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I cropped this from an image I took some time back. I am currently taking a class on Painter IX. The original is below or above (can't remember how it gets posted). Anyway, the differences are subtle, but every inch of this photo has been painted & enhanced, in someway or another. Please view it large.

 

I added highlight & detail to her hair & her pudgy little fingers. I painted eyelashes in more detail. I painted the hat, as well as adding paint & highlights to the violet on the hat. Painter is both an enjoyable, but frustrating tool, allowing one to paint, when one can't paint a lick :)

 

I prefer intricate details, so just brushing over an image & creating brush strokes was never my goal. Much like Photoshop, Painter is addictive. Using the best of both, as a tool to create what one envisions as a finished work is my goal :) Thanks for taking the time to read this & view my image :)

Working in Painter IX. Please view large. Comments & critiques

welcome. Thanks J.

Very Good I like it, I'm just learning shop it's amazing, haven't gotten this far yet but soon and any advice or comments that you can give me, I would be grateful. Thank you

Outstanding! beautiful shot, bravo!

Nicely done Jayme. I like the wisp of hair over her eye, it adds to a child's innocent pose

Thanks Kenneth & Ken :)

 

Thanks William,

 

Here's the way I see it (I'm sure many would argue the point :)

Photoshop is great for color correction, cloning out unwanted things, adjustment of broad light & shadow & is just plain great fun. Also great for converting an image to B&W.

 

But, when it comes to adding detail by hand & smoothing & adding intricate light in details, you can't beat Painter. One can not really be compared to the other, but working with both, using each one's best tools, in concert, they create a wonderful artistic environment in which to create.

 

In PS, just learning "layers" & how to manipulate them was a hard concept for me to grasp. But once my personal graphic artist (my daughter-in-law :) showed me, in 30 seconds, I was in awe & hooked. That was 4 years ago.

 

Painter is a little more difficult, it is much less sophisticated than PS. Kind of like Photoshop 5, maybe :) But it does have some very powerful tools that just take practice & instruction. Amazing stuff, both of them :)

 

Thanks again :)

Hi Jayme

 

Abeautiful child anda beautiful job.When viewing large you can see all the details. Keep up the beautiful work. I really admire your work and enjoy keeping up with your new work.

Thank you for the lovely comment:) 2 Nana's should always stick together. Especially considering, I have 5 boys & you have 3 girls :)

excellent photograph

Thank you Muhammad :)

The eyes have it!

How's your shop doing?

Warm Regards, Dave

Thanks for asking. At this moment I'm in transition. To make a long, long story short, shortly after I recovered from my broken arm :(, my husband's office manager was diagnosed with Malignant Melanoma & required chemo for 6 months. So...... I am still working back at his office as the OM & RN :) But......the good news is that we are renovating the house next door to ours to accommodate my "new" studio. They just started hanging drywall. I am guessing that sometime late next month I should have a new studio.

 

It will be like starting over, but better. I now know exactly what I want to do & exactly what I don't want to do. Which was hard to explain at first, I wasn't sure myself. I will not be a documentary studio. I will do exactly what I want :) & that's the best part. I don't expect to make a million, but I sure will be happy doing it :) It's going to be such a neat place. Skylight dormers, 10ft ceilings. Lots of natural light if I want it! And....in my side yard!

 

What more could I ask? For people, like my husband, to quit asking me to take snap shots :) I just don't do that! :) That's "His" job! Big smile, I got him a little Canon digital for Xmas & told him, "Take your own damn snap shots" :) After 34 years, it's time he pitched in!

 

 

Dear Jayme, I like very much your crop and her pensive pose :) love the colors, but on my monitor it is kinda too orange on my right side, but that is minor!

Love the softness of the whole photograph!

 

Biliana

WOW, does sound exciting for sure. Your other place had a historical character but the new place just sounds great (actually, better than great).

Don't know if you remember but, I'm still CN of an Infusion Center and my wife is still CN of an ICU. We're both within a few years of retirement but, I'm hoping to start a photo restoration business (part time) within a year.

Warm Regards, Dave

Jayme, what a classic. If this were done in the 19th century, it would now be hanging in a museum!

Bilianna- Yeap, it's kind of orange:) Each monitor is so different. I just calibrated mine again. But.. the orangish/red tint was intentional. It's actually a painting now, so I wanted the added warmth to show through. Admittedly, maybe I over did it:) I have not printed it yet, so only the printing will tell the tale. I usually have to print something a few times, while adjusting the color until I get exactly what I want. So, when I print, I will color correct as needed. My motto, better too much color than not enough, you can easily take away, not so easy to put it back :)I just finished an experiment of printing on fabric, what fun. I may do this with this one. Thanks for stopping by:)

 

Dave- I do remember :) If you are going to do restoration, you have got to get Painter IX proficient, it's invaluable & allows amazing results. PSCS2 is great, but Painter adds dimensions not available in PS. One must use both, no kidding! I can't tell you how many people ask me about restoration, I love doing it too. It is definitely an art-form. Right up my alley :) I spend so many hours, (true perfectionist here) making something "just perfect". I've been collecting old cabinet photos of kids. What a treat. The sepia tones are wonderfully warm & the detail & depth is amazing. I am amazed at the little paper matte & frames. I love the different textures. Why can't we get this today? :) I need to find someone who hand makes paper, I want different papers to print on.

 

 

You snuck in there while I was responding. As usual, I go on & on :) You are way too kind. However, coming from you, it means a lot. You know what I think of your stuff, amazing! You may not realize it, but you have been an inspiration for my digital art. I love your details :)

 

I've loved Rembrandt, Vermeer & most of the Dutch Masters since I was a small child (a long, long time ago :). They are by far my favorite Artists. Nothing like looking at a Rembrandt up close, awe inspiring. Then step back, & the light & detail all come together. I never tire of looking at the Rembrandt at the Louisville Speed Museum. I could sit for hours, just staring & never see it all. Each time I look at it I see something I missed before (does that make sense?). Ain't life fun!

I remember this shot - cute kid! Amazing what you've done with it to enhance the original even more.

I may be biased as a grandfather here, but I find the photography of children to be among the most challenging. They are the easiest subject for snapshots, but one of the most difficult for a photograph -- if you know what I mean. I, too, love the Dutch Masters. Their mastery of light and shadow is wihtout peer. I suppose it is the long cold winters during the little ice age when they were skating on the canals and all the firelight they had to work with. How did you fail to mention Peter B.?

 

Do you suppose we should tell our spouses about this PN love affair? All my best.

 

John

:) I doubt mine would understand :) Mine is definitely a concrete thinker, but he keeps me anchored with that concrete :) Just the facts ma'am, just the facts. Physicians tend to think in reality. He giggles when I sit in front of the Rembrandt & stare :) He wonders exactly "what" I could be seeing. But give him a patient with a challenging problem & he understands completely :) Go figure! But then.....I giggle as he stares at his Harley, I wonder....what "is" he looking at? Explains the old saying, "One man's trash is another man's treasure."

Great model, wonderful composition, and awesome skin tones. Well done! BTW, my event is April 14 this year. You'll be getting an invitation. Save the day!

Thank you dear Jayme for your explaination :) I am doing the same thing when darkening my photos, sometimes I put too much darkness :) but as you said it, we can take it off!

 

So, now this is a painting, then it is perfect! I wish you can print it on some canvas print paper or some paper with texture for digital print!

 

Kisses,

Biliana

A lovely shot, Jayme!

Hey Ken, long time no see :) I can't wait. Thanks for the comments too. Time flies. How's Toni? Tell her I said Hi. I kind of took a sabbatical from PN for a while. I was way, way too busy. Things are normalizing a bit, so life should soon be getting back to normal :) What ever that is!

 

Bilianna- I did print the original uncropped version on canvas for her grandmother ( a good friend of mine). It was so cute. Believe it or not, I did not pose her. Her mother asked her "What are we going to do when we get home?" This was her response :)

 

Ruud- Thank you :)

Beautiful shot, wonderful tones and expression. I know the work in Painter can be tedious but worth the end result. I have been playiing with it lately, but have not been able to produce anything of this caliber yet!