I will concentrate on - the remaining 7 minutes add a vignette/frame and touch up some areas. I would suggest downsizing your starter image if it's large (I went for around 1500 to 2000 pixels for the maximum side) as it makes it easier to work on and see the effect when viewing the actual pixels on your screen. I also won't suggest settings for the filters used as those depend on the image and its size. The video spends a lot of time tweaking settings. I must admit I didn't! It also uses the Graphic Novel filter which is only available in Photoshop Elements. If you are using Photoshop then you are missing this rather nice filter but substitute any other filter or combination that gives a sketch effect (for example Find Edges and desaturate as used in the original Hayes Island Effect). The other filter used is Cutout which is in both PS versions. Here are the basic steps: 1. Open the image and duplicate twice. 2. With the top layer selected apply the Graphic Novel Filter (Filter-Sketch-Graphic Novel) or another filter that produces a pencil sketch effect. Change the Blend Mode to Soft Light. 3. Select the lower image copy layer and apply the Cutout filter (Filter-Artistic-Cutout). 4. Add a hue/saturation adjustment layer and adjust to taste. 5. Optionally add a new layer and fill layer with 50% gray. Filter-Texture-Texturizer and pick a texture. Set the blend mode to Soft Light. From then on you are on your own to make further adjustments, add a frame etc. Here are the layers I finished up with along with an example of the result of applying the effect which can vary a lot depending on the starter image and the settings used. Have fun experimenting! Tony
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Post by tonyw on Mar 15, 2024 18:38:30 GMT
Luckily enough there's a St Patrick's Day scavenger hunt for kids going on in town this weekend. Here's one of the better displays in the window of a dance studio. I guess I was lucky and found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow Tony
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Post by tonyw on Mar 10, 2024 20:19:59 GMT
I'll have to try filling in - I would never have guessed that started life as coffee filter! In the meantime I was playing with another shot I took the other day of the bark of a large tree stump. It had very interesting looking shapes but not a lot of contrast so I thought a sketch effect might help emphasize the patterns so the second version used the graphic novel filter in PSE and set the blend mode to overlay. I quite liked the result. Tony
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Post by tonyw on Mar 9, 2024 22:35:17 GMT
I'm not sure how abstract this is but it caught my eye while walking past a piece of playground equipment and I used the phone camera to give a lot of depth of field Tony
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Post by tonyw on Mar 9, 2024 22:27:50 GMT
Not new images but inspired by Madhur Dhingra's work I tried to edit two from my files to emulate his style. Thoughts appreciated. The second would be my choice - in the first one I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be looking at while in the second my eye was drawn to the figure and then following the lights. I'd would have probably cropped it squarer to remove some of the black area and emphasise the diagonal of the lights but that's just my preference. Does make a great abstract B&W. Tony
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Post by tonyw on Mar 9, 2024 20:59:29 GMT
Busy at work in the vegetable greenhouse (with some help from generative fill) Tony
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Post by tonyw on Mar 8, 2024 21:17:05 GMT
An old chimney on the local library (originally a train station). I got the two doves to pose for me! The original turret room at the hospital. This was Charlotte's room who left the impressive house (including gardens and a golf course) to the town to be used as a hospital when she died in 1908. The rest has been modernized but the turret room remains and they say you can see her ghost looking out of the window - and if you look closely you can see she was there today (and not the result of photoshopping!) Tony
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Post by tonyw on Mar 7, 2024 21:38:51 GMT
Good topic and very timely as last month our camera club topic was "pictures of things from angles you never thought of" so I have a few abstracts that should work in B&W and also took a couple more today. Here are some to start - the third one I took today and is a vertical intentional camera movement and I used a duotone rather than pure B&W Tony
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Post by tonyw on Feb 28, 2024 22:35:57 GMT
Did some repair work on the columns, added a fountain (from Unsplash) as it is Virginia Water and some blue sky to brighten up the day. Tony
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