Artistic Peanut

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

I was messing around with Photoshop the other night and came up with these pics. The first one is the original that I worked off of.

I forgot what "effect" this one was.

This was "bas relief"

This was called "glowing edge." I thought this one was kinda cool.

"half tone"

"photo copy"

"cutout" I thought this one looked like one of those paint-by-number oil paintings you can buy.


And that's all. I tried some of these on a picture of Tubby, but the colors seemed to be too much of a contrast and they really didn't turn out that good.

[Ann]

*grins* I love playing with photos in Photoshop too!!!!

The second picture is the difference cloud effect I belive.

Very nice pics Although Peanut is pretty enough by herself!

[All Creatures Great And Small]

I was shocked to see how much Photoshop costs - I've been scouring eBay to see if I can get a good deal on it. I had Adobe PhotoDeluxe, which was the "cheesy" version of Photoshop, but the support has expired for it and the program has gotten kind of buggy lately. I guess I'm just allergic to paying full price for anything

I agree that the first pic of Peanut is so gorgeous, it doesn't need any improvement, but it's fun to see how the pictures change. I love that last one; it DOES look like a paint-by-numbers! The second one is kind of freaky, like Peanut possessed or something!

[Former User]

Debbie, I love doing that too! That pic of Peanut in Half Tone is absolutely amazing, there's just something in it. Yeah, I love playing with Kitty's pics more than with Casper, since there's not much choice with a black cat, he looks just a black lump in those pics then
Thanx for posting these, they're great! And makes me want to go and play around with photoshop again

[boscibo]

I love those pictures!

All Creatures Great And Small, look for Photoshop Elements or Photoshop LE, they are much cheaper with a lot of the features Photoshop is famous for. I got my Photoshop LE bundled with my scanner.

[ChrisH]

Those pictures are great! I like the original best of coursel but the others are good too, I especially like the second one, even though it does make Peanut look `freaky` as ACGAS wrote!

chris

[Edwina's Secretary]

My favorites are "bas relief" and "photo copy." Photo copy looks like a pen and ink drawing!

[zippy-kat]

Originally posted by Tubby & Peanut's Mom
This was called "glowing edge." I thought this one was kinda cool.

Almost looks like one of those velvet Elvis paintings...
I'd MUCH rather have a velvet Peanut painting than a velvet Elvis painting!

What a pretty girl you have!!!

[Freckles]

Originally posted by All Creatures Great And Small
I was shocked to see how much Photoshop costs - I've been scouring eBay to see if I can get a good deal on it. I had Adobe PhotoDeluxe, which was the "cheesy" version of Photoshop.

Look into Adobe Photoshop Elements. Costs about $100. It's a slimmed down version of the true Photoshop but has lots of features. I haven't quite mastered it yet, (in that way it's very similar) but I'm sure it will work well for you.

[Randi]

Photoshop is a great programme, there are endless possibilities. I love the half tone one!

I used to play around with sepia toning, but in a real darkroom - when John worked as a photograper.

Great pics!

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Originally posted by Freckles
Look into Adobe Photoshop Elements. Costs about $100. It's a slimmed down version of the true Photoshop but has lots of features. I haven't quite mastered it yet, (in that way it's very similar) but I'm sure it will work well for you.

Yes, Elements is the way to go if you're not a professional. I got my computer in the beginning of December and I'm only now getting around to checking out all it has to offer (Photoshop that is). I came from Microsoft Picture It! which is a very user friendly program, so I was kinda lost when I started working with Photoshop. The user's manual and the "help" button are wonderful though. I know I've still only scratched the surface because with these pictures, all I did was click on the "effect" and it did all the work. For each effect there were different things you could manipulate to get different looks, but I'm not anywhere near ready to start messing with all that.

I think I paid something like $89.00 from Amazon.com, and I got a $20.00 rebate from Amazon (in the bank) and a $30.00 rebate from Adobe (still waiting on this one). And I know I saw it on sale for even less than that in last Sunday's ads, so check around and you could probably get it for around $20.00 or so.

With all that the Elements version has to offer, I can't even imagine using the whole program. It would take me years to be able to use it to its full potential, so check out Elements - not very user friendly, but worth going to the manual or help buttons for.

Oh, and I bought Photoshop on the recommendation of others here at PT. So thanks! I like it a lot.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Oh, and one of the things that I think is funny is that the whiskers on only one side of her face show up. I didn't even realize this with the original picture, but when the whiskers turned black with that second effect, I had to check it out and you really can't see them in the original one either. I guess I'll have to go home tonight and make sure the other half still has whiskers.

[TheAntiPam]

The original picture of Peanut is one of my all-time favorite photos of any subject or any pet. She reminds me so much of my beloved Murf (RB) and I love to just look at her and smile...

I like how the "glowing edges" effect makes her look like she has spectacles! She is surely huggable in any format!

[Former User]

It looks on the second pic as if Peanut is wearing glasses

[ramanth]

I must say that the original photograph is absolutely stunning! Peanut is beautiful!

I LOVE Photoshop and all it's features. I'm lucky enough to have it here at work.