Artisitc Merits

I like the 3rd one, mysterious sunlight.

1st one. Bright and cheerful, seems the most realistic of the 3.

{{ This is why its always interesting to me to hear folks thoughts- three of you commented and you all prefer a different picture. }}

{{ So Ive been mucking about with a free program called fotosketcher- https://fotosketcher.com/ it basically just adds filters to your photos to convert them into different styles of painting or sketch, but has a few more easy to get at options to muck about with than your average photoshop or gimp filter does.

Anyhow I decided to give it a go on some of the photoshopped pictures Id made as illustrations for LotR's to see how it turned out, see what you think-

Crickhollow variations-





Two variations of a Knife in the Dark (which do you prefer?) -

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Three varations of Mrs Figg in Gondor looking east over the Fields of the Pelannor towards Osgiliath and the mountains of Mordor-

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Fun wee program to muck about with. Gets the Petty Tyrant 'wont make you crabbit using it' seal of approval.    }}

oooooh! I like them all. its hard to choose.

I like Crickhollow at night, its looks spooky, like the Black Riders are hanging about.

The first Figgs scene is the most realistic to the description, second too bright, third gets impressionistic in a way that the sky doesn't match the dress, so it feels even more unrealistic than if the dress was mucked about in the same way as the sky.

{{ There are 4 more variations on the Figg in Gondor one as I used it as a test picture for the program-

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I also thought Id give it a go on a few of my other renders-

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But probably two of the ones that worked best were two generic random photographs I grabbed from google images, the first of the Isle of Skye-









and a stag-







I shall need to give it a go on some of my own photographs next. }}

Should show the originals as well as the modified ones. It's definitely a fun tool to throw in these different artistic techniques. Can you outline different sections to treat differently?

{{ Ive gone back and edited the above posts to have the orginal version before the variants (where I can find them . )}}