A Dragon Unleashed

Gallery: Photo ArtPosted May 7, 20081,374 views8 comments

I was messing around on PS CS3 (my way of learning as I get lost with tutorials) and decided to dabble with the liqufy filter. After restoring and retrying a few times, I got this effect out of it. I then converted to grayscale, posterized and added a crosshatch effect. Then I added a sepia filter and here is my result.
I posted the original image in the fauna gallery last year... This is a Cayman Island blue iguana.
This was done just for the fun of it.
Comments welcome

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Carol Hyman on May 7, 2008 at 9:10 PM

Rick, With such a title, I had to come and take a peek

Beautiful work. I would love to see the original and I'll bet all of the other viewers would too.

Tha'ts quite a dragon, Rick

Carol

Registered on January 18, 2007, 597 Posts, 8062 Comments

Comment posted by Rick Gomez on May 7, 2008 at 9:20 PM

Here is the original, but please keep in mind that I am not trying to compare the two. Thanks for looking

Registered on March 3, 2007, 206 Posts, 1853 Comments

Comment posted by Carol Hyman on May 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM

Rick, You started out with a good image. I realize you're not comparing; I was mostly curious what you accomplished with the filters. I do think you did an excellent job.

Carol

Registered on January 18, 2007, 597 Posts, 8062 Comments

Comment posted by Pat Sampson on May 7, 2008 at 11:15 PM

Rick,

This is great. I'm having a lot of fun just looking at this beast. Glad you posted it.

Pat

Registered on May 19, 2007, 953 Posts, 15989 Comments

Comment posted by D J Kuklinski on May 7, 2008 at 11:45 PM

I like the effect; it's top notch!

Registered on January 6, 2008, 25 Posts, 170 Comments

Comment posted by Danny on May 8, 2008 at 3:35 AM

Oh boy, a macroholics dream if ever there was one. Beautiful beast and reptiles I just love. Great metallic effects and the original is excellent, but the altered version is in another world all of its own Rick. Just awesome and you can hang this up here any day mate. Amazing what the effects have done and so expertly applied.

All the best Rick and I'm in love with this beast, PHEW !!!

Danny.

Registered on November 25, 2003, 165 Posts, 1345 Comments

Comment posted by Stan Rose on May 8, 2008 at 11:25 AM

Interesting how it changed the character of the original to more 'dinosaurish' in the filtered version. Here's an idea: use the original colored eye in the montone version

Registered on September 15, 2005, 836 Posts, 17099 Comments

Comment posted by Danny on May 10, 2008 at 9:10 PM

Aww, I like Stan's idea there Rick.

Danny.

Registered on November 25, 2003, 165 Posts, 1345 Comments