Saucer magnolias - watercolour

Saucer magnolias - watercolour
Digital watercolour created (using Dynamic Auto-Painter/Bogfl1 AOP) from original photo of Saucer magnolias in bloom
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Facade III - watercolour

Facade III - watercolour
Digital watercolour created from original photo of homes along rue Grand-Pré between Gilford and Villeneuve East in the Plateau district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Hecales Longwing watercolour

Hecales Longwing watercolour
Digital watercolour of an Hecales Longwing butterfly created from an original photo with Art History brushes in PS CS4 with some additional processing Paintshop Pro v9
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Facade III - watercolour

Facade III - watercolour
Digital watercolour created from original photo using Dynamic Auto-Painter (DreamyWatercolor AOP) with additional processing (contrast, enhanced saturation and several texture layers) in PaintShop Pro v9
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Tall Mallow - watercolour

Tall Mallow - watercolour
Digital watercolour created from original photo of Tall Mallow (Malva sylvestris)
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La Sauvagine watercolour

La Sauvagine watercolour
Restaurant La Sauvagine, Rue St-Paul, Vieux Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Digital watercolour created from original photo
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1929 Packard watercolour

1929 Packard watercolour
Digital watercolour created from an original photo of a 1929 Packard seen at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont during a Vintage Car show.
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Rosa Canina - Watercolour

Rosa Canina - Watercolour
Digital watercolour was created from original photo.

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Wagon Ride

Wagon Ride
Digital painting created from original photo of a horse-drawn wagon giving free rides in downtown Kingston, Ontario, Canada during FebFest 2013.

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Golden

Digital watercolour created from original photo of a Golden Helicon (Heliconius hecale).

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From Photo to Photo Art

Back in 2009, I wrote a post about Photo art. I explained that my interest in Photo Art grew out of my trying to create images for use on note cards that looked more like paintings than photographs. And now some seven years later, my interest in Photo Art is still going strong. What started out as means to creating note cards I printed myself has grown into creating images that can be placed on numerous products and sold on several POD sites. (POD stands for Print on Demand)

As there may be some who don't readily understand the term 'Photo Art', I again offer the definition I wrote back in 2009 -- This was originally written by Danny Raphael on the RetouchPro forums. He wrote, [Photo Art is] "Art that is created using computer software in which a photo image is used as a basis or reference."

To achieve my photo Art, I use a number of software: Photoshop, Dynamic Auto Painter, Corel Painter Essentials, Topaz Simplify & Impressions and ON1 Perfect Effects. Sometimes just one, other times several are used to achieve the final output. My goal is to turn a photo into something that looks as if it could have been painted instead of photographed.

My most recent creation started out as a simple photograph of tulips growing in a neighbour's garden. Entitled "Aglow", this image is available for sale on my RedBubble site.


Aglow

Taking that image into Photoshop, I remove the background and crop the image so I am left with just the white tulips and about half the green stems and leaves. Continuing to play with the image, I add smart blur to simplify the structures, and glowing edges which in turn are inversed and desaturated to create pencil lines.

The image is then saved out from Photoshop and opened in Dynamic Auto Painter (DAP). In DAP, using the Azo AOP (template), a watercolour version is created. Add a watercolour paper texture and saved. This saved digital painting is then brought back into Photoshop to have a light creme coloured background added.

Some additional tweaks in Photoshop to vibrance and contrast and the image is now complete. This digital watercolour, entitled "Spring's beauties", can be found on my Society 6 site.


Spring's beauties
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Pink Phalaenopsis - watercolour

Pink Phalaenopsis
Digital watercolour created from original photo using Art History brushes in PhotoShop
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