City Hall, Altmonte, ON. 4 views
by weesel
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This was huge. We lost some detail bringing it down to Renderosity size, but I think there is enough here to be of interest.
Upper left is an enhanced image of the City Hall in Altmonte, ON. Least I believe it's the city hall. An interesting building which begged to be photographed and interesting photograph which begged to be played with.
Upper right is the same image with the sketch pad filter at work. In this case I chose colored pencil setting rather than straight black. All submenu settings were set rather high to get that dark outline effect.
Bottom right is the original enhanced image with the watercolor filter at work. Usual, for me, settings worked out just fine. One can adjust brush size, water amount, bleedover, etc. Effects are fairly easy to control.
Bottom left was tricky. I save it for last! This is two applications of the same filter, sort of, to achieve a unique effect (well, unique for me).
First I took the original image and applied the conte crayon filter but turned the black crayon OFF. This resulted in a lovely golden image which needed something else. Added the elephant skin filter with dark-brown background to make the oil-painting-like crackles in the image. This was cool. Definitely cool. I felt like printing a copy to frame or use for computer wallpaper. However, something said: try adding in the black again, stupid. You see, originally this is what I did, but it was too black! too dark! So I removed the black. by this time I'd discovered another trick: copy the image to the background frame and apply the vignette filter - doing it this way shuts off the color choices so the image is given a transparent vignette!
Sooo. I pasted the dark image over the golden one and applied the transparent vignette as an oval. You see the result: enough of the original shows through to look cool, but the central part retains enough dark to look bold and eye-catching.
Bwua-ha-ha! ;-)
The frame (don't read further, Vik) is a plain rectangle filled with woodgrain. This is given a dose of heavy stone texture and then illuminated with several off-scene spotlights. Then given a black rectangular vignette. Doctored images then pasted on top.
Enjoy; thanks for viewing.
Comments (11)
Akinom
Hi weese, thanks for your note! WOW... what a gorgeous "playing with filters" ;o) Fantastic effects! Love that one on the bottom left and that on top right! Great presentation... and yes I will give it a try! mmuuaahh
b2amphot
Great experimentation. Ditto Akinom (minus the mmuuaahh).
Corwin13
Excellent stylistic composition, magnificent result!
logiloglu
simply superb. a most beautiful serie of different styles. excellent done. !!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!
cynlee
are we having fun? yes... i do think so :] like the golden one the best! but then the building loses a lot of detail so it's nice to see them all here as a whole
Sekadhar
Very original! Excellent done!!!
weesel
Yes, it was fun. Sometimes you don't know which version to put out for comment, so . . . . ;-)
Vik9740
lol.. too late my friend.. i READ! My fav version is number two w/ the sketch filter.. maybe it's the sketcher in me.. but cool playing of filters... with Or without the frame ;)
sossy
excellent presentation and effects! i do enjoy and choose!
Enmos
Very interesting postwork here !! Excellent work !!
iaacf
This is very nice, both image as well as presentation.