.art experiments: Teyla and Castiel

[aesc]

*hugs to girlnamedpixley!*



Aside from sharpening, gaussian blurring, and one or two other things, I've never really used any of Photoshop's filters. But there is a rather simple, yet cunning, way to turn a photograph into something more painterly by using the Find Edges function under the 'Stylize' filter to get that penstroke/fine brushpoint outline effect. I tried it out on Teyla first, because 1.) Teyla is gorgeous, and 2.) the colors in this particular scene from "Kindred I" are, IMHO, some of the best in SGA, period. For a first attempt, I'm pretty happy with it!

I also revisited the 4.16 cap in my header, because of how it is awesome. The actual version is 1000px wide, and so is behind the cut.






In this one I discovered the Trace Contour function, which is vaguely... pointillist-y? I ended up piling a whole lot of crap on top and a lot of Pattern Stamp layers.

Okay, no more coherence from me tonight *fallover*

Comments

[smilla02.livejournal.com]

I love filters! I too don't use them enough.
The Teyla picture is truly different, interesting, both the pose and the blurred effect coupled with the sharp black ouline. The Castiel one is just awesome. Becasue Castiel's was just perfect in it and because I love the mix of shadows, black&white and colors in that sea of gray.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Aside from just a few things, I've never really liked the filters... they just seem too, I don't know "automatic" to me, and the effects I got seemed too uniform and not very natural. Of course, I think this is because I didn't know how to use them properly :D

*hugs you up!*