Stroker

Courtesy of my own fiddlings and Lobmi's recent tutorial.

- The main tool must be Art History.
- Filters are allowed, but should not dominate Art History. For example, Charcoal then Art History. Or to add some canvas texture sans Art History. (If you've got the gumption for it, try to get Art History to mimic Charcoal, textures, and things.)
- Layer Mask are allowed if you decide to layer it up.
-- Paint Brush and Gradients may only be used in Layer masks.
-- Why, you can even Art History a Layer mask if you feel the need.
- Adjustments layer allowed.
- Post and pre process allowed.
- Blending modes - have at it!
- Don't forget to play with brushes. I found some good ones in the Wet and Dry sets that I really like for Art History.

Pretty loose. Just remember that Art History should be the main tool.

Here is a photo of some young folks having a picnic in summer to get you started (brings back memories):

summerpicnic.jpg

As per the rules, you may want to pre-process it to make it more conducive for Art History.

Although, I have no objectionss to you using your own photos.

Stroker

Having hard time. Server hammer today pretty bad.

Mostly ingore rules. As long as Art History is the main tool used.

Kind of chaulky. My adding texture skills are a bit rusty.

jaclyn

Krazy kool, Stroker. Here's a tool that I have completely ignored from it's conception (V6, I believe? [stuned] ) This should get me looking at some whacked ways of giving it a try. I see that it's got a lot of diddleability, so I'll need a bit of play time.

Really like your first stab.

Welles

Heh, I've never much used the Art History brush... so I had at it using the blue hydrangea photo which I took this summer. The original is also posted in this thread...

http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum/...p?topic=7130.0