Corel Painter Essentials 4 to Photoshop

I took my grandson's senior portrait and did a painting in Corel Painter Essentials 4.

.Then I took the finished portait and opened it in Photoshop Elements 7 and added a duplicate layer....Then I opened Topaz Simplify and selected the wood carve preset and got this effect:

Then in the layers pallet you click on opacity and set it to 50% and you get  this effect:

If you set the opacity a little lower, this is what happens:

Free Painter Program

There is a free painter program called Fotosketcher.. It is available from:

http://www.fotosketcher.com/

It has many interesting painting and framing effects.. Here are a few different paintings of my Grandson Andre: (click to enlarge)

The first one is the cartoon  painting.....The next one is a regular oil painting look:

Last , but not least, a vintage look:

Any Camera can do multiple exposures

Some Cameras like the Nikon D200, D300 and D3 can do multiple exposures. However, If you have Adobe Photoshop, you can do multiple exposures with any camera...Here is Tony Sweet's video, on    u tube, to show you how its done..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTaOnXb9v4s
 

Here are a few photos, of poppies that I took with various point and shoot cameras.Then made multiple exposures with Adobe Photoshop cs4.

  

Here are a couple of  multiple exposures of flowers :

ipod 4 Photography fun

I bought two items to play with….one is a Apple Ipod 4 and the other is a Motorola Droid-x cell phone…I have been having a blast with both…The ipod4 has a camera that takes ½ megapixel photographs… I can import other size photo and use the software in the Ipod for special effects.. I downloaded an app from the Apple store called Hipstamatic…it cost $1.99..I am having fun with it. I take the photographs I make with it and put them in Photoshop. Then I give them a little Topaz Adjust and Simplify.... Here is a photo of my brother's dog , waiting for my brother to come out of the store.(The Square format is fun.) 

I have purchased a few apps from apple for my ipod4..they will also work for an Iphone. Another app I got last week is “AvgCamPro.” This application takes multiple exposures of  2-32 exposures then combines them into a single photograph....Here are a few sample of this technique after some Adobe Photoshop work..These are multiple exposures of Poppies:

Here is one of a pink blossomed tree in my Son's backyard:

Cat Portrait

I took this photograph of Sammy The Cat in 2004..He passed away last week so tonight I thought I would do a painterly effect of his photograph.. Here is the original:

The white pad seemed distracting so I added a portion of the top blanket to hide the white pad... It isn't perfect but for a quick fix I am happy with it....Then I opened it in Topaz adjust and Topaz simplify to give it a painterly effect..Here is the Finished Portrait:

Today's Magic

I was walking home and thought I would take a photo of my friends truck and 5th wheel for him..Here is the original photograph:

I decided it would look nicer if I took out the trailer behind his truck and cleaned up the road with some grass and poppies.. here is the result:

Finally I decided to open the above photograph in Topaz adjust and Topaz simplify in photoshop.
And with the help of a layer mask I brought back some detail in the truck, trailer, and trees.

Final Photo with a painterly effect: