CarolLHB gallery ... wow!

[irishnh]

I was browsing through the gallery updates and came across the work of CarolLHB ... I was totally blown away at the beautiful portraits, abstract photo creations (especially the untitled one with the green eye peering at you), and the tasteful and IMHO very professional filtered and effects image creations. I think there's got to be an image of the week in there somewhere ... if you haven't taken the time to look at all her photos do it they are fantastic.

Carol I'd love to know more about the seeking green eye image.

here's the link.

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/gallery/viewgallery.php?user=210

ciao for now

[Wendy]

There are some amazing things in there ... !! :)

Wendy

[Diana]

Carol, your new gallery additions are wonderful. What creativity, imagination and talent you have!

Diana

[Lorri]

I was looking at this gallery too; beautiful and interesting images! I really enjoyed it!

Lorri

[Robyn]

Yes, Carol's gallery is one of my favourites, and she always has such variety. You are one very talented lady Carol. I LOVE the new Savannah image, it's gorgeous.

[CarolLHB]

Hi-
Well-you've made my day-no, maybe my year...thanks so much for the kind words-it means so much...I love school vacation week-I'm photoshopping myself into a stupor-love it!!!!!!!

Irish-that eye thing came about totally by accident-my son told me about a great website:

http://www.good-tutorials.com/

There are lots of fun things to play with, but I liked this one:

http://www.yourphotoshopguide.com/index.php?action=showtutorial&tutid=47

and did the leaf texture tut. Then just started to play. The brushes are from a website that I think Kimi told us about, but I can't remember where it is-lots of witch-y things, very cool. Got another weird one coming-although I hesitated putting it in the gallery-thought I better do some happy stuff so you all don't think I'm a nut:D!

Ah, Savannah-she's a former student of mine who sadly transferred to another school-I miss her.

Thanks again-coming across posts like these are what keeps us all inspired.

[Kathy]

Thanks for the link Carol.

Your gallery has always been a favourite for me ... very inspiring.

Kathy

[kimi_boo]

Carol... thanks for the links. Too bad you can't send her the picture.
If you are working on something with the Strange Angel brushes... please post it. I can't be the only strange one around. ;)

[msbrad]

Carol, Thanks for the links,
and John thank you for pinting out Carol's new work.
I do like to view through the galleries, but there is so much it is helpful to be reminded of where I haven't been in a while.

Great work Carol.
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[CarolLHB]

Those are the ones I used-you are not alone;)...can you re-post the link?

[NMarti]

Carol
You new additions are fantastic! I love Savannah - so deep and beautiful. I'm gonna have to check out those new tuts too. Thanks for the link.

[lindajay]

I'm late to the party, as usual, but I really do admire your gallery, Carol. I don't know that I can pick a favorite, but I've always been drawn to the one with the boats. Cool perspective on that one.

[kroberts]

Carol,

I love the picture of Savannah! Will you share how you did it?

[CarolLHB]

Thanks all:)

I'm pretty bad at remembering stuff, but here's the workflow as best as I can remember:

Cropped the original-
Duplicated the original and did all the retouching. The only major change was using the liquify filter to straighten out the corner of her mouth a bit. Other than that it was typical retouching.
Duplicated again and put a gaussian blur (about 20) then a hue/sat to remove the color and set the blending mode to overlay and lowered the opacity a bit.
Created a new layer-and for some reason could not get a layer mask to bring the original eye color back in so I painted the eyes using a sampled color from the original and fooled with the opacity. I also used a very fine brush and lowered the opacity way doown to enhance the eylashes a bit.
Created a new layer and ran a acurcular gradient set to blaclk to transparent and reverse.

You'll have to fool around-I'm not sure this was everthing, I reconstructed the workflow from the layers palette...really gotta write things down...:o

Here's a before and after:

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1yTlYeBPmW6hH7q9R1ck2qQU0FiH8Z0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1yTlYeBPmW6hH7q9R1ck2qQU0FiH8Z0)

:)