I decided to try something completely different...in fact, my goal for this challenge will be to try new processing techniques so I can get out of my same old processing rut. This was inspired by a tutorial I found here, though I only followed the first few steps of the tutorial. Using CS3, I cut the face and arm of the little girl out from the original image and put it on a textured canvas layer. I used levels to wash it out and desaturated a bit as per the tutorial, and applied the watercolor filter as directed. That's when I diverged from the instructions. I downloaded the watercolor brushes they suggested here, they are fantastic! Then I just randomly applied colors using different brushes to cover most of the canvas, leaving the layer with the girl on top. I duplicated the image and flattened it, then put that flattened layer back into the original image to work with, leaving all of the layers below untouched (so I can readjust later if necessary -- I never flatten my working images). I copied that layer, then applied the poster edges filter to the copy, which gave the nice 3D effect to the paintstrokes, and masked the girl out. The poster edges layer is overlay mode, about 60% opacity. I again made a copy to flatten and did a bw conversion using the tonal enhancement option in Color Efex Pro. This layer was also set to overlay mode about 60% opacity, and the background masked out. Hope this makes sense!
And here is the original snapshot, she was showing off her tatoo. I wish her hand was in a more graceful pose for the watercolor picture, but hey, you get what you get with a kid :-)
Wow, That's crazy cool processing. Very artistic of you to even think of doing all that, and the result is impressive. The hand would look fine if you painted it holding something of interest.
I love the painting effect and the beautiful face. Just a personal preference is not being too keen on all the pastels, but they so work here! Wish I could venture out into the unknown and see what it could bring to me :)
Oooh so awsome! I love how you blended her hair into therest of the composition.. Thank you for posting a link to the watercolor brushes.. I definatly want to try them out.
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