Dan Brown
02-09-2011, 12:30 AM
Well, I took notes on this one! I started off with an image (the pelican) opened in ACR, cropped heavily, opened into CS3, Sharpened with Noiseware Pro.
Flipped,
applied polar coordinates,
flipped again,
applied spherize,
twisted 65 degs,
produced a dup bg layer,
applied fract,
produced another dup layer,
applied difference clouds to this layer, reduced opacity 65%,
applied a strong S curve layer,
flattened,
applied FLOOD.
Next I reopened the original image of the pelican, selected the bird, copied. Back to the creation, I am now working on a flattened piece, so I produced a bg copy layer, then in between the bg and the copy, I produced a blank layer. Finally, I pasted the copied pelican on to the blank layer, applied topaz cartoon, increased the contrast with a negative curves layer. Finally, finally! I erased the top layer to expose the pelican, the original image! And, of course if you follow these step, you will create something entirely different than I did, Gaurranteed:2
Flipped,
applied polar coordinates,
flipped again,
applied spherize,
twisted 65 degs,
produced a dup bg layer,
applied fract,
produced another dup layer,
applied difference clouds to this layer, reduced opacity 65%,
applied a strong S curve layer,
flattened,
applied FLOOD.
Next I reopened the original image of the pelican, selected the bird, copied. Back to the creation, I am now working on a flattened piece, so I produced a bg copy layer, then in between the bg and the copy, I produced a blank layer. Finally, I pasted the copied pelican on to the blank layer, applied topaz cartoon, increased the contrast with a negative curves layer. Finally, finally! I erased the top layer to expose the pelican, the original image! And, of course if you follow these step, you will create something entirely different than I did, Gaurranteed:2