.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

[girlnamedpixley.livejournal.com]

Those are both absolutely gorgeous!!! I knew you do something fabulous with that tutorial. Isn't that pattern stamp great? Did you know about painting with it? Because I did not know about painting with it and I was *fascinated*! And very excited. *g* It amazes me how much I don't know about Photoshop after 20 years of working with it. : ) I've just...never had need for a pattern stamp before -- or at least I thought I didn't! Clearly I was very wrong!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, for the lovely words and for the tutorial! I've used the pattern stamp a couple of times, but it never occurred to me to use it like this, as something to paint--as opposed to, you know, stamp--with. Yay for discovering new things!!!