Ma Cherie, Will you Marry Me!!! I've done wedding pictures in the past but this is a first for me. Recently I had a request to create portrait carving to be used as a wedding proposal. Here's a copy of the original picture and a copy the the finished portrait. A follow up call a week later to see if he liked the carving and guess what, she accepted.
That came out really nice! Care to share a few details?
Are you planning a wedding proposal in the near future?
A few details, each picture is evaluated for tone, color and background features. Based on that evaluation moved into the paint program or photo shop and altered slightly then imported into the designer software.
Will you be at the CW Conference this year?
Our congratulations both to you as the creator and to the happy Couple. Great to see the project as developed and to know it lead to a Happy beginning for them. I too would be interested in your process of "evaluating the tone, color and background features." and then how you deal with these in paint or Photoshop. Oh and welcome to the Forum. Thanks
That Photo actually lends itself very well to becoming a good carveable image. I used njob on it: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68860 and then brought it into gimp and set it up as an grain merge layer over a grey layer that I very quickley airbrushed a bump for the grain merge layer to project over. And it came up like this.
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No the real question is "Are you going to be there?" Hope so and I think your process would be a great conference topic!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by floridacarver
Not sure if I'll be attending at this point.
Agreed, portraits would be a great topic, a new way to capture a memorable moment.
I've been working with this idea for a while myself. Here are a few samples I have done for people. I feel like I'm getting pretty close to putting out a good product. The problem is the carvewright is so versatile I'm always working on the newest idea instead of trying to perfect one.
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Floridacarver, that is awesome and a great idea! I never though to add the names too! Thanks for sharing. Michaeldove nice job in carving your first portraits, I think you got it figured out.
You can also add a polymer finish that really make them stand out.