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A Good Wine


	A Good Wine Taken with 4x5 camera. Scanned into PhotoShop. Many filters later, here is the result. Sherry Karr Adkins

Brian Lobdell

So glad I viewed this in the larger image, Sherry, it was a nice surprise to see the beautiful result of your filter work here! A good still life made into a really superb art-image! Kudos!

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November 06, 2006

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Thank you, Brian. I appreciate your nice comments.

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November 06, 2006

Ron Jones

Beautiful composition! Sherry, what combinations of filters did you use?

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November 07, 2006

Jessica Jenney

Beautiful still life and effects, Sherry!

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November 07, 2006

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Thank you, Ron and Jesica. This image already had a textured background. First thing I did was 'paint' the picture with the smudge tool. I believe it was one of the watercolor brushes. Then I applied a small amount of watercolor (Filter>artistic>watercolor). After that, I applied some poster edges (filter>artistic>poster edges). I then duplicated the layer and added paint daubs to the new layer (filter>artistic>paint daubs) and made it a bit blurry. I chaged the layer mode to overlay. I flattened the image and used the eraser tool with jacked edges to make the border.

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November 07, 2006

Ron Jones

Sherry,
You make it sound so simple. I can imagine how many undos and trash layers it must have taken to get to this final fantastic image. Folks who use Painter need to take a lesson from you. You've shown that you can do pretty much anything with Photoshop.
Ron

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November 07, 2006

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Thanks Ron. Yes, I had MANY undos and duplicate layers going and trying different things on them. But this time I tried to jot down the steps. So many times I do something and then can't duplicate the look because I didn't write it down. I have never used the smudge tool to 'paint'. I bought 'Photoshop creative' (issue 14, on sell now). They talked about using the smudge tool to paint, so I tried it.I didn't realize this tool could be so creative. This magagzine has lots of how-to's and even came with a CD with more brushes, fonts, patterns and textures. It's like Christmas. I'm a font addict!

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November 07, 2006

Karen Slagle

This could be in a gallery and I would be fooled into thinking it is a painting. Excellent work on this, Sherry. Haven't tried using the smudge tool to paint as yet, but just wait till winter sets in.

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November 09, 2006

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Thanks Karen. Gotta love these magazines who show you new techniques to try. I would never have thought to paint with the smudge tool. It is very fun and easy.It's my new tool of choice to paint with.

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November 09, 2006

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