The Edale Cat Strikes again

The original Edale cat has been converted to black and white, and, as above, a
black and white cutout photograph maintaining the animal's vivid green eyes.



NaBloPoMo

Classical Art Colour Match

This colour-match tutorial states,

Adjusting your photographs to get the color 'just right' can be a chore. Think about this: The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on the walls of some museum when it could be used to give you a hand with color correction?

I used 'Garrotte' by Santiago Bose to really alter, and improve, the colouring of this photograph of the church in Edale, Derbyshire.



With the tutorial and the Bose image, I created this:



I then used the same technique on this portrait:


and, using the colours from this floral painting, created this quite different mood.

English Tea Can / China Painting Effect in Photoshop

Following this tutorial, with a few minor adaptations to make it work with Photoshop CS3, I created these images.



The originals are this one and this one, taken on holiday in Edale last summer.