Van Gogh Inspiration
Uploaded: December 09, 2004
Murtaza H. Saeed December 09, 2004
Very impressed! Thoroughly enjoyable!! #195226Kristi A. Howson December 09, 2004
Thanks so much for your kind words, Murtaza. I'm really not quite sure how I did this. It was supposed to be a holiday card with palms, and somewhere along the way it got kind of wild and reminded of "Starry Night" ... albeit not THAT great I admit:) I used various PS filters, as well as Alien filters. To paint on the color, I took a snapshot of the image at the highest saturation, used a guassian blue, took a snapshot and then used a "history" star brush to pick up the color. #962733Murtaza H. Saeed December 09, 2004
I hope it did become a holiday card in the end, it certainly deserves to be one. It looks really special. I like wild-looking images! Thanks for the information on how you made this. The history star brush is a simple yet outstanding idea put to great effect by you! I have to get my hands on some alien filters one of these days ... :) #962749Donna La Mattino Pagakis December 09, 2004
Very nice use of filters and colors!! Great design!! #963539Kristi A. Howson December 10, 2004
Thanks again, Murtaza:) Now if I could just photograph Santa and the Raindeers I might get a card out of it:) Everything was done with this in Photoshop except for the massive Star effect ... which was "constellation" from Alien.Thanks very much, Donna, for your kind comments. Coming from a Brooks grad, that means a lot. Brooks has some great classes on digital photography that I've taken ... particularly one on expsosure and lighting has helped me so much with my digital SLR. #964619
Murtaza H. Saeed December 13, 2004
Hello Kristi,Kristi how famous is Brooks in terms of prestigous photography schools in the U.S. ?
Thanks,
Murtaza #969588
Kristi A. Howson December 13, 2004
Yeah...now all I have to do is be ready and get that pic of Santa flying through :)I'm not really sure how prestigous Brooks is. I would think somewhat so as some of my photography friends as far away as Florida have heard of it. Most students that go there are looking for a career in photography of film making. Of the few I know personally that went there, one is a well known wedding and event photographer and the other shoots fast action sports events. #970339
Murtaza H. Saeed December 13, 2004
Thank you for the information, Kristi!!:)Donna La Mattino Pagakis December 23, 2004
Congratulations on being featured in digital darkroom. Well done Kristi!!! #992919Kristi A. Howson December 24, 2004
Thanks Donna for letting me know about this...I didn't even know about the newsletter :) #995275Sign up for an interactive online photography course to get critiques on your photos.
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