Egyptian Image of Sekhmet - Various Artistic Versions

I decided to play around with the Egyptian image of Sekhmet from the Napoleonic Expedition I posted a few days ago. I'm still trying to teach myself Photoshop and thought this would be a fun image to experiment with.

I had a blast seeing how many different looks I could get from one image by just changing this or that in Photoshop.

This is the image of Seknmet after I colorized it in Photoshop

I used this saved image as the base for all the altered images below

Warmer Color Tone Version
Taking the Original image above I selected the following in Photoshop
 Image - Adjustments - Photo Filter - Warming - Warming filter (85) - Density 25%

Cooler Color Tone Version

Taking the Original image I selected the following in Photoshop
 Image - Adjustments - Photo Filter - Blue - Density 25%

Red Version

Taking the Original image I selected the following in Photoshop

 Image - Adjustments - Chanel Mixer - Custom

Output Chanel: Red - Red 100%  - Green +26 - Blue 0

Blue Version

Taking the Original image I selected the following in Photoshop

 Image - Adjustments - Chanel Mixer - Custom

Output Chanel: Blue - Red 0%  - Green +38 - Blue 100%

 Altered Exposure

Taking the Original image I selected the following in Photoshop

 Image - Adjustments -Exposure

Exposure: -.13   Offset:  -0.1314      Gamma Correction: 1.00

(Changing the Exposure also changes the background but then this can also be changed 

to whatever color you want after you save the Exposed image - see below)

Altered Exposure - White Background

I took the Altered Exposure image from above and changed the background to White

Altered Exposure - Gold Background

I took the Altered Exposure image and changed the background to Gold

 

Altered Exposure - Plum Background

I took the Altered Exposure image and changed the background to Plum

 

 Inverted Image

Taking the Original image I selected the following in Photoshop

 Image - Adjustments - Invert

Stylize - Glowing Edges

Taking the Original image I selected the following in Photoshop

  Filter - Filter Gallery - Stylize - Glowing Edges

Filter - Sketch - Notepaper

Taking the Original image I selected the following in Photoshop

  Filter - Filter Gallery - Sketch - Note Paper

 Image Balance: 25   Graininess: 14     Relief: 11

 

 Mosaic Texture #1

Taking the Original image I selected the following in Photoshop

  Filter - Texture - Mosaic Tiles

Tile Size: 12    Grout Width:  3      Lighten Grout:  9

 

 Mosaic Texture #2

Taking the Original image I selected the following in Photoshop

  Filter - Texture - Mosaic Tiles

Tile Size: 55    Grout Width:  4      Lighten Grout:  8

 

 The look of painting on Linen or Canvas #1

Taking the Original image I selected the following in Photoshop

  Filter - Texture - Texturizer

Texture: Canvas

Scaling: 50  Relief 3

 

The look of painting on Linen or Canvas #2

Taking the Original image I selected the following in Photoshop

  Filter - Texture - Texturizer

Texture: Canvas

Scaling: 138  Relief 8

 

 

The look of painting on a Brick Wall

Taking the Original image I selected the following in Photoshop

  Filter - Texture - Texturizer

Texture: Brick

Scaling: 195  Relief 9

 

The look of painting on Sandstone

Taking the Original image I selected the following in Photoshop

  Filter - Texture - Texturizer

Texture: Sandstone

Scaling: 174  Relief 11

I wanted to keep things simple by using the original image and altering just that; however there are thousands of combinations you can create by mixing a multitude of Photoshop options to get just that perfect image you want for your artwork.

 Here are a few examples where I used
multiple functions to get my end result.
 

The look of an old Fresco wall painting
 I started with the Exposure Image I had saved then

Image - Adjustments - Photo Filter - Orange at 46% - OK

Filter -Texture - Craquelure - Crack Spacing 16 - Crack Depth 9 - Crack Brightness 8 - OK

Filter - Distort - Glass - Distortion 2 - Smoothness 5 - OK

Then I changed the background to a light blue using the Paint Bucket Tool - Save

 The look of printed cloth - Burlap
I started with the Original Colorized Image I had saved then

I removed the background (made it transperant) using the Erase Tool
 (This allows me to alter the image alone without having a patterned background as well)
  ***
Image - Adjustments - Shadows/Highlights
Shadows: 99%  -  Highlights: 67%  - OK
Image - Adjustments - Photo Filter - Deep Red at 39% - OK

Filter - Texture - Texturize
Texture: Sandstone -  Scaling: 79%   Relief:  7%    Light: Top Left - OK - SAVE

 The look of an old statue
I started with the Original Colorized Image I had saved then

I removed the background (made it transparent) using the Erase Tool
 (This allows me to alter the image alone without having a patterned background as well)
  ***
Image - Adjustments - Selective Color
Colors - Select YELLOW
Cyan: 0%   Magenta: 0%   Yellow +48%   Black =87%
Method: Absolute - OK  (this gave the eyes depth)
Image - Adjustments - Photo Filter - Warming Filter (81) at 62% - OK

Filter - Texture - Craquelure
Crack Spacing: 87   Crack Depth: 3   Crack Brightness: 4 - OK - SAVE

The possibilities are endless!!!

Grins and Giggles,
 Evelyn

Egyptian Images from the Napoleonic Expedition

When I was growing up I wanted to be an Archaeologist and fell in love with all things ancient; especially Egyptian art.  Recently I came across a series of engravings that were done in the late 18th century via the Napoleonic Expedition. 

Napoleon Bonaparte sent his troops to conquer Egypt;

with them he sent 167 scientist, architects and artists to document and retrieve artifacts. 

This was known at the Napoleonic Expedition (1798-1801)

 Here are a few of my favorite images 

that these talented men left behind.

 This is the same commemorative plaque as above; except I removed the internal images 

in Photoshop so I could use it as a frame for other artwork.

Sekhmet - Warrior Goddess of - The Avenger of Wrongs

Sekhmet - Statue Only

I liked this image so much that I removed the background in Photoshop 

so I could have the statue alone to use in my artwork.

 A different version of Sekhmet - Full Statue - Front View

A different version of Sekhmet - Full Statue - Side View

 Egyptian Temple Wall Engraving

 Carved Head from Thebes

Another Carved Head from Thebes

Statue from Thebes

 Another statue from Thebes

 Rams Head Sphinx - Thebes

Another Ram Head Sphinx Statues - Thebes

Thebes had around 900 Ram head Sphinxes.

Colossi of Memnon Statue - Pharaoh Amenhotep III - Thebes

(this is what the artist believed it would have looked like if not damaged)

Colossi of Memnon Statue - Pharaoh Amenhotep III - Thebes - Side View

Egyptian Temple Scene

Egyptian Desert Scene

 Temple of Khnum at Esna

I look forward to using these images in future artwork and I hope others will find them inspirational as well.

Grins and Giggles,

 Evelyn

Great Sites on the Web for locating Images

I've enjoyed posting about digi stamps and how you can use great images with your rubber stamps.  Now I want to share some of my all time favorite Web Sites for locating images to use when I'm crafting. 

There are so many cool images available out on the Internet if you just know where to look.
Many thanks to all the great folks out there who post quality images so we fans can use them!

One example from Art E-Zine 

One example from Clipart ETC 

One Example from Karen's Whimsy

One Example from Magic Moonlight Studio

One Template Example from Mirkwood Designs

One Example from NYPL Digital Library

I used the search box with the word "Dance"

this one was on page 3 of that search

One Example from Reusable Art

Two Examples from The Graphics Fairy

Left and Right Wing found on the Angels and Fairies Category

One Example from The Vintage Moth

I found this one under "Women" in the Labels section

One Example from Web Gallery of Art

I found this one by doing a search under Title of "Queen"

One example from Wikipedia - Public Domain Art

I found this one on the second page,  after clicking (next 200)

These websites are full of thousand and thousands of great images and I never get tired of pulling them up to see what I can find.  I hope you find some gems too.

Grins and Giggles,

 Evelyn