Magic Dust Pretty Actions Brush was used to add a little white snow effect on tree and underneath text. (See my Intro to Corel ParticleShop Brushes for Photoshop blog.) Back in PS, this layer looked pretty bright so lowered the opacity. Its Eraser brush was used to soften the effect a little.
Then used the Star brush to create the bright star on top and added a little color in by turning off the Glow and painting a little on the branches. Corel’s Partical Shop was opened and used the Flame brush to paint a little color in the tree leaf and used Cluster brush to add some lights to the plant. On another stamped layer Topaz ReStyle’s Emerald preset was applied.
On a stamped layer (CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+E) Topaz Impression 2 was opened and Cezanne 2 preset was applied but masked out the bird to retain my painting strokes. Have to find the right brushes to paint these guys! French Kiss (see sidebar for website link) Myrica Gale png was used for the plant – color was painted on a layer underneath it to add some colors. Used Grut’s MI Sues Hedge brush to soften and get the pretty edging between the brown and white feathers and am finding this to be a very useful mixer! Also used one of Fay Sirkis’s hair blenders. Topaz (see sidebar for website link) ReMask was used to select the bird and put him on his own layer – then used the Mixers to paint him. The background texture is from Kim Klassen called Papertrio Paper and Paste (not sure it is still available but she has some beautiful textures) – applied twice, the second time set to Hard Light at 49% layer opacity. This image uses a lot of different filters and textures. Since the background was not too exciting, I decided to give him a little more holiday spirit by both painting and adding several filters. I decided I needed to practice some painting so I picked this funny guy who sort of waltzed into my shot. This bird is a Masked Lapwing that was photographed at the Palm Beach Zoo. And as always, it was a lot of fun to do!….Digital Lady Syd On another stamped layer Nik Viveza 2 was applied and just a little bit of vignetting was added along with a little work on the nose and mouth. On separate layers above lots of painting with PS was done to add my own painting flair.
Then created a stamped layer (CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+E) on top so it can be taken back into Topaz Impression 2. Topaz has several nice textures in their blog that can be downloaded if a nice one is needed. Next Artiste Old Master texture from French Kiss (see sidebar for website link) was placed underneath the dog layer. Again the layer was duplicated and following the Topaz blog, the image was taken into Topaz Impression 2 where the Cartoon Your Critter preset was downloaded from the Community.
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(I think the results depend totally on the image IMHO, so if you do not like the results of one, try the other.) I did not like the results Topaz Simplify gave to this image, so Lucis Pro 6.0.9 (unfortunately no longer available) was applied on a duplicate layer of just the selected dog. So how did I get to this point? Well I used Topaz (see sidebar for website link) ReMask, but I also tried Photoshop’s Mask and Select, which gave a great result too, just to see which is is better. I did not follow the steps exactly since my image is not really a cartoon effect, but I liked the final results. This time she let me take a few images of her, so I thought I would take advantage of this photo and try out a recent Topaz blog called Cartoon Your Critter – Make Your Pet a Work of Art by Taylor Seaton.
Her name is Kaila and I get to play with her every now and then when she is on one of her neighborhood walks. This is one of the cutest puppies I think I have ever seen.
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