Photo Art Challenge 498: Chateau Chenonceau

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Photo Art Challenge 498: Chateau Chenonceau

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http://www.pbase.com/image/92360002

Delightful picture of an historic French Chateau for you to artify. Be sure to include some information on the methods you used to achieve your results.

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[Greymist]

Thanks to John Willis of England for this lovely image.



Chateau

[dkcoats]

I can't believe nobody else has jumped on this one.
I did a Painter/CS2 job on it.
Thanks, Ken and thanks, Mr. Willis.


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dc

[Greymist]

Thanks DC
I like the warm tones and the texture of your piece.

I hope that this will be popular, as John Willis has given us some other shots from his recent visit to France, for us to use.
Best wishes,

[dan]

Ken, Thanks for the terrific pic from John! I like very much your version.
DC, another excellent rendition from you!
Dan

[Greymist]

Dan the looks like the sort of painting that could be purchased in the Chateau's Gift Shop.
Great work

[barbara]

great picture to play with
my version is a watercolor, made on my Linux machine with Gimp

[lylejk]

Definitely enjoyed the play Ken. Seam Carved to the smaller size and then did so many other things including Xero's Soft Mood and Supersmooth.



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[Blacknight]

Cropped, watercolored. Fun! Thanks Ken!

[RayGuselli]

but I suppose it's different!!!!

Ray

[Phyllis Stewart]

Ken, good choice, and great job of enhancing the color, tone, and mood!

DC, another very nice mood enhancing tweak!

Dan, fabulous "old world" style!

Barbara, a very romantic look, as if it's an illustration from a fairy tale book!

Kyle, a nice fantasy look!

Phil, good watercolor look!

Ray, all I can say is

[adenov]

good job everyone, i like urs dkcoats it's so beautiful
this my participation, it was made by PS : autolevel + many layers for saturation parts and recoloring + USM + smudging + impressionist filters playing with opacity + USM +adding texture

Adnen

[dbuckle]

Wonderful image to work with and everyone did great paintings. Here is my try. http://glasscat-artworks.smugmug.com/ph ... 196-XL.jpg

[dkcoats]

This is more like it, guys. These are all great.
Dan, I especially like what you did (how did you do it?). And adenov, I like that you put leaves on the trees - I thought about it but decided it was too much work - and cleared up the mucky-looking water.

dc

[Ron]

Terrific image, Ken!

Photoshop:

http://web.rollins.edu/~rpease/photos/chateau.jpg

[dan]

This is more like it, guys. These are all great.
Dan, I especially like what you did (how did you do it?). And adenov, I like that you put leaves on the trees - I thought about it but decided it was too much work - and cleared up the mucky-looking water.

dc

DC, Thanks for the nice comment!
First, I sharpened the pic then Impressionsit>old master and some colour adjustments.
Dan

[dbuckle]

Another try.

[jlbussey]

What a great building to work on! Nice work everyone, and Ray, that's incredible as always!
Jan

[Greymist]

John Willis the originator of this picture, has just sent this message to me;
"I am constantly looking at the forum page - I am amazed at what some
of these guys have done"

John is a Professional Photographer from England, and is allowing us to
to share many more of his pictures in the coming weeks.

Best wishes,

[TMG]

Everyone has done such lovely and creative things with this picture. I look forward to getting more time to play!

Have I done something wrong, or has it just disappeared? I can't see Ray's picture.

[fmr]

" Petit matin gris à Chenonceaux " .

Grey mist over Chenonceaux .

Thanks to the English gentlemen , John Willis for this wonderful image , and Ken for his always distinctive choices .

Beautiful renditions everybody .

Here is my try , ( pastel ) .

Thanks for looking ,

Cheers ,
flo.

[alexmeta]

Thank you John and Ken for nice photo.

Attempt to watercolor.



Alex

[Blacknight]

Everyone has done such lovely and creative things with this picture. I look forward to getting more time to play!

Have I done something wrong, or has it just disappeared? I can't see Ray's picture.

Wait for it (especially with dialup...)!

[Greymist]

Alexmeta,
Welcome to the Inn.
I just love this watercolor of the Chenonceaux.
I hope that we are going to see a lot more of your work.

Best wishes,

[Phyllis Stewart]

Alexmeta, I just love what you've done with this pic! Can you tell us what method you used?

[alexmeta]

Alexmeta, I just love what you've done with this pic! Can you tell us what method you used?

Hi, Phyllis, thank you for your kind comment.
I have a lot of my own actions for my works and didn’t remember exactly what I did for this pic, but I remember that there is based on the Smart Blur filter:
1. Saturate – more saturate
2. Duplicate background
3. Smart Blur filter with default settings about 5~10 times.
4. Than I put on the top the background’s color component* layer with Color Blending mode and do Color Balance for it (about -60,5,60 for the Shadows, Midtones, and Highlighs)
5. Merge Down
6. Texturizer
7. Unshurp
8. Clear some white “spots” on the foreground with the Healing Brush.


*background’s color component – make two layers, first fill 50%-gray and the second – background copy, put the second as the top layer with Color Blendings Mode, Merge Down.

I hope my poor English is rather understandable
Better show . Some of my works you can see in my workstore:
http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c148/alexmeta/

[Phyllis Stewart]

Alexmeta, thanks for the method. I had never heard of let alone tried making a color component layer. I just tried it on a photo and got some really nice results by using different layers and adjusting color balance.

[adenov]

[quote="alexmeta

*background’s color component – make two layers, first fill 50%-gray and the second – background copy, put the second as the top layer with Color Blendings Mode, Merge Down.

I hope my poor English is rather understandable
Better show . Some of my works you can see in my workstore:
http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c148/alexmeta/[/quote]

thanks alex for you explication but when i used the "background’s color component" i get a bleu/gray layer and when merge in blending mode the result will be bleu/gray , could you please explain more ?
thank you

[alexmeta]

Hi, adenov
1. Open your image in Photoshop
2. Copy and duplicate your background. (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V)
3. Fill the layer with 50% gray
4. Paste the background copy (Ctrl+V)
5. Blend the layer with Color Mode

So, you have three layers:
3. Background copy (Color Mode)
2. Gray 50%
1. Background

Merge the third with the second.
Here is - background’s color component

[pavel123]

Alex welcome to the Inn.

Ken thank you for the photo.

I went for dramatic look...

Pavel

[Greymist]

Pavel, that is superb, beautifully enhanced.

Best Wishes,

[pavel123]

Ken, thank you.

One more.

[sylvia_dg]

Beautiful versions !!!
Here's mine, done with my tutorial 5A.
Sylvia