Key portions of the image assembly work done to produce the photo-art here below and here (but later) rely upon the blending of individual image layers using Photoshop. In essence, two or more different versions of the starting image are superimposed so as to gain an output which contains some of the features of each [...]
I’ve demonstrated - by use of just a single example here (!) – that one primary and initial objective of the Impressionist school of painters was to break away from the traditionalists just in terms of subject matter (never minding the style in which they painted those subjects). Provocative group portraiture, urban street scenes, portraits of less-privileged and working [...]
Here is a re-rendered, photo-art image, based upon this original photograph (and many steps from the starting image …). The (fully) black background has been used deliberately, to support a specific form of presentation – the digital pictura translucida – which I’ll post about subsequently.
Somewhere below and earlier (i.e., here) there’s a slideshow made up of individually digitally filtered images, all derived from a single, starting image. Back in 2005 I wrote a short online article (it’s here: http://www.dpandi.com/howtos/artmasterpro/) covering some aspects of such filtering. Unfortunately, the source of the Photoshop-independent image processing software featured there – the Fo2PiX [...]
very impressive and useful too.