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Barry Pearson

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Apr 7, 2002, 4:20:46 PM4/7/02
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For decades my favourite painter has been J W Turner. For decades my favourite
paintings have been "The Fighting Temeraire...", "Peace: Burial at sea", "Rain,
steam and speed", etc.

Whenever I photograph a sunset or strange light on a landscape, I have Turner in
my mind. (Apart from anything else, it gives me an excuse to have a photograph
which looks good but is technical crap. Some of Turner's paintings are technical
crap).

I've just watched the BBC programme on Turner. It didn't change my views. I want
to produce photographs that look like Turners.

Is there a plug-in which will turn one of my mediocre photographs into something
that will resemble a Turner?

Please?

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Barry Pearson
http://www.barrypearson.co.uk/photography/

ps: If there is such a plug-in - perhaps life is pointless. What is there left
to do?

Stephan

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Apr 7, 2002, 4:32:13 PM4/7/02
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NO

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edjh

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Apr 7, 2002, 4:48:27 PM4/7/02
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You could probably get the right look using Painter. Anyway, it might be fun
to try.
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anon

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Apr 7, 2002, 6:36:08 PM4/7/02
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Barry Pearson wrote:

> For decades my favourite painter has been J W Turner. For decades my favourite
> paintings have been "The Fighting Temeraire...", "Peace: Burial at sea", "Rain,
> steam and speed", etc.
>
> Whenever I photograph a sunset or strange light on a landscape, I have Turner in
> my mind. (Apart from anything else, it gives me an excuse to have a photograph
> which looks good but is technical crap. Some of Turner's paintings are technical
> crap).
>
> I've just watched the BBC programme on Turner. It didn't change my views. I want
> to produce photographs that look like Turners.
>
> Is there a plug-in which will turn one of my mediocre photographs into something
> that will resemble a Turner?
>
> Please?

Can you post a link to an example of a "Turner"? Maybe we could get
a better idea what you mean.

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Fungusamungus

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Apr 8, 2002, 12:37:07 AM4/8/02
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I heard there was one, but Ike got nasty and Tina left to form her own
plugin. The Turner plugin was never the same again...


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Barry Pearson

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Apr 8, 2002, 5:00:19 AM4/8/02
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"Stephan" <beedoo...@hawaii.rr.com> wrote in message
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> NO

Thank goodness!

(I was just having a little joke after watching a programme about my favourite
painter, and wondered what the reaction might be. The "ps" says it all - if I
could do it with a plug-in, there would be no point. Besides, it isn't the brush
strokes I'm interested in, it is the vision of light & colour in a way that
makes the technical details irrelevant).

> "Barry Pearson" <ne...@childsupportanalysis.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:9W1s8.4575$NG3.7...@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com...
> > For decades my favourite painter has been J W Turner.
> > For decades my favourite paintings have been "The Fighting
> > Temeraire...", "Peace: Burial at sea", "Rain, steam and speed", etc.

[snip]

Barry Pearson

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Apr 8, 2002, 5:10:41 AM4/8/02
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"anon" <an...@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:3CB0C9D8...@nowhere.com...

> Barry Pearson wrote:
>
> > For decades my favourite painter has been J W Turner.
> > For decades my favourite paintings have been "The Fighting
> > Temeraire...", "Peace: Burial at sea", "Rain, steam and speed", etc.
> >
> > Whenever I photograph a sunset or strange light on a landscape,
> > I have Turner in my mind. (Apart from anything else, it gives me
> > an excuse to have a photograph which looks good but is
> > technical crap. Some of Turner's paintings are technical
> > crap).
> >
> > I've just watched the BBC programme on Turner. It didn't change
> > my views. I want to produce photographs that look like Turners.
> >
> > Is there a plug-in which will turn one of my mediocre photographs
> > into something that will resemble a Turner?
> >
> > Please?
>
> Can you post a link to an example of a "Turner"? Maybe we could
> get a better idea what you mean.

The following are useful. They show the paintings I mentioned above.

http://www.j-m-w-turner.co.uk/

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/turner.html#images

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/

But please treat my request as a joke - following up all those other requests
for plug-ins to replace genius. It would be terrible if you COULD get one! But
although I really only do "straight" photography, I DO often have Turner in my
mind when I see interesting sun or weather.

Sally Beacham

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Apr 8, 2002, 8:38:05 AM4/8/02
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"Fungusamungus" <fungu...@warmmail.com> wrote in message
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> I heard there was one, but Ike got nasty and Tina left to form her own
> plugin. The Turner plugin was never the same again...
>

Big wheels keep on turnin'
Proud Mary keep on burnin'....

The old Image Composer's Impressionist might do a passable job... maybe.


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Glenn Pechacek

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Apr 8, 2002, 12:37:43 PM4/8/02
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You can not escape that easily :)

Glenn


Fungusamungus

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Apr 8, 2002, 4:00:53 PM4/8/02
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remember: even if a plugin can recreate a technique, it can't recreate vison
and creativity.

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Fungusamungus

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Apr 8, 2002, 4:00:53 PM4/8/02
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I was torn between this version of the turner plugin, and the other one that
colorizes your old black and white images in peachy/warm tones :]

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Sally Beacham

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Apr 8, 2002, 7:12:39 PM4/8/02
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"Fungusamungus" <fungu...@warmmail.com> wrote in message
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> I was torn between this version of the turner plugin, and the other one
that
> colorizes your old black and white images in peachy/warm tones :]

I'm more pink than peach, got anything in cool tones?

Fungusamungus

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Apr 9, 2002, 5:28:01 PM4/9/02
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ask Ted <vbg>

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Sally Beacham

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Apr 10, 2002, 1:00:15 AM4/10/02
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"Fungusamungus" <fungu...@warmmail.com> wrote in message
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> ask Ted <vbg>
>
> --


He wasn't very helpful when he found out my middle name is Jane.

Joseph Anderson

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Apr 10, 2002, 6:21:21 AM4/10/02
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> The old Image Composer's Impressionist might do a passable job...
maybe.
>
I keep seeing references to "Image Composer's Impressionist". Are you
speaking
of Microsoft's old Image Composer 1.5's Impressionist filter? I still
have that sucker.
Hated Image Composer's GUI.

Too bad one can't use Image Composer's Impressionist filter as a
Photoshop 6 filter.
That might have yielded interesting results had I been able to overcome
the perplexing
decisions Turner faced before painting each watercolor:

1. Peaches or cream wash for this image?
2. Blur left half of image or right half of image?
3. Confuse only 60% of my viewers or all of my viewers?

I do admire Turner's "Norham Castle, Sunrise" painting. It looks exactly
like my
frat house walls after a helluva party.

Sally Beacham

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Apr 10, 2002, 11:19:27 AM4/10/02
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"Joseph Anderson" <joseph....@knology.net> wrote in message
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> > The old Image Composer's Impressionist might do a passable job...
> maybe.
> >
> I keep seeing references to "Image Composer's Impressionist". Are you
> speaking
> of Microsoft's old Image Composer 1.5's Impressionist filter?

Yes.

I still
> have that sucker.
> Hated Image Composer's GUI.

Yes. ;-)))


>
> Too bad one can't use Image Composer's Impressionist filter as a
> Photoshop 6 filter.

No.

You absolutely CAN use it with PS 6, just raid it out of IC and install it
in your Plugins folder. Make sure you install the sub-folders within the
Impressionist folder in the exact layout they were in IC. You'll have lots
of brushes, papers and presets to play with!

Joseph Anderson

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Apr 14, 2002, 10:40:24 PM4/14/02
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Sally,

Followed your advice and added Image Composer filter to Photoshop. Works
very well.
Adds some nice effects. Thanks for the tip.

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Sally Beacham

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Apr 14, 2002, 11:01:44 PM4/14/02
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"Joseph Anderson" <joseph....@knology.net> wrote in message
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> Sally,
>
> Followed your advice and added Image Composer filter to Photoshop. Works
> very well.
> Adds some nice effects. Thanks for the tip.

You're welcome. Try the Pencil Sketch, Detailed Monochrome setting. I love
it.

Joseph Anderson

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Apr 17, 2002, 1:00:34 AM4/17/02
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Adding Image Composer filter added about three seconds to Photoshop
launch time. Oh well. It's an acceptable trade off. Will try the Pencil
Sketch, Detailed Monochrome setting you recommended. Thanks.


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Tom Nelson

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Apr 18, 2002, 5:19:58 PM4/18/02
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I missed the original posting, but you might find the following filter
useful: http://www.tnphoto.com/crfil/

anon

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Apr 18, 2002, 6:41:00 PM4/18/02
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Tom Nelson wrote:

> I missed the original posting, but you might find the following filter
> useful: http://www.tnphoto.com/crfil/

Oh, you're naughty! :-) I really did a "whaaaaat" when I saw
the 'cubist' filter! LOL! I thought 'how in the heck can it do that'?

Great link! And it's freeware, too!

Sally Beacham

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Apr 18, 2002, 9:56:10 PM4/18/02
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"Tom Nelson" <tnp...@xskypoint.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> I missed the original posting, but you might find the following filter
> useful: http://www.tnphoto.com/crfil/

Oh my. I've submitted my request.

Jane Krate Duda

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Apr 18, 2002, 10:27:56 PM4/18/02
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I will gladly pay double. I am STILL laughing...

Jane

Barry Pearson

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Apr 19, 2002, 4:10:45 AM4/19/02
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"Tom Nelson" <tnp...@xskypoint.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> I missed the original posting, but you might find the following
> filter useful: http://www.tnphoto.com/crfil/

Thank you. A valuable resource, although unfortunately it doesn't (yet?) include
J M W Turner, surely one of the greatest ever British painters. In case it is
intended to add his style to the product, here is a useful site:
http://www.j-m-w-turner.co.uk/

I made the original post in precisely the same spirit as this product, having
just watched a television programme about my favourite painter.

A_Vera

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Apr 19, 2002, 5:30:24 AM4/19/02
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"Sally Beacham" <p...@tension.you> wrote in message
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>
> "Tom Nelson" <tnp...@xskypoint.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:180420021619589426%tnp...@xskypoint.com.invalid...
> > I missed the original posting, but you might find the following filter
> > useful: http://www.tnphoto.com/crfil/
>
> Oh my. I've submitted my request.

A fool and their submitted request are soon parted.


Sally Beacham

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Apr 19, 2002, 6:46:53 PM4/19/02
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I'm assuming the irony in my post just sailed right over your head? But
that's okay, my brand of humour doesn't necessarily cater to the lowest
common denominator.

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