Poppy Paintings

[Paul Iddon]

I took a few shots of an isoltaed stand of poppies down on the docklands area on the outskirts of Preston today, and I thought that as simple images, they lacked a little oomph.


So I thought I would have a play around with a few filters and such and see if I could come up with something a little more dynamic.


I uses an action called "Erick N Watercolour" by a chap called Erick Nguyen which gave me the paint effect, and then added a texture layer which I colourised and changed the saturation levels and hues to try and match the poppy image. A layer selection on the white background was coloured and blended which was then also given a hefty motion blur filter.

I think they turned out better than the originals, so I hope you all agree.


C&C as always accepted.



http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn206/pauliddon001/oilpainting2.jpg


http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn206/pauliddon001/oilpainting1.jpg


WDYT?



Paul.

[Angdvl089]

Love the PP effects. They really make the flowers pop.

[Paul Iddon]

Thanks. I hope more enjoy the flowers too. :)


Paul.

[marie]

:cool:

the poppies are such gentle type of flowers
they are very lovely in your pictures

in the second picture I think the too dark top may be best cropped off (?)

[Paul Iddon]

Thanks Marie for your thoughts. Much appreciated.

Paul.

[vectorgraphicschica]

I enjoy the impressionistic feel of these and like the effects you put on them. Would it be okay to post one of the original images to see the comparison?

[rooeey]

I like that effect would be great for portraits maybe....
Care to share your edit ???

[Paul Iddon]

Would it be okay to post one of the original images to see the comparison?

Here are the straight images...


http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn206/pauliddon001/small2.jpg

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn206/pauliddon001/small1.jpg


Rooeey, the method is in the top post m8.



Paul.

[sideeffects]

very cool effect! I agree they pop much more than the original images!

[Paul Iddon]

Thanks sideeffects :)


Paul.

[bbulldog]

yep fantastic pp work.

[Jared White]

That is way cool. Most of the time "painter" FX in PS leave me cold, but these are really nice. Excellent compositions.

[BSBXTi]

Very nice PP work! I enjoyed them alot! :)

[vectorgraphicschica]

Thank you for sharing the originals. Great job on the effects. I could see doing that same thing for grapes on the vine or really any other lovely fruits and flowers.

[Flo]

Lovely treatment...

[Paul Iddon]

Thanks for all the comments. I don't usually do landscape even! Macro is my bag! lol..


Cheers all.

Paul.

[Rk2]

Omg
Hello Paul its Rk
Great shots m8 and nice editting :)

[Paul Iddon]

OMG RK !!! Not here???

LOL..


Thanks m8, and thanks for the comments here! ;)


Paul.