First go at "Smudge Painting" a portrait (also a first portrait).

Read about this technique somewhere or other and thought I would have a go at it.

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I think it looks cool...I've played around with that before, but always ended up with some abstract water color trashy image. You did a great job with it...

Steve

I think you did a very nice job, I bet it would look great printed on canvas.

Care to share more details of how you did it?

Great Job! Do you have a step by step techique you use to create that?

Great work! I have tried this technique too but I didn't have enough patients Here is a link that will get you started on using the technique, but there is probably an action out there to simplify it

http://www.retouchpro.​com/forums/archive/t-3161.html

wow! that works really well!

Thanks everyone for your comments. I think the whole process is pretty nifty. There won't ever be an action to do this because each photo is done differently. The whole thing took me a couple of hours, but it's just one of those things you tuck away and do when you have a little bit of time.

I followed a step-by-step tutorial by Scott Deardorff here...http://forums.dpreview​.com …rum=1006&messag​e=18183049

and here too..http://forums.dpreview​.com …orum=1006&threa​d=17101687

I hope some of you talented people out there in POTN have a go at this; it's fun.

very cool

wow!

Brilliant!
I love stuff like this. You did an excellent job.

Cheers

I LOVE this. Sadly I don't know a whole lot about photoshop and reading those tutorials was like... Whoa.. What?

Looks kool! I have never been happy with my results.

Hey Paul that's great. I never had the patience to do a smudge, I should slow down and try again. Our recent talks about this have got me onto the watercolours again though.

Great job there, you are very patient, I presume))))I am not...(((

thats an awesome job! i would have thought it was a paintint straight up!!!!!